Filmography Of the Unique Beauty Julia Ormond!

JULIA- The Unique Beauty of Hollywood

British Actress Julia Ormond had several solid years of stage work to her credit. This strikingly beautiful player of the English stage gave several attention-getting performances in British and American TV-movies and International Co-productions before making a big splash in Hollywood!!

SERIAL PERFORMANCES
Her performances included:
*George Bernard Shaw's ::

"Arms and the Man",
"The Rehearsal", * Arthur Miller's :: "The Crucible",
and she played
Catherine in "Wuthering Heights",
where she met her future husband,
Rory Edwards,
who was a Heathcliff.

NEWCOMER 98 AWARD
The critics finally had to take notice of her, and for her work in Christopher Hampton's

"Faith, Hope, and Charity" she was awarded the: *1989 London Drama Critics Award for
Best Newcomer*

ACHIEVEMENTS
She then gained National Recognition in Britain playing a middle-class heroin addict in the Internationally acclaimed TV series "Traffik".

MOVIES
YOUNG CATHERINE 1991

She made North American debut portraying the Russian Empress "Catherine the Great" in the TNT mini-series "Young Catherine".
Her husband was also in the cast, as one of the lesser Orlov brothers. Although Julia was the Title Character, she was only listed sixth in the credits due to the presence of some bigger stars like Vanessa Redgrave
and Christopher Plummer.
Nevertheless, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television honoured her with a * 1992 Gemini nomination for International
Mini-Series Performance*.

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STALIN 1992

The next year she became Josef Stalin's troubled second wife Nadya in the HBO movie Stalin, a role which would later lead to big movie opportunities for her.

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THE BABY OF MACON 1993

Julia's big-screen debut came in Peter Greenaway's controversial & much-talked-about debacle The Baby of Macon.

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NOSTRADAMUS 1994

She followed this with an All-Too-Brief role as the prophet's first wife in the box-office flop Nostradamus.

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CAPTIVES 1994

In her next film, Angela Pope's Captives, she played a prison dentist alongside Tim Roth. The picture did very well in Britain, and is now out on video in North America.

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LEGENDS OF THE FALL 1994

Julia's big break finally came when Edward Zwick decided to cast her as the object of three men's desire in the blockbuster "Legends Of the Fall" after he had seen her Stalin performance. The film got
mixed reviews, but everyone lauded Julia. The public ate it up, & she literally became a star overnight.

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FIRST KNIGHT 1995

The Summer saw the release of Jerry Zucker's medieval epic First Knight. He personally chose Julia to play Guinevere after having seen her marvelous performance as Nadya in Stalin.
First Knight was panned by the critics & eventually was considered one of the top box office failures of 1995,BUT Julia'sperformance was, once again, praised by most film critics. *(Not My Opinion :) Its one of my favourite movie)*

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SABRINA 1995

For the Title Role in Sydney Pollack's remake of Sabrina, Julia beat out Winona Ryder, Juliette Binoche, & ballerina Darcey Bussell. To prepare for the role, she studied Photography, Read Books assigned in American schools, watched "My So-Called Life", & went to Catholic schools to give Sabrina a youthful naivity.

The film was acclaimed by critics, but it did not make as much money as was expected. Her protrayal of the unfortunate pawn was generally well-liked, but she was invariably compared to Audrey Hepburn, whom the
critics felt could just not be equalled.

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SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW 1997

Julia was also seen in the movie version of the best-selling novel "Smilla's Sense of Snow" in which she played Smilla, this movie also got mixed reviews but its agreed that Julia's performance was
superb!

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THE BARBER OF SIBERIA (Yet to Come)

Now Julia is filming The Barber of Siberia, again featuring Richard Harris. The story is about a Russian officer in love with an American girl set in the Russian revolution...