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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is a British actress. Christie's first prominent film roles were in Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady (both 1962), and her breakthrough was in 1963's Billy Liar. In 1965, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as "Diana Scott" in Darling. That same year, she starred in Doctor Zhivago, the eighth highest grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation. In the following years, she starred in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Petulia (1968), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), and Don't Look Now... MORE

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is a British actress. Christie's first prominent film roles were in Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady (both 1962), and her breakthrough was in 1963's Billy Liar. In 1965, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as "Diana Scott" in Darling. That same year, she starred in Doctor Zhivago, the eighth highest grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation. In the following years, she starred in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Petulia (1968), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), and Don't Look Now (1973). Her late career includes Academy Award-nominated performances in the independent films Afterglow (1997) and Away from Her (2006). Christie was born on 14 April 1941 in Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, India, then part of the British Empire. She is the elder child of Rosemary (née Ramsden) and Frank St. John Christie. Her father ran the tea plantation where she was raised. Her mother, from Hove, was a painter. Christie has a younger brother, Clive, and an older half-sister, June, from her father's relationship with an Indian woman, who worked as a tea picker on his plantation. Christie's LESS