Two years later she played the title role in Bertrand Tavernier's La Passion Béatrice (1987) and was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress.

In the film, she plays a young pro-Nazi who falls in love with the hero, Solomon Perel, not knowing he is Jewish.

[citation needed] Delpy subsequently appeared in several Hollywood and European films, including Voyager (1991) and The Three Musketeers (1993).

In 1994, she starred with Eric Stoltz in Roger Avary's directorial debut Killing Zoe, a cult heist film capturing the Generation X zeitgeist.

She achieved wider recognition for her role opposite Ethan Hawke in director Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995).

[7] She reprised her Before Sunrise character, Céline, with a brief animated appearance in Waking Life (2001), and again in the sequels Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013).

The initial follow-up movie earned Delpy, who co-wrote the script, her first Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

She attended the park's March 2002 opening and the inauguration of the film-based attraction, where she starred as Marguerite - a female actress with whom Short's character, George, falls in love as he stumbles through countless classic movies.

Delpy began being interested in a film-directing career when still a child, and enrolled in a summer directing course at New York University.

In 2004, she co-wrote Before Sunset, a sequel to the 1995 movie Before Sunrise, with director Richard Linklater and co-star Ethan Hawke.

In 2007 she directed, wrote, edited, and co-produced the original score for 2 Days in Paris, co-starring Adam Goldberg.

[9] In 2011 she wrote and directed Le Skylab, which received a theatrical release in France but failed to find distribution in the U.S.

[10] Responding to criticism of the film's nudity, Delpy said in interview with GQ Magazine: Some people were like, 'It's not feminist.

[citation needed] In early 2014, Delpy announced her next writing-directing project would be A Dazzling Display of Splendor and focus on a family of vaudeville performers.

[citation needed] Delpy courted controversy in 2016 when the Oscar nominations included no Black honorees.

Three tracks from her 2003 album Julie Delpy - "A Waltz for a Night", "An Ocean apart", and "Je t'aime tant" - were featured in Before Sunset.

She composed the original score for 2 Days in Paris in which she performed Marc Collin's "Lalala" over the closing credits.