Julia Karin Ormond Bio

In 1988, Ormond married Rory Edwards, an actor she had encountered while performing in a production of Wuthering Heights. The marriage ended in 1994. She married Jon Rubin, a political activist in 1999. Their daughter, Sophie, was born in the autumn of 2004. The couple split in 2008. Ormond has been fighting human trafficking since the mid-1990s, and in 2006 she entered into a partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to intensify her efforts. She also works for Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS, which aims to increase awareness regarding AIDS in Russia and Ukraine and is the founder co-chair of FilmAid International. Ormond was named as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador on 2 December 2005. Her focus has been on anti-human-trafficking initiatives, raising awareness about this modern form of slavery and promoting efforts to combat it. In her capacity as ambassador, Ormond has appeared as counsel to the United States House of Representatives, Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations as well as travelled around the globe as an ambassador. In 2007 Ormond founded the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking (ASSET).