Posted April 22, 200916 yr Pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, and has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Contents from Wikipedia born in Chukua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1941, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's tea plantation before being sent to England for her education. Finishing her studies in Paris, where she had moved to improve her French with an eye to possibly becoming a linguist (she is fluent in French and Italian) Close friends with actresses Shirley MacLaine, Catherine Deneuve, Faye Dunaway, Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson Turned down the role of Lara in Doctor Zhivago (1965) at the time the most coveted role in Hollywood, several times before finally accepting Lived with Warren Beatty from 1967 to 1974 Was once fashion designer Christian Lacroix's muse, he designed the pink chiffon gown with matching slippers that she wore to the 1971 Academy Awards, and continued to outfit her throughout her career. Has played the mother of two Defense Against the Dark Arts professors from the "Harry Potter" series.
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