Possessing skin the quality of alabaster, the luminously beautiful Parisian-born Julie Delpy acted for some of the best directors in Europe long before her 20th birthday. The daughter of actors, she made her stage debut at age five and appeared on the big screen for the first time before she was 10. Although she worked occasionally during the ensuing years, her career began in earnest with Jean Luc-Godard's "Detective" (1985), after which Delpy gained her first real attention in Godard disciple Leos Carax's "Mauvais sang/Bad Blood", followed by her first starring role in Bertrand Tavernier's