Her father was a lawyer.
Her mother was an artist, a painter.
She had a brother and a sister.
At age 18, she married the father of her only child, actress Pascale Ogier. She divorced him two years later. To support herself, she started to work for high fashion designer Coco Chanel.
She once asked Jacques Rivette if he could direct a sequel to
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Third Generation (1979) focusing on her character (Hilde Krieger) after her release from prison. Although the movie was never made, this became the premise for Rivette's Le Pont du Nord (1981), which starts with Bulle's character leaving jail after serving a one year sentence.
Was close friends with Bernadette Lafont. They worked 8 times together.
Mother was a painter.
She's been an Officer of France's Legion of Honor since January 2009.
[on the walking scenes in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)] Whoever walked fastest got the close-up, they'd get to the camera first. Everyone went very fast, because all actors love close-ups.