JULIE COX (Giulietta) made her feature filmdebut as the Empress in THE NEVERENDING STORY III. Acting in English and French, she won lead roles in the period French film LA VIE DE MARIANNE, adapted from Marinaux’s eighteenth-century play; a U.K./German children’s film, DAS SPRECHENDE GRAB, and the short subject "It’s a Wonderful Life," based on Franz Kafka, which won both BAFTA and Academy awards in 1995. Cox is best-known to the British public for her starring role in the four-part BBC-TV series, "Tears Before Bedtime." Most recently, she starred in Michael Anderson’s telefilm "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" for Hallmark. Her other television credits include an episode of HBO’s "Tales from the Crypt," directed by Freddie Francis, and "The Ring."

Born in Ely, England, near Cambridge, Cox was raised in the highlands of Scotland. At the age of six, she moved with her family to Indonesia, where her father worked in the oil business. She led a peripatetic life in southeast Asia, attending 16 schools, during which time she became interested in acting at the age of 13, in Jakarta.

After graduating from high school in Australia, she returned to England at the age of 18, by this time a foreigner in her own country. In London, she was invited to act in a commercial, and thereafter began to receive acting assignments in the U.K. and on the continent. After spending two years honing her craft in a Paris theatre workshop, she returned to England in 1992, secured an agent, and launched her professional screen career in THE NEVERENDING STORY III.