Julie Delpy was born on December 21, 1969, in Paris. She is one of the most popular French actresses of her generation. Julie was discovered at age 14 by director Jean-Luc Godard, who cast her in his 1985 Detective. The young actress had her first starring role two years later as the title character in Bertrand_Tavernier's La Passion Beatrice, and then gained worldwide prominence with her portrayal of a young pro-Nazi eager to produce babies for the Fuhrer in Agneiszka Holland's Europa,_Europa (1991).

Subsequent efforts to make Julie a mainstream Hollywood actress in such films as "The Three Musketeers" (1993) were largely resisted by Delpy herself, who demonstrated a preference for appearing in the small, thought-provoking films best appreciated at cinema festivals. Deply made some of her more memorable appearances in "Killing Zoe" (1994), which cast her as a kind-hearted prostitute; Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Trois Couleurs: Blanc" (1994), in which Julie played a young woman who divorces her hairdresser husband because of his impotency; and Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" (1995), in which actress gave an excessively charming portrayal of a woman who has a 24-hour romance with a young American (Ethan_Hawke) she meets on a train.

Actress continued to be most visible in small, quirky films, as evidenced by her roles in L.A. "Without a Map" (1998) and "But I'm a Cheerleader" (1999), the latter of which -- a comedy about a rehab house for gay and lesbian teens -- cast her as a lipstick lesbian. In addition to the steady stream of parts in little-seen independent films, she took on a recurring role on the hit NBC medical drama "ER" in 2001.