Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne, a French actress born on July 1, 1985, began her acting career in French cinema with roles in films such as The Last Mistress in 2007 and On War in 2008.
Her breakthrough came after winning the Trophée Chopard and receiving her first César Award nomination for her performance in The Beautiful Person in 2008.
She went on to appear in minor roles in high-profile Hollywood films, including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in 2009, Ridley Scott's Robin Hood in 2010, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris in 2011, and the action film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in 2011.
In French cinema, she received a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actress for her role in Belle Épine in 2010 and a César Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as a lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette in the film Farewell, My Queen in 2012.
Seydoux gained widespread attention in 2013 when she was awarded the Palme d'Or 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 co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos.
That same year, she received the Lumières Award for Best Actress for the film Grand Central and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. She also starred in the films Beauty and the Beast, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Saint Laurent.
In 2015, she gained further international attention for her appearance as Bond girl Madeleine Swann in Spectre, a role she reprised in No Time to Die in 2021.
Since then, she has continued to appear in major English-speaking roles in The Lobster in 2015, in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch in 2021, and in the Hideo Kojima video game Death Stranding in 2019.
