Julie Delpy is a French-American actress, film director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. Julie Delpy learned filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has directed, written, and acted in not less than 30 films, including Europa Europa of 1990, Voyager of 1991, Three Colors: White of 1993, The Before trilogy (1995, 2004, 2013), An American Werewolf in Paris of 1997, and 2 Days in Paris of 2007. She has been nominated for three César Awards, two Online Film Critics Society Awards, and two Academy Awards. She moved to the U.S. in 1990 and became an American citizen in 2001.
“I couldn’t hope for better parents. They really raised me with a love of art, bringing me to museums and seeing things that a child wouldn’t see at that age. I would see Ingmar Bergman movies when I was 9 and totally go for it. And they would bring me to see Francis Bacon’s paintings, which I loved: so dark and at the same time it’s so wonderful.”
Her utterances showed that she really loved her parents who exposed her to the arts at an early age. Starting with her film career, Delpy at the age of 14, was discovered by film director Jean-Luc Godard who cast her in the 1985 film, Détective. In 1987, Delpy starred in the title role in Bertrand Tavernier’s La Passion Béatrice which made her be nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She earned some salary for the play, and she used the money 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. The film entailed a young pro-Nazi who falls in love with the hero, Solomon Perel, not knowing that he is Jewish. She did not speak German so she performed her role in English and was later dubbed over.
The Europa Europa film became a success, and she continued to appear in other several Hollywood and European films, including Voyager of 1991, The Three Musketeers of 1993, and was cast by director Krzysztof Kieślowski to play the female lead in Three Colors: White, the second film of Kieślowski’s The Three Colors Trilogy.
Still, in the same year, she appeared opposite Brendan Fraser in the Percy Adlon feature Younger and Younger starring Donald Sutherland. In 1994, she starred opposite Eric Stoltz in Roger Avary’s directorial debut Killing Zoe, a cult heist film capturing the Generation X zeitgeist. In late 2001, she appeared together with Martin Short (comedian) in the 30-minute film CinéMagique, a theatre-show attraction presented several times daily at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris. The film won the 2002 Themed Entertainment Association award for “outstanding” themed attraction.
Apart from film acting, Delpy also had interests 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. Delpy received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work. She also wrote and produced a film entitled “Looking for Jimmy” in 2002.
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 released Marc Collin’s “Lalala” which plays in her 2009 movie The Countess.
She celebrates her birthday on the 21st of December every year. Born in the year 1969, she is 49 years old as of 2018.
Julie Delpy was born in Paris. She is the only child of Albert Delpy, a French actor and theater director, and Marie Pillet, a French actress in feature films and the avant-garde theater, an was known for having signed the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 Bitches, which was signed by women advocating for reproductive rights and admitting to having had an abortion when abortions were illegal in France. Pillet died in 2009, after playing her role in Delpy’s 2007 film 2 Days in Paris.
Delpy moved to New York in 1990 and moved to Los Angeles a couple of years after that. She has been a naturalized resident of the United States since 2001, despite the fact that she likewise holds her French citizenship. She presently isolates her time among Paris and Los Angeles.
She studied filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
From 2007 to 2012, she was involved with German film score writer Marc Streitenfeld. In a BBC Radio 4 meets communicate on 29 March 2018, Delpy mentioned her husband, however, she didn’t name him.
Delpy has communicated her duty to rectifying wrong suppositions with respect to woman’s rights, telling IndieWire “I’m committed to women’s liberation [but] regardless of whether I’m a women’s activist, I don’t think all ladies are flawless. In case we’re equivalent to men, we are likewise flawed like men … [Some men] attempt to state [feminists] imagine that ladies are superior to men, and I need to let them know, ‘no’.”
Delpy has said she has been tormented by medical issues since adolescence and needed to wear calipers at age eight. She additionally at times encounters headaches and fits of anxiety.
Delpy and Marc Streitenfeld got a child named Leo (born in January 2009).
Julie Delpy’s net worth is $10 million dollars.
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