Julia Ormond

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Julia Ormond

Born Julia Karin Ormond
4 January 1965 (1965-01-04) (age 43)
Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
Spouse(s) Rory Edwards (1989–1994)
Jon Rubin (1999–present)

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.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] 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.[1] 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.

[edit] Career

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery 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.

[edit] 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.[1] 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.[2]

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.[2] In her capacity as ambassador, Ormond has appeared as council to the United States House of Representatives, Committee on International Relations,[3] Subcommittee on Africa,[4] Global Human Rights and International Operations, and has travelled the world as an ambassador.[5]

[edit] Filmography

[edit] As a producer

  • Calling the Ghosts: A Story of Rape, War and Women (1996)

[edit] Awards

[edit] References

  1. ^ Julia Ormond Biography (1965-)
  2. ^ http://www.unodc.org/unodc/goodwillambassadors.html
  3. ^ House Committee on Foreign Affairs :: U.S. House of Representatives
  4. ^ House Committee on Foreign Affairs :: U.S. House of Representatives
  5. ^ http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/goodwillambassadors/ormond/testimony_USHouse.html
  1. ^  Vital Voices: Julia Ormond. Retrieved on October 6, 2005.
  2. ^  Kaiser Family Foundation: Actress Julia Ormond Joins Fight. Retrieved on October 6, 2005.
  3. ^  Julia Ormond biography at Cannes. Retrieved on October 6, 2005.

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NAME Ormond, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ormond, Julia Karin
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965-1-4
PLACE OF BIRTH Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH