Julie Delpy was born
December 21, 1969 in
Paris,
France. Her parents,
Albert Delpy and
Marie Pillet, are both
stage actors, and Julie herself made her stage
debut when she was five. At the age of fourteen Julie became a
movie actress, when she was
featured in
Jean-Luc Godard's
Detective.
Since then she has starred in a number of European and American
productions, including
Disney's
The Three Musketeers and
Quentin Tarantino's
Killing Zoe.
She received her education at the
Actors Studio in
New York and the
New York University, where she attended the summer directing program.
The money Julie earned with her first few
movie appearances she saved to pay for her first trip to New York City, which she managed to do when she was sixteen years old. It was supposed to be a stay of just two days, but she ended up staying for three weeks before she went back across the
Atlantic. After that first trip she returned to
Manhattan numerous times, before finally making the move permanent in 1990.
At the moment she's living in
Los Angeles, though.
Films
This is a list of the
films Julie has had something to do with, as
actress or in some other function, as of
today:
I'm afraid I have to admit that I've only seen one of the movies on the above list, namely
Before Sunrise, but if that movie is anything to go by, I can hardly wait to see more of her
work. The
chemistry and
feeling of reality that she and
Ethan Hawke manage to bring to the
screen is very
impressive. Definitely an actress and
director to be looking out for in the future.
Sources:
Julie Delpy tribute site: http://home.no.net/site/delpyweb/index.htm - this is a very good looking site, btw
The Julie Delpy page: http://www.uoregon.edu/~dlo/julie.html
The Internet Movie DataBase: http://www.imdb.com/Name?Delpy,+Julie
August 21, 2001