- Born
- Birth nameLéa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- French actress Léa Seydoux was born in 1985 in Paris, France, to Valérie Schlumberger, a philanthropist, and Henri Seydoux, a businessman. Her grandfather, Jérôme Seydoux, is chairman of Pathé, and her father is a great-grandson of businessman and inventor Marcel Schlumberger (her mother also descends from the Schlumberger family). Her parents are both of mixed French and Alsatian German descent, with more distant Venezuelan (Spanish, Basque) roots on her father's side.
Léa began her acting career in French cinema, appearing in films such as The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She first came to attention after she received her first César Award nomination for her performance in The Beautiful Person (2008), and won the Trophée Chopard, an award given to promising actors at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, she has appeared in major Hollywood films including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), and Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011). In French cinema, 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 the film Farewell, My Queen (2012).
In 2013, Seydoux came to widespread attention when Seydoux and co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos, alongside director Abdellatif Kechiche, were awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for their involvement in the critically acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)). As a special prize for their roles, Along with Jane Campion, Seydoux and Exarchopoulos are the only women to have ever won a Palme d'Or.
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, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Saint Laurent. In 2015 she played Madeleine Swann in the 24th James Bond film Spectre.
- IMDb mini biography by: Nils and Pedro Borges
- SpouseAndre Meyer(? - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenGeorge Meyer
- Parents
- RelativesJérôme Seydoux(Grandparent)
- Often plays mysterious and melancholy roles
- Gap between her front teeth
- She is the only Bond girl other than Eunice Gayson to appear in more than one film as the same character.
- Her parents both have mixed French and Alsatian German ancestry. Her father also has a small amount of Venezuelan (including Spanish and Basque) roots.
- As of 2016, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Inglourious Basterds (2009), Midnight in Paris (2011) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
- She is the only actress that has played in both major spy-genre movie franchises: Mission Impossible (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)) and James Bond (Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021)).
- In a relationship with André Meyer since 2013. They have a son together, George Meyer (born January 18, 2017).
- [on her Farewell, My Queen (2012) character] What I liked about this part was that you don't know anything about her, and so I could invent everything. There is one moment that makes you understand everything about her, a character asks me 'We don't know anything about you...do you even have parents?' This for me was the key to build everything. That's why she's so fascinated by the Queen. It's through the Queen that she has an existence at all.
- I make films for directors. Before anything else, I choose films because of the talent of the directors. The story and the other actors are of course very important, but for me, it's all about the director.
- Five people I'd invite to my dream birthday party are Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Jackson, Charles Chaplin, Maria Callas and Serge Gainsbourg.
- When I watch my films or read my interviews I come to know I have a very strange thing, I'm not easy to get.
- People are enthusiastic in America. They put heart into things. As soon as you get back to France people are picking on everything.
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