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Léa Seydoux

Highest Rated: 97% Sister (2012)

Lowest Rated: 26% The Story of My Wife (2021)

Birthday: Jul 1, 1985

Birthplace: Paris, Île-de-France, France

One of only three women to be awarded the coveted Palme d'Or, Léa Seydoux's rise to Cannes festival favorite began when she secured a Most Promising Actress Cesar Award nomination for her portrayal of The Princess Of Clevès in "La Belle Personne" (2008). Seydoux then began to balance equally acclaimed roles in French films "Lourdes" (2009), "Belle Épine" (2010) and "Farewell, My Queen" (2012) with minor parts in Hollywood fare such as "Robin Hood" (2010) and "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" (2011) before landing the co-lead of blue-haired art student Emma in the controversial romantic drama "Blue Is The Warmest Colour" (2013). Born in the 16th district of Paris in July 1985, Seydoux grew up in a prominent family steeped in the history of European cinema. Her grandfather, Jerome Seydoux, was chairman of Pathé; her great uncle, Nicolas Seydoux, was chairman of the Gaumont Film Company and the Vice President of Arte France; her stepmother was model-turned-documentary filmmaker Farida Khelfa. However, despite her showbiz background, Seydoux only began to take a serious interest in acting after graduating from high school when she took a year's theatre course at Les Enfants Terribles. Following her debut in teenage dance flick "Mes Copines" (2006), Seydoux then honed her talents with supporting roles in "Une Vieille Maîtresse" ("The Last Mistress") (2007) and "De La Guerre" ("On War") (2008) before achieving her breakthrough when Christophe Honoré cast her as Junie de Chartres in historical drama "La Belle Personne" ("The Beautiful Person") (2008). Seydoux went onto receive praise for her performance in the Vienna Prize-winning "Lourdes" (2009) and soon began to attract the attention of several major Hollywood directors, landing small parts in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (2009), Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood" (2010) and Woody Allen's "Midnight In Paris" (2011). Seydoux continued to flirt with the international mainstream by appearing as trained assassin Sabine Moreau in "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" (2011), but still focused most of her attention on the European film scene, picking up another Cesar Award nomination for her lead performance as Marie Antoinette's servant in "Farewell, My Queen" (2012) and starring in the Alps-based Swiss tragi-comedy "Sister" (2012). Seydoux then became the toast of the French film industry when she took on the role of Emma in the sexually explicit three-hour epic "Blue Is the Warmest Colour," later winning the Palme d'Or alongside director Abdellatif Kechiche and co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos. That international breakthrough was followed by supporting roles in Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014) and fashion world biopic "Saint Laurent" (2014), as well as the lead role of Belle in Christophe Gans' adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast" (2014). A starring role in another literary adaptation, "Diary of a Chambermaid" (2015) was followed by the high-profile part of Dr. Madeleine Swann in the James Bond hit "Spectre" (2015)

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Highest rated movies

97% 75% Sister
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94% 76% Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Watchlist 93% 67% One Fine Morning Watchlist
93% 56% Farewell, My Queen
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93% 83% Midnight in Paris
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92% 87% The Grand Budapest Hotel Watchlist 92% 95% Dune: Part Two Watchlist 91% 69% Lourdes Watchlist
90% 44% Grand Central
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88% 85% Blue Is the Warmest Color
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
92% 95% Dune: Part Two Lady Margot Fenring (Character) $282.0M 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds Unknown (Character) - 2024
67% No Score Yet The Second Act Unknown (Character) - 2024
86% 62% The Beast Gabrielle (Character) $414.0K 2023
93% 67% One Fine Morning Sandra Kienzler (Character) $214.1K 2022
80% 50% Crimes of the Future Caprice (Character) $2.0M 2022
53% 20% Deception L'amante anglaise (Character) - 2021
67% 35% France France de Meurs (Character) $48.6K 2021
83% 88% No Time to Die Madeleine Swann (Character) $160.8M 2021
75% 76% The French Dispatch Simone (Character) $16.1M 2021
26% 43% The Story of My Wife Lizzy (Character) - 2021
58% No Score Yet Oh Mercy! (Roubaix, Une Lumière) Unknown (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Oh Mercy! Claude (Character) - 2019
72% 63% The Command Tanya Averina (Character) - 2018
35% 61% Zoe Zoe (Character) - 2018
44% 56% It's Only the End of the World Suzanne (Character) - 2016
66% 26% Diary of a Chambermaid Célestine (Character) $54.2K 2015
88% 65% The Lobster Loner Leader (Character) $9.1M 2015
63% 61% Spectre Madeleine (Character) $200.1M 2015
63% 40% Saint Laurent Loulou de La Falaise (Character) $47.7K 2014
41% 54% Beauty and the Beast Belle (Character) $20.3K 2014
92% 87% The Grand Budapest Hotel Clotilde (Character) $59.1M 2014
88% 85% Blue Is the Warmest Color Emma (Character) - 2013
90% 44% Grand Central Karole (Character) - 2013
97% 75% Sister Louise (Character) $27.9K 2012
93% 56% Farewell, My Queen Sidonie Laborde (Character) $1.3M 2012
94% 76% Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Sabine Moreau (Character) $209.4M 2011
93% 83% Midnight in Paris Gabrielle (Character) $56.8M 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dear Prudence Prudence Friedmann (Character) - 2010
86% 70% Mysteries of Lisbon Blanche de Montfort (Character) $110.5K 2010
43% 58% Robin Hood Isabella (Character) $105.2M 2010
No Score Yet 28% Belle Epine Unknown (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 55% Little Tailor Marie-Julie (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Wife's Romance Unknown (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Roses à crédit Marjoline (Character) - 2010
91% 69% Lourdes Maria (Character) $9.4K 2009
No Score Yet 29% Going South Léa (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Immaculate Fleur (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 0% On War Marie (Character) - 2008
57% 58% The Beautiful Person Junie (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Des poupées et des anges Unknown (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Friends Unknown (Character) - 2006

TV

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No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Graham Norton Show Guest 2021
No Score Yet 92% The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Guest 2014