Her focus has been on anti human-trafficking initiatives, raising awareness about this modern form of slavery and promoting efforts to combat it in her capacity as an ambassador. On 2 December 2005, Ormond was appointed as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador by Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa. She was also an advocate for Transatlantic Partners Against Aids, which attempts to raise awareness about Aids in Russia and Ukraine, and is the founding co-chairman of FilmAid International. Ormond has been an activist engaged with fighting human trafficking since the mid-1990s, and had partnered with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The couple's first child, daughter Sophie, was born in the autumn of 2004. In 1999, she married political activist Jon Rubin. She was romantically linked to actor Gabriel Byrne during the filming of Smilla’s Sense of Snow in 1996. Ormond married Rory Edwards, an actor she had met while performing in a production of Wuthering Heights. Ormond has produced film projects through her Indican Productions company located in New York City. She has been quoted as, "My sense is that Hollywood is something in the past. She also appeared with Benicio del Toro in Guerrilla, Abigail Breslin in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery and with Bill Pullman in Surveillance, working with acclaimed directors such as David Fincher and Steven Soderbergh in two of these projects. Ormond reunited with Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She appeared in David Lynch's 2006 film Inland Empire and in 2007's I Know Who Killed Me alongside Lindsay Lohan. In the 2000s, Ormond has worked in various projects, albeit in more supporting roles. Ormond also appeared as a guest star during the 2008-09 season of the CBS police procedural series, CSI:NY. She also has an independent production company, Indican Productions, based in New York City. Her TV credits include HBO's Stalin and Iron-Jawed Angels, the drama series Traffik, Varian's War and Animal Farm. She also had a major role in the controversial Peter Greenaway film The Baby of Mâcon with Ralph Fiennes. Her film credits include Jerry Zucker's First Knight, Captives with Tim Roth, Legends of the Fall with Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn, Sydney Pollack's Sabrina with Harrison Ford, "Resistance" and Smilla's Sense of Snow. Ormond's stage credits include The Rehearsal, Wuthering Heights, The Crucible, Christopher Hampton's Faith, Hope and Charity, for which she won the London Drama Critics' Award for Best Newcomer, and David Hare's My Zinc Bed, for which she earned a Laurence Olivier Award nomination. She attended Guildford High School and Cranleigh School (a private school), and then studied acting in London at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 1988. Ormond's father left his wife and children when Julia was still young. Ormond was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, as the daughter of Josephine, a laboratory technician, and John Ormond, a successful computer software designer who became a millionaire by age thirty. Biography: Julia Karin Ormond is a British actress who has appeared in films, television and on stage.
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