Dreyfus, who speaks fluent Japanese, French, and English, is well known in Japan, where she made her TV debut on a French-language lesson program on NHK's educational channel in the late 1980s, and has appeared on the TV show Ry<#333;ri no Tetsujin (Iron Chef) as a guest and judge. She is best known to Western audiences for the role of Sofie Fatale in the film Kill Bill and has been associated with Quentin Tarantino, who is a good friend.

Julie was born and raised in Paris, the only child of French actress Pascale Audret and producer Francis Dreyfus. She spent her summers in the U.K. 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 she would eventually land a job in interior design.[1] 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.[2] Eventually, she was cast by Japanese network executives as the 20-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 Ry<#333;ri no Tetsujin (Iron Chef).

Dreyfus appeared as a white-collar villain in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film, Kill Bill, Volume 1. She was a member of the 2007 Gérardmer Film Festival, which honored her Kill Bill co-star David Carradine.[3][4]

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.[5] She also appeared as a translator in the Leos Carax short film entitled Merde in the feature film Tokyo!

Year Film/television Role Notes
1986 Sekai fushigi hakken Herself unknown episodes
1992 Toki rakujitsu Mary
1994 Rampo Mademoiselle
1995 Ryôri no tetsujin Herself/Taster/Panel Guest 2 episodes
A Feast at Midnight Mother
1998 Legal Aliens Isabel
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (TV series) India Reyes 3 episodes
1999 The Godson Laura
2000 Bathory Lady Katarina
2002 Jean Moulin (TV movie) Lydie Bastien
2003 Kill Bill: Vol.1 Sofie Fatale also casting associate
2008 Tokyo! The interpreter
Vinyan Kim
2009 Inglourious Basterds Francesca Mondino

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