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Reluctant darling of the film world

The British actress, in line for an Oscar for her role as a woman with Alzheimer's disease, keeps out of the usual celebrity circus, having always preferred to do things her way. And that includes growing older gracefully

Ed Vulliamy

Sun 3 Feb 2008

There is something almost exhilarating about Julie Christie winning the Screen Writers' Guild best actress award. And not only because the accolade makes her favourite for the Oscar (even if she declines to cross a picket line to collect it) 43 years after her previous one and, thereby, a grand slam, with a likely Bafta on the way and a Golden Globe in the bag.

The excitement goes beyond Christie's talent and personality or the sensitive, subtle excellence of Away From Her, because the actress and the movie are against the grain of the times. They are the antithesis of the cult of youth; they are the nemesis of that accursed word which has become dangerously ubiquitous to the point of meaninglessness: 'celebrity'. Julie Christie describes part of her personal quest as one of 'de-celebritisation'. She is the contrary of what gets called 'Tinseltown', yet the mistress of her art; the best of Hollywood, the best of British film and her performance in Sarah Polley's movie about Alzheimer's disease is the negation of quick-fix entertainment.

What Julie Christie, whom Al Pacino called 'the most poetic of actresses', embodies at the age of 66, in counterpoint to the zeitgeist, is glamour underpinned by moral seriousness, talent that does not need to show off and beauty that is perennial. For Julie Christie to win that grand slam would be a blow for class over crass.

When my colleague Tim Adams went to interview Julie Christie for this newspaper last year, it was with a mixture of celebration and relief that he felt able to write a eulogy under the headline 'The Divine Miss Julie', because these sentiments occur rarely in a serious writer's life and it is easier to be nasty about people. The fact is that if one does not adore Julie Christie, one has either a retentive psychiatric problem or a political axe to grind.

'People are cross, somehow, that I am not the person I was,' Christie told Adams. 'They feel I'm letting them down by appearing with all my lines and wrinkles. As a culture, we seem unable to embrace change in people without being harsh about it.' In defiance of that culture, she may be about to prove herself happily wrong.

There is a method in profiling Julie Christie, established by right-wing tabloids caught between their duty to despise her and their grudging love for her. One article last week inevitably referred to her 'political correctness', in this case, because she lives in east London and travels by bus, as though that was weird. What is so 'politically correct' about going on a bus? And, of course, if you are 'politically correct', you are therefore severe. Julie Christie is, by her own admission, 'an ideologue', but the Julie Christie one may chance-encounter through work or socially is effervescent, with a ready and infectious smile and somehow that doesn't fit.

There has to be a description of the eccentricity of a sparse and Spartan lifestyle at her home in Wales, tending to animals and vegetables. Another recent piece dragged out her opposite number in the inimitable Don't Look Now, Donald Sutherland, to recall that when he visited Powys to try (unsuccessfully) and persuade the star to do a reprise of that movie, he was so cold he slept in his overcoat.

Why is it so eccentric and 'reclusive' to tend vegetables and shun central heating? Isn't it more eccentric to swan around one's air-conditioned ranch near Santa Barbara while underpaid Mexicans tend the lawns? Isn't it more reclusive to surround oneself only with acolytes? What people are really saying is that Julie Christie is weird because she is normal as well as singular, and that if you are a superstar, you're not supposed to be normal. In the iconography of 'celebrity', a star is supposed to be decadent, not ascetic. In the praise, there is often a patronising, subliminal judgment of quaintness.

It applies also to the obligatory recollection that Julie Christie's lovers included Warren Beatty and Terence Stamp, while the fact that Christie reportedly recently married her partner, Duncan Campbell of the Guardian, is seen as a curio, as though a relationship of 28 years did not speak for itself.

Julie Frances Christie was born in colonial Assam, India, in 1941, to a tea plantation owner and his painter wife. She was expelled from convent boarding school in England, made a sort of home with her separated mother in north Wales, got her acting break in a BBC sci-fi series called A For Andromeda and made her first major movie, pioneering the 'realist' or 'naturalist' school of film acting, as the enchanting, free-spirited Liz in John Schlesinger's Billy Liar. On that occasion, the director chose her, but almost ever since Christie has chosen the director; that is how she decides what film to work on.

She turned down lead roles in They Shoot Horses Don't They? and Anne of the Thousand Days. It did Sarah Polley no harm when persuading Christie to do Away From Her that she was a friend and they had acted together.

Schlesinger progressed to Darling, which, in 1965, won Christie her Oscar as Diana Scott, a self-obsessed, promiscuous model. By the end of that year, she had appeared - forever in the mind's eye of anyone subsequently reading the novel - as Lara Antipova in David Lean's adaptation of Boris Pasternak's Dr Zhivago

She told the International Herald Tribune last year that she felt 'no connection at all' with the young beauty acting in Dr. Zhivago: 'That person has gone'.

With François Truffaut, she starred in the groundbreaking Fahrenheit 451 and returned to Schlesinger for a defining performance as Bathsheba in Far From the Madding Crowd. With Robert Altman, she played in McCabe and Mrs Miller and Nashville, and starred for Nick Roeg in Don't Look Now

These were becoming Christie's Hollywood years. It's strange how good Hollywood is at making films about its own demons. Just as the extraordinarily insightful The Day of the Locust portrayed the envious hatred that underpins adulation of celebrities, so Christie and Beatty acted opposite one another in Shampoo, about the shallowness of mid-70s Hollywood.

The film was almost an explanation for her return to Wales in 1974. 'I thought I was going mad there,' she told Tim Adams. 'You don't fall into LA, you slip into it.' She returned only temporarily to live in California two decades later.

Christie is not prolific; she does quality, not quantity, spending her years between Heaven Can Wait in 1978 and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet in 1996 on her personal life, on Merchant Ivory's Heat and Dust in 1983 and more experimental work that pioneered styles of independent and radical cinema we take for granted now, such as Sally Potter's The Gold Diggers, made by an all-female crew.

And there were the politics. America, she told a bewildered LA Weekly magazine last month, is the heart of 'a ruthless, greedy empire'. As Joseph McCarthy realised, radical politics in Hollywood is part of the movie industry's DNA and, as McCarthy failed to see, produced some of its finest work over the decades. But it can be odd to sip champagne served by Hispanic valets, behind the hydraulic gates of some mansion, listening to the beautiful people complain about how the Democrat or Labour parties sold out to capitalism.

By contrast, Christie's involvement in The Animals Film was a passionate and searing, deeply disturbing indictment of the abuse of the animal kingdom, and very far from the madding champagne socialist crowd. Her involvement against nuclear weapons and with the Greenham Common peace camp was focused and foursquare.

Christie's current political efforts concern a group called the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture, a self-explanatory, cogent and compelling organisation for which she does fundraising and campaigning, and Survival International, the lobbyist and campaigner for indigenous rights and those of tribal peoples. And only last month, Christie was at her latest of many fundraising events for the Stop the War Coalition.

Her recent work has included an unexpected turn in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Wolfgang Petersen's epic Troy in 2004 and a remarkable performance in Marc Forster's Finding Neverland the same year. Yet even these did not match the compelling characterisation in Polley's adaptation of Alice Munro's short story about Alzheimer's disease, 'The Bear Came Over the Mountain', which became Away From Her on screen.

With its subtlety and tender power, Julie Christie's portrayal of Fiona recalls Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond, because the cathartic magic of the acting handles, with elegance and pathos, that last taboo on Planet Showbusiness: even the beautiful people in the world grow old in the end. Only some of them have the good fortune, the honesty in the mirror and the guile to remain beautiful as they do so.

The Christie lowdown

Born 14 April 1941 in Assam, India. Her partner of 28 years is journalist Duncan Campbell.

Best of times Scooping a best actress Oscar and a Bafta for her role as an amoral model in Darling

Receiving her fourth best actress Oscar nomination this year for her portrayal of an Alzheimer's sufferer in Away From Her

Worst of Times Aged six, sent to England to live with a foster mother and attend a convent school.

What she says 'It takes me time to realise things; I'm a speedy person, but a slow thinker.'

'I'm very unsocialised and unmannered. I went to a lot of boarding schools in England, but I didn't learn socialisation.'

'Celebrity is the curse of modern life ... I don't like being part of something dirty. I say to some young stars, "Why do you do all these publicity things?" They say they have signed up to it. I suppose I never wanted to sign up.'

What others say 'The most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I had ever known.'

Warren Beatty, with whom she became Hollywood's most glamorous couple

'She's my incandescent, melancholy, strong, gold-hearted, sphinx-like, stainless-steel little soldier.'

Robert Altman, her friend and director.

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Julie Christie
Christie in Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Born	Julie Frances Christie 14 April 1940 (age 82) Chabua, Assam, British India
Education	Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation	Actress
Spouse	Duncan Campbell
Partner	Don Bessant (1962–1967)

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940)^[1] is a British actress. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, Christie is the recipient of numerous accolades including 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 the following years, she 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's also known for her performances in the critically acclaimed Hamlet (1996), and Finding Neverland (2004), and the blockbusters Troy and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (both 2004).

Contents

• 1Early life
• 2Career
  • 2.1Early career
  • 2.21960s
  • 2.31970s
  • 2.41980s
  • 2.51990s
  • 2.621st century
• 3Personal life
• 4Acting credits
  • 4.1Films
  • 4.2Television
  • 4.3Theatre
• 5Awards and nominations
• 6References
• 7Further reading
• 8External links

Early life[edit]

Christie was born on 14 April 1940^[3][4] at Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India. She has a younger brother, Clive, and an older (deceased) half-sister, June, from her father's relationship with an Indian tea picker on his plantation.^[5] Her parents separated when Julie was a child, and after their divorce, she spent time with her mother in rural Wales.^[6]

She was baptised in the Church of England, and studied as a boarder at the independent Convent of Our Lady school in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, after being expelled from another convent school for telling a risqué joke that reached a wider audience than she had anticipated. After being asked to leave the Convent of Our Lady as well, she attended the all-girls Wycombe Court School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, during which time she lived with a foster mother from the age of six.^[6] At the Wycombe school, she played the Dauphin in a production of Shaw's Saint Joan. She later studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama.^[7]

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

Christie made her professional stage debut in 1957, and her first screen roles were on British television. Her earliest role to gain attention was in BBC serial A for Andromeda (1961). She was a contender for the role of Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought her breasts were too small.^[8]

1960s[edit]

Christie appeared in two comedies for Independent Artists: Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady (both 1962). Her breakthrough role, however, was as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the eponymous character played by Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar (1963), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination. The director, John Schlesinger cast Christie only after another actress, Topsy Jane, had dropped out of the film.^[9][10] Christie appeared as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy (1965), a biopic of Irish playwright Seán O'Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and (uncredited) John Ford.

Her role as an amoral model in Darling (also 1965) led to Christie becoming known internationally. Directed by Schlesinger, and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Christie had only been cast in the lead role after Schlesinger insisted, the studio having wanted Shirley MacLaine.^[11] She received the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role for her performance.^[12]

In David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), adapted from the epic/romance novel by Boris Pasternak, Christie's role as Lara Antipova became her best known. The film was a major box-office success.^[13] As of 2019, Doctor Zhivago is the 8th highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation.^[14] According to Life magazine, 1965 was "The Year of Julie Christie".^[15]

After dual roles in François Truffaut's adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 (1966), starring with Oskar Werner, she appeared as Thomas Hardy's heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). After moving to Los Angeles in 1967 ("I was there because of a lot of American boyfriends"^[16]), she appeared in the title role of Richard Lester's Petulia (1968), co-starring with George C. Scott.

Christie's persona as the swinging sixties British woman she had embodied in Billy Liar and Darling was further cemented by her appearance in the documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love in London. In 1967, Time magazine said of her: "What Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the ten best-dressed women combined".^[17]

1970s[edit]

In Joseph Losey's romantic drama The Go-Between (1971), Christie had a lead role along with Alan Bates. The film won the Grand Prix, then the main award at the Cannes Film Festival. She earned a second Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as a brothel madame in Robert Altman's postmodern western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (also 1971). The film was the first of three collaborations between Christie and Warren Beatty, who described her as "the most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I had ever known".^[6] The couple had a high-profile but intermittent relationship between 1967 and 1974. After the relationship ended, they worked together again in the comedies Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).

Her other films during the decade were Nicolas Roeg's thriller Don't Look Now (1973), based on a story by Daphne du Maurier, in which she co-starred with Donald Sutherland, and the science-fiction/horror film Demon Seed (1977), based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz and directed by Donald Cammell. Don't Look Now in particular has received acclaim, with Christie nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and in 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it the greatest British film ever.^[18]

Christie returned to the United Kingdom in 1977, living on a farm in Wales. In 1979, she was a member of the jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.^[19] Never a prolific actress, even at the height of her career, Christie turned down many high-profile film roles, including Anne of the Thousand Days, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Reds, all of which earned Oscar nominations for the actresses who eventually played them.^[13][20]

1980s[edit]

In the 1980s, Christie appeared in non-mainstream films such as The Return of the Soldier (1982) and Heat and Dust (1983). She had a major supporting role in Sidney Lumet's Power (1986) alongside Richard Gere and Gene Hackman, but apart from that, she avoided large budget films. She starred in the television film Dadah Is Death (1988), based on the Barlow and Chambers execution, as Barlow's mother Barbara, who desperately fought to save her son from being hanged for drug trafficking in Malaysia.^[21]

Christie in 1997

1990s[edit]

After a lengthy absence from the screen, Christie co-starred in the fantasy adventure film Dragonheart (1996), and appeared as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (also 1996). Her next critically acclaimed role was the unhappy wife in Alan Rudolph's domestic comedy-drama Afterglow (1997) with Nick Nolte, Jonny Lee Miller and Lara Flynn Boyle. Christie received a third Oscar nomination for her role.

Appearing in six films that were ranked in the British Film Institute's 100 greatest British films of the 20th century, in recognition of her contribution to British cinema Christie received BAFTA's highest honour, the Fellowship in 1997.^[22][23] In 1994, she had been awarded the title Doctor of Letters from the University of Warwick.^[24]

21st century[edit]

Christie made a brief cameo appearance in the third Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), playing Madam Rosmerta. Around the same time, she also appeared in two other high-profile films: Wolfgang Petersen's Troy and Marc Forster's Finding Neverland (both 2004), playing mother to Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet, respectively. The latter performance earned Christie a BAFTA nomination as supporting actress in a film.

Christie at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival

Christie portrayed the female lead in Away from Her (2006), a film about a long-married Canadian couple coping with the wife's Alzheimer's disease. Based on the Alice Munro short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", the movie was the first feature film directed by Christie's sometime co-star, Canadian actress Sarah Polley. She took the role, she says, only because Polley is her friend.^[25] Polley has said Christie liked the script but initially turned it down as she was ambivalent about acting. It took several months of persuasion by Polley before Christie finally accepted the role.^[26]

In July 2006 she was a member of the jury at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival.^[27] Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2006 as part of the TIFF's Gala showcase, Away from Her drew rave reviews from the trade press, including The Hollywood Reporter, and the four Toronto dailies. Critics singled out her performances as well as that of her co-star, Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, and Polley's direction. Christie's performance generated Oscar buzz, leading the distributor, Lions Gate Entertainment, to buy the film at the festival to release the film in 2007 to build momentum during the awards season.

On 5 December 2007, she won the Best Actress Award from the National Board of Review for her performance in Away from Her.^[28] She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and the Genie Award for Best Actress for the same film. On 22 January 2008, Christie received her fourth Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 80th Academy Awards. She appeared at the ceremony wearing a pin calling for the closure of the prison in Guantanamo Bay.^[29]

Christie narrated Uncontacted Tribes (2008), a short film for the British-based charity Survival International, featuring previously unseen footage of remote and endangered peoples.^[30] She has been a long-standing supporter of the charity, and in February 2008, was named as its first 'Ambassador'.^[31] She appeared in a segment of the film, New York, I Love You (also 2008), written by Anthony Minghella, directed by Shekhar Kapur and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, as well as in Glorious 39 (2009), about a British family at the start of World War II.

Christie played a "sexy, bohemian" version of the grandmother role in Catherine Hardwicke's gothic retelling of Red Riding Hood (2011).^[32] Her most recent role was in the political thriller The Company You Keep (2012), where she co-starred with Robert Redford and Sam Elliott.

Personal life[edit]

In the early 1960s, Christie dated actor Terence Stamp.^[13] She was in a relationship with Don Bessant, a lithographer and art teacher, from December 1962 to May 1967,^[33] before dating actor Warren Beatty for seven on-and-off years (1967–1974).^[6]

Christie is married to journalist Duncan Campbell; they have lived together since 1979,^[34] but the date they married is disputed. In January 2008, several news outlets reported that the couple had quietly married in India two months earlier, in November 2007,^[35] which Christie called "nonsense", adding, "I have been married for a few years. Don't believe what you read in the papers."^[36]

In the late 1960s, her advisers adopted a very complex scheme in an attempt to reduce her tax liability, giving rise to the leading case of Black Nominees Ltd v Nicol (Inspector of Taxes). The case was heard by Judge Sydney Templeman (who later became Lord Templeman), who gave judgment in favour of the Inland Revenue, ruling that the scheme was ineffective.^[37]

She is active in various causes, including animal rights, environmental protection, and the anti-nuclear power movement. She is a Patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign,^[38] as well as Reprieve,^[39] and the CFS/ME charity Action for ME.^[40]

Acting credits[edit]

Films[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1962	Crooks Anonymous	Babette LaVern
	The Fast Lady	Claire Chingford
1963	Billy Liar	Liz
1965	Young Cassidy	Daisy Battles
	Darling	Diana Scott
	Doctor Zhivago	Lara Antipova
1966	Fahrenheit 451	Clarisse / Linda Montag
1967	Far from the Madding Crowd	Bathsheba Everdene
1968	Petulia	Petulia Danner
1969	In Search of Gregory	Catherine Morelli
1971	The Go-Between	Lady Marian Maudsley Trimingham
	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Constance Miller
1973	Don't Look Now	Laura Baxter
1975	Shampoo	Jackie Shawn
	Nashville	Herself
1977	Demon Seed	Susan Harris
1978	Heaven Can Wait	Betty Logan
1981	Memoirs of a Survivor	"D"
1982	The Return of the Soldier	Kitty Baldry
	Les quarantièmes rugissants	Catherine Dantec
1983	Heat and Dust	Anne
	The Gold Diggers	Ruby
1986	Champagne amer	Betty Rivière
	Power	Ellen Freeman
	Miss Mary	Mary Mulligan
1990	Fools of Fortune	Mrs. Ellie Quinton
1996	Dragonheart	Queen Aislinn
	Hamlet	Gertrude
1997	Afterglow	Phyllis Mann
1999	The Miracle Maker	Rachael	voice
2001	Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre	Glenda Spender
	No Such Thing	Dr. Anna
2002	I'm with Lucy	Dori
	Snapshots	Narma
2004	Troy	Thetis
	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Madam Rosmerta
	Finding Neverland	Mrs. Emma du Maurier
2005	The Secret Life of Words	Inge
2006	Away from Her	Fiona Anderson
2008	New York, I Love You	Isabelle	Segment: "Shekhar Kapur"
2009	Glorious 39	Elizabeth
2011	Red Riding Hood	Grandmother
2012	The Company You Keep	Mimi Lurie
2018	The Bookshop	Narrator

Television[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1961	Call Oxbridge 2000	Ann	Episode #1.3
	A for Andromeda	Christine / Andromeda	6 episodes
1962	The Andromeda Breakthrough	Andromeda	Episode: "Cold Front"; uncredited
1963	The Saint	Judith Northwade	Episode: "Judith"
	ITV Play of the Week	Betty Whitehead	Episode: "J. B. Priestley Season #3: Dangerous Corner"
1983	Separate Tables	Mrs. Betty Shankland	TV movie
1986	Sins of the Fathers	Charlotte Deutz	Miniseries
1988	Dadah Is Death	Barbara Barlow	TV movie
1992	The Railway Station Man	Helen Cuffe	TV movie
1996	Karaoke	Lady Ruth Balmer	Episode: "Wednesday" Episode: "Friday"

Theatre[edit]

Christie made her professional debut in 1957 at the Frinton Repertory Company in Essex.

Year	Show	Location
1964	The Comedy of Errors	New York State Theatre
1973	Uncle Vanya	Chichester Festival Theatre (and on tour, Bath, Oxford, Richmond, and Guildford)
1997	Suzanna Andler	Wyndham's Theatre & Theatre Clywd
1995	Old Times	Royal Court Theatre
2007	Cries from the Heart	Royal Court Theatre

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
1963	BAFTA Award for Best British Actress	Billy Liar	Nominated
1965	Academy Award for Best Actress	Darling	Won
	BAFTA Award for Best British Actress		Won
	Laurel Award for Top Female Dramatic Performance		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress		Won
	Moscow International Film Festival – Diploma[41]		Won
	National Board of Review Award for Best Actress		Won
	Silver Goddess for Best Foreign Actress		Won
	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Nominated
1965	David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress	Doctor Zhivago	Won
	National Board of Review Award for Best Actress		Won
	BAFTA Award for Best British Actress		Nominated
1966	BAFTA Award for Best British Actress	Fahrenheit 451	Nominated
1971	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role	The Go-Between	Nominated
	Academy Award for Best Actress	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Nominated
1973	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role	Don't Look Now	Nominated
1975	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	Shampoo	Nominated
1977	Saturn Award for Best Actress	Demon Seed	Nominated
	Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Award for Best Actress	Memoirs of a Survivor	Won
1986	Havana Film Festival Award for Best Actress	Miss Mary	Won
1997	Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress	Afterglow	Won
	Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead		Won
	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress		Won
	San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actress		Won
	Academy Award for Best Actress		Nominated
2004	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Finding Neverland	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture		Nominated
2007	Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Actress Defying Age and Ageism	Away from Her	Won
	Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actress		Won
	Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Bravest Performance		Won
	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (runner-up)		Won
	Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress		Won
	Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress		Won
	Dublin Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Actress		Won
	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Won
	Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role		Won
	Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress		Won
	Iowa Film Critics Award for Best Actress		Won
	London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year		Won
	National Board of Review Award for Best Actress		Won
	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress		Won
	New York Film Critics Online Award for Best Actress		Won
	Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress		Won
	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress		Won
	San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress		Won
	San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress		Won
	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role		Won
	Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress		Won
	Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress		Won
	Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress		Won
	Academy Award for Best Actress		Nominated
	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role		Nominated
	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress		Nominated
	Detroit Film Critics Society for Best Actress		Nominated
	Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress		Nominated
	Gransito Movie Award for Best Actress		Nominated
	Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Nominated
	St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress		Nominated

References[edit]

1. ^ Although most sources cite 1941 as Christie's year of birth, she was in fact born in 1940 and baptised that year.
   First name(s) Julie Frances
   Last name Christie
   Baptism year:1940
   Birth year: 1940
   Place: Dibrugarh
   Presidency Bengal
   Mother's first name(s)-
   Mother's last name-
   Father's first name(s)-
   Father's last name Christie
   Baptism date: 1940
   Birth date: 1940
   Archive reference: N-1-606&607
   Folio: #93
   Catalogue descriptions: Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bengal
   Records: British India Office births & baptisms
   Category: Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
   Record collection: Births & baptisms
   Collections from Great Britain
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Further reading[edit]

• Bell, Melanie (2016). Julie Christie (Film Stars). British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1844574476.
• Ewbank, Tim (2009). Julie Christie: The Biography. André Deutsch Ltd. ISBN 978-0233002552.
• Hayward, Anthony (2000). Julie Christie. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0709064780.
• Callan, Michael Feeney (1985). Julie Christie. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312448511.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Julie Christie.

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Biography and filmography

• Julie Christie at IMDb
• Julie Christie at the Internet Broadway Database 
• Julie Christie at the TCM Movie Database 
• Julie Christie at AllMovie
• Julie Christie at the BFI's Screenonline

Interviews

• Pearce, Garth (3 February 2008). "Oscar winner and nominee Julie Christie talks about getting older". Sunday Times. Arts and Entertainment. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011.
• Sagall, Sabby; Orr, Judith (March 2009). "Playing a part against injustice". Socialist Review. Interview (334).
• Webb, Oliver (23 September 2020) https://www.closelyobservedframes.com/post/an-interview-with-julie-christie. An interview with Julie Christie