Julie Christie

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Julie Christie at the 1997 Guadalajara International Film Festival

Julie Frances Christie (born April 14, 1940 or 1941 in Chabua , Assam , India ) is a British film actress . She played her most important leading roles in films such as Doctor Zhivago and When the Gondolas Bear Mourning in the 1960s and 1970s .

biography

Julie Christie was born in India, her father owned a tea plantation in Assam . She studied first in India, then at London's Central School of Speech and Drama . In 1961 she made her debut in the BBC - television series A for Andromeda , in which she starred the Andromeda played.

She was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for her portrayal of Larissa "Lara" Antipowa , one of the leading roles alongside Omar Sharif in the film Doctor Zhivago (1965) . She also received the US National Board of Review award .

For her leading role in Darling (1965) she won an Oscar , the British Academy Film Award, the New York Film Critics Circle Award , and the Laurel Award ; she was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award .

In Fahrenheit 451 (1966) she impersonated the teacher Clarisse and Linda Montag , the wife of a firefighter ( Guy Montag , played by Oskar Werner ) in a double role . She was nominated again for the British Academy Film Award.

In the film When the Gondolas Bear Mourning (1973) she played another leading role, which earned her another nomination for the British Film Awards. She was nominated for an Oscar for her leading roles in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Love Whispers (1997) and At Her Side (2006) . For her lead role in the futuristic horror film Des Teufels Saat (1977) she received a nomination for the Saturn Award .

In 2004 she finally played Madam Rosmerta in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban . She was celebrated again for her acting performance in the feature film At Her Side , the directorial debut of Canadian actress Sarah Polley . In it, she embodied a woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease, who after 20 years (she has been married for over 40 years) swaps her home for a nursing home and seems to find a new job there.

On January 30, 2008, the Daily Mail reported that Julie Christie and her long-time partner (he had been for 28 years), journalist Duncan Campbell, had married in India two months earlier.

For more than 30 years Christie has supported the work of the non-governmental organization Survival International , which works to protect indigenous peoples . Among other things, she lent her voice to the film Uncontacted Tribes by Survival. On February 1, 2008, she was named Ambassador for Survival International.

Julie Christie lives in seclusion, most of the time on a farm in Wales .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

  • 1966 honored as " Best Actress " in Darling
  • 1972 nominated for Best Actress in McCabe and Mrs. Miller
  • 1998 nominated as "Best Actress" in Love Whispers
  • 2008 nominated for “Best Actress” in At Her Side

British Academy Film Award

  • 1964 nominated as " Best British Actress " in Beloved Crazy
  • 1966 Award as "Best British Actress" in Darling
  • 1967 nominated for "Best British Actress" in Doctor Zhivago
  • 1967 nominated for Best British Actress in Fahrenheit 451
  • 1972 nominated as " Best Actress " in Der Mittler
  • 1974 nominated as "Best Actress" in When the Gondolas Bear Mourning
  • 1997 Academy Fellowship
  • 2005 nominated as “Best Supporting Actress” in When Dreams Learn to Fly
  • 2008 nominated for “Best Actress” in At Her Side

Golden Globe Award

Julie Christie also received the CineMerit Award of the Munich Film Festival in 2008 for outstanding contributions to the art of film .

Web links

Commons : Julie Christie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Most sources give 1941 as the year of birth. However, in the biography Julie Christie: The Biography (2000, Carlton Publishing Group, London. Pp. 1-2. ISBN 978-0-233-00255-2 ) written by Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred, the following statement can be found: “In the spring of 1940 meat rationing had just begun in England… Vivien Leigh, a British actress born in Darjeeling, India, had on 29 February at a banquet at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Scarlett O ' Hara… Forty five days later, on April 14, there was much cause for rejoicing for Frank and Rosemary Christie, a British couple living on a tea plantation in Assam in the north-east of India, with the arrival of their first child, Julie Frances. "
personal data
SURNAME Christie, Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christie, Julie Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1940 or April 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Chabua , Assam, India