Léa Seydoux

Léa Seydoux

actress, additional crew, producer

Léa Seydoux was born on Jul 01, 1985 in France. Léa Seydoux's big-screen debut came with The Last Mistress directed by Catherine Breillat in 2007. Léa Seydoux is known for No Time to Die directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, Daniel Craig stars as James Bond and Léa Seydoux as Madeleine. Léa Seydoux has got 19 awards and 38 nominations so far. The most recent award Léa Seydoux achieved is Alliance of Women Film Journalists. The upcoming new movie Léa Seydoux plays is Dune: Part Two which will be released on Nov 03, 2023.

French actress Léa Seydoux was born in 1985 in Paris, France, to Valérie Schlumberger, a philanthropist, and Henri Seydoux, a businessman. Her grandfather, Jérôme Seydoux, is chairman of Pathé, and her father is a great-grandson of businessman and inventor Marcel Schlumberger (her mother also descends from the Schlumberger family). Her parents are both of mixed French and Alsatian German descent, with more distant Venezuelan (Spanish, Basque) roots on her father's side.Léa began her acting career in French cinema, appearing in films such as The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She first came to attention after she received her first César Award nomination for her performance in La belle personne (2008), and won the Trophée Chopard, an award given to promising actors at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, she has appeared in major Hollywood films including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin des Bois (2010), Woody Allen's Minuit à Paris (2011), and Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible - Protocole fantôme (2011). In French cinema, she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for a second time for her role in Belle Épine (2010) and was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress for the film Farewell, My Queen (2012).In 2013, Seydoux came to widespread attention when Seydoux and co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos, alongside director Abdellatif Kechiche, were awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for their involvement in the critically acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle (2013)). As a special prize for their roles, Along with Jane Campion, Seydoux and Exarchopoulos are the only women to have ever won a Palme d'Or.That same year, she also received the Lumières Award for Best Actress for the film Grand Central and, in 2014, she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and starred in the films Beauty and the Beast, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Saint Laurent. In 2015 she played Madeleine Swann in the 24th James Bond film Spectre.

  • Birthday

    Jul 01, 1985
  • Place of Birth

    Paris, France
  • Also known

    レア・セドゥ, Léa Hélène Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne, Леа Сейду, Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne, 레아 세이두

Known For

Awards

19 wins & 38 nominations

Alliance of Women Film Journalists
2022
Most Egregious Age Difference Between the Leading Man and the Love Interest
Winner - EDA Special Mention Award
Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival
2022
Tromperie (2021)
Winner - Best Actress
Tromperie (2021)
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