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Aliases: Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne , レア・セドゥ , 레아 세두 , 蕾雅瑟杜 , Lea Seydoux , ليا سيدو , لئا سیدو , Леа Сейду

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Passy, Paris, France

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Movie Involvements: 45

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Léa Seydoux, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Dune: Part Two
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8

Dune: Part Two

(2024) Lady Margot Fenring
Spectre
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7

Spectre

(2015) Madeleine
Inglourious Basterds
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8

Inglourious Basterds

(2009) Charlotte LaPadite
No Time to Die
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7

No Time to Die

(2021) Madeleine
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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7
Blue Is the Warmest Color
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7
Beauty and the Beast
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6
Beau geste
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Beau geste

(2023) Self

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2026 Lady Margot Fenring
2024 Florence
Lady Margot Fenring
Gabrielle
2023 Self
Self
Self
2022 Sandra Kienzler
Caprice
2021 Self
Simone
Madeleine
Self (archive footage)
France de Meurs
Lizzy
The English Lover
2019 Self (archive footage)
Claude
2018 Tanya Averina
Zoe
2016 Suzanne
2015 Madeleine
Loner Leader
Célestine
2014 Loulou de la Falaise
Clotilde
Self
Belle
2013 Emma
Karole
2012 Louise
Agathe-Sidonie Laborde
2011 Sabine Moreau
Elle
Gabrielle
Blanche de Montfort
Ève
2010 Prudence Friedmann
Marjoline
Marie-Julie
Isabella of Angoulême
self
Fleur
2009 Léa
Maria
Charlotte LaPadite
La fille du métro
2008 Marie
Junie
Gisèle
Jackie
2007 Jenny
Olivia
Camille
Self
2006 Aurore
2002 La lycéenne
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Alice
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