Julie Christie

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in six films ranked in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century, and in 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.

Christie's breakthrough film role was in ''Billy Liar'' (1963). She came to international attention for her performances in ''Darling'' (1965), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and ''Doctor Zhivago'' (also 1965), the eighth highest-grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation. She continued to receive Academy Award nominations, for ''McCabe & Mrs. Miller'' (1971), ''Afterglow'' (1997) and ''Away from Her'' (2007).

In the following years, Christie starred in ''Fahrenheit 451'' (1966), ''Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1967), ''Petulia'' (1968), ''The Go-Between'' (1971), ''Don't Look Now'' (1973), ''Shampoo'' (1975), and ''Heaven Can Wait'' (1978). She is also known for her performances in ''Hamlet'' (1996) as well as ''Finding Neverland'', ''Troy'' and ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' (all 2004). Provided by Wikipedia