Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5971
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Julie Delpy represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Julie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Julie Delpy appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Julie. Before Sunrise is the clearest case: a film rated 8.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, thriller, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alice Troughton, Julie Delpy, Joss Whedon and others, Julie Delpy helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Before Sunrise (1995) as Céline · Before Sunrise (1995) as Céline · Before Sunset (2004) as Céline
Career snapshot
Ranked #5971 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
1990–2023
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.9
Before Sunrise
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Before Sunrise
Most frequent director
Richard Linklater
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Richard Linklater
Most common genre
Drama
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.4
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
7.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Before Sunrise, Before Sunrise, Three Colors: Red — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.5
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Before Sunrise, Before Sunrise, Three Colors: Red.
Most productive era
1990s
5 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.55 films | 7.14 films | 7.03 films | 5.71 film |
| Action | 6.21 film | — | 7.51 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | 6.31 film | — | 5.71 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.91 film | 7.01 film | — |
| Crime | 6.21 film | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | 8.13 films | 7.32 films | 7.32 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1990Europa Europa
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Leni.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1995Before Sunrise
8.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2023The Lesson
The current state of the argument, as Hélène Sinclair.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
14 of 14 films
as Céline
Directed by Richard Linklater
as Céline
Directed by Richard Linklater
as Céline
Directed by Richard Linklater
as Céline
Directed by Richard Linklater
as Celine
Directed by Richard Linklater
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 14 of 14 titles · 19 total credits · active 1990–2025
Hostage
2025 · TV · Vivienne Toussaint
The Lesson
2023 · Hélène Sinclair
My Zoe
2019 · Isabelle Perrault · Director · Writer · Producer
The Bachelors
2017 · Carine Roussel
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015 · Madame B
Before Midnight
2013 · Céline · Writer
The Air I Breathe
2007 · Gina
Broken Flowers
2005 · Sherry
Before Sunset
2004 · Céline · Screenplay
Waking Life
2001 · Celine
Before Sunrise
1995 · Céline
Three Colors: Red
1994 · Dominique
Killing Zoe
1993 · Zoe
Europa Europa
1990 · Leni
The defining work
#1
Céline
Before Sunrise (1995)
Performance score9.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Céline gives Julie Delpy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Céline
Before Sunrise (1995)
Performance score8.2
Before Sunrise asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Céline is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Céline
Before Sunset (2004)
Performance score8.1
Before Sunset asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Céline is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Céline
Before Midnight (2013)
Performance score7.8
Before Midnight asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Céline is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Céline
Start here. Before Sunrise is the clearest statement of what Julie Delpy does — accessible, 101 minutes, and rated 8.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Julie at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Before Sunrise (1995)
Same director as Before Sunrise, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Waking Life (2001)
Same director as Before Sunrise, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Before Sunset (2004)
Same director as Waking Life, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Before Midnight (2013)
Same director as Before Sunset, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Richard Linklater
Director
5 films together
Notably Before Sunrise
Agnieszka Holland
Director
1 film together
Notably Europa Europa
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Director
1 film together
Notably Three Colors: Red
Jim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together
Notably Broken Flowers
Joss Whedon
Director
1 film together
Notably Avengers: Age of Ultron
Julie Delpy
Director
1 film together
Notably My Zoe
Alice Troughton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lesson
Ethan Hawke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Andrea Eckert
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Hanno Pöschl
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Karl Bruckschwaiger
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Tex Rubinowitz
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Erni Mangold
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Dominik Castell
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Haymon Maria Buttinger
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Harold Waiglein
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Bilge Jeschim
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Kurti
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Hans Weingartner
Actor
1 film together
Notably Before Sunrise
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Richard Linklater
Director
5 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Before SunriseKrzysztof Kieślowski
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Three Colors: RedJoss Whedon
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avengers: Age of UltronJim Jarmusch
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Broken FlowersAgnieszka Holland
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Europa EuropaJulie Delpy
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My ZoeAlice Troughton
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LessonSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Before Sunrise
as Céline
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Before Sunrise
as Céline
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Before Sunrise
as Céline
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Three Colors: Red
as Dominique
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Before Sunrise
as Céline
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Julie Delpy has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #374 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.9 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Romance, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Richard Linklater | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Drama | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1995–1995 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Céline — Before Sunrise | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Before Sunrise | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Drama Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
33 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Before Sunrise
as Céline
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Before Sunrise
as Céline
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Before Midnight
as Céline
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Broken Flowers
as Sherry
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Before Sunrise
as Céline
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Avengers: Age of Ultron
as Madame B
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Bachelors
as Carine Roussel
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Before Sunrise
as Céline
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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