Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.

Julia Child
as Self (archive footage)

José Andrés Puerta
as Self

Ruth Reichl
as Self

Cecile Richards
as Self

Marcus Samuelsson
as Self

Sara Moulton
as Self

Ina Garten
as Self

Charles Gibson
as Self

Jacques Pépin
as Self (archival footage)

Antonietta Brownell
as Gala Attendee