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Raul Julia-Levy (born July 10, 1971, Mexico City) is a Mexican film and television actor.

Raul Julia-Levy began his entertainment career in Mexico City, Mexico. He accepted roles in Mexican soap operas yet desired to broaden his career by producing and acting in American major motion pictures.

When he relocated to Hollywood, California, he immediately became involved in the entertainment industry. He helped secure financing for the blockbuster Face/Off, starring Nicholas Cage and John Travolta. A few years later, he acted in and received assistant producer credit for Double Take, starring Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones.

Other acting credits include playing a bandito in Epoch with David Keith and starring in Vengeance and its sequel Clash with Damon Whitaker and Danny Venegas. In both films, Julia-Levy nails the lead role of an empathetic Los Angeles cop who strives to ensure that goodness prevails.

In 2008, he will produce and star with Megan Good, The Game, and Lorenz Tates in The Shaw, a film about the low-rider culture synonymous with Crenshaw Boulevard, California.

Julia-Levy is the grandson of the Abraham Levy, who died when Julia-Levy was 16. Of his siblings, Julia-Levy maintains a close relationship with his brother, Mexican attorney and politician Jose Martin Levy (1977). Along with his brother Jose Levy, Julia-Levy established a foundation to provide scholarships to select indigenous groups throughout Mexico. The National Foundation for the Education of the Indigenous will work through the United Nations beginning in January 2007.

According to a CNN report on November 5, 2002, Julia-Levy, whose legal name is Raul Julia, Jr., was responsible for organizing an elite group of individuals to attend the inauguration of Mexican President Vicente Fox. The list includes: Hollywood film producer David Permut, Cuban President Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl Castro, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II, Polish politician and leader Lech Wałęsa and other northern hemisphere and Latin American dignitaries.

According to Reforma, Mexico's leading newspaper, Julia-Levy participated in an event on Sunday, December 3, 2000 where newly elected Mexican President Vicente Fox met with prominent leaders such as President of Poland Lech Wałęsa, President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Mexican Congresswoman Ofelia Medina, Bill Gates, Banamex President Roberto Hernández Ramírez, Alfredo Harp Helú, Mexican Congresswoman Viola Trigo, Hollywood producer David Permut and Oaxaca Governor Jose Murat to address how to provide shelter and educational opportunities to indigenous pewople from the state of Oaxaca.

The El Mundo al Dia newspaper reported on Thursday, August 2, 2001, Julia-Levy was invited by President Vicente Fox and Congresswoman Viola Trigo to participate in Yucatan's newly elected governor Patricio Patron Laviada's inauguration. Attending the inauguration as Julia-Levy's guests were actor Forest Whitaker, Damon Whitaker, Bokeem Woodbine who is known as Fathead Newman in the movie Ray, Canadian actress Leila Johnson, senator Viola Triggo, Mexican businessman Pablo Sauma who owns the largest fleet of oil ships leased to Pemex, and Nicaraguan's former president Daniel Ortega.

In November 2006, Mexican president-elect Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa via Secretary of Agriculture Ricardo Sheffield Padilla invited Julia-Levy, Sean Penn, Jean Claude Van Damme and Hollywood producer Jonathan Sanger to attend his presidential inauguration. On December 1, 2006, Julia-Levy and Sanger attended the inauguration and that evening attended the State Department festivities where they met with future business partners.

Julia-Levy met his father Raúl Juliá for the first time on the set of the movie Romero, an American production filmed in Cuernavaca. Julia-Levy has appeared in the Mexican TV series El Vuelo del águila and Canción de amor.