
Léa Seydoux
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1985-07-01 (40 years old)
Place of Birth
Passy, Paris, France
Léa Seydoux
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting
Silent Friend
as Alice
(2026)
Dune: Part Three
as Lady Margot Fenring
(2024)
Dune: Part Two
as Lady Margot Fenring
(2024)
The Beast
as Gabrielle
(2024)
The Second Act
as Florence
(2023)
(2023)
Cannes Uncut
as Self
(2022)
Crimes of the Future
as Caprice
(2022)
One Fine Morning
as Sandra Kienzler
(2021)
No Time to Die
as Madeleine
(2021)
The French Dispatch
as Simone
(2021)
Being James Bond
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Deception
as The English Lover
(2021)
France
as France de Meurs
(2021)
The Story of My Wife
as Lizzy
(2021)
Designing Bond
as Self
(2019)
QT8: The First Eight
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
Oh Mercy
as Claude
(2018)
Kursk
as Tanya Averina
(2018)
Zoe
as Zoe
(2016)
It's Only the End of the World
as Suzanne
(2015)
Spectre
as Madeleine
(2015)
The Lobster
as Loner Leader
(2015)
Diary of a Chambermaid
as Célestine
(2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Clotilde
(2014)
Beauty and the Beast
as Belle
(2014)
Saint Laurent
as Loulou de la Falaise
(2013)
Blue Is the Warmest Color
as Emma
(2013)
Grand Central
as Karole
(2012)
Farewell, My Queen
as Agathe-Sidonie Laborde
(2012)
Sister
as Louise
(2011)
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Sabine Moreau
(2011)
Midnight in Paris
as Gabrielle
(2011)
My Wife's Romance
as Ève
(2011)
Time Doesn't Stand Still
as Elle
(2010)
Robin Hood
as Isabella of Angoulême
(2010)
Belle épine
as Prudence Friedmann
(2010)
Traceless
as Fleur
(2010)
Rose, c'est Paris
as self
(2010)
Roses on Credit
as Marjoline
(2010)
Mysteries of Lisbon
as Blanche de Montfort
(2010)
Little Tailor
as Marie-Julie
(2009)
Inglourious Basterds
as Charlotte LaPadite
(2009)
Lourdes
as Maria
(2009)
Going South
as Léa
(2009)
The Illusions
as La fille du métro
(2008)
The Beautiful Person
as Junie
(2008)
Dolls and Angels
as Gisèle
(2008)
On War
as Marie
(2008)
Les vacances de Clémence
as Jackie
(2007)
The Last Mistress
as Olivia
(2007)
La Consolation
as Camille
(2007)
13 French Street
as Jenny
(2006)
Girlfriends
as Aurore