| BIOGRAPHY
Known for both her blonde, ethereal beauty and her considerable
talent, Julie Delpy is one of the most popular French actresses
of her generation. Born to show business parents in Paris on December
21, 1969, Delpy was discovered at age 14 by director Jean-Luc
Godard, who cast her in his 1985 Détective.
The young actress had her first starring role two years later
as the title character in Bertrand Tavernier's La Passion Béatrice,
and then gained worldwide prominence with her portrayal of a young
pro-Nazi eager to produce babies for the Fuhrer in Agneiszka Holland's
Europa, Europa (1991).
Subsequent efforts to make Delpy a mainstream Hollywood actress
in such films as The Three Musketeers (1993) were largely resisted
by Delpy herself, who demonstrated a preference for appearing
in the small, thought-provoking films best appreciated at cinema
festivals.
She made some of her more memorable appearances in Killing Zoe
(1994), which cast her as a kind-hearted prostitute; Krzysztof
Kieslowski 's Trois Couleurs: Blanc (1994), in which she played
a young woman who divorces her hairdresser husband because of
his impotency; and Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995),
in which she gave an excessively charming portrayal of a woman
who has a 24-hour romance with a young American (Ethan Hawke)
she meets on a train.
Delpy continued to be most visible in small, quirky films, as
evidenced by her roles in L.A. Without a Map (1998), and But I'm
a Cheerleader (1999), the latter of which -- a comedy about a
rehab house for gay and lesbian teens -- cast her as a lipstick
lesbian.
In addition to the steady stream of parts in little-seen independent
films, Delpy took on a recurring role on the hit NBC medical drama
ER in 2001.
In 2004, Delpy reteamed with Linklater and Hawke for the sequel
Before Sunset, a film the three are also credited with writing
together.
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FILMOGRAPHY
• Before Sunset (2004)
• Looking For Jimmy (2001)
• MacArthur Park (2001)
• The Treat (2001)
• Waking Life (2001)
• Sand (2000)
• But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
• Crime and Punishment (1999)
• The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
• An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
• Before Sunrise (1995)
• Younger & Younger (1995)
• Killing Zoe (1994)
• White (1993)
• Europa Europa (1991)
• Voyager (1991)
• Beatrice (1988)
• The Passion of Beatrice (1988)
• Mauvais Sang (1986)
• Investigating Sex (2002) |
