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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 Beauti…
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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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Léa Seydoux's Filmography
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Dune: Part Three
as Lady Margot Fenring
Gentle Monster
as Lucy Weiss
Alpha Gang
as Alpha One
The Unknown
as Eva Helsinger / David Zimmerman
No Poster
House of Love
as Self
Silent Friend
as Alice Sauvage
The Second Act
as Florence Drucker
Dune: Part Two
as Lady Margot Fenring
The Beast
as Gabrielle
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
as Self
Cannes Uncut
as Self
One Fine Morning
as Sandra Kienzler
Crimes of the Future
as Caprice
No Poster
Designing Bond
as Self
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Simone
No Time to Die
as Madeleine
France
as France de Meurs
The Story of My Wife
as Lizzy
Deception
as The English Lover
Oh Mercy
as Claude
Kursk
as Tanya Averina
Zoe
as Zoe
She's French
It's Only the End of the World
as Suzanne
Spectre
as Madeleine
The Lobster
as Loner Leader
Diary of a Chambermaid
as Célestine
Saint Laurent
as Loulou de la Falaise
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Clotilde
Beauty and the Beast
as Belle
Blue Is the Warmest Color
as Emma
Grand Central
as Karole
Sister
as Louise
Farewell, My Queen
as Agathe-Sidonie Laborde
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Sabine Moreau
Midnight in Paris
as Gabrielle
My Wife's Romance
as Ève
Belle épine
as Prudence Friedmann
Mysteries of Lisbon
as Blanche de Montfort
Roses on Credit
as Marjoline
Little Tailor
as Marie-Julie
Robin Hood
as Isabella of Angoulême
Rose, c'est Paris
as self
Traceless
as Fleur
Going South
as Léa
Lourdes
as Maria
Inglourious Basterds
as Charlotte LaPadite
The Illusions
as La fille du métro
On War
as Marie
The Beautiful Person
as Junie
Dolls and Angels
as Gisèle
Les vacances de Clémence
as Jackie
13 French Street
as Jenny
The Last Mistress
as Olivia
La Consolation
as Camille
Girlfriends
as Aurore
No Poster
Quiet Land
The Masque of the Red Death
as Catarina
Separate Rooms
No Poster