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Julia Dreyfus-Actress

Actress Julia Dreyfus

Julie Dreyfus (b. January 24, 1966) is a French actress perhaps best known for appearing in the Quentin Tarantino films Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, and Inglourious Basterds.

Julie Dreyfus was born and raised in Paris, France, the only child of French actress Pascale Audret and French producer Francis Dreyfus. Her mother died in a car accident in 2000.One of her uncles is French singer-songwriter Hugues Aufray. Her education included learning the Japanese language in the mid-1980s at the Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilization at the University of Paris. Her studies of interior design led to become interested in Japanese architecture and hence an interest in learning the Japanese language.

Dreyfus moved to Japan to continue her studies at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies.  After completing her studies in Osaka, she moved to Tokyo to work part-time in a design. In 1988, she worked as a French language instructor on the NHK morning television educational program. Her good looks and fluent command of Japanese led her to be cast as a 20-something beauty in several TV and film roles in Japanese media.  In Japan, Dreyfus is known as “Jurî Dorefyusu.”

Her friendship with movie director Quentin Tarantino, who she met at a Japanese film festival, led to play the role of Sofie Fatale, a villain in the Kill Bill (2003-20047)films.  Dreyfus also appeared in Tarantino’s Word War Two spaghetti-epic Inglourious Basterds in 2009, as Francesca Mondino. The Mondino character serves as the French interpreter for Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, (and possibly as his mistress, according to one rather hilarious “imaginary” scene in the movie).

While best known in her adoptive country, Japan, she is also fairly well-known in her native France, for roles in Bathory (2000) and Jean Moulin (2002).