Julie Frances Christie born 14 April [ 1 ] is a British actress. Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar She came to international attention for her performances in Darling , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress , and Doctor Zhivago also , the eighth highest-grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation.
Miller , Afterglow and Away from Her She has a younger brother, Clive, and an older deceased half-sister, June, from her father's relationship with an Indian tea picker on his plantation. After being asked to leave the Convent of Our Lady as well, she attended the all-girls Wycombe Court School, High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , during which time she lived with a foster mother from the age of six.
She went to Paris to finish schooling and learn French. Christie made her professional stage debut in , and her first screen roles were on British television. No , but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought her breasts were too small. The director, John Schlesinger cast Christie only after another actress, Topsy Jane , had dropped out of the film. Her role as an amoral model in Darling also led to Christie becoming known internationally; it also inspired the singer Tony Christie to take his stage name from Christie.
The film was a major box-office success. After moving to Los Angeles in "I was there because of a lot of American boyfriends" , she appeared in the title role of Richard Lester 's Petulia , co-starring with George C. In , Time magazine said of her: "What Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the ten best-dressed women combined".
Miller also The film was the first of three collaborations between Christie and Warren Beatty , who described her as "the most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I had ever known". After the relationship ended, they worked together again in the comedies Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait Christie returned to the United Kingdom in , living on a farm in Wales. In , she was a member of the jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.
