Editing Julie Christie (section)

==Early life==
Christie was born on 14 April 1940<ref name="age">{{cite work|last1=Ewbank|first1=Tim|first2=Stafford|last2=Hildred|title=Julie Christie: The Biography|publisher=Carlton Publishing Group, London|year=2000|pages=1–2|isbn=978-0-233-00255-2|quote=In the spring of 1940, meat rationing had just begun in England ... Vivien Leigh, an English actress born in Darjeeling, India, had on 29 February at a banquet at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Scarlett O'Hara ... Forty five days later, on 14 April, there was much cause for rejoicing for Frank and Rosemary Christie, a British couple living on a tea plantation in [[Assam]] in India, with the arrival of their first child, Julie Frances. ...}}</ref><ref name=BFI>{{cite web|title=Julie Christie profile at Screenonline|work=[[Screenonline]]|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/453051|access-date=17 July 2013}}</ref> at Singlijan Tea Estate, [[Chabua]], [[Assam]], [[British India]], to Rosemary (née Ramsden),<ref name="E.com/christie-julie-1941">{{cite web |title=Christie, Julie (1941–) |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/christie-julie-1941 |website=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |access-date=28 April 2025}}</ref> a Welsh-born painter and Frank St John Christie,<ref name="telegraphindia/615877">{{cite news |title=Light at last on Julie's half-sister - British paper acts detective, unveils life of actress's hidden Indian connection |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/light-at-last-on-julie-s-half-sister-british-paper-acts-detective-unveils-life-of-actress-s-hidden-indian-connection/cid/615877 |access-date=28 April 2025 |work=[[The Telegraph (India)]] |date=Feb 12, 2008 |language=en}}</ref> who ran the tea plantation where she grew up. She has a younger brother, Clive,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160310052427/https://www.youcaxton.co.uk/vietnamwar/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20240421214330/https://www.hull.ac.uk/choose-hull/study-at-hull/library/resources/southeast-asia-museum</ref> and an older (deceased) half-sister, June, from her father's relationship with an Indian tea picker on his plantation.<ref>[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/2008/02/17/christie-s-secret-world-91466-20485260 "Christie's Secret World"], walesonline.co.uk, 17 February 2008.</ref> At the age of six she was sent to live with a foster mother so she could attend a convent school in England.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=8 October 2009 |title=Julie Christie – Biography |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/20091008418/julie-christie/ |access-date=30 March 2023 |website=HELLO! |language=en}}</ref> Her parents separated when Julie was a child, and after their divorce, she spent time with her mother in rural [[Wales]].<ref name="divine"/>

She was baptised in the [[Church of England]], and studied as a boarder at the independent Convent of Our Lady school in [[St Leonards-on-Sea]], East Sussex, after being expelled from another convent school for telling a risqué joke that reached a wider audience than she had anticipated. After being asked to leave the Convent of Our Lady as well, she attended the all-girls Wycombe Court School, [[High Wycombe]], [[Buckinghamshire]], during which time she lived with a foster mother from the age of six.<ref name="divine">{{cite news|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2047296,00.html|work=The Guardian|location=London|title=The divine Miss Julie|first=Tim|last=Adams|date=1 April 2007|access-date=7 May 2010}}</ref> At the Wycombe school, she played the Dauphin in a production of [[George Bernard Shaw|Shaw]]'s ''[[Saint Joan (play)|Saint Joan]].'' She went to [[Paris]] to finish schooling and learn French. She later returned to England and studied at the [[Central School of Speech and Drama]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sirota|first=David|url=http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/06/12/julie_christie/index.html|title=Salon.com|publisher=Archive.salon.com|date=12 June 2001|access-date=30 May 2010}}</ref>