Date of Birth : 1 July 1985, Paris, France
Birth Name : Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne
Height 5' 6" (168 cm)
BioLéa Seydoux was born in Paris, France in 1985, 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 Spanish-Venezuelan roots on her father's side. In 2009, she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in the film The Beautiful Person. She has been cast in a number of notable American films such as Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. As a special prize for their roles in Blue Is the Warmest Color, Seydoux and co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos were awarded the Palme d'Or alongside director Abdellatif Kechiche. Along with Jane Campion, Seydoux and Exarchopoulos are the only women to have ever won a Palme d'Or.
Known for
Spectre (2015)
as Madeleine Swann
Beauty and the Beast (2014)
as Belle
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
as Clotilde
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
as Emma
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
as Sabine Moreau
Midnight in Paris (2011)
as Gabrielle
Robin Hood (2010)
as Isabella of Angoulême
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
as Charlotte LaPadite
Trivia
- Granddaughter of Jérôme Seydoux, Chairman of Pathé, and grandniece of Nicolas Seydoux, Chairman and CEO of Gaumont.
- Her parents both have mixed French and Alsatian German ancestry. Her father also has a small amount of Spanish-Venezuelan roots.
- Appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair's 20th Hollywood Issue [March 2014].
- Daughter of Henri Seydoux and Valérie Schlumberger.
- Featured on W Magazine's portfolio on Best Performances of 2013, for her performance as "Emma" in Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013).
- On Vogue (UK) magazine's Best Dressed List (2013).
- She has played in both major spy-genre movie franchise: Mission Impossible (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)) and upcoming James Bond Film Spectre (2015).
Saturday, November 21, 2015
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