Julie Dreyfus (born 24 January 1966) 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. She has appeared on the TV show RyÅ ri no Tetsujin (Iron Chef)
as a guest and judge. She 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. Aside from her native French she is fluent in
English and Japanese.Dreyfus was born and raised in Paris, the only
child of French actress Pascale Audret and producer Francis Dreyfus.
She is of French, Alsatian Jewish and half Romanian origin through her
paternal grandmother. She is a descendant of Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
She spent her summers in the UK. As a child she used to watch with her
mother early Woody Allen movies. And these stand out for her, she
said. She started learning Japanese in 1985 at the Institute for
Oriental Languages and Civilization at the University of Paris, after
studying interior design and becoming interested in Japanese
architecture. She 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. After
finishing the course, she moved to Tokyo working part-time in a design
studio while continuing her private Japanese lessons. In 1988, she
worked as a French language instructor on the NHK
morning-television-educational program. Centering on a mystery drama,
chief producer Motoyoshi Sei hired Dreyfus to increase ratings by
changing the program into an episode format. Eventually, she was cast
by Japanese network executives as the twenty-something beauty in
several TV and film roles, leading her to become a gaijin tarento
(foreign talent). She was also a judge on the cult-hit cooking show
RyÅ ri no Tetsujin (Iron Chef).Dreyfus portrayed the character of
Sofie Fatale in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film, Kill Bill Volume 1. She
was a member of the 2007 Gérardmer Film Festival (Festival
international du film fantastique de Gérardmer), which honored her
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