Main cast: Julie Christie
(Plays Mrs. Emma du Maurier in the film)
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is an English Academy Award-winning film actress.
Christie was born on 14 April 1941 in Assam, India, then part of the British Empire, one of two children of Rosemary Ramsden and Frank St. John Christie, who ran a tea plantation. She studied at a convent in India (from which she was expelled) and later at the Central School of Speech and Drama before getting her big break in 1961 in a science fiction series on BBC television, entitled A for Andromeda.
Her first major film roles were opposite Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar in 1963 and Laurence Harvey in Darling (1965), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She also played Lara Antipova in Doctor Zhivago (1965), Bathsheba in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and the lead character, Petulia Danner (opposite George C. Scott) in Petulia (1968).
In the '70's Christie starred in such films as Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971), The Go-Between (again co-starring Alan Bates, 1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Shampoo (1975), Demon Seed (1977), and Heaven Can Wait (1978).
In the 1970s she moved to Hollywood where she had a high-profile (1967-1974) relationship with actor Warren Beatty, though following the end of the relationship she returned to Europe.
Christie has never married and has made it clear she has no plans to ever do so. Her long-time partner (since 1979) is The Guardian journalist Duncan Campbell, who prompted her reluctant return to Los Angeles, California, as that is where he has been based.
Five-foot two inch Christie was a leading figure in the glamorous London of the 1960s, and since the 1970's has been politically active and involved in environmental causes. She continues to make movies, including those in the French language, such as 2001's Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre opposite Sophie Marceau.
You can see a complete list of her projects on IMDb.com.
- Source: Wikipedia