Everything about Julia Ormond totally explained
Julia Karin Ormond (born
January 4 1965) is a
British actress who, like her fellow thespian Britons,
Helena Bonham Carter and
Emma Thompson, has taken her acting talents from the London stage to the Hollywood big screen. In 1995 she was named one of the World's 50 Most Beautiful People by
People magazine.
Biography
Early life
Ormond was born in
Epsom,
Surrey,
England, to Josephine, a laboratory technician, and John Ormond, a successful computer software designer who became a millionaire by age thirty. Ormond's father left his wife and children when Julia was still young. She attended Guildford High School and
Cranleigh School (a
private school), and then studied acting in
London,
England at the
Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 1988.
Career
Stage
Ormond's stage credits include "The Rehearsal", "Wuthering Heights", "The Crucible", Christopher Hampton's "Faith, Hope and Charity", for which she won the London Drama Critics' Award for Best Newcomer, and David Hare's "My Zinc Bed", for which she earned a
Laurence Olivier Award nomination.
Film
Her film credits include Jerry Zucker's
First Knight,
Captives with
Tim Roth,
Legends of the Fall with
Brad Pitt,
Anthony Hopkins and
Aidan Quinn,
Sydney Pollack's
Sabrina with
Harrison Ford, "Resistance" and
Smilla's Sense of Snow.
She also had a major role in the controversial
Peter Greenaway film
The Baby of Mâcon with
Ralph Fiennes.
TV
Her TV credits include HBO's "Stalin" and "Iron-Jawed Angels", the drama series "Traffik", "Varian's War" and "Animal Farm." She also has an independent production company, Indican Productions, based in
New York City, and she executive produced the Cinemax Reel Life documentary "Calling the Ghosts: A Story of Rape, War and Women", which won a CableACE Award and a
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and was an official selection of the Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals.
Recently
In the 2000s, Ormond has worked in various projects, albeit in more supporting roles. She appeared in David Lynch's 2006 film
Inland Empire and in the 2007
Lindsay Lohan vehicle,
I Know Who Killed Me.
She will be featured in four projects slated for release in 2008. Ormond will be reunited with
Brad Pitt in
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She also will appear with
Benicio del Toro in
Guerrilla,
Abigail Breslin in and
Bill Pullman in
Surveillance, working with acclaimed directors such as
David Fincher and
Steven Soderbergh in two of the these projects.
She has been quoted, "My sense is that Hollywood is something in the past. I've escaped it".
Ormond has produced film projects through her Indican Productions company located in New York City.
Personal life
Ormond married Rory Edwards, an actor she'd met while performing in a production of
Wuthering Heights. The marriage ended in 1994. She was romantically linked to actor
Gabriel Byrne during the filming of
Smilla’s Sense of Snow in 1996. In 1999 she married political activist
Jon Rubin. The couple's first child, daughter Sophie, was born in the autumn of 2004.
Ormond has been an
activist engaged with fighting
human trafficking since the mid-1990s, and has recently partnered with the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. She is also an advocate for
Transatlantic Partners Against Aids, which attempts to raise awareness about
Aids in
Russia and
Ukraine, and is founding co-chairman of
FilmAid International.
On
December 2 2005, Ormond was appointed as a
United Nations Goodwill Ambassador by Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa. Her focus has been on anti-human trafficking initiatives, raising awareness about this modern form of slavery and promoting efforts to combat it. In her capacity as ambassador, Ormond has appeared as council to the
United States House of Representatives, Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations>, and has traveled the world as an ambassador.
Filmography
Calling the Ghosts: A Story of Rape, War and Women (1996)
Awards
1989 London Drama Critics' Award for best newcomer.
1996 Nestor Almendros Award.
2001 Laurence Olivier Award nomination.
2008 Razzie Awards nomination for Worst Supporting Actress in I Know Who Killed Me.Further Information
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