Julia Ormond

Infobox actor
name = Julia Ormond

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birthname = Julia Karin Ormond
birthdate = Birth date and age|1965|1|4|df=y
birthplace = Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
spouse = Rory Edwards (1989–1994)
Jon Rubin (1999–present)
children = Sophie Rubin (b.2004)

Julia Karin Ormond (born 4 January 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. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/25/Julia-Ormond.html Julia Ormond Biography (1965-) ] ] 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 at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 1988.

Career

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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 disastrous 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 had 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.ref|VitalV 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.ref|TPAA

On 2 December 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. [http://www.unodc.org/unodc/goodwillambassadors.html] In her capacity as ambassador, Ormond has appeared as council to the United States House of Representatives, Committee on International Relations, [ [http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/ House Committee on Foreign Affairs :: U.S. House of Representatives ] ] Subcommittee on Africa, [ [http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/afhear.htm House Committee on Foreign Affairs :: U.S. House of Representatives ] ] Global Human Rights and International Operations, and has travelled the world as an ambassador. [http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/goodwillambassadors/ormond/testimony_USHouse.html]

Filmography

*"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008)
*"The El Escorial Conspiracy" (2008)
*"" (2008)
*"Guerrilla" (2008)
*"Surveillance" (2008)
*"I Know Who Killed Me" (2007)
*"Inland Empire" (2006)
*"Beach Girls" (2005 TV mini-series)
*"Iron Jawed Angels" (2004) (TV)
*"Resistance" (2003)
*"Varian's War" (2001) (TV)
*"The Prime Gig" (2000)
*"Animal Farm" (1999) (TV) (voice)
*"The Barber of Siberia" (1998)
*"Smilla's Sense of Snow" (1997)
*"Sabrina" (1995)
*"First Knight" (1995)
*"Legends of the Fall" (1994)
*"Nostradamus" (1994)
*"Captives" (1994)
*"The Baby of Mâcon" (1993)
*"Young Catherine" (1991)
*"Traffik" (1989) (miniseries)

=As a producer=

*"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 nominationref|Cannes.
*2008 Razzie Awards nomination for Worst Supporting Actress in I Know Who Killed Me.

References

# cite web | title=Vital Voices: Julia Ormond | url=http://www.vitalvoices.org/desktopdefault.aspx?page_id=293 | accessmonthday=October 6 | accessyear=2005
# cite web | title=Kaiser Family Foundation: Actress Julia Ormond Joins Fight | url=http://www.kff.org/hivaids/phip092005nr.cfm | accessmonthday=October 6 | accessyear=2005
# cite web | title=Julia Ormond biography at Cannes | url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/perso/index.php?langue=6002&personne=12155 | accessmonthday=October 6 | accessyear=2005

External links

*imdb name|id=0000566|name=Julia Ormond
* [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chevron/juliaormond The Undefinitive Julia Ormond Page]
* [http://www.juliaormond.cz Julia Ormond Czech fansite]

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