Born
in Assam (India), Julie Christie (or Julie Frances Christie) is an English
Academy Award-winner actress. Christie's first major film role was in 1963
film Billy Liar as Liz. Her break through role was as a amoral Diana Scott
in the 1965 film Darling.
In the '70s Julie was Oscar nominated as second Best Actress for the film
Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs Miller. She has never been a prolific
actress. Even in '60s, when she was at the height of her career, she made
fewer and fewer films.
Some Facts about Julie Christie
| Born |
Alternate Names |
Height |
| 14 April 1941 |
Julie Frances Christie |
5' 2" (1.57 m) |
| Assam, India |
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Awards
Academy Awards
- Best Actress (1965; Darling)
Filmography
- 1965 - Darling, Doctor Zhivago
- 1967 - Far from the Madding Crowd
- 1968 - Petulia
- 1971 - McCabe and Mrs Miller, The Go-Between
- 1973 - Don't Look Now
- 1975 - Shampoo
- 1977 - Demon Seed
What Christie Quoted
On making Shampoo in the year 1975 with Warren Beatty and Robert Towne she
said, "We showcased a utterly immoral, grotesquely greedy, decadent
society that we felt was imminent."
On her relationship with Warren Beatty she said, "I'm terribly
dependent on him, like a baby to its mother, so we travel backwards and
forward to be with each other."
Trivia
- She was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in
film history (No.26). [1995]
- In the year 1967 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."
- She was ranked No.29 in Mr.Skin's Top 100 Celebrity Nude Scenes
- She was ranked No.34 in Celebrity Skin's 50 Sexiest Starlets of All
Time
- She was ranked No.5 in Hello Magazine's 25 British Beauties
- She was ranked No.9 in FHM magazine's '100 sexiest women of all time'
- She was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Movie
Stars (No.91)
Salary
- Power (1986) - $1,000,000
- Petulia (1968) - $400,000
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - $200,000
- Darling (1965) - $7,500
