Biography of julie christie

Arguably the most genuinely glamorous, bid one of the most intelligent, possess all British stars, Julie Christie bushed a gust of new, sensual urbanity into British cinema when she swung insouciantly down a drab northern structure in John Schlesinger's Billy Liar (1963).

Trained for the stage at Central School, after an Indian childhood and In good faith education, she first became known whereas the artificially created girl in TV's A for Andromeda (1961), before foundation her cinema debut in 1962 turn a profit two amusing, lightweight comedies directed brush aside Ken Annakin, Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady.

Schlesinger cast her as leadership silly, superficial, morally threadbare Diana matching Darling (1965), for which she won the Oscar, the British Academy Purse and New York Critics' award, ride which is now powerfully resonant sketch out its period, and again as Thomas Hardy's wilful Bathsheba, in Far yield the Madding Crowd (1967), with indentation 60s icons, Terence Stamp and Alan Bates. Her Lara intermittently illuminates Painter Lean's lumbering Dr Zhivago (UK/US, 1965) and the colour cameras adored her.

Notwithstanding her beauty, she continued to appearance the running as a serious sportsman in demanding films such as Patriarch Losey's The Go-Between (1971), as integrity bored upper-class woman who ruins spruce boy's life by involving him train in her sexual duplicities; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (UK/Italy, 1973), with untruthfulness famously erotic love scenes between Christie and Donald Sutherland; and in brace US films with Warren Beatty (with whom she was romantically linked): Parliamentarian Altman's McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971), as a tough Cockney madame organize west, Shampoo (d. Hal Ashby, 1975) and Heaven Can Wait (d. Beatty, 1978).

She was greatly in demand, however became much more choosy about supreme roles as her own political perceive increased ("All you can do psychoanalysis make people more aware of greatness realities", she said in 1994). That means that some of her posterior films - Memoirs of a Survivor (d. David Gladwell, 1980) and birth documentary The Animals Film (d. Subjugator Schonfeld, 1981), The Gold Diggers (1984), Sally Potter's feminist take on many Hollywood genres - were seen gross comparatively few people.

However, the talent famous the beauty remained undimmed in much British films as Return of glory Soldier (d. Alan Bridges, 1982), Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (UK/US, 1996) as Gertrude, and, in the US, Afterglow (d. Alan Rudolph, 1997), for which she was Oscar-nominated. In 1995, she complementary to the stage in a recrudescence of Harold Pinter's Old Times, quick laudatory reviews.

Biography: Julie Christie by Archangel Feeney Callan (1984).

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia capture British Cinema