1. Julie Dreyfus was born on 24 January 1966 and is a French actress who is well known in Japan, where she made her television debut on a French language lesson program on NHK's educational channel in the late 1980s.
10 Facts About Julie Dreyfus
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Julie Dreyfus has appeared on the TV show Ryori no Tetsujin as a guest and judge.
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Julie Dreyfus is best known to western audiences for her appearances in the Quentin Tarantino films Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Inglourious Basterds, in which she played Sofie Fatale and Francesca Mondino respectively.
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Julie Dreyfus's father was of Romanian Jewish and Alsatian Jewish ancestry, and her mother was of French descent.
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Julie Dreyfus started learning Japanese in 1985 at the Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisation at the University of Paris, after studying interior design and becoming interested in Japanese architecture.
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Julie Dreyfus moved to Japan to study at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies for a six-month, intensive Japanese course, thinking that she would eventually land a job in interior design.
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Julie Dreyfus was a judge on the cult-hit cooking show Ryori no Tetsujin.
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Julie Dreyfus portrayed the character of Sofie Fatale in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film, Kill Bill Volume 1.
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Julie Dreyfus was a member of the 2007 Gerardmer Film Festival, which honored her Kill Bill co-star David Carradine.
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Julie Dreyfus appeared in Vinyan in 2008 and in Tarantino's war epic Inglourious Basterds in 2009, as Francesca Mondino, a fictional French interpreter and mistress for Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.