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Julie Christie won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Darling in 1965. She received additional Oscar nominations for McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Afterglow (1997), and Away from Her, for which she was nominated at the 80th Academy Awards in January 2008.
Julie Christie was born on the 14th of April 1940 at Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, in British India. Her father, Frank St John Christie, managed the tea plantation where she grew up.
Julie Christie and Warren Beatty had a high-profile, intermittent relationship between 1967 and 1974. They made three films together: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Shampoo (1975), and Heaven Can Wait (1978). Beatty described Christie as "the most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I had ever known."
Doctor Zhivago, in which Julie Christie played Lara Antipova, is the eighth highest-grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation. It was directed by David Lean and released in 1965.
Julie Christie received the BAFTA Fellowship, the organisation's highest honour for lifetime achievement, in 1997. The award recognised her contribution to British cinema, including her appearances in six films ranked among the British Film Institute's 100 greatest British films of the twentieth century.
Julie Christie agreed to appear in Away from Her because the film's director, Sarah Polley, was her friend. Christie initially turned the role down despite liking the script, and it took Polley several months of persuasion before Christie accepted. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on the 11th of September 2006.