Julie Christie
Born: 1940-04-14 in Chabua, Assam, India
Known For: Acting
Biography
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is a British actress. Born in British India to English parents, at the age of six Christie moved to England where she attended boarding school. In 1961, she began her acting career in a BBC television series, and the following year, she had her first major film role in a romantic comedy. In 1965, she became known to international audiences as the model "Diana Scott" in the film Darling. That same year she played the part of "Lara" in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago. A pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Filmography
2025
- Nuked ... (Producer)
2021
- Mothers of the Revolution as Self
2017
- The Bookshop as Narrator
- My Generation as Self (archive footage)
- Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time... as Self
2012
- The Company You Keep as Mimi Lurie
2011
- Red Riding Hood as Valerie's Grandmother
2009
- Glorious 39 as Aunt Elizabeth
- Remembrance as Isabelle
2008
- New York, I Love You as Isabelle
2007
- Away from Her as Fiona
2005
- The Secret Life of Words as Inge
- Garbo as Narrator (voice)
2004
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Madam Rosmerta
- Troy as Thetis
- Finding Neverland as Mrs. Emma du Maurier
- A Letter to True as Narrator (voice)
2003
- The Barbarian Invasions as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- A Decade Under the Influence as Self
2002
- I'm with Lucy as Dori
- No Such Thing as Dr. Anna
- Snapshots as Narma
- Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence as Self
2001
- Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre as Glenda Spencer
2000
- The Miracle Maker as Rachel (voice)
- The Chosen People as Narrator
1997
- Afterglow as Phyllis Hart
1996
- DragonHeart as Queen Aislinn
- Hamlet as Gertrude
- Karaoke as Lady Ruth Balmer
- François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death as Self
1995
- Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self (archive footage)
1993
1992
- The Railway Station Man as Helen Cuffe
1990
- Fools of Fortune as Mrs Quinton
1988
- Dadah Is Death as Barbara Barlow
1987
- Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films as Narrator
1986
- Power as Ellen Freeman
- Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy as Charlotte Deutz
- Bitter Champagne as Betty Rivière
- Miss Mary as Mary Mulligan
1983
- Heat and Dust as Anne
- The Return of the Soldier as Kitty Baldry
- The Gold Diggers as Ruby
- Separate Tables as Mrs. Shankland / Miss Railton-Bell
1982
- The Roaring Forties as Catherine Dantec
1981
- Memoirs of a Survivor as 'D'
- The Animals Film as Narrator (voice)
1978
- Heaven Can Wait as Betty Logan
1977
- Demon Seed as Susan Harris
1973
- Don't Look Now as Laura Baxter
1971
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller as Constance Miller
- The Go-Between as Lady Marian Trimingham
1969
- In Search of Gregory as Catherine Morelli
1968
- Petulia as Petulia Danner
- Petulia: The Uncommon Movie as Herself
1967
- Far from the Madding Crowd as Bathsheba Everdene
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
- Location: Far from the Madding Crowd as Herself
- Lionpower from MGM as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1966
- Fahrenheit 451 as Clarisse / Linda Montag
1965
- Doctor Zhivago as Lara Antipova
- Darling as Diana Scott
- Young Cassidy as Daisy Battles
- Moscow in Madrid as Self
- Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland as self
- Pasternak as Self (archive footage)
- Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean as Self
1963
- Billy Liar as Liz
1962
- The Saint as Judith Northwade
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Fast Lady as Claire Chingford
- Crooks Anonymous as Babette La Vern
1961
- A for Andromeda as Christine Jones / Andromeda
1953
- The Oscars as Self