Julie Delpy

Born: 21 December 1969
Where: Paris, France

Spotted at the age of fourteen by director Jean Luc Godard, Delpy was cast in his 1985 film Detective.

Eschewing Hollywood for smaller European films, she has made a name for herself in movies as diverse as Killing Zoe and Before Sunrise.

Delpy gained worldwide prominence as a young Nazi supporter eager to produce babies for the Fuhrer in Agneiszka Holland's Europa, Europa in 1991.

Since then, her more memorable films include Disney's The Three Musketeers (1993), in which she starred alongside Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland and Killing Zoe (1994) in which she played a kind-hearted prostitute.

She featured in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy, although played the main female role in Three Colours: White (1994), in which she portrayed a woman who wants to divorce her husband because he can't perform in bed.

The same year she starred opposite Ethan Hawke in the Richard Linklater's romantic drama Before Sunrise.

Her career also includes some television work, most notably in ER in 1994 as Nicole and Crime And Punishment (1998) with Ben Kingsley.

Delpy appeared in Investigating Sex with Neve Campbell and Alan Cumming and in 2002 she took the lead role in Villa De Roses, also starring Timothy West.

Whilst still enjoying success in front of the camera, Delpy enrolled at New York's film school and completed a directing course.

Recent work includes Before Sunset, the well-received sequel to Before Sunrise.