Julie Frances Christie turns 80 tomorrow. She was born in India, in Chabua in Assam, on 14 April 1940.
She became the icon of English Free Cinema, a star in Hollywood, the face of an English cinema that conquered the world. She lives in London in an anonymous flat in the West End with her partner Duncan Campbell. She plays a woman suffering from Alzheimer's in "Away from Her," but she returned to the center of the scene in 2006 for "The Rule of Silence" She has never been totally devoted to her profession, she said in one of her rare interviews - she took me away from the real life that I wanted to live. She doesn't have an easy character ("she reminds you of Beatty - but she was also the most nervous woman I've ever met"), she hates the role of the star ("she was like living with chewing gum in your hair" ),but after the success of "Heaven Can Wait" he cut short his American life and took refuge in Wales, among the sheep and chickens.