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Julie Ege was born Julie Dzuli on 12 November 1943 in Sandnes, a small fishing village in the south west of Norway. Julie left school with a degree in English and History from the University of Oslo.
At 15 she started modelling and at 19, in 1962, Julie was crowned Miss Norway and competed in the Miss Universe pageant. In 1967, she moved to England as an au pair to improve her English and also studied at a language school. Her first major break was being in the UK edition of Penthouse Magazine in May 1967 which led to a bit part in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969) as Helen, the "Scandinavian girl", and a small but memorable and very nude role in the Martin Feldman film "Every Home Should Have One" (1970)
She was married and divorced twice by 1970, first to a Norwegian Army officer, who was 12 years older, and then to an English dentist, who was 15 years older. Julie has two daughters, Joanna (who lives in Shanghai) and Ella.
Julie was awarded the title 'The New Sex Symbol of the 70s' by head of Hammer Film Studios Sir James Carreras, having beaten more than 900 other girls worldwide. They featured her as a not so glamorous prehistoric woman in Hammer Films "Creatures the World Forgot" (1971). She also appeared in "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" where played side by side with Peter Cushing in his last role at Van Helsing. In between these two Hammer films, she also appeared in "Up Pompeii" (1971), "The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins" (1971) and "Not Now Darling" (1973). Prior to her move back to Norway she again mainly starred in comedies – "Percy’s Progress" (1974), "The Amorous Milkman" (1974) – and Horror/Sci-Fi movies – "The Final Programme" (1973), "Craze" (1973) and the truly bizarre "The Mutations" (1974). She also recorded a couple of songs that turned into minor hits.
She said "To be honest, I was never really that proud of my performance in films, but I gave it my best and enjoyed the work very much."
Julie lived for six years in the 1970s with Tony Bramwell, former assistant to the Beatles and later a successful record and film music promoter.
In the 1980s and 1990s Julie was diagnosed and treated for both lung cancer and breast cancer. She now works as a registered nurse (an old childhood dream of hers) at a hospital in Oslo, Norway. Nowadays she seems to be quite amused at the following she still has. Though she fondly remembers her Glamour career, she also retains a sense of humour about it all and is aware that most of it was more down to her tremendously good looks as opposed to true thespian skills.
Julie was honoured with a film festival in 1995 at Rockefeller Cinema in Oslo and the BBC made a special with her on The Money Programme to see how much money was invested in making Julie a star.
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