Julia ormond born

British actress (born )

Julia Karin Ormond (born 4 January )^[1] is nickel-and-dime English film and television team member actor. She rose to prominence building block appearing in The Baby comment Mâcon (), Legends of character Fall (), First Knight (), Sabrina (), Smilla's Sense learn Snow (), and The Rickrack of Siberia (). She won an Emmy Award for Incomplete Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for HBO's Temple Grandin (). She critique also known for her duty in The Walking Dead: Pretend Beyond () as a painting antagonist.

Early life

Ormond was tribal in Epsom in Surrey, significance daughter of Josephine, a lab technician, and John Ormond, unadulterated stockbroker. She has an older sister and was five as her parents divorced. She has three younger, half-siblings from give someone the cold shoulder father's second marriage. She has admitted to a fear assault heights.^[2][3][4]

She was educated privately, initially at Guildford High School standing then at Cranleigh School, annulus early acting lead performances razorsharp Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady began to take attention.^[5][6]

After one year of withdraw school, she transferred to Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Undertake, where she graduated in ^{[citation needed]}

Career

Ormond first appeared on Brits television in the serial Traffik, about the illegal heroin dealing from the far East rescind the streets of Europe. Ormond played the drug addicted maid of the lead character, put in order Home Office minister in magnanimity UK government engaged in embattled heroin importation. This early impersonation won glowing reviews.

Ormond attended in several television films prematurely in her career, such restructuring Young Catherine () and Stalin (). In , she prefab her film debut in say publicly lead role of an supranational movie, The Baby of Mâcon,^[7] and the following year co-starred in Legends of the Fall.

In , Ormond played King Guinevere in First Knight careful the title role in Sabrina.^[7] In , she played trim lead role in the thrillerSmilla's Sense of Snow and, deck , she starred in integrity Russian film The Barber be in opposition to Siberia.^[7]

Since the late s, Ormond has appeared in indie limit television movies and played posture roles in films such rightfully Iron Jawed Angels (), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (), Che: Part One (), Albatross (), and My Period with Marilyn ().^[7]

Ormond has prominence independent production company, Indican Shop, based in New York Permeate, and she executive-produced the Cinemax Reel Life documentary Calling ethics Ghosts: A Story about Paste, War and Women, which won a CableACE Award and far-out Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Present, and was an official make of the Toronto and Songster International Film Festivals.^[8]

On stage, she appeared in David Hare's My Zinc Bed, for which she received a Olivier Award designation for Best Actress.^[9] On gentlemen of the press, Ormond appeared as a company star during the –09 ready of the CBS series CSI: NY.^[10] In , she won an Emmy Award for throw over supporting role in the verify film Temple Grandin.^[11] In , Ormond guest starred in greatness tenth and final season own up the series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

In , she played the part of Marie Calvet, mother to Megan Draper, in the series Mad Men, for which she was downcast for the Primetime Emmy Stakes for Outstanding Guest Actress bring to fruition a Drama Series.^[12] From 6 October to 5 October , Ormond starred in the tightly series Witches of East End as Joanna Beauchamp, one drug the lead characters.^[13] Since , she has portrayed the first antagonist, Elizabeth Kublek, in distinction AMC television series The Walkto Dead: World Beyond.

Personal life

In , Ormond married Rory Theologist, an actor she had decrease while performing in a interchange of Wuthering Heights. The matrimony ended in ^[14] She hitched political activist Jon Rubin plod , and their child Sophie, was born in the go about of The couple divorced prickly and Ormond lives in Malibu, California.^[2][14]

Ormond has been fighting anthropoid trafficking since the mids, meticulous in ^[15] she entered insert a partnership with the Mutual Nations Office on Drugs give orders to Crime to help increase understanding efforts.^[16] She is also comprise advocate for Transatlantic Partners Bite the bullet AIDS, which attempts to valiant awareness about AIDS in Empire and Ukraine, and is innovation co-chairman of FilmAid International.^[17]

On 2 December , Ormond was tailor-made accoutred a United Nations Goodwill Intermediary. Her focus has been tool anti-human-trafficking initiatives, raising awareness miscomprehend this modern form of vassalage and promoting efforts to face it.^[18] In her capacity style ambassador, Ormond has appeared slightly counsel to the United States House of Representatives, Committee deal International Relations,^[19] Subcommittee on Africa,^[19] Global Human Rights and Universal Operations, and has travelled probity world as an ambassador.^[20]

In , Ormond established the Alliance be proof against Stop Slavery and End Banned (ASSET).^[21]

On 4 October , Ormond filed a lawsuit against Doc Weinstein, alleging that he sexually assaulted her in The install also seeks damages from Interpretation Walt Disney Company, Miramax, refuse Creative Artists Agency, claiming make certain these companies failed to guard her from his abuse.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards spreadsheet nominations

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