Combining radiant, striking beauty and genuine talent, Julie Christie emerged as one of the more engaging female leads of the 1960s and 70s. She got her break as star of British TV’s “A For Andromeda” (1960) and had small parts in two Ken Annakin films before achieving big-screen success with leading roles in John Schlesinger’s “Billy Liar” (1963) and the tailor-made “Darling” (1965), for which she won an Oscar as Best Actress. Although usually exemplifying the sexually liberated, contemporary woman, Christie also starred as the object of desire in lavish period films: David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago” (1965), with Omar Sharif, and Schlesinger’s “Far From the Madding Crowd” and Joseph Losey’s “The Go-Between” (both 1971), alongside Alan Bates.
