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Léa Seydoux

Léa Seydoux

Actor · b. 1985 · Passy, Paris, France

Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (French: [lea sɛdu]; born 1 July 1985) is a French actress. Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received five César Award nominations, two Lumières Awards, a Palme d'Or and a BAFTA Award nomination. In 2009, she won the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Seydoux was appointed a Dame of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2022, the French government made her a Dame of the National Order of Merit. She began her acting career with her film debut in Girlfriends (2006), with early roles in The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She won acclaim for her French roles in The Beautiful Person (2008), Belle Épine (2010), and Farewell, My Queen (2012). During this time, she expanded her career by appearing in supporting roles in high-profile Hollywood films, including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and the action film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011). Her breakthrough role came with the controversial and acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), for which she received the Lumières Award for Best Actress, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival alongside her co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos. She received her second Lumières Award in the same year for the film Grand Central. She gained international attention for her role as Bond girl Madeleine Swann in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). She has appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The French Dispatch (2021). Other notable roles include Beauty and the Beast (2014), Saint Laurent (2014), The Lobster (2015), Zoe (2018), France (2021), Crimes of the Future (2022), One Fine Morning (2022), The Beast (2023) and Dune: Part Two (2024). Seydoux has also worked as a model. She has been showcased in Vogue Paris, American Vogue, L'Officiel, Another Magazine and W magazine, among others. Since 2016, she has been a brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton.

Movies24

  • Movie8.1

    Dune: Part Two

    2024 · 8.7K votes

  • Movie8.2

    Inglourious Basterds

    2009 · 24K votes

  • Movie7.3

    No Time to Die

    2021 · 7.4K votes

  • Movie
  • Movie8.0

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    2014 · 16K votes

  • Movie7.1
  • Movie7.5

    Midnight in Paris

    2011 · 7.9K votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Lobster

    2015 · 7.1K votes

  • Movie6.6

    Spectre

    2015 · 11K votes

  • Movie6.4

    Robin Hood

    2010 · 5.2K votes

  • Movie6.3

    La Belle et la Bête

    Beauty and the Beast

    2014 · 2.3K votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie7.2

    Silent Friend

    2026 · 55 votes

  • Movie7.1

    La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2

    Blue Is the Warmest Color

    2013 · 4.9K votes

  • Movie7.2

    Juste la fin du monde

    It's Only the End of the World

    2016 · 1.7K votes

  • Movie6.0

    Crimes of the Future

    2022 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie9.0

    Gentle Monster

    2026 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.3

    La Bête

    The Beast

    2024 · 285 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Un beau matin

    One Fine Morning

    2022 · 179 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Kursk

    2018 · 732 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Le Deuxième Acte

    The Second Act

    2024 · 320 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Belle épine

    2010 · 59 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Zoe

    2018 · 454 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Les Adieux à la reine

    Farewell, My Queen

    2012 · 329 votes

Series5

  • TV5.8
  • TV7.2

    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

  • TV1.0

    Beau geste

    2023 · 1 votes

  • TV6.5

    Mistérios de Lisboa

    Mysteries of Lisbon

    2011 · 13 votes

  • TV4.4

    Père et Maire

    2002 · 5 votes