Julie Christie AKA Julie Frances Christie Born: 14-Apr-1941 Birthplace: Chabua, Assam, India Gender: Female Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor Nationality: England Executive summary: Darling A strikingly beautiful actress, Julie Christie was the sun-kissed on-screen embodiment of the 1960s British swingin' chick. She starred in some of the biggest films of her time, but if today's audiences know her at all, it's for small roles in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban or Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. She played Brad Pitt's mother in Troy. Older audiences and connoisseurs of fine film remember Christie in the classic soap opera of the Russian Revolution, Doctor Zhivago, where she was raped by Rod Steiger and became Omar Sharif's mistress. She played two roles in François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, and played Warren Beatty's love interest in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, and in real life. In Far From the Madding Crowd, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, and Alan Bates all wanted her. She starred with Donald Sutherland in Nicolas Roeg's classic thriller Don't Look Now, and had sex with a computer in Demon Seed. She won her Oscar for 1965's Darling, which was quite the daring sex romp in its day, although it seems tame, almost quaint by present standards. "What Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the ten Best-Dressed women combined," said Time Magazine in 1967. She was born in India, where her father tended his tea plantation, and at 7 she was sent to boarding school in England. During her long stays in America, she became friends with Sharon Tate, a friendship cut short by Charles Manson. In recent years, Christie has returned to live in England. She is a long-time member of NORML, and adamantly supports the legalization of marijuana. Father: Frank St. John Christie (operated tea plantation, India) Mother: Rosemary (Ramsden) Christie Brother: Clive Christie (lecturer in SouthEast Asian Studies, Hull University) Boyfriend: Terence Stamp (dated in mid-1960s, their romance inspired The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset") Boyfriend: Don Bessant (artist, "Cotswold Spring", b. 1941, cohabited in the late 1960s) Boyfriend: Warren Beatty (dated in early 1970s) Boyfriend: Duncan Campbell (journalist, The [London] Guardian, cohabited since 1977)     University: BA Art, Brighton Polytechnic College     Oscar for Best Actress 1966 for Darling     National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws     Risk Factors: Smoking     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     Finding Neverland (4-Sep-2004)     Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (31-May-2004)     Troy (9-May-2004)     A Decade Under the Influence (19-Jan-2003) Herself     I'm with Lucy (30-Aug-2002)     No Such Thing (12-Oct-2001)     Afterglow (11-May-1997)     Dragonheart (31-May-1996)     Hamlet (25-Dec-1996)     Karaoke (6-Oct-1996)     Power (09-May-1986)     Heat and Dust (Jan-1983)     Separate Tables (1983)     Heaven Can Wait (28-Jun-1978)     Demon Seed (30-Sep-1977)     Nashville (11-Jun-1975) Herself     Shampoo (11-Feb-1975)     Don't Look Now (25-Dec-1973)     McCabe & Mrs. Miller (24-Jun-1971)     The Go-Between (Dec-1970)     Petulia (10-Jun-1968)     Far from the Madding Crowd (16-Oct-1967)     Fahrenheit 451 (16-Sep-1966)     Darling (Jul-1965)     Doctor Zhivago (22-Dec-1965)     Young Cassidy (22-Mar-1965)     Billy Liar (16-Dec-1963) Do you know something we don't? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile Copyright ©2005 Soylent Communications