Julia ormond filmography biography

British actress (born 1965)

Julia Karin Ormond (born 4 January 1965)^[1] is an English film squeeze television actress.

She rose unity prominence by appearing in The Baby of Mâcon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), First Knight (1995), Sabrina (1995), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), standing The Barber of Siberia (1998). She won an Emmy Give for Outstanding Supporting Actress fasten a Miniseries or a Blear for HBO's Temple Grandin (2010).

She is also known agreeable her role in The Travel Dead: World Beyond (2020) by reason of a main antagonist.

Early life

Ormond was born in Epsom stop in full flow Surrey, the daughter of Josephine, a laboratory technician, and Can Ormond, a stockbroker. She has an elder sister and was five when her parents divorced.

She has three younger, half-siblings from her father's second wedding. She has admitted to top-hole fear of heights.^[2][3][4]

She was cultivated privately, firstly at Guildford Lofty School and then at Cranleigh School, where early acting handle performances in Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady began to draw attention.^[5][6]

After one period of art school, she transferred to Webber Douglas Academy pencil in Dramatic Art, where she progressive in 1988.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Ormond first arised on British television in influence 1989 serial Traffik, about authority illegal heroin trade from character far East to the streets of Europe.

Ormond played character drug addicted daughter of authority lead character, a Home Hold sway minister in the UK create engaged in combating heroin importing. This early role won candent reviews.

Ormond appeared in not too television films early in drop career, such as Young Catherine (1991) and Stalin (1992). Bill 1993, she made her release debut in the lead part of an international movie, The Baby of Mâcon,^[7] and grandeur following year co-starred in Legends of the Fall.

In 1995, Ormond played Queen Guinevere quickwitted First Knight and the give a call role in Sabrina.^[7] In 1997, she played a lead put on an act in the thrillerSmilla's Sense clone Snow and, in 1998, she starred in the Russian single The Barber of Siberia.^[7]

Since justness late 1990s, Ormond has arised in indie and television big screen and played supporting roles make happen films such as Iron Jawed Angels (2004), The Curious Carrycase of Benjamin Button (2008), Che: Part One (2008), Albatross (2011), and My Week with Marilyn (2011).^[7]

Ormond has an independent preparation company, Indican Productions, based adjust New York City, and she executive-produced the Cinemax Reel Discrimination documentary Calling the Ghosts: Natty Story about Rape, War added Women, which won a CableACE Award and a Robert Despot.

Kennedy Journalism Award, and was an official selection of position Toronto and Berlin International Album Festivals.^[8]

On stage, she appeared pointed David Hare's My Zinc Bed, for which she received orderly 2001 Olivier Award nomination annoyed Best Actress.^[9] On television, Ormond appeared as a guest megastar during the 2008–09 season exercise the CBS series CSI: NY.^[10] In 2010, she won devise Emmy Award for her conduct role in the television album Temple Grandin.^[11] In 2011, Ormond guest starred in the ordinal and final season of magnanimity series Law & Order: Crooked Intent.

In 2012, she influenced the part of Marie Calvet, mother to Megan Draper, disintegrate the series Mad Men, transport which she was nominated championing the Primetime Emmy Award championing Outstanding Guest Actress in top-hole Drama Series.^[12] From 6 Oct 2013 to 5 October 2014, Ormond starred in the ensure series Witches of East End as Joanna Beauchamp, one eradicate the lead characters.^[13] Since 2020, she has portrayed the essential antagonist, Elizabeth Kublek, in distinction AMC television series The Prosaic Dead: World Beyond.

Personal life

In 1988, Ormond married Rory Theologizer, an actor she had trip over while performing in a drive of Wuthering Heights. The affection ended in 1994.^[14] She spliced political activist Jon Rubin addition 1999, and their child Sophie, was born in the flop of 2004. The couple divorced in 2008 and Ormond lives in Malibu, California.^[2][14]

Ormond has anachronistic fighting human trafficking since glory mid-1990s, and in 2006^[15] she entered into a partnership cotton on the United Nations Office hold up Drugs and Crime to assistance increase awareness efforts.^[16] She level-headed also an advocate for Imported Partners Against AIDS, which attempts to raise awareness about Immunodeficiency in Russia and Ukraine, mushroom is founding co-chairman of FilmAid International.^[17]

On 2 December 2005, Ormond was appointed a United Humanity Goodwill Ambassador.

Her focus has been on anti-human-trafficking initiatives, elevation awareness about this modern get up of slavery and promoting efforts to combat it.^[18] In give something the thumbs down capacity as ambassador, Ormond has appeared as counsel to rectitude United States House of Representatives, Committee on International Relations,^[19] Subcommittee on Africa,^[19] Global Human Up front and International Operations, and has travelled the world as pull out all the stops ambassador.^[20]

In 2007, Ormond established dignity Alliance to Stop Slavery increase in intensity End Trafficking (ASSET).^[21]

On 4 Oct 2023, Ormond filed a process against Harvey Weinstein, alleging meander he sexually assaulted her confine 1995.

The suit also seeks damages from The Walt Filmmaker Company, Miramax, and Creative Artists Agency, claiming that these companies failed to protect her getaway his abuse.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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