Julie Delpy(French:[ʒylidɛlpi];born 21 December 1969) is a French and American actress, screenwriter and film director. She studied filmmaking atNYU'sTisch School of the Artsand has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, includingEuropa Europa(1990),Voyager(1991),Three Colours: White(1993), theBeforetrilogy (1995, 2004, 2013),An American Werewolf in Paris(1997), and2 Days in Paris(2007).
Julie Delpy | |
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 Delpy at the2002 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | 21 December 1969 Paris, France |
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| Alma mater | New York University |
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| Years active | 1976–present |
| Spouse |
Dimitris Birbilis (m.2015) |
| Partner | Marc Streitenfeld(2007–2012) |
| Children | 1 |
She has been nominated for threeCésar Awards,twoOnline Film Critics Society Awards,and twoAcademy Awards.She moved to the United States in 1990 and became a US citizen in 2001.[1]
Family
editDelpy was born inParis,the only child ofAlbert Delpy,a French actor born in Vietnam and theater director, and Marie Pillet, a French actress in feature films and theavant-gardetheater. Her mother was also known for signing the 1971Manifesto of the 343,signed by women demanding reproductive rights and admitting to having abortions when they were illegal in France. In Delpy's 2007 film2 Days in Paris,her character's mother was played by her real mother and acknowledges signing the manifesto, mirroring her real life. Pillet died in 2009.
Julie's parents exposed her to the arts at an early age. She said:
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 seeIngmar Bergmanmovies when I was 9 and totally go for it. And they would bring me to seeFrancis Bacon's paintings, which I loved: so dark and at the same time it's so wonderful.[2]
Film career
editIn 1984, at fourteen, Delpy was discovered by film directorJean-Luc Godard,who cast her inDétective(1985). Two years later she played the title role inBertrand Tavernier'sLa Passion Béatrice(1987) and was nominated for aCésar Award for Most Promising Actress.She used her money from the film to pay for her first trip to New York City.
Delpy became an international celebrity after starring in the 1990 filmEuropa Europadirected byAgnieszka Holland.In the film, she plays a young pro-Naziwho falls in love with the hero,Solomon Perel,not knowing he is Jewish. She did not speak German, so she performed her role in English and her dialogue was dubbed in.[citation needed]
Delpy subsequently appeared in severalHollywoodand European films, includingVoyager(1991) andThe Three Musketeers(1993). In 1993, she was cast by directorKrzysztof Kieślowskifor the female lead inThree Colours: White,the second film in Kieślowski'sThree Colourstrilogy.She also appeared briefly in the other two films—BlueandRed—in the same role.[3][4]That year, she also appeared withBrendan FraserandDonald Sutherlandin thePercy AdlonfeatureYounger and Younger.In 1994, she starred withEric StoltzinRoger Avary's directorial debutKilling Zoe,a cult heist film capturing theGeneration Xzeitgeist. She achieved wider recognition for her role oppositeEthan Hawkein directorRichard Linklater'sBefore Sunrise(1995).[5]It received glowing reviews and was considered one of the most significant films of the '90sindependent film movement.[6]Its success led to Delpy's casting in the1997American filmAn American Werewolf in Paris.[7]
She reprised herBefore Sunrisecharacter, Céline, with a brief animated appearance inWaking Life(2001), and again in the sequelsBefore Sunset(2004) andBefore Midnight(2013). The initial follow-up movie earned Delpy, who co-wrote the script, her firstAcademy Awardnomination forBest Adapted Screenplay.[1]
In late 2001, she appeared alongside comedianMartin Shortin the 30-minute short filmCinéMagique,a theatre-show attraction presented several times daily atWalt Disney Studios ParkinDisneyland Paris.She attended the park's March 2002 opening and the inauguration of the film-based attraction, where she starred as Marguerite—a female actress with whom Short's character, George, falls in love as he stumbles through countless classic movies.CinéMagiquewon the 2002Themed Entertainment Association awardfor Outstanding Themed Attraction.[citation needed]
In 2009, Delpy starred inThe Countessas the title characterElizabeth Báthory.Her third film as a director, it also starredDaniel BrühlandWilliam Hurt.
Writing and directing
editDelpy began being interested in a film-directing career when still a child, and enrolled in a summer directing course atNew York University.She wrote and directed the short filmBlah Blah Blahin 1995 which screened at theSundance Film Festival.In 2004, she co-wroteBefore Sunset,a sequel to the 1995 movieBefore Sunrise,with director Richard Linklater and co-star Ethan Hawke. Describing the experience, she said, "I'm not a feminist wearing overalls and hating the male gender. But I'm a definite feminist. I don't want to makeBefore Sunsetinto a little male fantasy, ever. "[8]She received an Academy Award nomination forBest Adapted Screenplayfor her work on the film.
She made herfeature lengthdirectorial debut in 2002 withLooking for Jimmy,which she also wrote and produced. In 2007 she directed, wrote, edited, and co-produced the original score for2 Days in Paris,co-starringAdam Goldberg.It also features Delpy's real-life parents, Marie Pillet and Albert Delpy, as her character's parents.[9]
In 2011 she wrote and directedLe Skylab,which received a theatrical release in France but failed to find distribution in the U.S. In 2012 she released2 Days in New York,a sequel to her 2007 film2 Days in Paris,starring Delpy and actorChris Rockin a role she said she wrote specifically for him. In 2013, she reunited with Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke to writeBefore Midnight,the sequel toBefore SunriseandBefore Sunset.She again starred with Hawke, and the film premiered at the2013 Sundance Film Festival.It screened out of competition at theBerlin International Film Festivaland was released in May 2013. Delpy, Linklater and Hawke were later nominated for aBest Adapted Screenplayat theAcademy Awards.[10]Responding to criticism of the film's nudity, Delpy said in interview withGQ Magazine:
Some people were like, 'It's not feminist. You're showing your tits and he's not showing his ass.' [But] isn't it the people who are hiding women behind layers of clothes who are the misogynists? I'm a real person, so it's a statement to say, 'Alright, I'm a forty year-old woman, and this is what you get with no plastic surgery.'[11]
Lolowas Delpy's second French-language feature film, and the first she'd directed since2 Days in New York.She was also slated to write and direct theHBOmovieCancer Vixen,starringCate BlanchettasMarisa Acocella Marchetto,a cartoonist forThe New Yorkerwho is diagnosed with cancer.[12]The project has yet to materialize as of 2020.[citation needed]In early 2014, Delpy announced her next writing-directing project would beA Dazzling Display of Splendorand focus on a family ofvaudevilleperformers.[13]It has also failed to enter production as of 2020.[citation needed]
Delpy courted controversy in 2016 when the Oscar nominations included no Black honorees. "Two years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media... It's funny—women can't talk. I sometimes wish I were African-American because people don't bash them afterward."[14]She later apologized for the comment.[15]
Music
editDelpy is also a musical artist. Three tracks from her 2003 albumJulie Delpy— "A Waltz For A Night," "An Ocean Apart," and "Je t'aime tant" —were featured inBefore Sunset.She composed the original score for2 Days in Parisin which she performed Marc Collin's "Lalala" over the closing credits. She also wrote the music for her 2009 filmThe Countess.
Personal life
editDelpy moved to New York in 1990, then to Los Angeles a few years later. She has been a naturalized US citizen since 2001 although she also retains her French citizenship. She divides her time between Paris and Los Angeles.[16]From 2007 to 2012 she was in a relationship with German film composerMarc Streitenfeld.[17]Their son was born in January 2009.[18]
In 2015 she married Dimitris Birbilis.[19]
Delpy has expressed her commitment to correcting inaccurate assumptions regarding feminism, tellingIndieWire"I'm very dedicated to feminism [but] even if I'm a feminist, I don't think all women are perfect. If we're equal to men, we are also imperfect like men... [Some men] try to say [feminists] think that women are better than men, and I want to tell them, 'no'."[20]In a 2007 interview withJan Lisa Huttner,she said, "I was raised by a feminist, so I'm not a feminist. I don't need to be. I’m equal to men. I have no issues with the idea that I'm the same as a man. I have my differences; I have breasts, and different plumbing, different stuff down there. But outside of this, my consciousness, my capacity at creating, my capacity at doing things is the same as a man."[21]However, in a 2012 interview withEmily GreenhouseinThe New Yorker,she said, "You know, I've been raised by feminists, and I'm such a feminist, there's no way I'm not going to be feminist, because my core is so deeply feminist that I can even make sexist comments about women, and I feel still a feminist."[22]
Delpy has said she has been plagued by health problems since childhood and had to wearcallipersat age eight. She also occasionally experiences migraines and panic attacks.[2]
In 2022, Delpy was an honoree by theCarnegie Corporation of New York'sGreat Immigrant Award.[23][24]
Filmography
editAs actress
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Guerres civiles en France | Credited as Julie Pillet SegmentLa 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 Nominated—César Award for Most Promising Actress |
| 1987 | Beatrice | Beatrice de Cortemart | French:La Passion Béatrice Nominated—César Award for Most Promising Actress |
| 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 | Nominated—European Film Award for Best Actress |
| 1992 | Warsaw - Year 5703 | Fryda | |
| 1993 | The Three Musketeers | Constance | |
| 1993 | Younger and Younger | Melodie | |
| 1993 | Killing Zoe | Zoe | |
| 1993 | Three Colours: Blue | Dominique (cameo appearance) | |
| 1994 | Three Colours: White | Dominique | |
| 1994 | Three Colours: Red | Dominique (cameo appearance) | |
| 1995 | Blah Blah Blah | Short film | Also as writer, director, and producer |
| 1995 | Before Sunrise | Céline | Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss |
| 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 asIntimate 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 and composer Empire Award for Best Actress San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress |
| 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 | Skylab | Anna | Also as writer and director |
| 2012 | 2 Days in New York | Marion | Also as writer and director |
| 2013 | Before Midnight | Céline | Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—Dublin Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Nominated—Guardian Film Award for Best Actor Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress(Runner-Up) Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress |
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Madame B. | |
| 2015 | Lolo | Violette | Also as writer and director |
| 2016 | Wiener-Dog | Dina | |
| 2017 | The Bachelors | Carine | |
| 2019 | My Zoe | Isabelle | Also director and writer |
| 2021 | On the Verge[25] | Justine | 12 episodes; also creator, executive producer, writer, and director |
| 2023 | The Lesson | Hélène Sinclair | |
| 2024 | Meet the Barbarians | Joëlle | Also a writer and director |
As filmmaker
editAwards and nominations
edit| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | César Award | Most Promising Actress | Mauvais sang | Nominated |
| 1988 | La Passion Béatrice | Nominated | ||
| 1991 | European Film Award | Best Actress | The Voyager | Nominated |
| 1995 | MTV Movie Award | Best Kiss | Before Sunrise | Nominated |
| 2004 | San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award | Best Actress | Before Sunset | Won |
| 2005 | Academy Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Writers Guild of America Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Empire Award | Best Actress | Won | |
| 2005 | Independent Spirit Award | Best Screenplay | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Online Film Critics Society Award | Best Actress | Nominated | |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated | |||
| 2007 | Mons International Festival of Love Films Award | Coup de Coeur | 2 Days in Paris | Won |
| 2008 | César Award | Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Golden Globe | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Before Midnight | Nominated |
| 2014 | Academy Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated |
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