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"Julie Frances Christie" is a British actress. A pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy Award/Academy, Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts/BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (film)/Billy Liar (1963). In 1966, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1965 film Darling (1965 film)/Darling. That same year, she starred as Lara in Doctor Zhivago (film)/Doctor Zhivago, the eighth highest grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation. In the following years, she starred in Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)/Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)/Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Petulia (1968), The Go-Between (film)/The Go-Between (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), for which she received her second Oscar nomination, Don't Look Now (1973), Shampoo (film)/Shampoo (1975), and Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)/Heaven Can Wait (1978).

From the early 1980s, Christie reduced her appearances in mainstream films. She has continued to receive significant critical recognition for her work, including Oscar nominations for the independent films Afterglow (film)/Afterglow (1997) and Away from Her (2006). In 1997, she received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship/BAFTA Fellowship.