Julie Christie : Oscar Winning Actress

 

Overview

Born : April 14, 1940 in Chabua, Assam Province, British India [now Assam, India]

Birth Name : Julie Frances Christie

Nickname : Jules

Height : 5' 3" (1.6 m)

Julie Christie, the British film legend whom Al Pacino called "the most beautiful of all entertainers," was brought into the world in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the little girl of a tea grower and his Welsh spouse Rosemary, who was a painter. The youthful Christie experienced childhood with her dad's manor prior to being shipped off England for her schooling. Completing her examinations in Paris, where she had moved to work on her French so as to conceivably turning into a language specialist (she is conversant in French and Italian), the young person became captivated of the opportunity of the Continent. She additionally was stricken by the bohemian existence of specialists and moved toward turning into a craftsman before she signed up for London's Central School of Speech Training. She made her presentation as an expert in 1957 as an individual from the Frinton Repertory of Essex.

Christie was not enamored with the stage, despite the fact that it permitted her to travel, remembering an expert gig for the United States. Her actual métier as an entertainer was film, and she made her presentation in the sci-fi TV series A for Andromeda (1961) in 1961. Her first film was a sweetheart part in the Ealing-like parody Crooks Anonymous (1962), which was followed up by a bigger ingénue job in another satire, The Fast Lady (1962). The makers of the James Bond series were adequately fascinated by the youthful entertainer to consider her for the job that hence went to Ursula Andress in Dr. No (1962), yet dropped the thought since she was not well sufficiently endowed.

Christie initially worked with the one who might get her vocation going, chief John Schlesinger, when he pick her as a substitution for the entertainer initially cast in Billy Liar (1963). Christie's chance in the film as the free-wheeling Liz was a shocker, and she had her first taste of turning into an image on the off chance that not symbol of the new British film. Her screen presence was with the end goal that the incomparable John Ford cast her as the youthful whore in Young Cassidy (1965). Charlton Heston needed her for his film The War Lord (1965), however the studio declined her compensation requests.

In spite of the fact that Amercan magazines depicted Christie as a "newbie" when she made her forward leap to super-fame in Schlesinger's original Swinging Sixties film Darling (1965), she really had significant work added to her expert repertoire and was currently an imaginative animating. Schlesinger approached Christie, whom he revered, to assume the part of mode Diana Scott while the projecting of Shirley MacLaine failed to work out. (MacLaine was the sister of the one who might turn into Christie's long-term lover in the last part of the 1960s and mid '70s, Warren Beatty, whom some, similar to entertainer Rod Steiger, accept she surrendered her profession for. Her "Dr. Zhivago" co-star, Steiger - - a sharp understudy of acting - - lamented that Christie didn't give a greater amount of herself to her art.)

As played by Christie, Diana is an irreverent outgoing person who goes through a transformation from juvenile hottie to fatigued socialite. For her perplexing presentation, Christie won raves, including the Best Actress Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the British Film Academy. She had shown up, particularly as she had followed up "Dear" with the job of Lara in double cross Academy Award-winning chief David Lean's transformation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago (1965), one of the unequaled film industry champs.

Christie was currently a whiz who directed a cost of $400,000 per picture, a reality regretfully noted in Charlton Heston's journal (his studio had recoiled from paying her then-charge of $35,000). More inspired by movie as a work of art than in combining her film fame, Christie followed up "Zhivago" with a double job in Fahrenheit 451 (1966) for chief François Truffaut, a chief she respected. The movie was wounded by the chief's absence of English and by rubbing among Truffaut and Christie's male co-star Oskar Werner, who had substituted the more-fitting for-the-job Terence Stamp. Stamp and Christie had been sweethearts before she had become renowned, and he was uncertain he could act with her, because of his own self image issues. On his part, Werner disliked the consideration the stricken Truffaut gave Christie. The film is an intriguing disappointment.

Stamp conquered those inner self issues to sign on as her co-star in John Schlesinger's variation of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), which additionally included two incredible English entertainers, Peter Finch and Alan Bates. It is a film that is much better recalled now than when it was gotten in 1967. The film and her exhibition as the Hardy champion Bathsheba Everdene was thrashed by film pundits, a significant number of whom blamed Christie for being as well "mod" and consequently false to one of Hardy's exemplary stories of destiny. Some said that her contemporary Vanessa Redgrave would have been a superior decision as Bathsheba, yet while the facts confirm that Redgrave is an extremely fine entertainer, she coming up short on sex allure and star nature of Christie, which makes the tale of three men in adoration with one lady more conceivable, as a film.

Albeit nobody then, at that point, knew it, the period 1967-68 addressed the high-water sign of Christie's vocation. Portentously, similar to the Hardy courageous woman she had depicted, she had met the one who changed her life, sabotaging her assumptions to a vocation as a celebrity in their seven-drawn out relationship, the American entertainer Warren Beatty. Carrying on with his life was undeniably over 100% of the time than being a star for Beatty, who saw the celebrity calling as a "treadmill prompting more treadmills" and who was well off enough after Bonnie and Clyde (1967) to not need to at any point work once more. Christie and Beatty had visited a functioning homestead during the development of "Madding Crowd" and had been dismayed by the modern abuse of the creatures. From that point, basic entitlements turned into a vital subject to Christie. They were close allies who remain companions forty years after their undertaking finished in 1974.

Christie's last film industry hit in which she was the top-liner was Petulia (1968) for Richard Lester, a film that included one of co-star George C. Scott's most noteworthy exhibitions, completely offset Christie's depiction of an "curve nutcase" who was significant of the '60s. It is one of the significant movies of the ten years, an underestimated magnum opus. Regardless of the presence of the incomparable George C. Scott and the superb Shirley Knight, the film would not work without Julie Christie. There is honestly no other entertainer who might have filled the job, bringing that interesting presence and the danger of risk that popped around Christie's electric quality. Now of her vocation, she was ready for significance as a star, significance as an entertainer.

Also she left.

In the wake of meeting Beatty, Julie Christie basically gave up any yearnings to screen fame, or at keeping up with herself as a best in class working entertainer (accomplishment in the cinema world being an assurance of the most outstanding aspects, even in craftsmanship films.) She turned down the lead in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), two sections that earned Oscar selections for the subsequent options, Jane Fonda and Geneviève Bujold. Subsequent to shooting In Search of Gregory (1969), a basic and film industry flop, to satisfy her authoritative commitments, she invested her energy with Beatty in Calfiornia, leasing an ocean side house at Malibu. She got back to frame in Joseph Losey's The Go-Between (1971), a fine picture with a content by the incomparable Harold Pinter, and she won one more Oscar selection as the prostitute house owner in Robert Altman's minor exemplary McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) that she made with her sweetheart Beatty. Nonetheless, as Beatty himself, she didn't look for consistent work, which can be proficient self destruction for an entertainer who needs to keep a remaining in the principal position of celebrities.

Simultaneously, Julie Christie turned down the job of the Russian Empress in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), another film that won the subsequent option (Janet Suzman) a Best Actress Oscar assignment. After two years, she showed up in the milestone secret blood and gore movie Don't Look Now (1973), however that probably was out of consideration for the chief, Nicolas Roeg, who had been her cinematographer on "Fahrenheit 451," "A long way From the Madding Crowd" and "Petulia." during the '70s, her issue with Beatty reached a conclusion, yet the two stayed dear companions and cooperated in Shampoo (1975) (which she lamented because of its portrayal of ladies) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).

Christie was still a sufficient star, because of sheer attraction rather than her own draw in the cinema world, to be offered $1 million to play the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis character in The Greek Tycoon (1978) (a section in the long run played by Jacqueline Bisset to no incredible recognition). She endorsed for yet had to exit the lead in Agatha (1979) (which was filled by Vanessa Redgrave) after she broke a wrist roller-skating (an especially southern Californian destiny!). She then, at that point, finished paperwork for the female lead in American Gigolo (1980) when Richard Gere was initially joined to the image, however exited when John Travolta built his direction into the lead in the wake of making twin film industry killings as disco ruler Tony Manera in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and greaser Danny Zuko in Grease (1978). Christie would never have co-featured with such a camp figure of questionable ability. At the point when Travolta himself exited and Gere was subbed back in, it was past the point of no return for Christe to reexamine, as the part previously had been filled by model-entertainer Lauren Hutton. It would require 15 years for Christie and Gere to cooperate.

At last, the finish of the American period of her film vocation was acknowledged when Christie turned down the piece of Louise Bryant in Reds (1981), a section composed by Warren Beatty in view of her, as she felt an American should assume the part. (Beatty's most recent sweetheart, Diane Keaton, filled the role and won a Best Actress Oscar designation.) Still, she stayed a piece of the film, Beatty's for quite some time gestated source of both pain and joy, as it is committed to "Jules."

Julie Christie moved back to the UK and become the UK's solution to Jane Fonda, lobbying for different social and political causes, including basic entitlements and atomic demobilization. The parts she took were principally determined by her social cognizance, for example, showing up in Sally Potter's first full length film, The Gold Diggers (1983) which was not a revamp of the old Avery Hopwood's old warhorse yet a women's activist story made totally by ladies who all common a similar compensation scale. Jobs in The Return of the Soldier (1982) with Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and Merchant-Ivory's Heat and Dust (1983) appeared to proclaim a re-visitation of structure, yet Christie - - as befits such an image of the opportunity and absence of congruity of the '60s - - chose to do it as she would prefer. She didn't go "careering," despite the fact that her exceptional ability and magnificence was still especially sought after by producers.

Now, Christie's film profession went into overshadow. Yet again she was especially selective with regards to her work, to such an extent that many came to see her, basically, as resigned. A profession renaissance came during the 1990s with her chance as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's aggressive on the off chance that not entirely effective Hamlet (1996). As Christie said at that point, she didn't feel she could turn Branagh down as he was an irreplaceable asset. Yet, the best was on the way: her chance as the blurred famous actor wedded to jack of all trades Nick Nolte and romanced by a more youthful man in Afterglow (1997), which brought her rave takes note. She accepted her third Best Actress Oscar assignment for her presentation, and displayed at the honors as brilliant and interestingly excellent as anyone might imagine. Ever the dissenter, she was apparently eased, upon the declaration of the honor, to discover that she had lost!

Christie lived with left-wing insightful writer Duncan Campbell (a Manchester Guardian editorialist) starting around 1979, first in Quite a while, then, at that point, in Ojai, California, and presently in London's East End, prior to wedding in January 2008. Notwithstanding her film work, she has described many books-on-tape. In 1995, she made a victorious re-visitation of the stage in a London recovery of Harold Pinter's "Bygone eras", which earned her sublime audits.

In the ten years since "Phosphorescence," she has worked consistently on film in supporting jobs. Christie - - an entertainer who shunned foul fame - - ended up being a motivation to her co-star Sarah Polley, the strikingly skilled Canadian entertainer with a radical political twisted who likewise severely dislikes Hollywood. Of her co-star in No Such Thing (2001) and The Secret Life of Words (2005), Polley says that Christie is exceptionally mindful of her commodification by the film business and the broad communications during the 1960s. Not having any desire to be decreased to an item, she had revolted and had accepted control of her life and profession. Her demeanor makes her one of Polley's saints, who calls her one of her substitute moms. (Polley lost her own mom when she was 11 years of age.)

Both Christie and Polley are rebels. Sarah Polley had strolled off the arrangement of the large spending plan film that was figure as her pass to Hollywood fame, Almost Famous (2000), to have an alternate kind of life and profession. She got back to her local Canada to show up in the low-financial plan non mainstream The Law of Enclosures (2000), a farsighted workmanship movie in that chief John Greyson offset the dramatization with a foundation of a never-ending Gulf War three years before George W. Shrubbery attacked Iraq, igniting the second-longest conflict in U.S. history. Taking a break from acting, Polley went to Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Center to figure out how to coordinate, and direct she has, making all around respected shorts prior to sending off her component movie debut, Away from Her (2006), which was shot and finished in 2006 yet held for discharge until 2007 by its merchant.

Polley, who had ached to be an essayist since she was a kid entertainer on the arrangement of the interesting family show Road to Avonlea (1990) composed the screenplay for her transformation of Alice Munro's brief tale "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" in view of just a single entertainer: Julie Christie. Polley had first perused the brief tale on a trip back from Iceland, where she had made "Nothing of the sort" with Christie, and as she read, it was Julie whom she envisioned as Fiona, the spouse of a one-time philandering husband, who has become tormented with Alzheimer's sickness and tries to save her hubby the aggravation of caring for her by registering herself with a home.

In the wake of completing the screenplay, it required a long time to get Christie to focus on making the film. Julie turned her down subsequent to perusing the content and contemplating it for two or three months, saying "No" despite the fact that she preferred the content. Polley then, at that point, needed to "force her" for one more several months. Be that as it may, unfortunately, Julie has a soft spot for irreplaceable assets: Just like with Branagh 10 years prior, the unbelievable Julie Christie couldn't deny the Great White North's Sarah Polley, and submit she did. Polley then, at that point, discovered the reason why Christie is so hesitant with regards to making films:

"She gives all of herself to what she does. When she said OK, she was more dedicated than anyone."

As per David Germain, a film writer who talked with Christie for the Associated Press, "Polley and Christie share a craving to do intriguing, uncommon work, which for the most part implies avoiding Hollywood.

"'It's been a sort of eagerness and a sort of egomania, however it's not really needing to keep away from the Hollywood thing, yet truth be told, it fuses needing to stay away from the Hollywood thing, on the grounds that the Hollywood thing is so unavoidably not unique,' Christie said. 'It's keeping away from non-innovation, so that implies you're truly down to a tiny decision.'"

The joint effort between the two renegades yielded a little diamond of a film. Lions Gate Films was so intrigued, it bought the American dispersion freedoms to the film in 2006, then, at that point, kept it until the next year to gather speed for the honors season.

Julie Christie's exhibition in "Away From Her" is amazing, and right now has accumulated her the National Board of Review's Best Actress Award. She will probably accept her fourth Academy Award designation, and conceivably her subsequent Oscar, for her extraordinary presentation, a source of both pain and joy she accomplished for a companion.

We, the Julie Christie fans who have sat tight a very long time for the small bunch of movies made by the numinous star: Would we have needed it some other way? We are the Red Sox fanatics of the motion pictures, by and by compensated with an elite show-stopper by our courageous woman. Maybe, similar to every single individual, we need more, however we have learned throughout the last 35 years to be happy with the jewels that are Julie's driving exhibitions that she gives just one time per decade, content to feel that these are a satiate of wealth, our satiate of wealth, so extraordinary is their radiance.

Picked by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#26). [1995]

Brought into the world at 10:00am-LMT.

Julie's dad ran a tea estate in India, where she grew up.

Her sentiment with Terence Stamp has been said to have motivated The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset", consequently the line "Terry met Julie" in the tune. Anyway in a 2004 meeting, lead artist Ray Davies, who wrote the melody, denied this, saying: "No, Terry and Julie were genuine individuals. I was unable to compose for stars." Stamp later turned down the job of Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 (1966) due to his confounded feelings over co-featuring with Christie, retreating from the job on the guise of Julie getting front and center attention. Oskar Werner consequently played Montag. After a year, Stamp had beaten his uncertainties and consented to co-star with Christie in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967).

Previous co-proprietor of Katira Productions, alongside beau Warren Beatty (named after Beatty's folks Kathlyn and Ira.).

Joined 160 individuals to sign a notice which ran in The Times (London) encouraging the legitimization of pot. [1992]

Is at present dynamic in atomic demilitarization and basic entitlements. [2004]

Sibling Clive Christie is a teacher of SouthEast Asian investigations at Hull University.

Dear companions with entertainers Shirley MacLaine, Goldie Hawn and Faye Dunaway.

Chief David Lean nicknamed her 'sunflower' for her lovely character and chief 'John Schlesinger' nicknamed her 'Trilby' after the nineteenth century novel with regards to an adorable bohemian.

Chiefs she works with frequently appreciate working with her such a lot of that they utilize her multiple times: Robert Altman in McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) and Nashville (1975); John Schlesinger in Billy Liar (1963), Darling (1965), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and Separate Tables (1983); Nicolas Roeg guided her in Don't Look Now (1973) and was cinematographer on Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Fahrenheit 451 (1966) and Petulia (1968) and sweetheart Warren Beatty involved her in Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).

Conversant in English, French, and Italian.

She lived with insightful writer Duncan Campbell from 1979 preceding their wedding in 2008.

Her object of worship is Marlon Brando.

Was involved with Don Bessant, a lithographer and workmanship instructor, from December 1962 to May 1967.

In 1967 Time magazine said of her, "What Julie Christie wears truly affects design than all the garments of the ten Best-Dressed ladies consolidated.".

Julie found she needed to turn into an entertainer when, at age nine, she slipped away her Paris live-in school and went through the day with a total more abnormal who was a trying entertainer.

Julie gave companion Sharon Tate a duplicate of Thomas Hardy's book "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" with the engraving "For my Hardy champion" (Julie had as of late turned into a Thomas Hardy courageous woman in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)). Sharon gave the novel to her better half Roman Polanski presently before her passing. Whenever Polanski later made the film Tess (1979) he devoted it "For Sharon".

Robert Altman said of her, "She's my brilliant, despairing, solid, gold-hearted, sphinx-like, tempered steel little officer.".

The scandalous evening gathering scene in Shampoo (1975) was totally made do by Julie and Warren Beatty, almost certainly arousing a lot of treat for the remainder of the cast and chief Hal Ashby.

Turned down jobs in Rosemary's Baby (1968), Two for the Road (1967), American Gigolo (1980), Chinatown (1974), The Godfather (1972) and a re-make of the Greta Garbo exemplary Camille (1936).

Was once style creator Christian Lacroix's dream, he planned the pink chiffon outfit with matching shoes that she wore to the 1971 Academy Awards, and kept on equipping her all through her vocation.

Positioned #29 in Mr.Skin's Top 100 Celebrity Nude Scenes.

Positioned #34 in Celebrity Skin's 50 Sexiest Starlets of All Time.

Positioned #5 in Hello Magazine's 25 British Beauties.

Positioned #9 in FHM magazine's '100 hottest ladies ever'.

Picked by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars (#91).

In an April 29, 1966 Life Magazine main story, Christie named Sidney Lumet as the main American among a rundown of chiefs she might want to work with. After twenty years, she got her desire, showing up in the Lumet-coordinated Power (1986).

Turned down the job of Louise Bryant in her previous sweetheart Warren Beatty's Reds (1981) as she suspected the job ought to be played by an American. Beatty's then-sweetheart Diane Keaton won a Best Actress Academy Award assignment assuming the part.

Initially finished paperwork for the job of the Senator's significant other in American Gigolo (1980) when Richard Gere was endorsed to the venture, yet quit when Gere was dumped for John Travolta. Travolta later exited and Gere was recruited for the film, however Christie was not offered the job that was at last played by Lauren Hutton. Amusingly, talk during the 1970s held that Christie and Hutton were sweethearts. Christie and Gere would ultimately show up together in Sidney Lumet's Power (1986).

Was Charlton Heston's best option as co-star The War Lord (1965), as indicated by Heston's distributed journals "Charlton Heston: The Actor's Life; Journals 1956-1976". She was rejected by the studio since her expense was excessively high, causing Heston a deep sense of's shock, who accepted she was going to turn into a significant star. He was demonstrated right toward the finish of 1965, the year that "The War Lord" was delivered.

Was considered as the main "Bond Girl" for Dr. No (1962). She was not picked in light of the fact that she was viewed as too level chested by the makers.

Was the makers best option to play Presidential widow Liz Cassidy, a job demonstrated on Jacqueline Kennedy, in The Greek Tycoon (1978). In spite of being offered a $1 million expense, she turned it down, and the job was played by Jacqueline Bisset.

Lived with Warren Beatty from 1967 to 1974.

Turned down the leads in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and Reds (1981), all jobs that won the entertainers who in the end played them Best Actress Academy Award assignments.

Went with her long-lasting sweetheart Warren Beatty out traveling to Russia which enlivened him to compose his Oscar-winning epic Reds (1981) which eventually took him 13 years to compose. Beatty had arranged all the time to have Christie assume the part of Louise Bryant, yet when Reds (1981) started recording quite a while after the couple's separation, Christie turned down the job and Beatty gave it to Diane Keaton. Nonetheless, Beatty devoted the movie to Christie by implying to her in his best chief Oscar acknowledgment discourse. "For Jules" can likewise be found in the last credits of the film.

Most loved movie producer is Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Turned down the job of Lara in Doctor Zhivago (1965) at the time the most desired job in Hollywood, a few times before at long last tolerating.

Individual from the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1979.

Her guide, chief John Schlesinger, imagined a cast of Al Pacino, Julie Christie and Laurence Olivier for Marathon Man (1976). Pacino has said that the main entertainer he had at any point needed to work with was Christie, who he asserted was "the most graceful of entertainers." Producer Robert Evans, who trashed the in an upward direction tested Pacino as "The Midget" when Francis Ford Coppola needed him for The Godfather (1972) and had considered terminating him during the early shooting of the now-exemplary movie, rejected Pacino for the lead, demanded the projecting of the considerably more limited Dustin Hoffman all things being equal! On her part, Christie - - who was famously touchy with regards to tolerating parts, even in esteemed, sure-fire material - - turned down the female lead, which was then taken by Marthe Keller (who, amusingly, turned into Pacino's sweetheart after co-featuring with him in Bobby Deerfield (1977). Of his fantasy cast, Schlesinger just got Olivier, who was named for a "Best Supporting Actor'- Oscar. Pacino still can't seem to co-star with Christie.

Has played the mother of two Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers from the "Harry Potter" series. In Hamlet (1996), she plays the mother of Kenneth Branagh, who proceeded to play "Gilderoy Lockhart". In DragonHeart (1996), she plays mother to David Thewlis, who plays "Remus Lupin". Christie herself additionally shows up in the third film, with Thewlis.

Has worked with chief screenwriter and entertainer Sarah Polley multiple times: co-featuring with Polley in No Such Thing (2001) and the Goya Award-winning The Secret Life of Words (2005), and starting to lead the pack in Polley's first element movie as a chief, Away from Her (2006). Polley is one of the numerous collaborators dazzled by not exclusively Christie's ability, yet her insight and autonomy. In the wake of showing up with her in No Such Thing (2001), Polley - - who lost her mother when she was 11 years of age - - said that Julie had become one of her substitute moms.

Future long haul sweetheart Warren Beatty previously espied Christie at the 1966 Royal Command Performance of the film Born Free (1966) in London, which he went to with his then-sweetheart, Leslie Caron. Caron and Beatty were arranged close to Chrstie in the gathering line for Queen Elizabeth II, and Beatty initially saw Christie in person when he went to watch the Queen warmly greet her. Beatty inveigled his companion Richard Sylbert, who was creation fashioner on Christie's film Petulia (1968), to advise her to call him. She did, he flew up to the San Francisco area of the Petulia (1968) shoot and, after a rough beginning, they became sweethearts. She unveiled her first appearance with Beatty at a sneak see of Bonnie and Clyde (1967) for the Hollywood tip top. It took them a while to free themselves of their then-current darlings before they met up in a serious relationship, despite the fact that they generally kept up with discrete families for the length of their long sentiment. The vast majority of the individuals who realized them said they shared an energy for reality. Beatty told his companions he had requested that Christie wed him, yet she declined as she didn't need kids. Christie had confidence in monogamy, however Beatty felt that as long as they weren't hitched, he could participate in different issues as long as he stayed faithful to her. In the end, Christie burnt out on his womanizing and their relationship finished following seven years. His longest and most enduring relationship until he wedded Annette Bening, the mother of his four kids, Beatty thought about Christie his better half and told the press in 1971 that he would pay her divorce settlement assuming they split up, assuming that she needed it. They did, however she didn't. Whenever Beatty was granted the Irving Thalberg Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the year 2000, Christie was one of the companions and colleagues who showed up in a film accolade for her previous darling.

Her exhibition as Diana Scott in Darling (1965) is positioned #75 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

Enlivened the melody "Julie Christie" on the Better Than Chocolate (1999) soundtrack.

Turned down the job of Laura Fischer, Paul Newman's sweetheart, in The Verdict (1982). Thusly, Charlotte Rampling was projected in the job.

She hesitantly consented to star in author chief Sarah Polley's introduction include film Away from Her (2006) after numerous long stretches of influence. Christie, who had acted beforehand with Polley, enjoyed her content, however - - like Polley - - is undecided with regards to her acting profession. She at long last abdicated and her splendid execution in the film, which appeared at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and is expected to be delivered in the United States in the Spring of 2007, has created buzz foreseeing that the film probably will present to Christie her fourth Best Actress Oscar designation.

Al Pacino's beloved entertainer.

Companions with entertainers Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson.

Incredible admirer of Princess Diana of Wales and was amazingly impacted by her 1997 passing.

Dear companions with entertainer Goldie Hawn. The two ladies were presented by Warren Beatty in the last part of the 1960s. Beatty and Christie came to think about Goldie as family, and she co-featured with them in Shampoo (1975). Hawn additionally acquainted Christie with yoga, which she actually rehearses today.

Turned out to be extremely close with chief Robert Altman while shooting McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971). (Unexpectedly, her darling and co-star Warren Beatty didn't coexist with Altman, basically because of his utilization of covering discourse.) She later showed up as herself in Altman's 1975 exemplary Nashville (1975) and got an Oscar selection featuring in the Altman-delivered Afterglow (1997), coordinated by Altman protégé Alan Rudolph. The two stayed extremely close until Altman's passing in 2006.

One of her first jobs was playing youthful Anne Frank in a London dramatic creation of "The Diary of Anne Frank".

Maker Joseph Janni, who delivered four of Christie's earliest pictures (Billy Liar (1963), Darling (1965), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and In Search of Gregory (1969)) and for the most part is acknowledged, alongside chief John Schlesinger, in sending off her vocation, made an intricate expense cover for Christie to protect her profit from the restrictively high British duty rate during the 1960s. At the point when the UK Inland Revenue at long last researched the assessment cover numerous years after the fact, Inland Revenue authorities pronounced it was one of the most convoluted duty evasion conspire it had run over. Christie herself was gotten free from any bad behavior.

Said to have been the motivation for the person "Julie Baker" in François Truffaut's Day for Night (1973).

She honestly loves entertainer Meryl Streep.

Assortment Club of Great Britain film Actress Award for 1965 for her presentation in Darling (1965).

Assortment Club of Great Britain Most Promising Newcomer Award 1963 joint champ with James Fox.

Hitched beau of 28 years Duncan Campbell. [November 2007]

Arrival of the book, "Julie Christie: The Biography" by Tim Ewbank. [2009]

Arrival of the book, "Julie Christie" by Anthony Hayward. [2000]

Arrival of the book, "Julie Christie" by Michael Feeney Callan. [1984]

She currently lives in Ojai, California with her long-term friend, the columnist Duncan Campbell of the Manchester (UK) Guardian. [August 2006]

Lives in East London with her significant other, the writer Duncan Campbell. [March 2008]

Most loved cigarette brand is Craven A.

On March 31, 1979, a 22-month-old kid suffocated in a 2-ft. duck lake on her ranch in New Town, North Wales. The baby's folks, Jonathan and Leslie Heale, were live-in guardians of the property. Christie endeavored to revive him yet showed up later than expected. A coroner checked it an unplanned demise.

Had a mysterious relative named June Christie (1934-2005), from her dad's undertaking with a young Indian laborer young lady who chipped away at the tea home he oversaw in Chabua, Assam. Julie has never spoken freely of her relative's presence and apparently didn't have any desire to know June.

Dated performer Brian Eno, chief Jim McBride, record maker Lou Adler and entertainer Ryan O'Neal.

Starting at 2016 she is the ninth earliest living beneficiary of a Best Actress Oscar designation, attached with Samantha Eggar and behind just Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Caron, Carroll Baker, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine, Doris Day, a tied Piper Laurie and Sophia Loren, and Julie Andrews. She was named (and won) for Darling (1965).

Christie and Liza Minnelli are the main entertainers to have won the Best Actress Oscar for depicting a person who goes through a fetus removal.

Gone to Brighton Technical College for a year.

Is one of 12 entertainers to have won a Best Actress Oscar for playing a person who is pregnant sooner or later during the film, hers being for Darling (1965). The others are Helen Hayes for The Lullaby (1931), Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Ginger Rogers for Kitty Foyle (1940), Olivia de Havilland for To Each His Own (1946), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (1955), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), and Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996).

Shows up in five Oscar Best Picture candidates: Darling (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Nashville (1975), Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Finding Neverland (2004). The initial two of these were delivered around the same time.

Has showed up with Alan Bates in 4 movies: Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), The Go-Between (1971), The Return of the Soldier (1982) and Separate Tables (1983).

She turned down the jobs that went to Glenn Close in Cookie's Fortune (1999), Diane Keaton around and Country (2001) and Maggie Smith in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011).

Her dad was Francis St. John Christie (10 March 1904 - 25 February 1963) and her mom was Rosemary Ramsden (6 June 1912 - February 1982), married in Calcutta, 28 September 1937.

Had an appendicitis operation. [August 1964]

List of Julie Christie Movies

• The Bookshop
• The Company You Keep
• Red Riding Hood
• Glorious 39
• New York, I Love You
• Away from Her
• The Secret Life of Words
• Finding Neverland
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• I'm with Lucy
• Snapshots
• No Such Thing
• Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre
• The Miracle Maker
• Afterglow
• Hamlet
• DragonHeart
• Karaoke (TV Mini Series)
• The Railway Station Man
• Fools of Fortune
• Champagne amer
• Dadah Is Death (TV Movie)
• Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy (TV Mini Series)
• Miss Mary
• Power
• The Gold Diggers
• Separate Tables (TV Movie)
• Heat and Dust
• The Roaring Forties
• The Return of the Soldier
• Memoirs of a Survivor
• Heaven Can Wait
• Demon Seed
• Nashville
• Shampoo
• Don't Look Now
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• The Go-Between
• In Search of Gregory
• Petulia
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Fahrenheit 451
• Doctor Zhivago
• Darling
• Young Cassidy
• The Saint (TV Series)
• Billy Liar
• ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
• The Fast Lady
• The Andromeda Breakthrough (TV Series)
• Crooks Anonymous
• A for Andromeda (TV Series)
• Call Oxbridge 2000 (TV Series) & Many more…..