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Julia Ormond (born on January 4 1965 in Epsom, Surrey, England) is a British actress with many stage and screen credits to her name.

Life and career

Ormond attended Guildford High School and Cranleigh Public School (actually a private school), and then studied acting in London, England at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 1988.

Ormond married Rory Edwards, an actor she had met while performing in a production of Wuthering Heights
. The marriage ended in 1994. Ormond's first child, a girl, was born in the autumn of 2004.

She runs a production company named Indican Productions, which is based in New York, New York.

Activism

Ormond has been an activist engaged with fighting human trafficking since the mid-1990s, and has recently partnered with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. She is also an advocate for Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS, which attempts to raise awareness about AIDS in Russia and the Ukraine, and is founding co-chair of FilmAid International.

On December 2 2005, Julia Ormond, was appointed as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador by Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa. During her service, Ms. Ormond was to focus on anti-human trafficking initiatives, raising awareness about this modern form of slavery and promoting efforts to combat it.

Partial filmography

Che (film)
(2006)
Iron Jawed Angels (2004) (TV)
Animal Farm (1999) (TV) (voice)
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Smilla's Sense of Snow
(1997)
Sabrina
(1995)
First Knight
(1995)
Legends of the Fall
(1994)
Traffik (1989) (miniseries)

As a producer

Calling the Ghosts : A Story of Rape, War and Women (1996)

Awards

1989 London Drama Critics' Award for best newcomer
1996 Nestor Almendros Award
2001 Laurence Olivier Award nomination

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