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Julie Delpy

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Also known as Julie Delphy

French and American actress, director, screenwriter and singer

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Julie Delpy is a French and American film actor, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, and composer. Born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris on December 21, 1969, she is the daughter of Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet. Delpy was educated at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and has resided in New York City, Los Angeles, and Paris. She speaks French and English and has worked in the United States since 1978.

Her career spans acting, writing, and music composing. Delpy has received the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and the European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award. She has also been nominated for the César Award for Best Female Revelation, the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, and the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. Her musical work is tagged with pop and soundtrack genres, and she performs as a vocalist.

Synthesized by Vinony from 47 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Europeana Sparql, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1969
Works
1

Top works

  • 2 days in NY

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Paris, France

Julie Delpy (born December 21, 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 thirty films. After moving to the US, she became an American citizen. She is best known for starring in and co-writing Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy.

Known for

  • Hostage — Vivienne Toussaint2025
  • Meet the Barbarians — Joëlle2024
  • Daniel Brühl: Breaking Bad — Self - Actress2023
  • The Lesson — Hélène Sinclair2023
  • Godard Cinema — Self2023
  • Godard Cinema2023
  • Talking Heads 2021 — Self2021
  • On the Verge — Justine2021
  • Before the End — Self - Céline2020
  • My Zoe — Isabelle Perrault2019

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
France
Active from
1969

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
104,520
Total plays
1,147,651

Tags

frenchfemale vocalistssinger-songwriterpopSoundtrack

Julie Delpy (born December 21, 1969) is a French actress, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, vocalist and singer-songwriter. Her self-titled debut album was released in 2003 around the time her song 'A Waltz for a Night' was featured in her movie 'Before Sunset'. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Julie+Delpy">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Julie Delpy

Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
b. 1969
Nationality
FR, US, FRA
Role / Field
Screenwriters, Motion picture producers and directors, Actresses, Producers and directors, Motion pictures production and direction, Motion picture authorship
Language
eng, fre, fra
Gender
Female

Recorded by 24 libraries

via VIAF · OCLC

Works in European collections

4 objects attributed to Julie Delpy, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Julie Delpy ( French: [ʒyli dɛlpi]; born 21 December 1969) is a French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director. She studied filmmaking at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, including Europa Europa (1990), Voyager (1991), Three Colours: White (1993), the Before trilogy (1995, 2004, 2013), An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), and 2 Days in Paris (2007).

She has been nominated for three César Awards, two Online Film Critics Society Awards, and two Academy Awards. She moved to the United States in 1990 and became a US citizen in 2001.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Julie Delpy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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