Julie Christie NUDE

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is a British actress. A pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Christie was born in Chabua, Assam, India, then part of the British Empire, the first of two children[1] of Rosemary (née Ramsden) and Frank St. John Christie. Christie's father ran the tea plantation around which Christie grew up. Christie's mother was a Welsh-born[citation needed] painter and childhood friend of actor Richard Burton[citation needed] She had a brother and a half-sibling from her father's affair with an Indian mistress.[2] Christie's parents separated during her childhood. She was baptized in the Anglican church,[2] and studied as a boarder at the independent Convent of Our Lady School in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, from which she was later expelled, and then at the independent Wycombe Court School in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, also living with a foster mother from the age of six.[3] After her parents' divorce, Christie spent time with her mother in rural Wales. As a teenager at Wycombe Court School, she played the role of the Dauphin in a school production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. She later studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama[4] before getting her big break in 1961 in a science fiction series on BBC television, A for Andromeda.