JULIA ORMOND
Name: Julia Karin Ormond
Born: 4 January 1965 Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
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.
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.
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.
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", "Resistance" and "Smilla's Sense of Snow" She also
had a major role in the very controversial Peter Greenaway film The Baby of
Mâcon with Ralph Fiennes.
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.
In the mid and late 2000s, Ormond has started to work in various projects,
albeit in more supporting roles, starting in 2006, where she had a small role in
Inland Empire and in 2007 in the Lindsay Lohan vehicle, I Know Who Killed Me.
She will be featured in four projects slated to release in 2008. She will be
working with other actors such as Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button, Benicio del Toro in Guerrilla, Abigail Breslin in Kit
Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery and Bill Pullman in Surveillance, and
working with acclaimed directors such as David Fincher and Steven Soderbergh in
two of the abovementioned projects.
She has been quoted as explaining, "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.
Name: Julia Karin Ormond
Born: 4 January 1965 Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
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.
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.
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.
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", "Resistance" and "Smilla's Sense of Snow" She also
had a major role in the very controversial Peter Greenaway film The Baby of
Mâcon with Ralph Fiennes.
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.
In the mid and late 2000s, Ormond has started to work in various projects,
albeit in more supporting roles, starting in 2006, where she had a small role in
Inland Empire and in 2007 in the Lindsay Lohan vehicle, I Know Who Killed Me.
She will be featured in four projects slated to release in 2008. She will be
working with other actors such as Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button, Benicio del Toro in Guerrilla, Abigail Breslin in Kit
Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery and Bill Pullman in Surveillance, and
working with acclaimed directors such as David Fincher and Steven Soderbergh in
two of the abovementioned projects.
She has been quoted as explaining, "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.