Julie Christie

Julie Christie
Christie in 1997
Born	Julie Frances Christie (1940-04-14) 14 April 1940 (age 76) Chabua, Assam, British India
Alma mater	Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation	Actress, activist
Years active	1957–present
Spouse(s)	Duncan Campbell (m. 2008)

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is an English actress. An icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, and in 1997 she received the BAFTA Fellowship.

Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963). She came to international attention in 1965 for her performances in Darling, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Doctor Zhivago, the eighth highest-grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation.

In the following years, she starred in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Petulia (1968), The Go-Between (1971), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), for which she received her second Oscar nomination, Don't Look Now (1973), Shampoo (1975), and Heaven Can Wait (1978).

From the early 1980s her appearances in mainstream films reduced, though she held roles as Thetis in Wolfgang Petersen's historical epic Troy and in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (both 2004). She has continued to receive significant critical recognition for her work, including Oscar nominations for the independent films Afterglow (1997) and Away from Her (2007).