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Introduction
Julie Delpy is the daughter of Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, both of whom were actors in feature films and in the avant-garde underground theatre. So who can be surprised that she too decided to become an actor? You couldn't tell by a movie cover or a one-sheet, but she manages a massive sex appeal with such little effort: a freaky kind of hot that creeps up on you. Enough to make your balls drop in the last minutes of Before Sunset.
Life Story
She made her stage debut at the age of five (four was just too young). Beginning in 1990, she has been studying filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, directing, writing and acting in more than 30 films. She resides in Los Angeles and has been a naturalized United States citizen since 2001, although she also retains her French citizenship just in case.
She is also a musical artist. She released a self-titled CD in 2003. Three tracks from the album, "A Waltz For A Night", "An Ocean Apart" and "Je t'aime tant (not taint)" were featured in Before Sunset.
At age fourteen Delpy obtained a role in the film Detective, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Two years later, Delpy was cast in the title role in the film Beatrice, and used the money she earned to pay for her first trip to New York City. Delpy continued making regular trips to New York over the next few years, before finally moving there in 1990. Delpy became an international celebrity after starring in the 1991 film Europa Europa. In the film, she plays a pro-Nazi girl, Leni, who falls in love with the hero, Solomon Perel, not knowing that he is Jewish.
Delpy was subsequently offered to appear in several Hollywood and European films. In 1993, she was cast by director Krzysztof Kieślowski to play the female lead in Three Colors: White, the second film of Kieślowski's Three Colors Trilogy; Delpy also appeared in the other films in the series, albeit in smaller roles. She has starred in many American and European productions since then, including Disney's The Three Musketeers (1993), and Killing Zoe (1994). Delpy may be best known internationally for her co-starring role with Ethan Hawke in director Richard Linklater's 1995 film, Before Sunrise. The film received glowing reviews and was considered one of the most significant films of the independent film movement of the 1990s. Its success led to the casting of Delpy in the 1997 American film, An American Werewolf in Paris, generally considered a disappointment by critics.
In late 2001, she filmed alongside comedian Martin Short for the 30-minute film of CinéMagique, a theatre-show attraction presented several times daily at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Resort Paris. Delpy attended the March 2002 opening of the park and the inauguration of the film-based attraction, which sees her star as Marguerite - a female actress with whom Short's character, George, falls in love as he stumbles through countless classic movies. CinéMagique won the coveted 2002 Themed Entertainment Association award for "outstanding" themed attraction. Delpy reprised her Before Sunrise character, Céline, with a brief animated appearance in 2001's Waking Life, and again in a 2004 sequel, Before Sunset. The film was well-received and earned Delpy, who co-wrote the script, her first Academy Award nomination for Writing Adapted Screenplay.
Delpy has also had an interest in a career as a film director since her childhood, and enrolled in a summer directing course at New York University. She wrote and directed the short film Blah Blah Blah (1995), which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. She made her feature length directorial debut in 2002, with a film entitled Looking for Jimmy, which she also wrote and produced. 2007 saw the release of 2 Days in Paris in which Delpy not only starred in the film (with Adam Goldberg), but also directed, wrote, edited, co-produced it and wrote the original music. The film also features Delpy's real-life parents, Marie Pillet and Albert Delpy.
You can see her in the upcoming works:
Le Passages (2009) with Mary-Louise Parker
The Countess (2009) with Radha Mitchell which Julie also wrote and directed.
Stuff she’s done, ie: movies, tv, albums:
Killing Zoe, The Three Musketeers, Waking Life, ER, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, An American Werewolf in Paris, But I'm a Cheerleader, Broken Flowers, The Hoax, 2 Days in Paris, The Air I Breathe
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