Leeds-born Jeff Christie (b. 1946) entered music by using a skiffle music group that eventually relocated into rock and roll & roll, acquiring the name the Outer Limits. They ultimately cut a set of singles, before splitting up, and Jeff Christie made a decision to try a profession being a songwriter. His demonstration tape produced its method to Tremeloes’ guitarist Alan Blakely, and been noticed by his sibling, drummer Mike Blakely, previously from the Epics as well as the Acidity Gallery. Both had been impressed more than enough with Christie’s tracks to set up a recording program in London where in fact the Tremeloes participated as Christie’s support band — non-e of the edges from that program noticed the light of time, but motivated by Blakely’s beliefs in his tracks, Jeff Christie made a decision to put together several his very own. The last mentioned included Christie on bass and lead vocals, Blakely on drums, and his ex-Epics/Acidity Gallery bandmate Vic Elmes on electric guitar and vocals. The group made a decision to make use of Jeff Christie’s family members name as their very own and were agreed upon by United kingdom CBS. At that time, they bidded reasonable to be England’s response to Creedence Clearwater Revival. Their debut solitary, “Yellowish River,” nevertheless, was even more a display for Jeff Christie and Vic Elmes as performers than for the music group, as it presented their voices dubbed on the Tremeloes’ support track slice at Christie’s 1st program. Whatever its roots, it did the work, driving the U.K. pop graphs for 22 weeks and achieving the number one graph spot in a number of countries; even in america, where it confronted the stiffest competition, the Epic Records-released solitary reached quantity 23, an extremely respectable displaying for an take action which was nowhere near prepared to tour the U.S. Their follow-up, an organization documenting known as “San Bernadino,” reached number 1 in Germany and quantity seven in Britain, though it by no means climbed beyond the cheapest reaches of the very best 100 in the us. The resulting recording, nevertheless, with “Yellowish River” because the name track, reached the center degree of the graphs and stayed within the Billboard entries for two . 5 months, though it could and really should have done better. The LP experienced a minimum of three extra potential singles onto it, all in an identical catchy pop/rock and roll vein, and then-Columbia chief executive Clive Davis was a solid believer in using singles and albums to market each other, but also for some cause the label reached out to some song, “Man of several Encounters,” that wasn’t around the LP for the 3rd solitary. The group experienced numerous lineup adjustments going into 1971, like the departure of Mike Blakely, who experienced sick and tired of the continuous touring, who was simply changed by Paul Fenton, another LP wasn’t forthcoming until well into that season. FOR EVERYONE Mankind discontinued the business, pop-oriented audio of its forerunner and only a harder, higher-wattage, even more blues-oriented audio, and neither it nor the one “Picture Painter” did in addition to their earlier information. They re-grouped, with previous Device 4+2 alumnus Howard Lubin within the lineup on a fresh song, known as “Iron Equine,” which was as catchy because the early singles. This became their last full-fledged work, nevertheless, as Elmes and Christie begun to clash individually and appropriately, and the initial quartet split in 1972. Elmes continued to be always a best program guitarist and produced a name in film music, especially in the credit scoring for the research fiction/illusion series Space: 1999, while Paul Fenton joined up with T. Rex and it has continued to operate in the last mentioned capacity, within Mickey Finn’s T. Rex, in to the 21st hundred years, and Lem Lubin participated within the documenting of Ian Hunter’s 1977 record Overnight Angels. Jeff Christie held the group’s name alive well into 1973 with substitute members, and lower tracks for Mercury Information within the mid- ’70s — he held utilizing the group name as an alias on materials documented for the Epic and Wizard, and took back again his name for information in the RK label within the 1980s. There have been disputes on the usage of the group name within the 1980s, though Jeff Christie is apparently using it lately, while Vic Elmes occasionally fronts a music group called Christie Once again in Europe.
Quick Facts
Died June 11, 2017, St Christopher's Hospice, London, United Kingdom
Height 1.91 m
Profession Lawyer, Politician, Lobbyist
Nationality American
Spouse Mary Pat Christie
Children Patrick Christie, Sarah Christie, Andrew Christie, Bridget Christie
Music Songs San Bernadino, Yellow River, Iron Horse, Down the Mississippi Line, Magic Highway, Picture Painter, Everything's Gonna Be Alright, Peace Lovin' Man, Until the Dawn, Inside Looking Out, Johnny One Time, Fool's Gold, Premonition, Put Your Money Down, Martian King, If Only, Gotta Be Free, I'm Alive, Man of Many Faces, Coming Home Tonight, The Dealer, I've Got a Feeling, STEAMROLLER, ALL THE KINGS HORSES, LONG GRASS, Country Boy, Ain't Got Time, 1998, I Believe in You, Won't Do, My Baby's Gone, Christmas Jubilation Medley
Albums No Turn Unstoned, Rejoice Christmas Collection, Christie, Twang, For All Mankind, Christie - Their Very Best, If It Falls
Movies Thirteen at Dinner, Murder, She Said, Murder on the Orient Express, The Alphabet Murders, Witness for the Prosecution, Death on the Nile, Murder at the Gallop, Murder Most Foul, Evil Under the Sun, Le Grand Alibi, Dead Man's Folly, Murder with Mirrors, Love from a Stranger, Ten Little Indians, The Spider's Web, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Desyat Negrityat, Alibi, Gumnaam, Appointment with Death, Shubho Mahurat, And Then There Were None, 4:50 From Paddington, Dhund, Towards Zero, Innocent Lies, Ordeal by Innocence, A Murder Is Announced, Endless Night, Tarka, Crime Is Our Business, They Do It with Mirrors, Crooked House, Seven Dials Mystery, A Caribbean Mystery, Agatha Christie: The Pale Horse, Sabotage, Agatha Christie's Marple: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, The Pale Horse, Sleeping Murder, The Man in the Brown Suit, Partners in crime, The Secret Adversary, The Passing of Mr. Quin, Chupi Chupi Aashey, The Lacquered Box, Black Coffee, Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, Le crime ne paie pas, Lord Edgware Dies
TV Shows And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
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Currently resides in Ojai, California with her long-time companion, the journalist Duncan Campbell of the Manchester (UK) Guardian. [August 2006]
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Said in 2003 that she her Oscar is boxed away in storage, showing off awards by displaying them in her home is something she does not do.
Her mother Rosemary (1912-1982), a Welsh painter, grew up with some of Richard Burton's older siblings (Burton was the twelfth of thirteen children).
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Her favorite cigarette brand is Craven A.
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In March 1979, a 22-month-old boy drowned in a 2-ft. duck pond on Christie's farm in Wales. The infant's parents, Jonathan and Leslie Heale, were live-in caretakers of the property. Christie has never publicly spoken about the tragedy.
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Was replaced by Vanessa Redgrave for the title role in Agatha (1979) after dropping out of the production due to an injury.
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Had a paternal half-sister named June, who was born in 1934 and died in 2005. June was the result of an affair between Julie's father Frank and a teenage Indian peasant girl on the tea estate he managed in Chabua, Assam. Reportedly, Julie did not want to know June.
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Variety Club of Great Britain Most Promising Newcomer Award 1963 joint winner with James Fox.
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Variety Club of Great Britain film Actress Award for 1965 for her performance in Darling (1965).
Producer Joseph Janni, who produced four of Christie's earliest pictures (Billy Liar (1963), Darling (1965), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and In Search of Gregory (1969)) and generally is credited, along with director John Schlesinger, in launching her career, created a complex tax shelter for Christie to insulate her earnings from the prohibitively high British tax rate during the 1960s. When the UK Inland Revenue finally investigated the tax shelter many years later, Inland Revenue officials declared it was one of the most complicated tax-avoidance scheme it had come across. Christie herself was cleared of any wrongdoing.
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One of her first roles was playing young Anne Frank in a London theatrical production of "The Diary of Anne Frank".
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Became very close with director Robert Altman while filming McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971). (Ironically, her lover and co-star Warren Beatty did not get along with Altman, primarily due to his use of overlapping dialog.) She later appeared as herself in Altman's classic Nashville (1975) and received an Oscar nomination starring in the Altman-produced Afterglow (1997), directed by Altman protégé Alan Rudolph. The two remained very close until Altman's death in 2006.
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Close friends with actress Goldie Hawn. The two women were introduced by Warren Beatty in the late 1960s. Beatty and Christie came to consider Goldie as family, and she co-starred with them in Shampoo (1975). Hawn also introduced Christie to yoga, which she still practices today.
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Great admirer of Princess Diana of Wales and was extremely affected by her 1997 death.
She reluctantly agreed to star in writer-director Sarah Polley's debut feature-film Away from Her (2006) after many months of persuasion. Christie, who had acted previously with Polley, liked her script, but -- like Polley -- is ambivalent about her acting career. She finally capitulated and her brilliant performance in the film, which debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and is due to be released in the United States in the Spring of 2007, has generated buzz predicting that the film likely will bring Christie her fourth Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Inspired the song "Julie Christie" on the soundtrack for Better Than Chocolate (1999).
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Her performance as Diana Scott in Darling (1965) is ranked #75 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
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Future long-term lover Warren Beatty first espied Christie at the 1966 Royal Command Performance of the film Born Free (1966) in London, which he attended with his then-girlfriend, Leslie Caron. Caron and Beatty were situated near Christie in the reception line for Queen Elizabeth II, and Beatty first saw Christie in person when he turned to watch the Queen shake hands with her. Beatty inveigled his friend Richard Sylbert, who was production designer on Christie's film Petulia (1968), to tell her to call him. She did, he flew up to the San Francisco location of the Petulia (1968) shoot and, after a rocky start, they became lovers. She made her first public appearance with Beatty at a sneak preview of Bonnie and Clyde (1967) for the Hollywood elite. It took them several months to rid themselves of their then-current lovers before they came together in a committed relationship, although they usually maintained separate households for the length of their long romance. Most of those who knew them said they shared a passion for the truth. Beatty told his friends he had asked Christie to marry him, but she refused as she did not want children. Christie believed in monogamy, but Beatty felt that as long as they were not married, he could engage in multiple affairs as long as he remained loyal to her. Eventually, Christie tired of his womanizing and their relationship ended after seven years. His longest and most lasting relationship until he married Annette Bening, the mother of his four children, Beatty considered Christie his wife and told the press in 1971 that he would pay her alimony if they split up, if she wanted it. They did, but she did not. When Beatty was awarded the Irving Thalberg Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the year 2000, Christie was one of the friends and co-workers who appeared in a film tribute to her former lover.
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Has worked with director-screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley three times: co-starring with Polley in No Such Thing (2001) and the Goya Award-winning "La Vida secreta de las palabras" (aka The Secret Life of Words (2005)), and taking the lead in Polley's first feature film as a director, Away from Her (2006). Polley is one of the many co-workers impressed by not only Christie's talent, but her intelligence and independence. After appearing with her in No Such Thing (2001), Polley -- who lost her mom when she was 11 years old -- said that Julie had become one of her surrogate mothers.
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Has played the mother of two Defense Against the Dark Arts professors from the "Harry Potter" series. In Hamlet (1996), she plays the mother of Kenneth Branagh, who went on to play Gilderoy Lockhart. In DragonHeart (1996), she plays mother to David Thewlis, who plays Remus Lupin. Christie herself also appears in the third film, with Thewlis.
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Her mentor, director John Schlesinger, envisioned a cast of Al Pacino, Julie Christie and Sir Laurence Olivier for Marathon Man (1976). Pacino has said that the only actress he had ever wanted to work with was Christie, who he claimed was "the most poetic of actresses". Producer Robert Evans, who disparaged the vertically challenged Pacino as "The Midget" when Francis Ford Coppola wanted him for The Godfather (1972) and had thought of firing him during the early shooting of the now-classic film, vetoed Pacino for the lead, insisted on the casting of the even-shorter Dustin Hoffman instead! On her part, Christie -- who was notoriously finicky about accepting roles, even in prestigious, sure-fire material -- turned down the female lead, which was then taken by Marthe Keller (who, ironically, became Pacino's lover after co-starring with him in Bobby Deerfield (1977). Of his dream cast, Schlesinger only got Olivier, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Pacino has yet to co-star with Christie.
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Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1979.
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Turned down the role of Lara in Doctor Zhivago (1965) at the time the most coveted role in Hollywood, several times before finally accepting.
Accompanied her longtime lover Warren Beatty on a trip to Russia which inspired him to write his Oscar-winning epic Reds (1981) which ultimately took him 13 years to write. Beatty had always planned to have Christie play the role of Louise Bryant, but when Reds (1981) began filming several years after the couple's breakup, Christie turned down and Beatty gave the role to Diane Keaton. However, Beatty dedicated the film to Christie by hinting to her in his best director Oscar acceptance speech. "For Jules" can also be seen in the final credits of the film.
Lived with Warren Beatty from 1967 to 1974, albeit intermittently. According to a revealed blind item published early in the couple's relationship, Christie was unfazed by the fact that he was seeing other women on the side.
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Was the producers first choice to play Presidential widow Liz Cassidy, a role modeled on Jacqueline Kennedy, in The Greek Tycoon (1978). Despite being offered a $1 million fee, she turned down the role, which was played by Jacqueline Bisset.
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Was a top contender for the role of Honey Rider in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She was not chosen because producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought her breasts were too small. The role went to Ursula Andress.
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Was Charlton Heston's first choice as co-star The War Lord (1965), according to Heston's published diaries "Charlton Heston: The Actor's Life; Journals 1956-1976". She was vetoed by the studio because her fee was too high, much to Heston's consternation, who believed she was about to become a major star. He was proved right at the end of 1965, the year that "The War Lord" was released.
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Originally signed for the role of the Senator's wife in American Gigolo (1980) when Richard Gere was signed to the project, but quit when Gere was ditched in favor of John Travolta. Travolta later dropped out and Gere was hired for the film, but Christie was not offered the role that was eventually played by Lauren Hutton. Ironically, a rumor in the 1970s held that Christie and Hutton were lovers. Christie and Gere would eventually appear together in Sidney Lumet's Power (1986).
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Turned down the role of Louise Bryant in her former lover Warren Beatty's Reds (1981) as she thought the role should be played by an American. Beatty's then-lover Diane Keaton won a Best Actress Academy Award nomination playing the role.
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In an April 29, 1966 Life magazine cover story, Christie named Sidney Lumet as the only American among a list of directors she would like to work with. Twenty years later, she got her wish, appearing in the Lumet-directed Power (1986).
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Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars (#91).
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Ranked #9 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women of All Time".
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Ranked #5 in Hello magazine's 25 British Beauties.
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Ranked #34 in Celebrity Skin's 50 Sexiest Starlets of All Time.
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Ranked #29 in Mr. Skin's Top 100 Celebrity Nude Scenes.
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Was once fashion designer Christian Lacroix's muse, he designed the pink chiffon gown with matching slippers that she wore to the 1971 Academy Awards, and continued to outfit her through her career.
The infamous dinner-party scene in Shampoo (1975) was completely improvised by Julie and Warren Beatty, much to the surprise of the rest of the cast and director Hal Ashby.
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Robert Altman said of her, "She's my incandescent, melancholy, strong, gold-hearted, sphinx-like, stainless steel little soldier.".
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Julie gave friend Sharon Tate a copy of Thomas Hardy's novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" with the inscription "For my Hardy heroine" (Julie had recently become a Thomas Hardy heroine in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)). Sharon gave the novel to her husband Roman Polanski shortly before her death. When Polanski later made the film Tess (1979) he dedicated it "For Sharon".
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She discovered she wanted to become an actress when, at the age of nine, she snuck out of her Paris boarding school and spent the day with a complete stranger who was an aspiring actor.
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In 1967, Time magazine said of her, "What Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the ten Best-Dressed women combined.".
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Resided with Don Bessant, a lithographer and art teacher (1963-1967). Bessant passed away in 1993 at age 52.
Director David Lean nicknamed her 'sunflower' for her beautiful personality and director John Schlesinger nicknamed her 'Trilby' after the 19th century novel about a lovable bohemian.
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Brother Clive Christie is a professor of SouthEast Asian studies at Hull University.
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Is currently active in nuclear disarmament and animal rights. [2004]
Former co-owner of Katira Productions, along with boyfriend Warren Beatty (named after Beatty's parents Kathlyn and Ira).
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Her romance with Terence Stamp has been said to have inspired The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset", hence the line "Terry met Julie" in the song. However in a 2004 interview, lead singer Ray Davies, who penned the song, denied this, saying: "No, Terry and Julie were real people. I couldn't write for stars.".
Stamp later turned down the role of Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451 (1966) because of his complicated emotions over co-starring with Christie, backing out of the role on the pretext of Julie receiving top billing. Oskar Werner subsequently played Montag. A year later, Stamp had overcome his insecurities and agreed to co-star with Christie in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967).
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Julie's father ran a tea plantation in Assam, India, where she grew up.
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Born at 10:00am-LMT.
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Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#26). [August 1995]
Actress
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Company You Keep
2012
Mimi Lurie
Red Riding Hood
2011
Grandmother
Glorious 39
2009
Aunt Elizabeth
New York, I Love You
2008
Isabelle (segment "Shekhar Kapur")
Away from Her
2006
Fiona Anderson
The Secret Life of Words
2005
Inge
Finding Neverland
2004
Mrs. Emma du Maurier
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Madame Rosmerta
Troy
2004
Thetis
I'm with Lucy
2002
Dori
Snapshots
2002/I
Narma
No Such Thing
2001
Dr. Anna
Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre
2001
Glenda Spender
The Miracle Maker
2000
Rachel (voice)
Afterglow
1997
Phyllis Mann
Hamlet
1996
Gertrude
DragonHeart
1996
Queen Aislinn
Karaoke
1996
TV Mini-Series
Lady Ruth Balmer
The Railway Station Man
1992
Helen Cuffe
Fools of Fortune
1990
Mrs. Quinton
Dadah Is Death
1988
TV Movie
Barbara Barlow
Champagne amer
1986
Betty Rivière
Väter und Söhne - Eine deutsche Tragödie
1986
TV Mini-Series
Charlotte Deutz
Miss Mary
1986
Mary Mulligan
Power
1986
Ellen Freeman
Separate Tables
1983
TV Movie
Mrs. Shankland
Miss Railton-Bell
Heat and Dust
1983
Anne (1982. In Satipur Town)
The Gold Diggers
1983
Ruby
Les quarantièmes rugissants
1982
Catherine Dantec
The Return of the Soldier
1982
Kitty Baldry
Memoirs of a Survivor
1981
'D'
Heaven Can Wait
1978
Betty Logan
Demon Seed
1977
Susan Harris
Shampoo
1975
Jackie
Don't Look Now
1973
Laura Baxter
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971
Constance Miller
The Go-Between
1971
Marian - Lady Trimingham
In Search of Gregory
1969
Catherine Morelli
Petulia
1968
Petulia Danner
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
Bathsheba
Fahrenheit 451
1966
Clarisse
Linda Montag
Doctor Zhivago
1965
Lara
Darling
1965
Diana Scott
Young Cassidy
1965
Daisy Battles
The Saint
1963
TV Series
Judith Northwade
Billy Liar
1963
Liz
ITV Play of the Week
1963
TV Series
Betty Whitehead
The Fast Lady
1962
Claire Chingford
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962
TV Series
Andromeda
Crooks Anonymous
1962
Babette La Verne
A for Andromeda
1961
TV Series
Andromeda / Christine
Call Oxbridge 2000
1961
TV Series
Ann
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
performer: "Bushes and Briars", "The Bold Grenadier"
Thanks
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Man Who Cried
2000
special thanks
Reds
1981
dedicatee - as Jules
Self
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Arena
2015
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Company You Keep: Behind-the-Scenes - The Movement
2013
Video short
Herself
The Company You Keep: Behind-the-Scenes - The Script, Preparation and the Cast
2013
Video short
Herself
On the Edge of War: Uncovering 'Glorious 39'
2010
Video short
Herself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty
2008
TV Special
Herself
An Evening at the Academy Awards
2008
TV Special
Herself
The 80th Annual Academy Awards
2008
TV Special
Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role
Entertainment Tonight
2008
TV Series
Herself
14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
2008
TV Special
Herself - Winner: Best Female Actor in a Leading Role
[2008, on reports that she and longtime boyfriend Duncan Campbell recently snuck off for a secret wedding in India] Nonsense. I have been married for a few years. Don't believe what you read in the papers.
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I'd rather talk to my ducks than some of the freaks I met in Hollywood.
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[on what motivated her to get a facelift in her 50s] People who are older than you appear to be younger. It is really undermining. You know they are older than you, yet you look like their mother.
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I told a friend I wasn't going to a party because I was so shy. I couldn't socialize. And she said, "Oh, you must come. I've told everybody the prettiest girl in the world is going to come." And I thought, "But I'm an ugly girl," and I remember that clearly. So that was the turning point, because you've only got to be told about that once -- despite all that background of being told by the nuns about, "Making faces, Julie Christie, you're quite ugly enough as it is.".
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Some of my opinions are quite radical.
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I know the sorts of things that appeal to me does not appeal the way that Forrest Gump (1994) does. I really like ambiguity and I really like all sorts of complexity.
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I think I work, actually work, every 10 years. I don't care about pissing off Hollywood because it doesn't really exist anymore. But pissing off the media? It was difficult when I was a girl and they're not any kinder now. I just hate not being strong enough.
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I know that I'm obviously not as famous as I was. I know that a whole generation of young people don't know anything about me. I haven't made (big) films for ages and ages. I make such tiny films.
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[observation, 1966] Being on top right now is a fluke.
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I could never really see the point of being high-profile when I loathed it so much. Every now and then, you can go to something like an Oscars ceremony, but nobody is holding a gun to your head. The rules were the same 40 years ago as they are now. You can either choose your spotlight - or you can stay at home.
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The film company wants you to look fantastic, and borrows clothes and diamonds from designers and jewelers for you to wear. I will not do that again. It is a pernicious pastime. Models wear designer things, so you become like a salesperson. There are actual signs outside the ceremony that say, "Turn around". Why? Because they want you to advertise the dress. I don't want to be involved in an advertising jamboree.
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I found films to be turbulent and stressful. They have caused me an enormous amount of anxiety, because I do not have a lot of confidence. You are working, intellectually and mentally, and you are having to be with people and socialise all the time. Actors like it, on the whole, but I was not born with that quality. I am very quiet and would much prefer to talk to a few people rather than a crowd.
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I met such interesting people with Warren Beatty, whom I would never have met otherwise. And the film Shampoo (1975) stands the test of time. I cherish all those days. But I could not hack L.A., Hollywood was basically a throwaway society, run by publicity machines.
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It is a complicated business, and we are very insecure, we actors. We all feel - and fear - we are going to be found out at any moment. Someone is going to point and say, "You are really not very good, are you?".
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I cannot even talk about waste without being indignant. My introduction to Hollywood was a society that used it, sniffed it and threw it away. We've become a bit like that ourselves in the past 30 years. There's an attitude among the successful people of spend and spend, flaunt and flaunt, and don't think of anyone else.
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I am innumerate. I had great earning years, but it went through my fingers. I no longer have a career to build. So I do a few things to pay the bills. I cannot complain. I am comfortable, my God.
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Time has been savage in its relentless eating up of the years. Have I made the most of it? I have had an endless struggle not to be a coward about things. I know what I feel, but hate being looked at, hate doing anything in public, hate making speeches.
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It felt, to me, like a permanent cocktail party, without the drinks. Acting took me away from real life to a pretend life. I wanted that real life back. I am not a dedicated actress, I'm afraid. I never have been.
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Hollywood doesn't give a damn about me, and it is not going to change the way people think. Let's be realistic: you want to see people like Johnny Depp on the red carpet, or Angelina Jolie, a young woman I admire. That is the place for beautiful young people.
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What's most gratifying to me is Sarah Polley getting a nomination for screenplay adaptation. I was afraid she wouldn't be recognized. I wondered if they were going to get this great piece of work. I'm very glad I did it because it's a terribly important issue. We've got to face the fact that we're living longer. This is the comeuppance of wishing for immortality. Back in the day we weren't so obsessed about them [Oscars] in England. I didn't know about the Academy Awards. I didn't know what it was. I got the smell of the thing that it was terribly important but I wasn't interested in it, but I figured maybe I could get something out of this. I told them I would go if my boyfriend and I could get a holiday in the desert. It almost feels the same today.
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If I don't make films, no one is going to write about me. And most people have forgotten who I am anyway. My life is not interrupted because I am more or less anonymous.
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All women are aware of that moment when suddenly the boys don't look at you. It's a fairly common thing, when suddenly you no longer attract that instant male attention because of the way you look. I never really knew how to enjoy beauty, but it took the form of a subconscious arrogance, expecting things, all muddled up with celebrity. Then you begin to deal with it. In the 1970s, I was amazed to be talked about as a 60s sex symbol. I wasn't that person, as if I were a doll from the past. I had to learn to come to terms with that. It's funny, it's silly, the ridiculousness of having asked so much of celebrity. Then it becomes really interesting and very much part of the excitement of the life you're living now, knowing you're approaching the end of it.
23
In the '60s, you did not know you were going to get older. But you do and you are. People become much dearer. When I see someone like Warren [Warren Beatty], with his four kids, there is that wonderful recognition of the life we have led. And a terrific sense of mortality, which is like a blessing almost: you suddenly realize what life is about.
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[on fame] All that concentrated adulation is terribly corroding.
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[on the prospect of her directing a film] Always a foot soldier, never a general.
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[on her relationship with Warren Beatty] I'm terribly dependent on him, like a baby to its mother, so we travel backwards and forward to be with each other.
27
[on making Shampoo (1975) with Warren Beatty and Robert Towne] We showcased an utterly immoral, grotesquely greedy, decadent society that we felt was imminent.
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[In the mid-1990s, on why she never got married] Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.
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Trademark
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Incredible seductive beauty
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Deep husky yet smooth voice
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Often plays women who inspire great passion in all the male characters rotating around her
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