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 has a brother, Clive, and an older half-sister, June from her father’s relationship with an Indian woman, who worked as a tea picker on his plantation. She was baptised in the Anglican church 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.

Christie has a brother, Clive and an older half-sister, June from her father’s relationship with an Indian woman, who worked as a tea picker on his plantation. 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. Christie appeared as Lara Antipova in David Lean’s adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago (1965), and as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy, a biopic of Irish playwright Seán O’Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and (uncredited) John Ford. in 1966, the 25-year-old Christie was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role when she played a double role in François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 and won the Academy Award for Best Actress and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Darling. Later, she played Thomas Hardy’s heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger’s Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) and the lead character, Petulia Danner, (opposite George C. Scott) in Richard Lester’s Petulia (1968). Never a prolific actress, even at the height of her fame and bankability in the 1960s, Christie made fewer and fewer films in the 1980s.

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