Julie Christie Biography to Be Published

Posted on February 22, 2008

Carlton Books imprint Andre Deutsch is rushing to print a biography of Julie Christie, who is nominated for an Academy Award. The Oscars will be awarded this Sunday and Christie is favored to take the award for Best Actress for her role in Away From Her, in which she plays an Alzheimer's sufferer.

Fleet Street show business journalist Tim Ewbank and TV critic Stafford Hildred's Julie Christie (�17.99, h/b), originally scheduled as a summer release, has been pushed forward to early April.
The book tracks Christie from her troubled Sussex childhood until the present. It focuses on her sixties and seventies heyday, when she appeared in iconic films such as "Billy Liar" and "Dr Zhivago", won an Oscar for "Darling" and dated a number of Hollywood leading men, including Warren Beatty. In recent years she has opted for a more quiet life in Wales, only occasionally being lured back to acting.
Jim Greenhough, UK sales & marketing director at Andre Deutsch, said: "We are delighted to be publishing this biography on such a well-loved screen icon."

Julie Christie has an excellent chance of taking home the Oscar Sunday. But we wouldn't count out Cate Blanchett for her turn in Elizabeth: The Golden Age just yet.