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Drama</dd> </dl> <button class="js-more-btn d-none btn btn-unstyled font-12 bg-gray-50" aria-label="Toggle more/less fact data"> <em class="js-content link-blue">(Show more)</em> </button> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="js-fact mb-10 line-clamp clamp-3"> <dl> <dt>Married To: </dt> <dd>Duncan Campbell (2008–present)</dd> </dl> <button class="js-more-btn d-none btn btn-unstyled font-12 bg-gray-50" aria-label="Toggle more/less fact data"> <em class="js-content link-blue">(Show more)</em> </button> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="js-fact mb-10 line-clamp clamp-3"> <dl> <dt>Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In): </dt> <dd>"The Company You Keep" (2012)</dd> <dd>"Red Riding Hood" (2011)</dd> <dd>"Glorious 39" (2009)</dd> <dd>"New York, I Love You" (2008)</dd> <dd>"Away from Her" (2006)</dd> <dd>"The Secret Life of Words" (2005)</dd> <dd>"Finding Neverland" (2004)</dd> <dd>"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004)</dd> <dd>"Troy" (2004)</dd> <dd>"I'm with Lucy" (2002)</dd> <dd>"Snapshots" (2002)</dd> <dd>"No Such Thing" (2001)</dd> <dd>"Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre" (2001)</dd> <dd>"The Miracle Maker" (2000)</dd> <dd>"Afterglow" (1997)</dd> <dd>"Hamlet" (1996)</dd> <dd>"DragonHeart" (1996)</dd> <dd>"Karaoke" (1996)</dd> <dd>"The Railway Station Man" (1992)</dd> <dd>"Fools of Fortune" (1990)</dd> <dd>"Champagne amer" (1989)</dd> <dd>"Väter und Söhne - Eine deutsche Tragödie" (1986)</dd> <dd>"Miss Mary" (1986)</dd> <dd>"Power" (1986)</dd> <dd>"The Gold Diggers" (1983)</dd> <dd>"Heat and Dust" (1983)</dd> <dd>"Les quarantièmes rugissants" (1982)</dd> <dd>"The Return of the Soldier" (1982)</dd> <dd>"Memoirs of a Survivor" (1981)</dd> <dd>"Heaven Can Wait" (1978)</dd> <dd>"Demon Seed" (1977)</dd> <dd>"Nashville" (1975)</dd> <dd>"Shampoo" (1975)</dd> <dd>"Don't Look Now" (1973)</dd> <dd>"McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971)</dd> <dd>"The Go-Between" (1971)</dd> <dd>"In Search of Gregory" (1969)</dd> <dd>"Petulia" (1968)</dd> <dd>"Far from the Madding Crowd" (1967)</dd> <dd>"Fahrenheit 451" (1966)</dd> <dd>"Doctor Zhivago" (1965)</dd> <dd>"Darling" (1965)</dd> <dd>"Young Cassidy" (1965)</dd> <dd>"The Saint" (1963)</dd> <dd>"Billy Liar" (1963)</dd> <dd>"ITV Play of the Week" (1963)</dd> <dd>"The Fast Lady" (1963)</dd> <dd>"Crooks Anonymous" (1962)</dd> <dd>"A for Andromeda" (1961)</dd> <dd>"Call Oxbridge 2000" (1961)</dd> </dl> <button class="js-more-btn d-none btn btn-unstyled font-12 bg-gray-50" aria-label="Toggle more/less fact data"> <em class="js-content link-blue">(Show more)</em> </button> </div> <div class="text-center"> <a class="btn btn-sm btn-link p-0" href="/facts/Julie-Christie"> See all related content </a> </div> </div> </div> </div><span class="marker before-article"></span><section data-level="1" id="ref1"><span class="marker PREMOD1 mod-inline"></span><p class="topic-paragraph"><strong><span id="ref710606"></span>Julie Christie</strong> (born April 14, 1940 or 1941, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Assam" class="md-crosslink autoxref " data-show-preview="true">Assam</a>, India) is a British <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/motion-picture" class="md-crosslink autoxref " data-show-preview="true">film</a> actress renowned for a wide range of roles in English and American films of the 1960s and ’70s, as well as for her offbeat, free-spirited personality.</p><span class="marker MOD1 mod-inline"></span></section> <span class="marker h2"></span><section data-level="1" id="ref385505"> <h2 class="h1">Early life and films</h2> <span class="marker PREMOD2 mod-inline"></span><div class="assemblies"><div class="w-100"><figure class="md-assembly m-0 mb-md-0 card card-borderless print-false" data-assembly-id="52043" data-asm-type="image"><div class="md-assembly-wrapper card-media " data-type="image"><a href="https://cdn.britannica.com/44/61744-050-3F94A993/Julie-Christie-Darling.jpg" class="gtm-assembly-link position-relative d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center media-overlay-link card-media" data-href="/media/1/709508/52043"><picture><source media="(min-width: 680px)" srcset="https://cdn.britannica.com/44/61744-050-3F94A993/Julie-Christie-Darling.jpg?w=300"><img src="https://cdn.britannica.com/44/61744-050-3F94A993/Julie-Christie-Darling.jpg?w=300" alt="Julie Christie in Darling" data-width="1402" data-height="1197" loading="eager"></picture><button class="magnifying-glass btn btn-circle position-absolute shadow btn-white top-10 right-10" aria-label="Zoom in"><em class="material-icons link-blue" data-icon="zoom_in"></em></button></a></div><figcaption class="card-body"><div class="md-assembly-caption text-muted font-14 font-serif line-clamp"><span><a class="gtm-assembly-link md-assembly-title font-weight-bold d-inline font-sans-serif mr-5 media-overlay-link" href="https://cdn.britannica.com/44/61744-050-3F94A993/Julie-Christie-Darling.jpg" data-href="/media/1/709508/52043">Julie Christie in <em>Darling</em></a><span>Julie Christie in <em>Darling</em> (1965).</span><button class="js-more-btn d-none btn btn-unstyled font-12 bg-white js-content" aria-label="Toggle more/less fact data"><span class="link-blue">(more)</span></button></span></div></figcaption></figure></div></div><p class="topic-paragraph">Christie was born on an Indian tea plantation that her father managed, and she was educated in England and France. She studied <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/acting" class="md-crosslink autoxref " data-show-preview="true">acting</a> at London’s Central School for Drama and made her stage debut in 1957. Her first major film role was in director <span id="ref975767"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Schlesinger" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">John Schlesinger</a>’s <em>Billy Liar</em> (1963). In 1965 she found stardom and won an <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/Academy-Award" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Academy Award</a> for playing a self-destructive fashion model in Schlesinger’s <em><span id="ref975764"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Darling" class="md-crosslink ">Darling</a></em>. That same year she appeared as the <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw" data-term="romantic" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/romantic" data-type="MW">romantic</a> heroine Lara in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Lean" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">David Lean</a>’s enormously successful <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-Zhivago-film" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">screen adaptation</a> of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Boris-Pasternak" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Boris Pasternak</a>’s <em><span id="ref975765"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Doctor-Zhivago-novel" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Doctor Zhivago</a></em>.</p><span class="marker MOD2 mod-inline"></span> <span class="marker PREMOD3 mod-inline"></span><p class="topic-paragraph">Christie played dual roles in director <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-Truffaut" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">François Truffaut</a>’s <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fahrenheit-451-film-by-Truffaut" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">1966 production</a> of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ray-Bradbury" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Ray Bradbury</a>’s science-fiction novel <em><span id="ref975766"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fahrenheit-451-novel-by-Bradbury" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Fahrenheit 451</a></em> (1966) and portrayed the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hardy" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Thomas Hardy</a> heroine <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bathsheba-Everdene" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Bathsheba</a> in <em><span id="ref975768"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Far-from-the-Madding-Crowd-film-by-Schlesinger" class="md-crosslink ">Far from the Madding Crowd</a></em> (1967), her final theatrical film with Schlesinger.</p><a class="link-module shadow-sm d-block qa-quiz-module" href="/quiz/oscar-worthy-movie-trivia" data-link-module-iframe-link=""> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/23/114923-131-785286EA/projection-screen-movie-theater-cinema.jpg" alt="Empty movie theater and blank screen (theatre, motion pictures, cinema)." class="rounded-sm mr-15" width="70" /> <div class="line-clamp clamp-5"> <div class="module-title bg-green">Britannica Quiz</div> <div class="font-weight-semi-bold mt-5">Oscar-Worthy Movie Trivia</div> </div> </a><span class="marker MOD3 mod-inline"></span> </section> <span class="marker h3"></span><section data-level="1" id="ref385506"> <h2 class="h1">Popularity in the 1960s and ’70s</h2> <span class="marker PREMOD4 mod-inline"></span><p class="topic-paragraph">At the peak of her popularity, Christie made it a point to resist easy money and to be leery of fame. Often shunning the lure of <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw" data-term="mediocre" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mediocre" data-type="MW">mediocre</a> Hollywood projects, the actress opted instead to play interesting roles in a series of films by respected international directors such as Lean, Truffaut, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Lester" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Richard Lester</a>, <span id="ref1265937"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Altman" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Robert Altman</a>, and <span id="ref1265936"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolas-Roeg" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Nicolas Roeg</a>.</p><span class="marker MOD4 mod-inline"></span> <span class="marker PREMOD5 mod-inline"></span><p class="topic-paragraph">Christie was comfortable in both contemporary and period pieces; in Lester’s <em><span id="ref975769"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Petulia" class="md-crosslink ">Petulia</a></em> (1968), she gave the defining performance of a 1960s free spirit, and in Altman’s period western <em><span id="ref975770"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/McCabe-and-Mrs-Miller" class="md-crosslink ">McCabe and Mrs. Miller</a></em> (1971), she won another Oscar nomination for her portrait of a tough, unflappable madam. In Roeg’s disturbing psychological thriller <em><span id="ref710607"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dont-Look-Now" class="md-crosslink ">Don’t Look Now</a></em> (1973)—a film that has become something of a cult classic—Christie turned in what was perhaps her most emotionally layered performance to date as a woman haunted by the deaths of her daughter and husband yet determined to maintain her poise and dignity.</p><span class="marker MOD5 mod-inline"></span> <span class="marker PREMOD6 mod-inline"></span><p class="topic-paragraph">Her romance with American actor, producer, and director <span id="ref710930"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Warren-Beatty" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Warren Beatty</a> was echoed on-screen in three noteworthy films: <em>McCabe and Mrs. Miller</em>, <em>Shampoo</em> (1975), and <em>Heaven Can Wait</em> (1978).</p><span class="marker MOD6 mod-inline"></span> <span class="marker PREMOD7 mod-inline"></span><p class="topic-paragraph">Christie appeared only sporadically in films during the 1980s, finding few compelling roles for an actress in her 40s. A notable exception was her performance in the 1983 made-for-television <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw" data-term="adaptation" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adaptation" data-type="MW">adaptation</a> of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terence-Rattigan" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Terence Rattigan</a>’s play <em>Separate Tables</em>.</p><div class="module-spacing"> <DIV class="marketing-INLINE_SUBSCRIPTION marketing-content" data-marketing-id="INLINE_SUBSCRIPTION"><style> .student-promo-banner-wrapper { container-type: inline-size; margin-bottom: 15px; } @container (min-width: 475px) { .student-promo-banner { flex-direction: row; } .student-promo-banner-img-wrapper { margin-bottom: 0; margin-right: 10px; justify-content: flex-start; } .student-promo-banner-text-wrapper { text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; } .student-promo-banner-button-wrapper { margin-right: 0; } }</style> <div class="student-promo-banner-wrapper"> <div class="student-promo-banner d-flex flex-column align-items-center bg-blue rounded p-20"> <div class="student-promo-banner-img-wrapper mb-20 mr-0 d-flex justify-content-center"> <img class="rounded" style="max-width: 100px; min-width: 80px" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/marketing/BlueThistle.webp" /> </div> <div class="student-promo-banner-text-wrapper ml-0 mb-10 text-center text-white"> <div class="h2 mb-10">Get Unlimited Access</div> <div class="h4 font-weight-semi-bold">Try Britannica Premium for free and discover more.</div> </div> <div class="student-promo-banner-button-wrapper d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center ml-auto mr-auto"> <a class="btn btn-m btn-orange" href="https://premium.britannica.com/premium-membership/?utm_source=premium&utm_medium=inline-cta&utm_campaign=black-friday-2024">Subscribe</a> </div> </div> </div> </DIV></div><span class="marker MOD7 mod-inline"></span> </section> <span class="marker h4"></span><section data-level="1" id="ref385507"> <h2 class="h1">The 1990s and beyond</h2> <span class="marker PREMOD8 mod-inline"></span><div class="assemblies"><div class="w-100"><figure class="md-assembly m-0 mb-md-0 card card-borderless print-false" data-assembly-id="9271" data-asm-type="image"><div class="md-assembly-wrapper card-media " data-type="image"><a href="https://cdn.britannica.com/66/7266-004-50AA9C58/Kenneth-Branagh-Hamlet-Gertrude-film-version-Julie-1996.jpg" class="gtm-assembly-link position-relative d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center media-overlay-link card-media" data-href="/media/1/709508/9271"><picture><source media="(min-width: 680px)" srcset="https://cdn.britannica.com/66/7266-004-50AA9C58/Kenneth-Branagh-Hamlet-Gertrude-film-version-Julie-1996.jpg?w=300"><img src="https://cdn.britannica.com/66/7266-004-50AA9C58/Kenneth-Branagh-Hamlet-Gertrude-film-version-Julie-1996.jpg?w=300" alt="Hamlet (1996)" data-width="300" data-height="200" loading="eager"></picture><button class="magnifying-glass btn btn-circle position-absolute shadow btn-white top-10 right-10" aria-label="Zoom in"><em class="material-icons link-blue" data-icon="zoom_in"></em></button></a></div><figcaption class="card-body"><div class="md-assembly-caption text-muted font-14 font-serif line-clamp"><span><a class="gtm-assembly-link md-assembly-title font-weight-bold d-inline font-sans-serif mr-5 media-overlay-link" href="https://cdn.britannica.com/66/7266-004-50AA9C58/Kenneth-Branagh-Hamlet-Gertrude-film-version-Julie-1996.jpg" data-href="/media/1/709508/9271"><em>Hamlet</em> (1996)</a><span>Kenneth Branagh (left) as Hamlet, with Julie Christie as his mother, Gertrude, in Branagh's 1996 film version of Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet</em>.</span><button class="js-more-btn d-none btn btn-unstyled font-12 bg-white js-content" aria-label="Toggle more/less fact data"><span class="link-blue">(more)</span></button></span></div></figcaption></figure></div></div><p class="topic-paragraph">In the 1990s Christie returned to the filmgoing public’s attention with her acclaimed portrayal of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gertrude-fictional-character" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Gertrude</a> in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kenneth-Branagh" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Kenneth Branagh</a>’s film version of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shakespeare" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Shakespeare</a>’s <em><span id="ref975772"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hamlet-by-Shakespeare" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Hamlet</a></em> (1996). She received her third Academy Award nomination for her role as a world-weary retired screen actress in <em><span id="ref911924"></span>Afterglow</em> (1997).</p><div class="one-good-fact-module"> </div><span class="marker MOD8 mod-inline"></span> <span class="marker PREMOD9 mod-inline"></span><p class="topic-paragraph">Christie’s subsequent films include <em>Troy</em> (2004), <em>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</em> (2004), and <em>Finding Neverland</em> (2004). She received a best actress Oscar nomination for her role as a woman with <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/Alzheimer-disease" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Alzheimer disease</a> who forgets about her husband and falls in love with another man in <em><span id="ref975763"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Away-from-Her" class="md-crosslink ">Away from Her</a></em> (2006), based on a <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/short-story" class="md-crosslink autoxref " data-show-preview="true">short story</a> by <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Munro" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Alice Munro</a>. She later portrayed the grandmother in <em>Red Riding Hood</em> (2011), an adaptation of the well-known folktale, and an <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw" data-term="erstwhile" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erstwhile" data-type="MW">erstwhile</a> radical political activist in <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Redford" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Robert Redford</a>’s thriller <em><span id="ref1199258"></span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Company-You-Keep" class="md-crosslink ">The Company You Keep</a></em> (2012). In 2017 she narrated the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/theatre-art" class="md-crosslink autoxref " data-show-preview="true">drama</a> <em>The Bookshop</em>, though her work was uncredited.</p><span class="marker MOD9 mod-inline"></span> </section> <span class="md-signature"><a href="/editor/The-Editors-of-Encyclopaedia-Britannica/4419">The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica</a></span> <span class="md-signature">This article was most recently revised and updated by <a href="/editor/JE-Luebering/6492">J.E. 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