20 Facts About Julia Ormond

Julia Karin Ormond was born on 4 January 1965 and is an English film and television actress.

Julia Ormond rose to prominence by appearing in The Baby of Macon, Legends of the Fall, First Knight, Sabrina, Smilla's Sense of Snow, and The Barber of Siberia.

Julia Ormond won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the HBO film Temple Grandin.

Julia Ormond is known for her role in The Walking Dead: World Beyond as a main antagonist.

Julia Ormond has an elder sister and was five when her parents divorced.

Julia Ormond has three younger, half-siblings from her father's second marriage.

Julia Ormond was educated privately, firstly at Guildford High School and then at Cranleigh School, where early acting lead performances in Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady began to draw attention.

Julia Ormond first appeared on British television in the 1989 serial Traffik, about the illegal heroin trade from the far East to the streets of Europe.

Julia Ormond played the drug-addicted daughter of the lead character, a Home Office minister in the UK government engaged in combating heroin importation.

Julia Ormond appeared in several television films early in her career, such as Young Catherine and Stalin.

In 1995, Julia Ormond played Queen Guinevere in First Knight and the title role in Sabrina.

Since the late 1990s, Julia Ormond has appeared in indie and television movies and played supporting roles in films such as Iron Jawed Angels, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Che: Part One, Albatross, and My Week with Marilyn.

From 6 October 2013 to 5 October 2014, Julia Ormond starred in the television series Witches of East End as Joanna Beauchamp, one of the lead characters.

In 1988, Julia Ormond married Rory Edwards, an actor she had met while performing in a production of Wuthering Heights.

Julia Ormond married political activist Jon Rubin in 1999, and their child, Sophie, was born in the autumn of 2004.

Julia Ormond has been fighting human trafficking since the mid-1990s, and in 2006 she entered into a partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to help increase awareness efforts.

Julia Ormond is an advocate for Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS, which attempts to raise awareness about AIDS in Russia and Ukraine, and is founding co-chairman of FilmAid International.

On 2 December 2005, Julia Ormond was appointed a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.

Julia Ormond's focus has been on anti-human-trafficking initiatives, raising awareness about this modern form of slavery and promoting efforts to combat it.

In 2007, Julia Ormond established the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking.