About Julia

 

JULIA ORMOND is an award-winning actress who can most recently be seen in her series regular role in the third incarnation of THE WALKING DEAD; WORLD BEYOND.  She can also be seen in two projects for the BBC: GOLD DIGGER and the remake of the film HOWARDS END, written by Oscar winner Kenneth Lonergan.  Julia also can be seen in HBO’s comedy TOUR DE PHARMACY opposite Andy Samberg, Will Forte and Orlando Bloom. Julia also starred in the independent film REMEMORY opposite Peter Dinklage and the late Anton Yelchin which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

 

On the small screen, Ormond received an Emmy® Award in 2010 for her role in the HBO movie TEMPLE GRANDIN and in 2012 was nominated for a second Emmy for her recurring role on MAD MEN.

 

Among her best known film work, Julia Ormond starred in the epic LEGENDS OF THE FALL alongside actors Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Aidan Quinn and played the lead role with Harrison Ford in the film SABRINA, directed by Sydney Pollack. In 2008, she starred with Brad Pitt in the fantasy-drama THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON and also worked with Benicio del Toro in Steven Soderbergh’s biopic CHE. 

 

Julia was the first and former UNODC Goodwill Ambassador Against Trafficking and Slavery and is the Founder of Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking (ASSET) that was the origin, architect and convener of the Transparency in Supply Chains Law in CA that passed in 2010.  She is Founding Chair of FilmAid International. She was Executive Producer of Calling the Ghosts: A Story of Rape, War and Women which won an Emmy, a Cable Ace, a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, and after a screening at the Council of Foreign Relations spurred legislation that enabled the arrest of Milosevich. Julia also participated in Call and Response, a documentary on the state of enslavement today and one of the first documentaries promoting cell phone technology to accept immediate donations to the cause. She is an Associate Producer to Libby Spear’s Playground, which focuses on the environment that enables child trafficking within the U.S. As an advocate, Julia has traveled the world assessing solutions and challenges and she has appeared as an expert witness before the US. Congress and the United Nations. For this advocacy work. she received the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award” and Women for Women International’s “Peace Award.