She went on to study acting in London at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 1988. 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 won an Olivier Award nomination. She was reunited with Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and also appeared with Benicio del Toro in Che, with 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 the these projects. in 2010, she won an Emmy Award for her supporting role in the HBO Movie Temple Grandin. Ormond married Rory Edwards, an actor she had met while performing in a production of Wuthering Heights.
Julia Ormond in Superman talks Julia Ormond is in talks to star in ‘Superman: Man of Steel’ as the titular superhero’s Kryptonian mother. Julia Ormond is in talks to play Superman ‘s… [link]