Eva Green was born on July 5th, 1980 in Paris.
Eva Green's last name is pronounced as 'grain'.
Eva Green is the daughter of French actress Marlene Jobert, while father Walter Green is a Swede and a dentist by profession.
Eva Green is of French-Swedish descent.
Eva Green has a twin sister named Joy, who is 2 minutes older than her.
Eva Green has an aunt in Marika Green.
Eva Green spent part of her growing years in places like Ramsgate, London and Ireland.
Eva Green has entertained dreams of becoming an Egyptologist when she visited Louvre at the age of seven.
Eva Green at age fourteen went to watch a movie Isabelle Adjani-starrer, "The Story of Adele H."
Impressed by Isabelle Adjani's performance, Eva Green decided to become an actress.
Eva Green studied acting for three years at Eva St. Paul Drama
School in Paris from 1997 to 2000.
Eva Green studied for ten weeks at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Eva Green was also trained at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.
Eva Green returned to theater in Paris and began performing in stage plays.
Eva Green
won Moliere Award for her performance in a stage play "Jalousie en Trois Fax".
Eva Green made her screen debut with the starring role of Isabelle in "The Dreamers [2003] directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
Eva Green's second movie was Arsene Lupin [2004].
Eva Green's third movie "Kingdom of Heaven" [2005] is a major blockbuster hit grossing over $210 million.
Eva Green's fourth movie was "Casino Royale" [2006] in which she
played the role of 'Vesper Lynd', the love interest of James Bond 007.
Eva Green's fifth film was "The Golden Compass" [2007] in which she played the role of a witch 'Serafina Pekkala'.
Eva Green's upcoming films are under various stages of production and are slated for release in late 2008 and 2009.
Eva Green received European Film Awards nominations for her role in "The Dreamers" [2003].
Eva Green was nominated for Teen Choice Award's Choice Movie
Liplock' and 'Choice Movie Love Scene' in "Kingdom of Heaven" [2005]
sharing with co-star Orlando Bloom.
Eva Green won Empire Awards, UK for her performance in "Casino Royale" [2006].
Eva Green received National Movie Awards, UK nominations for her role in "Casino Royale" [2006].
Eva Green received Saturn Award nomination for her performance in "Casino Royale" [2006].
Eva Green received Irish Film and Television Awards nomination for her role in "Casino Royale" [2006].
Eva Green won Rising Star Award from BAFTA Awards in 2007.
Eva Green's performance as Bond girl in "Casino Royale" [2006] was
hailed by critics and she was voted as the fourth best Bond girl of all
time.
Eva Green was named by the Entertainment Weekly as the fourth best Bond girl of all time.
Eva Green was complimented by IGN which said, "This is the girl that broke - and therefore made - James Bond".
Eva Green was the 5th French actress to play the Bond girl after
Claudine Auger in "Thunderball" [1965], Corinne Clery in "Moonraker
"[1979], Carole Bouquet in "For Your Eyes Only" [1981], and Sophie
Marceau in "The World is not enough" [1999].
Eva Green, who played love-interest to Daniel Craig in a Bond film
"Casino Royale”, says that she felt Daniel Craig more like a father
while working with him on the sets.
Eva Green was a natural born blonde girl. She dyed her hair black in her teens.
Eva Green's beauty was complimented by Vogue magazine as having 'killer looks, intelligence and modesty'.
Eva Green has appeared in commercial advertisements for various renowned brands.
Eva Green has modeled for Emporio Armani, Heineken, Lancome, and Breil.
Eva Green's Christian Dior SA's "Midnight Poison" perfume commercial was directed by Wong Kar-wai.
Eva Green does not like to work in Hollywood as she feels that
studios are super powerful - far more powerful than the directors.
Eva Green prefers to live in a 'village-like' ambience in the London neighborhood.
Eva Green is romantically involved with New Zealand actor Marton Csokas, her co-star on the set of "Kingdom of Heaven"
Eva Green practices Pilates and does jogging.
Eva Green speaks fluent French and English, and practices speaking Japanese. She is also perfecting her American accent.
Eva Green is a great fan of directors Ingmar Bergman, Tim Burton,
David Lynch, Lars von Trier, David Fincher, and Francois Truffaut.
Eva Gaëlle Green[1] (
Swedish pronunciation: [ˈgʁeːn];
[2] born 5 July 1980) is a French actress and model. Green performed in theatre before making her film debut in 2003 in
Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial film,
The Dreamers. Green quickly achieved greater fame by appearing in
Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and as
Vesper Lynd in the
James Bond film
Casino Royale (2006). In 2006, Green was awarded the
BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Since 2006, Green has starred in many independent films, including
Womb,
Perfect Sense, and
Cracks. She has more recently appeared in the television series
Camelot, and played
Angelique Bouchard in
Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of
Dark Shadows.
Early life
Eva Green was born in
Paris, two minutes earlier than her
sororal twin sister, Joy (Johanne).
[3] Green is the daughter of French actress
Marlène Jobert and French-Swedish dentist Walter Green. Through her father, Green is the great-granddaughter of French composer
Paul Le Flem.
[4] Her mother, a
pied-noir, was born in Algeria. Green's mother is Jewish.
[5][6][7] Green was raised without religion;
[8] she has said "I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders."
[9] She grew up in the
17th arrondissement of Paris where she attended the
American School of Paris.
[citation needed] Green has described her family as "
bourgeois",
[10] and has said that her sister is very different from her.
[11] Green is a natural dark
blonde; she has dyed her hair black since she was 15 years old.
[12][13] French-Swedish actress
Marika Green is her aunt. The 1980s pop-star
Elsa Lunghini is her first cousin, through their mothers.
[14][15]
Green was raised in France, attended and graduated from the
American University of Paris, an English-speaking institution,
[12] and also spent time between
Ramsgate, London and Ireland.
[16] Green was quiet in school,
[11] and developed an interest in
Egyptology when she visited the
Louvre at age seven.
[17] At age 14, after seeing
Isabelle Adjani in
The Story of Adele H.,
Green decided to become an actress. Her mother initially feared that an
acting career would be too much for her sensitive daughter, but later
came to support young Eva's ambitions.
[16]
Career
Between 1997-2000, Green studied at St. Paul Drama School in Paris,
[18] and then spent 10 weeks at
Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
[1] Green also trained at
New York University's
Tisch School of the Arts in New York City,
[19] before she returned to Paris, where she performed in several plays.
[16]
Green stated that in drama school, "I always picked the really evil
roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions."
[20]
Green appeared on stage in
Jalousie en Trois Fax (2001) for which she was nominated for a
Molière Award.
[21] She also appeared in
Turcaret (2002).
In 2002, Green had her film debut, when director
Bernardo Bertolucci cast her in the role of Isabelle in
The Dreamers (2003), which involved her in extensive
full frontal nude scenes and graphic sex scenes. Green told
The Guardian
that her agent and her parents begged her not to take the role,
concerned that the film would cause her career to "have the same destiny
as
Maria Schneider",
[22] and because of Schneider's
traumatic experience during the filming of Bertolucci's
Last Tango in Paris.
[16] Green said that with Bertolucci's guidance she felt comfortable during the filming of the nude and sex scenes,
[23] but was embarrassed when her family saw the film.
[16] Her performance was well-received, with some comparing her to
Liv Tyler.
[19]
Green expressed surprise when a minute was cut from the film for the
American market, stating, "[T]here is so much violence, both on the
streets and on the screen. They think nothing of it. Yet I think they
are frightened by sex."
[16] Green's next film after
The Dreamers was
Arsène Lupin
(2004), in which she portrayed Lupin's love interest, a light-hearted
role she enjoyed, although she has stated that she generally prefers
more complex characters.
[21]
Her performance in
The Dreamers led to
Ridley Scott casting Green in
Kingdom of Heaven (2005), a film about the
Crusades where she played
Sibylla of Jerusalem. Green performed six screen tests, and was hired with only a week before
principal photography began.
[1]
Green found the atmosphere of coming onto a film so late tense and
exciting, and also liked the film's ambiguity in approaching its subject
matter.
[20] To her disappointment, much of her screen time was cut.
[1] Stephanie Zacharek of
Salon.com
praised her performance: "She doesn't quite know what to do with her
character's stilted dialogue, but she carries herself so regally that
you barely notice."
[24] Nev Pierce of the
BBC, however, called her character "limp".
[25] Green was satisfied when her character's complex subplot was restored in the
director's cut.
[26] Total Film noted the new scenes completed her performance: "In the theatrical cut, Princess Sibylla sleeps with
Balian
and then, more or less, loses her mind. Now we understand why. Not only
does Sibylla have a young son, but when she realizes he's afflicted
with
leprosy just like her brother
Baldwin, she decides to take his life shortly after he's been crowned king."
[27]
Green at the Orange British Academy Film Awards in London's Royal Opera House (2007).
Green was considered for parts in
The Constant Gardener (a role that went to
Rachel Weisz) and
The Black Dahlia.
[16] She was cast at the last minute in the role of
Vesper Lynd in the
James Bond film Casino Royale (2006).
[17] Green was approached in mid-2005 but turned it down.
[26] Principal photography was already underway, and director
Martin Campbell noted casting the role was difficult because "we didn't have the final script and a
Bond girl always had the connotation of tits 'n' ass." Campbell saw Green's performance in the
director's cut of
Kingdom of Heaven,
[28] and approached Green again. She read the script, and found the character of
Vesper far deeper than most Bond girls.
[26] Green's performance was well received:
Entertainment Weekly called her the fourth best Bond girl of all time;
[29] IGN named her the best
femme fatale, stating "This is the girl that broke – and therefore made –
James Bond";
[30] and she won a
BAFTA and an
Empire award for her performance. Both awards were voted for by the British public.
[31]
Green portrayed the witch
Serafina Pekkala in the 2007 film adaptation of
The Golden Compass (which, coincidentally, also starred
Casino Royale's
Daniel Craig, although they did not have any scenes together). She found it difficult being flown on a harness because of her
fear of heights, which led her to refuse to reshoot a scene on her last day of filming.
[13] Green hoped the religious themes of the book would be preserved,
[26] but references to Catholicism were removed from the film.
[32] Green next appeared in
Franklyn, as Emilia,
[33] a
schizophrenic woman
[34] whose
multiple personalities are split between tormented artist (which Green compared to real-life figures
Sophie Calle and
Tracey Emin)
[35] and another, which she described as, "full of life, very witty, big sense of humor".
[34] She also filmed
Cracks, the directorial debut of
Jordan Scott,
Ridley Scott's daughter, where she plays a mysterious teacher at a
girls' school named Miss G, who falls in love with one of her pupils.
[13] In March 2009, she appeared in
Womb, where she plays a woman who
clones her dead boyfriend. It is a collaboration between actor
Matt Smith and director
Benedek Fliegauf.
[36]
She was considered for the role eventually played by
Cécile de France in
Un Secret (2007).
[37] Additionally, she was initially approached for the female lead in
Lars von Trier's controversial film
Antichrist
(2009). According to Trier, Green was positive about appearing in the
film, but her agents refused to allow her. The unsuccessful casting
attempt took two months of the film's pre-production process.
Anglo-French actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg was subsequently cast in the role.
[38]
Green later told she got along well with Trier, "but then we started
talking about nudity and sex and so on. It got a bit too far... It was
my dream to work with him, but it’s a shame it was on that film that it
nearly happened. I’m sure I would have been trashed doing that film".
[39]
Green starred in the first season of
Starz's series,
Camelot, as the sorceress
Morgan le Fay.
[40]
Green stated, "This is such an iconic story and you have 10 episodes to
explore a character. It's not a girlfriend role that you could have in a
movie. It's a real ballsy character. She has some guts."
[41]
In February 2011, Green was cast as
Angelique Bouchard in
Tim Burton's film adaptation of
Dark Shadows (2012).
[42]
Modeling
In addition to her acting career, Green has modeled for Breil,
Emporio Armani,
Lancôme,
Heineken,
[17] and
Christian Dior SA's "Midnight Poison" perfume, in an advert directed by
Wong Kar-wai.
[12]
Personal life
Green considers herself
nerdy:
[17]
"When people first meet me, they find me very cold. I keep myself at a
distance, and I think that's why I'm so drawn to acting. It allows me to
wear a mask."
[3][17][8] Green supports
UNICEF.
[13][8] She dated
New Zealand actor
Marton Csokas after meeting him on the set of
Kingdom of Heaven, but the couple announced their split in 2009.
[43]
Green has expressed interest in returning to the theatre.
[23]
She says she has no plans to work in Hollywood because, "The problem
with Hollywood is that the studios are super powerful, they have far
more power than the directors. My ambition at this moment is just to
find a good script."
[44] She added that in Hollywood she would probably get typecast as a
femme fatale.
[13]
In 2007, Green was voted the 6th sexiest movie star of all-time for Empire Magazine.
[45] Empire also listed her character, Vesper Lynd as the 9th sexiest female character in cinema history.
[46] In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine listed Green at No. 18 for their 50 most beautiful women in film.
[47] In 2012 she was listed no.57 in AfterEllen Hot 100.
[48]
Filmography
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