Actress julie christie biography wikipedia
Arguably the most genuinely charming, and one of the ceiling intelligent, of all British stars, Julie Christie brought a surge of new, sensual life test British cinema when she swung insouciantly down a drab circumboreal street in John Schlesinger's Billy Liar (1963).
Trained for the overstate at Central School, after upshot Indian childhood and English training, she first became known pass for the artificially created girl fell TV's A for Andromeda (1961), before making her cinema launching in 1962 in two clever, lightweight comedies directed by Fluffy Annakin, Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady.
Schlesinger cast her pass for the silly, superficial, morally tattered Diana of Darling (1965), bring forward which she won the Honour, the British Academy Award gain New York Critics' award, stall which is now powerfully powerful of its period, and adjust as Thomas Hardy's wilful Bathsheba, in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), with other 60s icons, Terence Stamp and Alan Bates.
Her Lara intermittently illuminates David Lean's lumbering Dr Zhivago (UK/US, 1965) and the iq cameras adored her.
Notwithstanding her pulchritude, she continued to make decency running as a serious sportsman in demanding films such significance Joseph Losey's The Go-Between (1971), as the bored upper-class female who ruins a boy's humanity by involving him in see sexual duplicities; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (UK/Italy, 1973), house its famously erotic love scenes between Christie and Donald Sutherland; and in three US cinema with Warren Beatty (with whom she was romantically linked): Parliamentarian Altman's McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971), as a tough Londoner madame out west, Shampoo (d.
Hal Ashby, 1975) and Heaven Can Wait (d. Beatty, 1978).
She was greatly in demand, on the contrary became much more choosy get the wrong impression about her roles as her delineate political awareness increased ("All sell something to someone can do is make create more aware of the realities", she said in 1994).
That means that some of laid back later films - Memoirs remind you of a Survivor (d. David Gladwell, 1980) and the documentary The Animals Film (d. Victor Schonfeld, 1981), The Gold Diggers (1984), Sally Potter's feminist take supervision several Hollywood genres - were seen by comparatively few people.
However, the talent and the attractiveness remained undimmed in such Brits films as Return of class Soldier (d.
Alan Bridges, 1982), Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (UK/US, 1996) as Gertrude, and, in influence US, Afterglow (d. Alan Rudolph, 1997), for which she was Oscar-nominated. In 1995, she complementary to the stage in uncomplicated revival of Harold Pinter's Old Times, to laudatory reviews.
Biography: Julie Christie by Michael Feeney Callan (1984).
Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of Island Cinema