Julie Delpy
{{Short description|French and American actress and filmmaker (born 1969)}}
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|birth_place = Paris, France
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|years_active = 1976–present
|spouse = {{marriage|Dimitris Birbilis|2015}}
|partner = Marc Streitenfeld (2007–2012)
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|alma_mater = New York University
|father = Albert Delpy
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Julie Delpy ({{IPA|fr|ʒyli dɛlpi|lang}}; born 21 December 1969) is a French and 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.{{cite news|title=Julie Delpy Biography|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/18491/Julie-Delpy/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129201402/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/18491/Julie-Delpy/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 January 2008|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Hal Erickson|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2008|access-date=30 October 2011}}
Family
Delpy was born in Paris, the only child of Albert Delpy, a French actor and theater director born in Vietnam, and Marie Pillet, a French actress in feature films and the avant-garde theater. Her mother was also known for signing the 1971 Manifesto of the 343, signed by women demanding reproductive rights and admitting to having abortions when they were illegal in France. In Delpy's 2007 film 2 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:
{{blockquote|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.{{cite web|title=Julie Delpy Movie and Career Information|url=http://madison.mrmovietimes.com/celebrity/Julie-Delpy.html|website=Movie Times|access-date=30 October 2011|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070804/http://madison.mrmovietimes.com/celebrity/Julie-Delpy.html|url-status=dead}}|sign=|source=}}
Film career
In 1984, at fourteen, Delpy was discovered by film director Jean-Luc Godard, who cast her in Détective (1985). Two years later she played the title role in Bertrand Tavernier's La Passion Béatrice (1987) and was nominated for a César 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 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 he is Jewish. She did not speak German, so she performed her role in English and her dialogue was dubbed in.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable Source needed for this statement|date=January 2018}}
Delpy subsequently appeared in several Hollywood and European films, including Voyager (1991) and The Three Musketeers (1993). In 1993, she was cast by director Krzysztof Kieślowski for the female lead in Three Colours: White, the second film in Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy. She also appeared briefly in the other two films - Blue and Red - in the same role.Kieslowski, Krzysztof. Kieslowski on Kieslowski. Edited by Danusia Stok. London: Faber and Faber, 1998, p. 212.Insdorf, Annette. Double Lives, Second Chances: the Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski. New York: Hyperion, 1999, pp. 153-165. That year, she also appeared with Brendan Fraser and Donald Sutherland in the Percy Adlon feature Younger and Younger. In 1994, she starred with Eric Stoltz in Roger Avary's directorial debut Killing Zoe, a cult heist film capturing the Generation X zeitgeist.
She achieved wider recognition for her role opposite Ethan Hawke in director Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995).{{cite news|last=Goupil|first=Hélène|title=The Zen of Julie Delpy|url=http://www.francetoday.com/articles/2007/10/01/the-zen-of-julie-delpy.html|work=France Today|access-date=26 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708102232/http://www.francetoday.com/articles/2007/10/01/the-zen-of-julie-delpy.html| archive-date=8 July 2011}} It received glowing reviews and was considered one of the most significant films of the '90s independent film movement.{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/before_sunrise/|title=Before Sunrise Movie Reviews, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes |website=Rotten Tomatoes|date=27 January 1995 |access-date=29 July 2010}} Its success led to Delpy's casting in the 1997 American film An American Werewolf in Paris.{{cite news|last=Puig|first=Claudia|title=Julie Delpy's '2 Days' has its moments|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2007-08-09-2-days-in-paris_N.htm|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=30 October 2011}}
She reprised her Before Sunrise character, Céline, with a brief animated appearance in Waking Life (2001), and again in the sequels Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). The initial follow-up movie earned Delpy, who co-wrote the script, her first Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
In late 2001, she appeared alongside comedian Martin Short in the 30-minute short film CinéMagique, a theatre-show attraction presented several times daily at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland 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. CinéMagique won the 2002 Themed Entertainment Association award for Outstanding Themed Attraction.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable Source needed for this statement|date=January 2018}}
In 2009, Delpy starred in The Countess as the title character Elizabeth Báthory. Her third film as a director, it also starred Daniel Brühl and William Hurt.
Writing and directing
Delpy began being interested in a film-directing career when still a child, 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, she co-wrote Before Sunset, a sequel to the 1995 movie Before 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 make Before Sunset into a little male fantasy, ever."[http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/delpy.-feminist-and-proud Delpy: Feminist And Proud.] Contact Music.com, 23 July 2004. Accessed 13 March 2013. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.
She made her feature length directorial debut in 2002 with Looking for Jimmy, which she also wrote and produced. In 2007 she directed, wrote, edited, and co-produced the original score for 2 Days in Paris, co-starring Adam Goldberg. It also features Delpy's real-life parents, Marie Pillet and Albert Delpy, as her character's parents.{{cite web|title=Julie Delpy Biography (1969-)|url=http://www.fullissue.com/index.php/julie-delpy-biography-1969.html|work=Full Issue|access-date=9 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322021635/http://www.fullissue.com/index.php/julie-delpy-biography-1969.html|archive-date=22 March 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
File:Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, red carpet for the premiere of "Before Midnight" (cropped).jpg in 2013]]
In 2011 she wrote and directed Le Skylab, which 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, starring Delpy and actor Chris Rock in a role she said she wrote specifically for him. In 2013, she reunited with Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke to write Before Midnight, the sequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. She again starred with Hawke, and the film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It screened out of competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and was released in May 2013. Delpy, Linklater and Hawke were later nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/86/nominees.html|title=2014|work=Oscars.org - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=7 October 2014 }} Responding to criticism of the film's nudity, Delpy said in interview with GQ 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.'{{Cite news|url=https://www.gq.com/story/before-midnights-julie-delpy-interview|title=Julie Delpy Explains Before Midnight, Feminism, and Onscreen Nudity|date=April 19, 2013|access-date=March 30, 2017}}
Lolo was Delpy's second French-language feature film, and the first she'd directed since 2 Days in New York. She was also slated to write and direct the HBO movie Cancer Vixen, starring Cate Blanchett as Marisa Acocella Marchetto, a cartoonist for The New Yorker who is diagnosed with cancer.{{cite news|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|title=Cate Blanchett Developing 'Cancer Vixen' at HBO|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cate-blanchett-developing-cancer-vixen-427983|access-date=15 September 2013|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=12 March 2013}} The project has yet to materialize as of 2020.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable Source needed for this statement|date=January 2018}} In early 2014, Delpy announced her next writing-directing project would be A Dazzling Display of Splendor and focus on a family of vaudeville performers.{{cite news|last1=Kroll|first1=Justin|title=Worldview to Finance Julie Delpy's 'A Dazzling Display of Splendor'|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/worldview-to-finance-julie-delpys-a-dazzling-display-of-splendor-1201086368/|work=Variety|access-date=17 September 2014|date=4 February 2014}} It has also failed to enter production as of 2020.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable Source needed for this statement|date=January 2018}}
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."{{cite news|url=http://www.thewrap.com/julie-delpy-hollywood-dumps-women-sometimes-wish-african-american/|title=Julie Delpy Says Hollywood Dumps on Women Most: 'I Sometimes Wish I Were African American' (Video)|newspaper=Thewrap |date=22 January 2016}} She later apologized for the comment.{{Cite web|title=Julie Delpy sorry for Hollywood diversity comments|url=https://ew.com/article/2016/01/23/julie-delpy-sorry-comments-hollywood-diversity/|access-date=2021-09-07|website=EW.com|language=en}}
Music
Delpy is also a musical artist. Three tracks from her 2003 album Julie Delpy - "A Waltz for a Night", "An Ocean apart", and "Je t'aime tant" - were featured in Before Sunset. She composed the original score for 2 Days in Paris in which she performed Marc Collin's "Lalala" over the closing credits. She also wrote the music for her 2009 film The Countess.
Personal life
Delpy 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. From 2007 to 2012 she was in a relationship with German film composer Marc Streitenfeld.{{cite web|url=http://www.ioncinema.com/news/id/1063/interview_julie_delpy|title=Interview: Julie Delpy|access-date=16 July 2009}} Their son was born in January 2009.{{cite web|url=http://celebrity-babies.com/2009/07/16/julie-delpy-i-love-everything-about-motherhood/|title=Julie Delpy: 'I Love Everything About Motherhood|access-date=16 July 2009|archive-date=21 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821044227/http://celebrity-babies.com/2009/07/16/julie-delpy-i-love-everything-about-motherhood/|url-status=dead}}
In 2015 she married Dimitris Birbilis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wvpbm|title=Steven Spielberg, Julie Delpy, Virtual Reality, The Film Programme - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-03-31}}
Delpy has expressed her commitment to correcting inaccurate assumptions regarding feminism, telling IndieWire "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'".{{Cite news|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2015/09/interview-julie-delpy-on-sociopaths-feminists-lolo-and-whether-she-could-handle-a-big-studio-film-259828/|title=Interview: Julie Delpy On Sociopaths, Feminists, 'Lolo' And Whether She Could Handle A Big Studio Film|date=16 September 2015|access-date=31 March 2017}} In a 2007 interview with Jan 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".{{Cite web|url=http://www.films42.com/chats/julie-delpy.asp|title=Julie Delpy, Actress/Filmmaker|website=www.films42.com|access-date=2020-03-27}} However, in a 2012 interview with Emily Greenhouse in The 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".{{Cite magazine|last=Greenhouse|first=Emily|date=2012-08-10|title=Hello, Julie Delpy|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/hello-julie-delpy|access-date=2020-10-21|magazine=The New Yorker}}
Delpy has said she has been plagued by health problems since childhood and had to wear callipers at age eight. She also occasionally experiences migraines and panic-attacks.
In 2022, Delpy was an honoree by the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Great Immigrant Award.{{Cite web |title=Julie Delpy |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/julie-delpy/ |access-date=June 12, 2024 |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}{{Cite web |last=Candid |title=Carnegie Corporation names 2022 cohort of distinguished immigrants |url=https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/carnegie-corporation-names-2022-cohort-of-distinguished-immigrants |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=Philanthropy News Digest (PND) |language=en}}
Filmography
=As actress=
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! style="width:250px;"|Title ! style="width:200px;"|Role ! class="unsortable" style="width:450px;"|Notes |
|---|
| 1978
| Guerres civiles en France | | Credited as Julie Pillet |
| 1982
| Niveau moins trois | |
| 1985
| Classique | | Short film |
| 1985
| Wise young girl | |
| 1985
| L'Amour ou presque | Melie | |
| 1986
| Lise | English: Bad Blood |
| 1987
| Beatrice | Beatrice de Cortemart | French: La Passion Béatrice |
| 1987
| Virginia (uncredited) | |
| 1988
| L'autre nuit | Marie | |
| 1989
| Virgin Mary | English: The Dark Night |
| 1989
| Trouble | | Short film |
| 1990
| Leni | |
| 1991
| Les dents de ma mère | Julie | Short film |
| 1991
| Voyager | Sabeth |Nominated—European Film Award for Best Actress |
| 1992
| Fryda | |
| 1993
| Constance | |
| 1993
| Melodie | |
| 1993
| Zoe | |
| 1993
| Dominique (cameo appearance) | |
| 1994
| Dominique | |
| 1994
| Dominique (cameo appearance) | |
| 1995
| Blah Blah Blah | Short film | Also as writer, director, and producer |
| 1995
| Céline |Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss |
| 1996
| 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
| Julie | |
| 1998
| Sonia |
| 1999
| True Love | | Television film |
| 1999
| Television film |
| 1999
| Lipstick Lesbian | |
| 2000
| Sand | Lill | |
| 2001
| Chloe | Also known as Intimate Affairs |
| 2001
| Wendy | |
| 2001
| Céline | |
| 2001
| 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
| Marguerite | Disney Theme Park Attraction |
| 2003
| Notting Hill Anxiety Festival | Charlotte | |
| 2004
| Céline | Also as writer and composer |
| 2004
| Caroline Frankenstein |
| 2005
| Sherry | |
| 2006
| Jeanne Cooley | |
| 2006
| The Hoax | |
| 2006
| Charlotte | |
| 2007
| Gina | |
| 2007
| Marion | Also as writer, director, and producer |
| 2009
| Also as writer, director, and producer |
| 2011
| Skylab | Anna | Also as writer and director |
| 2012
| Marion | Also as writer and director |
| 2013
| Céline | Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress |
| 2015
| Madame B. | |
| 2015
| Lolo | Violette | Also as writer and director |
| 2016
| Dina | |
| 2017
| Carine | |
| 2019
| My Zoe | Isabelle | Also director and writer |
| 2021
| On the Vergehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt5540990/ On the Verge {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}} | Justine | 12 episodes; also creator, executive producer, writer, and director |
| 2023
| Hélène Sinclair | |
| 2024
| Joëlle | Also as writer and director |
| TBA
| The Entertainment System Is Down | | Filming |
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Awards and nominations
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| Year
! Award ! Category ! Nominated work ! Result | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | rowspan=2|César Award | rowspan=2|Most Promising Actress | Mauvais sang | {{nom}} |
| 1988 | La Passion Béatrice | {{nom}} | ||
| 1991 | European Film Award | Best Actress | The Voyager | {{nom}} |
| 1995 | MTV Movie Award | Best Kiss | Before Sunrise | {{nom}} |
| 2004 | San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award | Best Actress | rowspan=7|Before Sunset | {{won}} |
| 2005 | Academy Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | {{nom}} | |
| 2005 | Writers Guild of America Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | {{nom}} | |
| 2005 | Empire Award | Best Actress | {{win}} | |
| 2005 | Independent Spirit Award | Best Screenplay | {{nom}} | |
| rowspan=2|2005 | rowspan=2|Online Film Critics Society Award | Best Actress | {{nom}} | |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | {{nom}} | |||
| 2007 | Mons International Festival of Love Films Award | Coup de Coeur | rowspan=2|2 Days in Paris | {{win}} |
| 2008 | César Award | Best Original Screenplay | {{nom}} | |
| 2014 | Golden Globe | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | rowspan=2|Before Midnight | {{nom}} |
| 2014 | Academy Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | {{nom}} |
References
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