Legendry British actress Julie Christie was born near Chabua in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district.
The British film actress is renowned for a wide range of roles in English and American films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for her offbeat, free-spirited personality.
Julie Christie is the daughter of Frank St. John Christie, a tea planter, and her mother Rosemary Ramsden Christie was a painter.
She was born on April 14, 1940 and was raised at Singlijan Tea Estate, near Chabua in Assam.
Julie Christie grew up on her father’s tea garden before being sent to England for her school education.
Her parents separated when she was a child, and after their divorce, Julie Christie spent most of her time with her mother in rural Wales.
After the divorce, her father Frank St. John Christie continued to stay at Singlijan Tea Estate for some time, and later he migrated to Spain with June, his daughter from his Indian wife.
But Julie Christie never mentioned about her half-sister June, who later migrated to England to work as a mid-wife.
Finishing her studies in Paris, Julie Christie made her debut as a professional in 1957 as a member of the Frinton Repertory of Essex.
An icon of the Swinging Sixties, Julie Christie is the recipient of numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She has appeared in six films ranked in the British Film Institute’s BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century.
Interestingly, Julie Christie never mentioned anything much about her birth at the Singlijan Tea Estate in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district. Probably she wanted not remember the trauma she faced as a child because of the separation of her parents.
Whatever it is, too many people in Chabua also don’t know that the legendry British actress Julie Christie was born at Singlijan Tea Estate.
Singlijan Tea Estate shot into fame in June 2016 after it earned the distinction as the first tea garden in India to be ‘open defecation-free’.
