Julie Frances Christie is an English Academy Award-winning film actress. Her latest starring role, in writer-director Sarah Polley's debut feature film Away From Her, wowed the critics and audiences attending the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and may bring Christie her fourth Best Actress Oscar nomination.

Her first major film role was as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the eponymous Billy Liar played by Tom Courtenay in the 1963 film directed by John Schlesinger. Christie won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Darling (1965). Later, she played Thomas Hardy's heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesingter's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and the lead character, Petulia Danner, (opposite George C. Scott) in Richard Lester's Petulia (1968).

In the '70's, Christie starred in such films as Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971), The Go-Between (again co-starring Alan Bates, 1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Shampoo (1975), Demon Seed (1977), and Heaven Can Wait (1978). She continues to make movies, including those in the French language, such as 2001's Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre opposite Sophie Marceau. Her latest acting triumph comes as the female lead in Away From Her.

Public Name: Julie Christie
Birth Name: Julie Frances Christie
Date of Birth: 14 April 1941
Place of Birth: Assam, India

Filmography

• Away from Her, 2006
• Vida secreta de las palabras, La, 2005
• Finding Neverland, 2004
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004
• Troy, 2004
• I'm with Lucy, 2002
• Snapshots, 2002
• No Such Thing, 2001
• Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, 2001
• The Miracle Maker, 2000 (voice)
• Afterglow, 1997
• Hamlet, 1996
• "Karaoke", 1996 (mini) TV Series
• Dragonheart, 1996
• The Railway Station Man, 1992
• Fools of Fortune, 1990
• Dadah Is Death, 1988 (TV)
• Miss Mary, 1986
• Power, 1986
• "Väter und Söhne - Eine deutsche Tragödie", 1986 (mini) TV Series
• Champagne amer, 1986
• Heat and Dust, 1983
• The Gold Diggers, 1983
• Separate Tables, 1983 (TV)
• Quarantièmes rugissants, Les, 1982
• The Return of the Soldier, 1982
• Memoirs of a Survivor, 1981
• Heaven Can Wait, 1978
• Demon Seed, 1977
• Shampoo, 1975
• Don't Look Now, 1973
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 1971
• The Go-Between, 1970
• In Search of Gregory, 1969
• Petulia, 1968
• Far from the Madding Crowd, 1967
• Fahrenheit 451, 1966
• Doctor Zhivago, 1965
• Darling, 1965
• Young Cassidy, 1965
• "The Saint", 1963 TV Episode
• Billy Liar, 1963
• Crooks Anonymous, 1962
• The Fast Lady, 1962
• "A for Andromeda", 1961 TV Series

Awards

• Independent Spirit Award Best Actress "Afterglow" 1998
• National Society of Film Critics Award Best Actress "Afterglow" 1997
• New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actress "Afterglow" 1997
• BAFTA Fellowship 1996
• CableACE Award Actress (Theatrical/Non-Musical) "Separate Tables" 1983
• British Film Academy Award Best British Actress "Darling" 1965
• David di Donatello Prize Best Actress "Dr. Zhivago" 1965
• National Board of Review Award Best Actress "Darling" 1965
• New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actress "Darling" and "Dr. Zhivago" 1965
• Oscar Best Actress "Darling" 1965