Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy
Years active	1978 - present
Parent	Albert Delpy & Marie Pillet

Julie Delpy (born December 21, 1969) is a French/American actress, singer and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.

Biography

Personal life

Delpy was born in Paris to Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, both of whom were actors in feature films and in the avant-garde underground theatre. Encouraged to perform by her bohemian-minded parents, Delpy made her stage debut at the age of five. 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. Delpy resides in Los Angeles and has been a naturalized United States citizen since 2001, although she also retains her French citizenship. She loves sewing and making her own clothes.

Career

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. Delpy, who has had an interest in a career as a film director since her childhood, enrolled in a summer directing course at New York University; she has starred in many American and European productions since then, including Disney's The Three Musketeers (1993), and Killing Zoe (1994), and wrote and directed the short film Blah Blah Blah (1995), which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. She made her directorial debut in 1995, with a short film entitled Looking for Jimmy, which she also wrote and produced. Delpy may be best known in the United States 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 interesting 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, which was 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. 2007 saw the release of 2 Days in Paris. Delpy not only starred in the film (with Adam Goldberg), she also directed, wrote, edited, and co-produced it and wrote the original music. The film also features Delpy's real-life parents. Delpy said in an interview that the film in fact was not autobiographical.

Delpy is 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" were featured in Before Sunset.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1978	Civil Wars in France
1982	Niveau moins trois
1985	Classique
	Détective	Wise Young Girl
	L'Amour ou presque	Mélie
1986	Bad Blood	Lise
1987	Beatrice	Béatrice de Cortemart
	King Lear	Virginia
1988	The Other Night	Marie
1989	The Dark Night of the Soul	Virgin Mary
	Trouble
1990	Europa Europa	Leni
1991	The Voyager	Sabeth
1993	Younger and Younger	Melodie
	Three Colors: Blue	Dominique
	The Three Musketeers	Constance
1994	Three Colors: White	Dominique
	Killing Zoe	Zoe
	Three Colors: Red	Dominique
1995	Before Sunrise	Céline
1997	An American Werewolf in Paris	Serafine Pigot
1999	The Passion of Ayn Rand	Barbara
	But I'm a Cheerleader	Lipstick Lesbian
2001	Waking Life	Céline
	Investigating Sex	Chloe
2004	Before Sunset	Céline
2005	Broken Flowers	Sherry
2006	The Legend of Lucy Keyes	Jeanne Cooley
2007	2 Days in Paris	Marion
	The Hoax	Nina

Television work

• Crime and Punishment (1998)
• True Love (1999)
• ER (2001)
• Frankenstein (2004)

External links

• Julie Delpy at IMDb
• Julie Delpy Tribute Site
• Julie Delpy at Berlin Film Festival 2007
• interview, 7/18/04, Times Online
• interview, 7/01/04, IGN Films
• interview, 7/04, About.com
• IONCINEMA.com interviews Julie Delpy for 2 Days in Paris
• Video interview on JewReview with Julie for 2 Days in Paris
• EyeForFilm.co.uk interview with Julie Delpy at Edinburgh Film Festival 2007
• HollywoodChicago.com interview with Julie Delpy