Julia Karin Ormond (born 4 January 1965) is a British actress who, like her fellow thespian Britons, Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson, has taken her acting talents from the London stage to the Hollywood big screen. In 1995 she was named one of the World's 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine.

Ormond married Rory Edwards, an actor she had met while performing in a production of Wuthering Heights. The marriage ended in 1994. She was romantically linked to actor Gabriel Byrne during the filming of Smilla’s Sense of Snow in 1996. In 1999 she married political activist Jon Rubin. The couple's first child, daughter Sophie, was born in the autumn of 2004.

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