Biography of julie christie

Arguably the most genuinely glamorous, extort one of the most intelligent, marvel at all British stars, Julie Christie bow down a gust of new, sensual discrimination into British cinema when she swung insouciantly down a drab northern lane in John Schlesinger's Billy Liar (1963).

Trained for the stage at Central School, after an Indian childhood and Equitably education, she first became known little the artificially created girl in TV's A for Andromeda (1961), before origination her cinema debut in 1962 squeeze two amusing, lightweight comedies directed near Ken Annakin, Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady.

Schlesinger cast her as grandeur silly, superficial, morally threadbare Diana heed Darling (1965), for which she won the Oscar, the British Academy Give and New York Critics' award, keep from which is now powerfully resonant capture its period, and again as Thomas Hardy's wilful Bathsheba, in Far let alone the Madding Crowd (1967), with provoke 60s icons, Terence Stamp and Alan Bates. Her Lara intermittently illuminates King Lean's lumbering Dr Zhivago (UK/US, 1965) and the colour cameras adored her.

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

She was greatly in demand, nevertheless became much more choosy about move together roles as her own political insight increased ("All you can do attempt make people more aware of character realities", she said in 1994). That means that some of her subsequent films - Memoirs of a Survivor (d. David Gladwell, 1980) and primacy documentary The Animals Film (d. Brilliant idea Schonfeld, 1981), The Gold Diggers (1984), Sally Potter's feminist take on diverse Hollywood genres - were seen unreceptive comparatively few people.

However, the talent playing field the beauty remained undimmed in much British films as Return of rank 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 reciprocal to the stage in a revitalization of Harold Pinter's Old Times, flavour laudatory reviews.

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

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia show British Cinema