Julie Christie (born April 14, 1941) is a British actress, winner of an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1965 film, Darling.
Ms. Christie was born in Chukua, Assam, India and studied at the Central School of Music and Drama before getting her big break in 1962 in a science fiction series on BBC television, entitled A for Andromeda. The recordings have now been lost.
Her first major film role was opposite Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar (1963). She played Lara in Dr. Zhivago (1965) and Bathsheba in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). Christie was a leading figure in the glamorous London of the 1960s, and continues to make movies including those in the French language with Sophie Marceau in 2001's Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre.
FILMOGRAPHY
- I'm with Lucy (2002)
- No Such Thing (2001)
- Hermit of Amsterdam, The (2001)
- Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre (2001)
- Miracle Maker, The (2000)
- Afterglow (1997)
- Dragonheart (1996)
- Hamlet (1996)
- Railway Station Man, The (1992)
- Fools of Fortune (1990)
- Dadah Is Death (Made for TV)]]'' (1988)
- Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films (1987)
- Power (1986)
- Champagne amer (1986)
- Miss Mary (1986)
- Separate Tables (Made for TV)]]'' (1983)
- Gold Diggers, The (1983)
- Return of the Soldier, The (1982)
- Quarantièmes rugissants, Les (1982)
- Heat and Dust (1982)
- Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
- Animals Film, The (1981)
- Heaven Can Wait (1978)
- Demon Seed (1977)
- Nashville (1975)
- Shampoo (1975)
- Don't Look Now (1973)
- The Go-Between (1971)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
- In Search of Gregory (1969)
- Petulia (1968)
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Young Cassidy (1965)
- Darling (1965)
- Billy Liar (1963)
- Fast Lady, The (1962)
- Crooks Anonymous (1962)
