Léa Seydoux

Léa Hélène SeydouxFornier de Clausonne born July 1 1985 is a French actor She began her acting career in French cinema appearing in films such as The Last Mistress 2007 and On War 2008 Seydoux first came to attention after she won the Trophée Chopard and received her first César Award nomination for her performance in The Beautiful Person 2008 In the years that followed Seydoux began appearing in minor roles in highprofile Hollywood films including Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds 2009 Ridley Scotts Robin Hood 2010 Woody Allens Midnight in Paris 2011 and the action film Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol 2011 In French cinema during this period she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for a second time for her role in Belle Épine 2010 and was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress for her role as a ladyinwaiting to Marie Antoinette in the film Farewell My Queen 2012 Seydoux came to widespread attention in 2013 when she was awarded the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as a lesbian art student in the critically acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour along with its film director Abdellatif Kechiche and her costar Adèle Exarchopoulos That same year she also received the Lumières Award for Best Actress for the film Grand Central and in 2014 she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and starred in the films Beauty and the Beast Wes Andersons The Grand Budapest Hotel and Saint Laurent She gained further international attention for her appearance as Bond girl Madeleine Swann in Spectre 2015 a role which she reprised in No Time to Die 2021 Since then she has continued to appear in major Englishspeaking roles in The Lobster 2015 in Wes Andersons The French Dispatch 2021 and in the Hideo Kojima video game Death Stranding 2019