Claim: Julie Christie is an actress.

Julie Frances Christie -LRB- born 14 April 1940 -RRB- is an English actress . An icon of the `` swinging London '' era of the 1960s , she has won the Academy , Golden Globe , BAFTA , and Screen Actors Guild Awards , and in 1997 she received the BAFTA Fellowship .   Christie 's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar -LRB- 1963 -RRB- . She came to international attention in 1965 for her performances in Darling , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress , and Doctor Zhivago , the eighth highest-grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation .   In the following years , she starred in Fahrenheit 451 -LRB- 1966 -RRB- , Far from the Madding Crowd -LRB- 1967 -RRB- , Petulia -LRB- 1968 -RRB- , The Go-Between -LRB- 1971 -RRB- , McCabe & Mrs. Miller -LRB- 1971 -RRB- , for which she received her second Oscar nomination , Do n't Look Now -LRB- 1973 -RRB- , Shampoo -LRB- 1975 -RRB- , and Heaven Can Wait -LRB- 1978 -RRB- .   From the early 1980s her appearances in mainstream films reduced , though she held roles as Thetis in Wolfgang Petersen 's historical epic Troy and in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -LRB- both 2004 -RRB- . She has continued to receive significant critical recognition for her work , including Oscar nominations for the independent films Afterglow -LRB- 1997 -RRB- and Away from Her -LRB- 2007 -RRB- .