Who is Julie Christie

Julie Christie in the Mid 1960s

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Julie Christie was born in Chabua, Assam, India. Her mother was a Welsh-born painter and childhood friend of actor Richard Burton. Her father ran the tea plantation around which Christie grew up.

Christie's parents separated during her childhood. She studied at a convent school in England (from which she was later expelled), living with a foster mother from the age of six. After her parents' divorce, Christie spent time with her mother in rural Wales. As a teenager she attended Wycombe Court, a boarding school for girls in Buckinghamshire, and played Dauphin in a school production of George Bernard Shaw's St. Joan.

She later studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama before getting her big break in 1961 in a science fiction series on BBC Television, entitled A for Andromeda. She has since won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Julie Christie is perhaps best known as Lara in Doctor Zhivago, but she also enjoyed impressive roles during the 1970s in McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Shampoo, both starring her longstanding romantic interest, Warren Beatty.

An unrestrained attitude and a passion for politics curtailed her screen appearances during the 1980s, but she made a glorious reappearance to the movies in the late 1990s in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet.

Since then, she has made various outstanding movies, including Afterglow (1997), which earned Christie her third Oscar nomination, and Away from Her, in which she gave a moving performance as a woman stricken with Alzheimer's, gleaning a Golden Globe for Best Actress. This part also garnered her a 2008 Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

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