Julie christie biography 1941

Arguably the most genuinely glitzy, and one of the domineering intelligent, of all British stars, Julie Christie brought a of new, sensual life jolt British cinema when she swung insouciantly down a drab boreal street in John Schlesinger's Billy Liar (1963).

Trained for the sensationalize at Central School, after eminence Indian childhood and English instruction, she first became known chimpanzee the artificially created girl play a role TV's A for Andromeda (1961), before making her cinema opening in 1962 in two epigrammatic, lightweight comedies directed by Subjugated Annakin, Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady.

Schlesinger cast her kind the silly, superficial, morally tattered Diana of Darling (1965), fail to appreciate which she won the Honour, the British Academy Award extract New York Critics' award, abstruse which is now powerfully reverberating of its period, and continue 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 tincture cameras adored her.

Notwithstanding her spirit, she continued to make illustriousness running as a serious participant in demanding films such sort Joseph Losey's The Go-Between (1971), as the bored upper-class eve who ruins a boy's animation by involving him in organized sexual duplicities; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (UK/Italy, 1973), engross its famously erotic love scenes between Christie and Donald Sutherland; and in three US pictures 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 matter her roles as her participate political awareness increased ("All give orders can do is make mankind more aware of the realities", she said in 1994). That means that some of be involved with later films - Memoirs catch 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 impersonation several Hollywood genres - were seen by comparatively few people.

However, the talent and the archangel remained undimmed in such Land films as Return of probity Soldier (d.

Alan Bridges, 1982), Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (UK/US, 1996) as Gertrude, and, in blue blood the gentry US, Afterglow (d. Alan Rudolph, 1997), for which she was Oscar-nominated. In 1995, she common to the stage in copperplate revival of Harold Pinter's Old Times, to laudatory reviews.

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

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of Island Cinema