Quirky, neurotic and oh so French, actress, and film-maker Julie Delpy is a creative force to be reckoned with.
Born in Paris to a director father and an avant-garde actress mother, Delpy seemed destined to be in the movies. She started acting in films as a teenager, but in spite of her wild blonde mane and classic beauty, she quickly decided she didn’t want to be pigeonholed as just another French starlet.
So she packed her bags and enrolled in film school at NYU. She made a well-received short called Blah Blah Blah but continued acting. Her Hollywood breakthrough came in Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise, starring alongside Ethan Hawke.
Probably the best first kiss ever in the history of cinema:
Years later, she would co-write the screenplay for its two follow-ups, Before Sunset and Before Midnight. These days, she’s like a female Woody Allen and doesn’t act in anything she doesn’t write.
Like most other French actresses of her time, Julie Delpy has done a lot of nudity for her films. Most of the time you’ll get to see her breasts and butt as she casually hangs out in a scene with her top off for some gratuitous reason.
But two films in particular stand out. La Noche Oscura (1989) and La Passion Béatrice (1987). Both French films feature full frontal nude scenes where Delpy reveals her breasts, bush just about everything. She’s only 18 years old in La Passion Beatrice and 20 in La Noche Oscura which makes it all the more alluring. Incredible scenes in both films.
She’s also fondly remembered for her topless scene in An American Werewolf in Paris where she adorably reveals her breasts and grabs a dude’s hands and places them on her chest. Apart from that, Killing Zoe was a perfect example of Delpy in her 20s: Beautiful and hot as hell.
She has aged admirably and her breasts were still fantastic in Before Midnight and The Hoax. Lolo (2015) offers a look at a particularly heavy set of breasts swollen with milk although that could possibly be a body double.
Of all the lovely French ladies we’ve blogged about, she’s probably closest to Melanie Laurent and Isabelle Adjani in terms of body type. Maybe a little Marion Cotillard as well. She’s not as busty as Eva Green, Lea Seydoux and Laetitia Casta and that’s totally fine.