Born in France, Julia is the daughter of Dutch film producer Ludi Boeken and French journalist and writer Annette Levy Willard. Julia's first breakout role in France was playing Louba in "Louba's Ghost" at age fourteen; a film about Holocaust survivors for which Julia was invited to the San Francisco and Washington film festivals. In 2007 Julia starred in the Israeli hit drama Alufa-Ha where she plays an American spy