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Julia Karin Ormond was born on the  4th of January 1965 in Epsom, Surrey, just south of London, England. She is 34, Capricorn.

FAMILY
       Her dad,  a businessman  & her mom,  a laboratory technician,  divorced  when  she was a child. John was a millionaire  by the age of  30,  and  the family lived well until that divorce caused Julia,  her sister, &  mother to move out of the 20-room mansion. She was  a  charming 
child belongs to  Josephine  and  John Ormond. She has 3 younger brothers and  an older sister,  i.e.  She was the second eldest of the five.

SCHOOL LIFE
        She  attended  " Cranleigh Public School", a mostly male  private school, and Julia herself admits to being a tomboy. She played field hockey, acted in several school plays including a production of "Guys and Dolls".

FIRST CRUSH
        Julia's first crush was her classmate named Roger
Beech.

AMBITION
        Julia Ormond's first ambition was to follow in her grandparents'  footsteps  and  become  an  abstract artist.But after a year of Art school,  she  decided  to pursue a career  in  the  Dramatic Arts  instead,  since acting had peaked her interest while at Cranleigh

GRADUATION 1998
        She  majored  in  Acting  and  graduated  from the Webber-Douglas Academy of  Dramatic Arts in London, in 1988.

FIRST JOB
During her graduation study,  she worked as a waitress, and later at the Tie Rack store in Heathrow Airport.

FIRST CASTING
        Julia's  first casting was in  a T.V. AD for Cottage cheese.  Then  followed a succession of  British plays, & critics took glee in blasting the nervous newcomer. 

MARRIAGE
        While  working on Catherine in Wuthering Heights, she met her future husband,  Rory Edwards.  In the TNT mini-series  "Young Catherine"  her  husband  was  also casted,  as one of the  lesser  Orlov  brothers.  Although Julia was the title character!

ANNULATION 1993
        Julia's brief and fragile marriage  dissolved when her  husband  left  her.   She  went  on  to  stardom, and Rory Edwards   fell   into   even  deeper  obscurity,  his only notable role as a Paris vampire in "Interview With
the Vampire"

NATURE
        During the  filming of  the movie "First Knight", the crew  referred to her  as  "Julia Who?"  because  she was still unknown at the time.
        One day  after  shooting,  she got  on  a  public bus showing that actors are just like normal people! 
       She also had a brief ear infection  that sent her to a London hospital,  but it was  fortunate  in a way because it allowed her time to audition for Sabrina.

BEAUTIFUL HAIRS
For movie "Sabrina"  she was demanded  to cut her  glorious  waist-length hair,  which she did without  any objection,  but it broke the hearts of most of her fans :)

OWN PRODUCTION COMPANY
        LA Times: "She has formed a production company called Indican (a play on "in the can"),  which has a deal with Fox Searchlight; through it she aims to find scripts she can produce  and  direct  and  others she can star in. She is now trying to  line up distributors for "Calling the Ghosts,"  an  Indican-produced  documentary about two women  who  survived  the   horrors  of  Serbian  prison
camps".

CURRENT RESIDENCE
        Julia Ormond  has  recently  moved  from  the unfashionable Hackney, to the more 'IN' Covent Garden district of London. 
 

 
GOLDEN YEAR 1995
        1995 was a tumultuous year for her_ 
 * She was named one of  People magazine's 
50 Most Beautiful People;
 * Was a  surprise  Presenter at the Academy Awards;
 * Her  featured  articles  were  publised  in  at least 
      6 magazines!
 

AWARDS
 * 1989: London Drama Critics Award for Best 
      Newcomer  for Faith, Hope and Charity.
 * A play by Christopher Hampton1995: NATO/
      ShoWest Award for Star of Tomorrow.


 
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