Julia Ormond
Biography
Julia Karin Ormond is an English actress born on January 4, 1965, in Epsom, Surrey, England, UK. She has appeared in film, television, and on stage. Ormond rose to prominence in the 1990s with film appearances in The Baby of Mâcon in 1993, Legends of the Fall in 1994, First Knight and Sabrina in 1995, Smilla's Sense of Snow in 1997, and The Barber of Siberia in 1998. Her other notable roles include Doris Side in Inland Empire in 2006, Lisa Howard in Che and Caroline Fuller in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008, and Vivien Leigh in My Week with Marilyn in 2011. On television, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the HBO film Temple Grandin in 2010.
Career overview
Julia Karin Ormond is an English actress born on January 4, 1965, in Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. She has appeared in film, television, and on stage. Ormond rose to prominence during the 1990s through a series of notable film appearances. Her work from that decade includes roles in The Baby of Mâcon in 1993, Legends of the Fall in 1994, First Knight and Sabrina in 1995, Smilla's Sense of Snow in 1997, and The Barber of Siberia in 1998.
Her later film credits feature roles such as Doris Side in Inland Empire in 2006, Lisa Howard in Che and Caroline Fuller in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008, and Vivien Leigh in My Week with Marilyn in 2011. In television, Ormond won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance in the HBO film Temple Grandin in 2010.
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- Fractured (2025)
- Saurus City (2025) as Queen Rachel (voice)
- Here's Yanni! (2024) as Plousia
- Home Education (2023) as Carol
- Son of the South (2021) as Virginia Durr
- The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020) as Elizabeth Kublek
- Reunion (2020) as Ivy
- Gold Digger (2019) as Julia Day
- Forever (2018) as Marisol
- Ladies in Black (2018) as Magda
- Tour de Pharmacy (2017) as Adriana Baton
- Rememory (2017) as Carolyn Dunn
- Howards End (2017) as Mrs. Wilcox
- Incorporated (2016) as Elizabeth Krauss
- Unity (2015) as Narrator (voice)
- Sean Connery: In His Own Words (2015) as Self
- Witches of East End (2013) as Joanna Beauchamp
- The East (2013) as Paige Williams
- Exploding Sun (2013) as Joan Elias
- Exploding Sun (2013) as Joan Elias
- Chained (2012) as Sarah Fittler
- The Music Never Stopped (2011) as Dianne Daley
- My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Vivien Leigh
- Albatross (2011) as Joa
- The Green (2011) as Karen
- Temple Grandin (2010) as Eustacia
- The Wronged Man (2010) as Janet Gregory
- Nurse Jackie (2009) as Sarah Khouri
- The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button (2009) as Self
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) as Caroline Fuller
- Che: Part One (2008) as Lisa Howard
- Surveillance (2008) as Elisabeth Anderson
- Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) as Mrs. Kittredge
- La conjura de El Escorial (2008) as Princesa de Éboli
- Mad Men (2007) as Marie Calvet
- I Know Who Killed Me (2007) as Susan Fleming
- Inland Empire (2006) as Doris Side
- Beach Girls (2005) as Stevie Moore
- CSI: NY (2004) as Gillian Whitford
- Iron Jawed Angels (2004) as Inez Millholland
- Resistance (2003) as Claire Daussois
- The Nazi Officer's Wife (2003) as Edith Hahn (voice)
- Searching for Debra Winger (2002) as Self
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) as Paula Gyson
- Varian's War (2001) as Miriam Davenport
- The Prime Gig (2001) as Caitlin Carlson
- Animal Farm (1999) as Jessie (voice)
- The Barber of Siberia (1998) as Jane Callahan
- Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) as Smilla Jasperson
- Sabrina (1995) as Sabrina Fairchild
- First Knight (1995) as Guinevere
- Legends of the Fall (1994) as Susannah Fincannon Ludlow
- Captives (1994) as Rachel Clifford
- Nostradamus (1994) as Marie
- The Baby of Mâcon (1993) as The Daughter
- Stalin (1992) as Nadya Alliluyeva
- Young Catherine (1991) as Catherine
- Traffik (1989) as Caroline Lithgow
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987) as Nora Fanshawe
- Screen Two (1985) as Rachel Clifford
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- The Emmy Awards (1949) as Self