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What happened to Julia Ormond?

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Between 1994 and 1995, actress Julia Ormond starred in three pictures about a woman caught in a fervent love triangle. In Legends of the Fall she was torn between Brad Pitt and Henry Thomas. In First Knight she was forced to choose between Sean Connery and Richard Gere. In Sydney Pollack’s remake of Sabrina, she fell in love with Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear. Ormond seemed destined to become the next Audrey Hepburn. Then, after following these extremely successful films with a tedious thriller, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Ormond vanished from the public eye. She starred in several TV movies (one of which is about a gang that “turns to witchcraft to handle its criminal enterprises”) and recently made a cameo appearance in  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But for many years now I’ve been wondering, what happened? How could such a stunningly graceful and talented actress go from Brad Pitt, Sean Connery and Harrison Ford to forgettable TV movies?