Léa Seydoux

Known for ActingBorn 1985-07-01 (age 40)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Dune: Part Two

Inglourious Basterds

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Midnight in Paris

Mysteries of Lisbon

No Time to Die

Silent Friend

It's Only the End of the World

The Graham Norton Show

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Blue Is the Warmest Color

The Lobster

Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds

Sister

Kursk

Spectre

Lourdes

One Fine Morning

Oh Mercy

The Beast

The Beautiful Person

Mysteries of Lisbon

Robin Hood

Cannes Uncut

Dolls and Angels

Beauty and the Beast

Traceless

The Second Act

Saint Laurent

Crimes of the Future

My Wife's Romance

Zoe

Farewell, My Queen

The Story of My Wife

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Little Tailor

The Last Mistress

Going South

Grand Central

Designing Bond

Deception

Belle épine

France

Diary of a Chambermaid

On War

Rose, c'est Paris

Roses on Credit