Julie Delpy Biography

Julie Delpy (born 21 December 1969) is a French-American actress, director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, including Europa Europa (1990), The Voyager (1991), Three Colors: White (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), 2 Days in Paris (2007), and Before Midnight (2013). She has been nominated for three César Awards, two Online Film Critics Society Awards, and an Academy Award. After moving to the United States in 1990, she became an American citizen in 2001.

Early life

Julie Delpy was born 21 December 1969 in Paris, France, to Albert Delpy, a theater director, and Marie Pillet, an actress in feature films and the avant-garde theater. She was an only child. On the stages of Paris, Delpy's parents were involved in underground theatre. At an early age, Julie was exposed to the arts. </ref>}}

Delpy has said she has been plagued by health problems since childhood and had to wear callipers at age eight. She also experienced migraines and panic attacks.

Film career

In 1984, at the age of fourteen, Delpy was discovered by film director Jean-Luc Godard, who cast her in Détective (1985). Two years later, Delpy starred in the title role in Bertrand Tavernier's La Passion Béatrice (1987). For her performance, Delpy received a César Award Nomination for Most Promising Actress. She used the money she earned to pay for her first trip to New York City. Delpy became an international celebrity after starring in the 1990 film Europa Europa directed by Agnieszka Holland. In the film, she plays a young pro-Nazi who falls in love with the hero, Solomon Perel, not knowing that he is Jewish. She had to speak fluent German for the part.

Following the success of Europa Europa, Delpy appeared in several Hollywood and European films, including The Voyager (1991) and The Three Musketeers (1993). In 1993, she was cast by director Krzysztof Kie"?lowski to play the female lead in Three Colors: White, the second film of Kie"?lowski's The Three Colors Trilogy. Delpy also appeared briefly in the other two films in the same role. In 1994, she starred opposite Eric Stoltz in Roger Avary's directorial debut Killing Zoe, a cult heist film capturing the Generation X zeitgeist.

Delpy may be best-known internationally for her co-starring role with Ethan Hawke in director Richard Linklater's 1995 film Before Sunrise, for which she has stated she wrote a lot of her own dialogue uncredited. The film received glowing reviews and was considered one of the most significant films of the 1990s' independent film movement. Its success led to the casting of Delpy in the 1997 American film An American Werewolf in Paris.

In late 2001, she appeared alongside comedian Martin Short in the 30-minute film 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 2002 Themed Entertainment Association award for "outstanding" themed attraction. Delpy reprised her Before Sunrise character, Céline, with a brief animated appearance in Waking Life (2001), and again in a 2004 sequel, Before Sunset. The later film was well received and earned Delpy, who co-wrote the script, her first Academy Award nomination for Writing Adapted Screenplay. In addition, she has been nominated for César Awards three times.

Writing and directing

Delpy has 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 in 1995 which screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

In 2004 Delpy co-wrote Before Sunset, a sequel to the 1995 movie Before Sunrise, with director Richard Linklater and co-star Ethan Hawke. Describing the experience Delpy said, "I'm not a feminist wearing overalls and hating the male gender. But I'm a definite feminist. I don't want to make Before Sunset into a little male fantasy, ever." She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work.

She made her feature length directorial debut in 2002, with a film entitled "Looking for Jimmy" which she also wrote and produced. In 2007, Delpy directed, wrote, edited, and co-produced the original score for 2 Days in Paris co-starring Adam Goldberg. The film also features Delpy's real-life parents, Marie Pillet and Albert Delpy, as her character's parents. In one scene, Pillet's character acknowledges having been one of the "343 bitches"; in real life, Pillet was one of the signers of the Manifesto of the 343 bitches.

In 2009, Delpy starred in ', also her third film as a director in which she played the title role of Elizabeth Báthory. The film also starred Daniel Brühl, and William Hurt.

In 2011 Delpy wrote and directed Le Skylab. The film received a theatrical release in France, but failed to find distribution in the U.S.

In 2012 she released 2 Days in New York, a sequel to her 2007 film 2 Days in Paris. The film starred Delpy and actor Chris Rock. Delpy stated that she wrote the role specifically for Rock.

In 2013, Delpy reunited with Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke to write Before Midnight, the sequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Delpy again starred with Hawke, and the film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It went on to screen out of competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and was released in May 2013.

Music

Delpy is also a musical artist. She released a self-titled album, Julie Delpy 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. She also sings Marc Collin's "Lalala" over the closing credits of 2 Days in Paris, for which she also wrote all of the original score.

Personal life

Delpy moved to New York in 1990 and moved to Los Angeles, California a few years after that. She has been a naturalized citizen of the United States since 2001, although she also retains her French citizenship. She now divides her time between Paris and Los Angeles. In 2007 she began dating the German film score composer Marc Streitenfeld. The couple had a son named Leo in January 2009. On June 26, 2013, in an interview with the French show Le Petit Journal, she revealed that the couple are not together anymore.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Guerres civiles en France		Credited as Julie Pillet Segment "La semaine sanglante"
1982	Niveau moins trois		Short film
1985	Classique		Short film
1985	Détective	Wise young girl
1985	L'amour ou presque	Melie
1986	Mauvais Sang	Lise	English: Bad Blood
1987	Beatrice	Beatrice de Cortemart	French: La Passion Béatrice
1987	King Lear	Virginia (uncredited)
1988	L'autre nuit	Marie
1989	La noche oscura	Virgin Mary	English: The Dark Night
1989	Trouble		Short film
1990	Europa Europa	Leni
1991	Les dents de ma mère	Julie	Short film
1991	Voyager	Sabeth
1992	Warszawa: Année 5703	Fryda
1993	The Three Musketeers	Constance
1993	Younger and Younger	Melodie
1993	Killing Zoe	Zoe
1993	Three Colors: Blue	Dominique (cameo appearance)
1994	Three Colors: White	Dominique
1994	Three Colors: Red	Dominique (cameo appearance)
1995	Blah Blah Blah	Short film	Also as writer, director, and producer
1995	Before Sunrise	Céline
1996	Tykho Moon	Lena
1997	Les mille merveilles de l'univers	Eva Purpur	English: The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
1997	An American Werewolf in Paris	Serafine Pigot
1997	Alleys and Motorways		Video
1998	The Treat	Francesca
1998	L.A. Without a Map	Julie
1998	Crime and Punishment	Sonia	Television film
1999	True Love		Television film
1999	The Passion of Ayn Rand	Barbara Branden	Television film
1999	But I'm a Cheerleader	Lipstick Lesbian
2000	Sand	Lill
2001	Investigating Sex	Chloe	Also known as Intimate Affairs
2001	MacArthur Park	Wendy
2001	Waking Life	Céline
2001	Beginner's Luck	Anya
2001	ER	Nicole	Television program, 7 episodes
2002	Villa des roses	Louise Creteur
2002	Looking for Jimmy	Al	Also as writer, director, and producer
2002	CinéMagique	Marguerite	Disney Theme Park Attraction
2003	Notting Hill Anxiety Festival	Charlotte
2004	Before Sunset	Céline	Also as writer
2004	Frankenstein	Caroline Frankenstein	Miniseries
2005	Broken Flowers	Sherry
2006	The Legend of Lucy Keyes	Jeanne Cooley
2006	The Hoax	Nina Van Pallandt
2006	Guilty Hearts	Charlotte
2007	The Air I Breathe	Gina
2007	2 Days in Paris	Marion	Also as writer, director, and producer
2009	The Countess	Erzsébet Báthory	Also as writer, director, and producer
2011	Le Skylab	Anna	Also as writer
2012	Les passages	Anna	Post-production
2012	2 Days in New York	Marion	Also as writer, director, and producer
2013	Before Midnight	Céline	Also as writer

Awards and nominations

• 1987 César Award Nomination, Most Promising Actress for Mauvais sang (1986)
• 1988 César Award Nomination, Most Promising Actress for La Passion Béatrice (1987)
• 1991 European Film Award Nomination, Best Actress for The Voyager (1991)
• 1995 MTV Movie Award Nomination, Best Kiss for Before Sunrise (1995)
• 2004 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award, Best Actress for Before Sunset (2004)
• 2005 Academy Award Nomination, Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Before Sunset (2004)
• 2005 Writers Guild of America Nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay for Before Sunset (2004)
• 2005 Empire Award, Best Actress for Before Sunset (2004)
• 2005 Independent Spirit Award Nomination, Best Screenplay for Before Sunset (2004)
• 2005 Online Film Critics Society Award Nomination, Best Actress for Before Sunset (2004)
• 2005 Online Film Critics Society Award Nomination, Best Screenplay, Adapted for Before Sunset (2004)
• 2007 Mons International Festival of Love Films Award, Coup de Coeur for 2 Days in Paris (2007)
• 2008 César Award Nomination, Best Writing " Original for 2 Days in Paris (2007)