Julie Christie

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Biography

Recent Role:
Herself on The Academy Awards
Gender:
Female
Born:
4-14-1941
Birthplace:
Chabua, Assam, British India
Birth Name:
Julie Frances Christie
Julie was born and brought up in Assam, then part of the Bengal Presidency of British India, where her English father ran a tea plantation. She trained for an acting career at the Central School of Music and Drama, London, then worked in rep for a year or two before making her screen debut in the movie Crooks Anonymous (1962).

She won an Oscar (Best Actress) for her part in Darling (1965), and played Lara in Doctor Zhivago the same year, perhaps her best-remembered role. She received another Oscar nomination for McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971). Since the late 1970 she has owned a

… More farm in Montgomeryshire, Wales, where she now spends most of her time.

In 2007, at the age of sixty-six, Christie married the journalist Duncan Campbell, who has been her partner since 1979. This was her first marriage. Al Pacino once called Julie Christie "the most poetic of all actresses".

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