Julie’s secret Indian wedding

Actress Julie Christie, in the spotlight again with the film Away From Her after turning her back on Hollywood in the 1970s, has reportedly married her long-term partner, Guardian journalist Duncan Campbell. According to her brother, Clive, who lives not far from her farmhouse in Montgomery, mid-Wales, the couple married during a visit to India before Christmas.

Christie and Campbell have been partners for nearly 30 years, but she has always insisted to friends that she saw "no reason" to marry. It is not clear what form the marriage took. If it was conducted in a register office, it will be recognised in Britain, but a religious ceremony would have no legal effect.

Christie rose to fame in 1965 when she won an Oscar (above right) for her role in the John Schlesinger film Darling and also gave perhaps her most famous performance, as Lara opposite Omar Sharif in the epic Dr Zhivago. In the 1970s, she made Don't Look Now and the then-notoriously saucy Shampoo opposite Warren Beatty, with whom she had an affair. When their relationship came unstuck she said goodbye to Hollywood. She has since described being a celebrity as "like always having chewing gum stuck in your hair".

Her role in Away From Her, in which she portrays an Alzheimer's victim, has already won her the SAG award for best actress (above left), and she now has a good chance of winning an Oscar at the end of February. As a result, at 66 she's the talk of Hollywood again, but she has hinted in recent days that the film may be her last. She's happier with the relative obscurity of life in Britain her new husband, dividing her time between the Welsh farm and a flat in Spitalfields, east London. ·