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Julie Dreyfus (born 24 January 1966) is a French actress, model and celebrity.
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 Ryōri no Tetsujin (Iron Chef) as a guest and judge, where she famously refused to eat a meal prepared by Toshiro Kandagawa, because it contained whale meat. 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.
Fluent in English, French, and Japanese.
Appeared on the tasting panel for Iron Chef in "Battle Corn" and "Battle Oyster".
Mother is French actress Pascale Audret, who tragically died in a road accident in July 2000. Dreyfus has struggled to come to term with it since.
Shares a particularly close friendship with director Quentin Tarantino.
She was the Tokyo Casting Associate for Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) and she read Uma Thurman's role when casting in Japan.
Met Quentin Tarantino at a film festival in Japan. He saw her on various billboards around Tokyo before he met her. In Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), she was seen on the Tokyo billboards advertising Red Apple Cigarettes.
During filming breaks on Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), she and Daryl Hannah would venture out on many, many shopping trips.
Maternal uncle is legendary French singer-songwriter Hugues Aufray, who is known as the French Bob Dylan.
Measurements are 34-25-37
Her parents divorced in 1973, after 8 years of marriage
Father is music producer Francis Dreyfus, founder of Dreyfus Records.
Her favorite Quentin Tarantino film is Jackie Brown (1997).







