---
name: "Julie Christie"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/julie-christie"
fi1m_id: "julie-christie"
imdb_id: "nm0001046"
tmdb_id: 1666
wikidata_id: "Q181413"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 April 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 11
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 10
updated: "2026-10-01T19:33:33.028095+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Julie Christie

## Identity

Julie Christie

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/julie-christie
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** julie-christie
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001046
- **TMDB ID:** 1666
- **Wikidata ID:** Q181413
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Christie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181413, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001046/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1666

Actor. Born 14 April 1940 in Chabua, Assam, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 April 1940, Chabua, Assam, India
- **Active:** 1965–2007
- **Also known as:** Jules, Julie Frances Christie, جولی کریستی
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 11: 10 acting, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Kate Winslet](https://film.one/person/kate-winslet.md), [Warren Beatty](https://film.one/person/warren-beatty.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 3 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 10 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 70 (2), 1970s 86 (4), 1990s 81 (1), 2000s 75 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 74 across 10 titles
- **Score spread:** 6 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 6 of 8 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 9, Romance 4, Fantasy 3, Comedy 2, Adventure 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 24 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,149m across 8 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Christie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181413, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001046/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1666

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*McCabe & Mrs. Miller*](https://film.one/film/mccabe-and-mrs-miller.md) (90)
- **Apple TV:** [*Away from Her*](https://film.one/film/away-from-her.md) (82)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Hamlet*](https://film.one/film/hamlet.md) (81)
- **Pluto TV:** [*Heaven Can Wait*](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait.md) (74)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Darling*](https://film.one/film/darling.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Julie Christie

> Julie Christie can show several feelings at once without stopping to explain any of them. We value her most in *Don't Look Now*, where her urgency and tenderness make a grieving marriage painfully convincing.

In *Don't Look Now* (1973), Julie Christie's Laura Baxter wants contact with the child she has lost, and Christie makes that need urgent enough to carry the supernatural story. She and Donald Sutherland are convincing as a couple with a shared history. Their closeness does not mean they face their grief in the same way. We were moved by the tenderness of their love scene, because neither actor lets us mistake physical closeness for recovery.

Her breakthrough came with *Billy Liar* (1963), followed by the lead in *Darling* (1965) and international stardom with *Doctor Zhivago* (1965). Some early assessments treated her looks as more persuasive than her acting, a judgement that makes little sense beside Laura Baxter. Her move towards more selective work brought Robert Altman's *McCabe & Mrs. Miller* (1971), where her contribution to the dialogue helped make Constance Miller convincing. It is a useful companion to Roeg's film for anyone inclined to mistake her apparent ease for a lack of thought.

Nicolas Roeg's fractured storytelling sometimes labours its warnings, but Christie never plays Laura as someone put there to supply a clue. She gives the longing for contact enough force to keep us concerned with Laura herself, even while the film encourages us to hunt for explanations. Sutherland makes John's resistance understandable too, so neither actor reduces the disagreement to a matter of who is right. Roeg gets the best from Christie by allowing that difficulty to remain. We can believe in their affection and still see why being together is not enough to make this loss bearable.

*Afterglow* (1997) returned her to a leading dramatic part after a period of selective work, while Sarah Polley's *Away from Her* (2006) drew on her ability to convey vulnerability and conflicting feelings. Across those later performances, her subtlety leaves room for feelings that do not neatly agree with one another. Start with *Don't Look Now*, and give the marriage as much attention as the mystery.

## Biography

Julie Christie is a British actress. She was born on 14 April 1940 in Chabua, Assam, British India, and moved to England at the age of six. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Her breakthrough came with the role of Liz in *Billy Liar* (1963). She played Diana Scott in *Darling* (1965) and Lara Antipova in *Doctor Zhivago* (1965). She portrayed Laura Baxter in *Don't Look Now* (1973). Other credits include *Fahrenheit 451* (1966), *McCabe & Mrs. Miller* (1971), *Hamlet* (1996), *Finding Neverland* (2004), *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* (2004) and *Troy* (2004).

Christie has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (11)

### Performed in (10) — the average rests on these

- *Away from Her* (2007), Fi1m 82, as Fiona — [page](https://film.one/film/away-from-her.md)
- *Finding Neverland* (2004), Fi1m 64, as Mrs. Emma du Maurier — [page](https://film.one/film/finding-neverland.md)
- *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* (2004), Fi1m 82, as Madam Rosmerta — [page](https://film.one/film/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban.md)
- *Hamlet* (1996), Fi1m 81, as Gertrude — [page](https://film.one/film/hamlet.md)
- *Heaven Can Wait* (1978), Fi1m 74, as Betty Logan — [page](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait.md)
- *Nashville* (1975), Fi1m 89, as Julie Christie — [page](https://film.one/film/nashville.md)
- *Don't Look Now* (1973), Fi1m 90, as Laura Baxter — [page](https://film.one/film/dont-look-now.md)
- *McCabe & Mrs. Miller* (1971), Fi1m 90, as Constance Miller — [page](https://film.one/film/mccabe-and-mrs-miller.md)
- *Darling* (1965), Fi1m 70, as Diana Scott — [page](https://film.one/film/darling.md)
- *Doctor Zhivago* (1965), Fi1m 70, as Lara Antipova — [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-zhivago.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Barbarian Invasions* (2003), Fi1m 71, as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-barbarian-invasions.md)

## Complete filmography (62)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Nuked* (2025), Producer
- *The Bookshop* (2017), as Narrator
- *The Company You Keep* (2012), as Mimi Lurie
- *Red Riding Hood* (2011), as Valerie's Grandmother
- *Glorious 39* (2009), as Aunt Elizabeth
- *Remembrance* (2009), as Isabelle
- *New York, I Love You* (2008), as Isabelle
- *Away from Her* (2007), as Fiona — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/away-from-her.md)
- *The Secret Life of Words* (2005), as Inge
- *Garbo* (2005), as Narrator (voice)
- *Finding Neverland* (2004), as Mrs. Emma du Maurier — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/finding-neverland.md)
- *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* (2004), as Madam Rosmerta — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban.md)
- *Troy* (2004), as Thetis
- *A Letter to True* (2004), as Narrator (voice)
- *I'm with Lucy* (2002), as Dori
- *No Such Thing* (2002), as Dr. Anna
- *Snapshots* (2002), as Narma
- *Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre* (2001), as Glenda Spencer
- *The Chosen People* (2000), as Narrator
- *The Miracle Maker* (2000), as Rachel (voice)
- *Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names* (1998), Actor
- *Afterglow* (1997), as Phyllis Hart
- *Hamlet* (1996), as Gertrude — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/hamlet.md)
- *DragonHeart* (1996), as Queen Aislinn
- *Karaoke* (1996), series, as Lady Ruth Balmer
- *The Railway Station Man* (1992), as Helen Cuffe
- *Fools of Fortune* (1990), as Mrs Quinton
- *Dadah Is Death* (1988), as Barbara Barlow
- *Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films* (1987), as Narrator
- *Fathers and Sons: A German Tragedy* (1986), series, as Charlotte Deutz
- *Miss Mary* (1986), as Mary Mulligan
- *Power* (1986), as Ellen Freeman
- *Bitter Champagne* (1986), as Betty Rivière
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, as Helen Cuffe
- *The Gold Diggers* (1983), as Ruby
- *The Return of the Soldier* (1983), as Kitty Baldry
- *Heat and Dust* (1983), as Anne
- *Separate Tables* (1983), as Mrs. Shankland / Miss Railton-Bell
- *The Roaring Forties* (1982), as Catherine Dantec
- *The Animals Film* (1981), as Narrator (voice)
- *Memoirs of a Survivor* (1981), as 'D'
- *Heaven Can Wait* (1978), as Betty Logan — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/heaven-can-wait.md)
- *Demon Seed* (1977), as Susan Harris
- *Nashville* (1975), as Julie Christie — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/nashville.md)
- *Shampoo* (1975), as Jackie Shawn
- *Don't Look Now* (1973), as Laura Baxter — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/dont-look-now.md)
- *McCabe & Mrs. Miller* (1971), as Constance Miller — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/mccabe-and-mrs-miller.md)
- *The Go-Between* (1971), as Lady Marian Trimingham
- *In Search of Gregory* (1969), as Catherine Morelli
- *Petulia* (1968), as Petulia Danner
- *Far from the Madding Crowd* (1967), as Bathsheba Everdene
- *Fahrenheit 451* (1966), as Clarisse / Linda Montag
- *Doctor Zhivago* (1965), as Lara Antipova — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-zhivago.md)
- *Darling* (1965), as Diana Scott — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/darling.md)
- *Young Cassidy* (1965), as Daisy Battles
- *Billy Liar* (1963), as Liz
- *The Fast Lady* (1962), as Claire Chingford
- *The Saint* (1962), series, as Judith Northwade
- *Crooks Anonymous* (1962), as Babette La Vern
- *A for Andromeda* (1961), series, as Christine Jones / Andromeda
- *Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story*, Actor
- *Katie and Eilish: Siamese Twins*, as Narrator

## Gallery

- ![Julie Christie](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-6b1e937b7f77.jpg) Julie Christie — news service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Julie_Christie_-_1965_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Julie Christie, Roland Curram, and Dante Posani in the film Darling (1965).](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-9ea70168927c.webp) Julie Christie, Roland Curram, and Dante Posani in the film Darling (1965). — Embassy Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Darling_%281965_film%29.webp/1280px-Darling_%281965_film%29.webp?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![1997 XII Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara Ceremonia de clausura y premiación Julie Christie (actriz invitada). (2005)](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-d1ebbec96dc4.jpg) 1997 XII Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara Ceremonia de clausura y premiación Julie Christie (actriz invitada). (2005) — Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Julie_Christie_%281997%29.jpg/1280px-Julie_Christie_%281997%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![1997 XII Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara Ceremonia de clausura y premiación Julie Christie (actriz invitada). (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-de53e716f7fe.jpg) 1997 XII Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara Ceremonia de clausura y premiación Julie Christie (actriz invitada). (2011) — Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Julie_Christie_%281997%29_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Julie Christie](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-a30078372479.jpg) Julie Christie — Image via TMDB
- ![Julie Christie](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-a4fc5ca62ade.jpg) Julie Christie — Image via TMDB
- ![Julie Christie](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-96f912b7fd17.jpg) Julie Christie — Image via TMDB
- ![Julie Christie at the closing and awards ceremony of the 12th Guadalajara International Film Festival in 1997. A4 version. (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-4e5966475201.jpg) Julie Christie at the closing and awards ceremony of the 12th Guadalajara International Film Festival in 1997. A4 version. (2010) — Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Julie_Christie_%281997%29_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![1997 XII Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara Ceremonia de clausura y premiación Julie Christie (actriz invitada). (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-138cdf739ab1.jpg) 1997 XII Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara Ceremonia de clausura y premiación Julie Christie (actriz invitada). (2011) — Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Julie_Christie_%281997%29_cropped2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Julie Christie](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-60bcc1039804.jpg) Julie Christie — Image via TMDB
- ![Julie Christie](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-5ee695c58711.jpg) Julie Christie — Image via TMDB
- ![Julie Christie](https://film.one/media/person/154/gallery-41368b7ce2c0.jpg) Julie Christie — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 3 nominated

- 2008: Best Actress (nominated), for *Away from Her*
- 1998: Best Actress (nominated), for *Afterglow*
- 1972: Best Actress (nominated), for *McCabe & Mrs. Miller*
- 1966: Best Actress (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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