Julie Christie

Julie Christie
Christie in 1997
Born	Julie Frances Christie (1940-04-14) 14 April 1940 (age 84) Chabua, Assam, British India
Education	Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1957–2017
Spouse	Duncan Campbell
Partner	Don Bessant (1962–1967)

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940)^[1] is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in six films ranked in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century, and in 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.

Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963). She came to international attention for her performances in Darling (1965), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), the eighth highest-grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation.^[2] She continued to receive Academy Award nominations, for McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Afterglow (1997) and Away from Her (2007).

In addition, Christie starred in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Petulia (1968), The Go-Between (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Shampoo (1975), and Heaven Can Wait (1978). She is also known for her performances in Hamlet (1996) as well as Finding Neverland, Troy and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (all 2004).