Eva Green facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Eva Green
Green in 2020
Born	Eva Gaëlle Green (1980-07-06) 6 July 1980 (age 44) Paris, France
Education	American University of Paris Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2001–present
Parents	Walter Green (father) Marlène Jobert (mother)
Relatives	Paul Le Flem (great-grandfather) Mia Green (great-grandmother) Marika Green (aunt) Elsa Lunghini (cousin) Joséphine Jobert (cousin)
Awards	BAFTA Rising Star Award Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Eva Gaëlle Green (born July 6, 1980) is a French actress who also works in Britain. She is famous for her roles in big movies and independent films. Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is also an actress.

Eva Green started her acting career in theater. She made her first movie, The Dreamers, in 2003. She then played Sibylla, a princess, in the historical movie Kingdom of Heaven (2005). The next year, she became a well-known Bond girl, Vesper Lynd, in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006). For this role, she won the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Since then, Eva Green has acted in many different films. These include Cracks (2009) and Womb (2010). In 2014, she played Artemisia in 300: Rise of an Empire and Ava Lord in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. She has also worked often with director Tim Burton. She starred in his films Dark Shadows (2012), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), and Dumbo (2019). For her role as an astronaut mother in Proxima (2019), she was nominated for a César Award for Best Actress.

Eva Green has also appeared in TV shows. She played Morgan Pendragon in the fantasy series Camelot (2011). She also starred as Vanessa Ives in the horror drama series Penny Dreadful (2014–2016). Her acting in Penny Dreadful was highly praised. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role.

Early life and acting dreams

Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. She has a twin sister named Joy. Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress and writer. Her father, Walter Green, is a dental surgeon and sometimes acted in movies. Eva's father has family roots in Sweden and Brittany, France. Through him, she is the great-granddaughter of the composer Paul Le Flem.

Eva's mother was born in Algeria and has Jewish heritage. Eva has said she is "a citizen of the world." She was a quiet child in school. When she was seven, she visited the Louvre Museum and became interested in ancient Egypt.

At age 14, after seeing actress Isabelle Adjani in a movie, Eva decided she wanted to be an actress. Her mother was worried at first because Eva was sensitive. But she later supported Eva's dream. Eva studied acting at Cours Eva Saint Paul in Paris. She also took acting classes at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After her studies, she performed in plays in Paris. Eva has said she liked playing "evil roles" in drama school. She felt it was a good way to express her feelings.

Career highlights

Early roles (2001–2005)

Eva Green started her career on stage. She acted in plays like Jalousie en Trois Fax (2001). For this play, she was nominated for a Molière Award, which is a big theater award in France.

In 2002, director Bernardo Bertolucci chose her for her first movie role. She played Isabelle in The Dreamers (2003). People liked her performance. Her next film was Arsène Lupin (2004). In this movie, she played the main character's love interest. She enjoyed this lighter role, but she usually prefers more complex characters.

Her role in The Dreamers led director Ridley Scott to cast her in Kingdom of Heaven (2005). This film was about the Crusades. Eva played Sibylla, the Princess of Jerusalem. She was hired just a week before filming began, which made it exciting. She liked that the movie explored its topic in a thoughtful way. Some of her scenes were cut from the movie, but she was happy when they were put back in the director's cut.

Green at the 2007 BAFTA Awards

Becoming a Bond girl and more (2006–2013)

Eva Green was chosen to play Vesper Lynd in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. She was first asked in 2005 but said no. The director, Martin Campbell, saw her acting in Kingdom of Heaven and asked her again. She read the script and found Vesper to be a much deeper character than most Bond girls.

Her performance was very popular. Entertainment Weekly called her one of the best Bond girls ever. She won a BAFTA Award and an Empire award for her role. These awards were chosen by the public.

In 2007, Eva played the witch Serafina Pekkala in the movie The Golden Compass. She also appeared in Franklyn as Emilia, an artist. In March 2009, she filmed Womb, where she played a woman who clones her dead boyfriend.

In 2011, Eva Green joined the TV series Camelot. She played the sorceress Morgan le Fay. She said she liked having many episodes to explore her character. In 2012, she played a powerful witch named Angelique Bouchard in Tim Burton's film Dark Shadows. Her character turns Johnny Depp's character into a vampire.

Green at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

Action, drama, and Tim Burton (2014–2019)

In 2014, Eva played Artemisia in the 300 sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire. She received great reviews for this role. Many critics praised her strong performance.

From 2014 to 2016, Eva starred in the TV series Penny Dreadful as Vanessa Ives. Her acting earned her a nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama. She also played Ava Lord in the Sin City sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014).

In 2016, Eva worked with Tim Burton again in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. She played the main character, Miss Peregrine. They worked together once more in Disney's 2019 live-action movie Dumbo. In 2018, she received an honorary award from the French government called the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

In 2019, she starred in the French drama film Proxima. Her performance in this movie was highly praised. She was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress. In 2020, she played Lydia Wells in the TV series The Luminaries.

Recent projects (2022–present)

Eva Green appeared in Nocebo, a thriller film released in 2022. In 2021, it was announced that she would star in the British-French TV series Liaison for Apple TV+. This series premiered in 2023.

In 2023, she played Milady de Winter in two French movie versions of the classic novel The Three Musketeers. These films were The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady.

Personal life

Eva Green has lived in London since 2005. She has said she is happier in England than in France. She enjoys the parks and the friendly people in London.

Eva describes herself as "nerdy" and a bit shy. She says that when people first meet her, they might find her cold. She feels acting allows her to hide behind a character. She lives alone and enjoys a quiet life when she is not working. She prefers relaxing at home with a book over going to parties.

Eva has said she is "very spiritual" and has complex beliefs about supernatural things. She is interested in returning to theater acting. She doesn't plan to work in Hollywood all the time. She feels that studios there have too much power over directors. Her main goal is to find good scripts.

Filmography

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See also

In Spanish: Eva Green para niños