Eva Green

Eva Green

Born Eva Gaëlle Green
(1980-07-06) 6 July 1980
Paris, France
Nationality French
Alma mater American School of Paris
St. Paul Drama School, Paris
Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation Actress, model
Years active 2001–present
Parent(s) Walter Green
Marlène Jobert
Relatives Joy Green (twin sister)
Paul Le Flem (great grandfather)
Marika Green (aunt)
Elsa Lunghini (cousin)
Joséphine Jobert (cousin)

Eva Gaëlle Green (French: [ɡʁin]; Swedish: [ˈɡɾeːn];[1] born 6 July 1980[2][3]) is a French actress and model. She started her career in theatre before making her film debut in 2003 in Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Dreamers. She achieved international recognition when she appeared as Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem in Ridley Scott's historical epic Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and portrayed Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006). In 2006, Green was awarded the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Since 2006, Green has starred in independent films Cracks (2009), Womb (2010), and Perfect Sense (2011). She has also appeared in the television series Camelot (2011), and played Angelique Bouchard in Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of Dark Shadows (2012). In 2014, she played Artemisia in the 300 sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, and Ava Lord in Frank Miller's and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. She also starred as Vanessa Ives in Showtime's horror drama Penny Dreadful. Her performance in the series earned her a nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. In 2016, she played the titular character in Tim Burton's fantasy film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Early life and education

Green was born in Paris, France, two minutes earlier than her fraternal twin sister, Joy (Johanne).[4] She is the daughter of Marlène Jobert, an actress, and Walter Green, a dentist. Her father has acted in film, appearing in Robert Bresson's film Au Hasard Balthazar. Her father is of Swedish and French descent, and through him she is the great-granddaughter of the French composer Paul Le Flem.[5] Her mother, a native of French Algeria, later moved to Metropolitan France. Green is Jewish,[6][7] as is her mother (of Sephardic Jewish heritage).[8][9][10] She was not raised religious at all;[11] she has said "I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders."[12][13] Green has described her family as "bourgeois",[14] and has said that her sister is very different from her.[15] Green is a natural dark blonde; she has dyed her hair black since she was 15 years old.[16][17] The French-Swedish actress Marika Green is her aunt. The 1980s pop-star Elsa Lunghini is her first cousin, through their mothers.[18][19]

Her paternal surname "Green"[20] is Swedish and pronounced "grain/greyne"; it does not originate from the English word "green", which is "grön" in Swedish.[21] "Green" is derived from the Swedish word "gren", which means (tree) branch.[21]

Green was raised in France and attended the American University of Paris, an English-speaking institution.[16] She also spent time between Ramsgate, London and Ireland growing up.[22] Green was quiet in school,[15] and developed an interest in Egyptology when she visited the Louvre at age seven.[23] At age 14, after seeing Isabelle Adjani in The Story of Adele H., Green decided to become an actress. Her mother initially feared that an acting career would be too much for her sensitive daughter, but later came to support young Eva's ambitions.[22] Green continued her studies at St. Paul Drama School in Paris,[24] and took an acting course at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.[13] Around this time, Green returned to Paris, where she performed in several plays.[22] Green stated that in drama school, "I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions."[25]

Career

Eva Green at the BAFTAs at the Royal Opera House in London, 2007

Green appeared on stage in Jalousie en Trois Fax (2001) for which she was nominated for a Molière Award.[26] She also appeared in Turcaret (2002).

In 2002, Green had her film debut, when director Bernardo Bertolucci cast her for the role of Isabelle in The Dreamers (2003), which involved her in extensive full frontal nude scenes and graphic sex scenes. Green told The Guardian that her agent and her parents begged her not to take the role, concerned that the film would cause her career to "have the same destiny as Maria Schneider",[27] because of Schneider's traumatic experience during the filming of Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris.[22] Green said that with Bertolucci's guidance she felt comfortable during the filming of the nude and sex scenes[28] but was embarrassed when her family saw the film.[22] Her performance was well-received, and some compared her to Liv Tyler.[29] Green expressed surprise when a minute was cut from the film for the American market, stating, "[T]here is so much violence, both on the streets and on the screen. They think nothing of it. Yet I think they are frightened by sex."[22] Her next film was Arsène Lupin (2004), in which she portrayed Lupin's love interest. She enjoyed the light-hearted role, although she has stated that she generally prefers more complex characters.[26]

Her performance in The Dreamers led Ridley Scott to cast Green in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), a film about the Crusades where she played Sibylla of Jerusalem. Green performed six screen tests and was hired only a week before principal photography began.[13] Green found the atmosphere of coming onto a film so late tense and exciting, and she liked the film's ambiguity in approaching its subject matter.[25] To her disappointment, much of her screen time was cut.[13] Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com praised her performance: "She doesn't quite know what to do with her character's stilted dialogue, but she carries herself so regally that you barely notice."[30] Nev Pierce of the BBC, however, called her character "limp".[31] Green was satisfied when her character's complex subplot was restored in the director's cut.[32] Total Film said the new scenes completed her performance: "In the theatrical cut, Princess Sibylla sleeps with Balian and then, more or less, loses her mind. Now we understand why. Not only does Sibylla have a young son, but when she realizes he's afflicted with leprosy just like her brother Baldwin, she decides to take his life shortly after he's been crowned king."[33]

Green was considered for roles in The Constant Gardener (a role that went to Rachel Weisz) and The Black Dahlia.[22] She was cast at the last minute for the role of Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006).[23] Green was approached in mid-2005 but turned it down.[32] Principal photography was already underway, and director Martin Campbell said casting the role was difficult because "we didn't have the final script and a Bond girl always had the connotation of tits 'n' ass." Campbell saw Green's performance in the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven,[34] and approached Green again. She read the script, and found the character of Vesper far deeper than most Bond girls.[32] Green's performance was well received: Entertainment Weekly called her the fourth-best Bond girl of all time;[35] IGN named her the best femme fatale, stating, "This is the girl that broke – and therefore made – James Bond";[36] and she won a BAFTA and an Empire award for her performance. Both awards were voted for by the British public.[37]

Green portrayed the witch Serafina Pekkala in the 2007 film adaptation of The Golden Compass. She found it difficult being flown on a harness because of her fear of heights, which led her to refuse to reshoot a scene on her last day of filming.[17] Green hoped the religious themes of the book would be preserved,[32] but references to Catholicism were removed from the film.[38] Green next appeared in Franklyn, as the tormented artist Emilia,[39] (who Green compared to real-life figures Sophie Calle and Tracey Emin)[40] and the mysterious Sally, who she described as, "full of life, very witty, big sense of humor".[41] She also filmed Cracks, the directorial debut of Jordan Scott, Ridley Scott's daughter, where she plays a teacher at a girls' school named Miss G, who falls in love with one of her pupils.[17] In March 2009, she appeared in Womb, where she plays a woman who clones her dead boyfriend. It is a collaboration between actor Matt Smith and director Benedek Fliegauf.[42]

She was considered for the role eventually played by Cécile de France in Un Secret (2007).[43] Additionally, she was initially approached for the female lead in Lars von Trier's controversial film Antichrist (2009). According to Trier, Green was positive about appearing in the film, but her agents refused to allow her. The unsuccessful casting attempt took two months of the film's pre-production process. Anglo-French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg was subsequently cast in the role.[44] Green later said that she got along well with Trier, "but then we started talking about nudity and sex and so on. It got a bit too far ... It was my dream to work with him, but it’s a shame it was on that film that it nearly happened. I’m sure I would have been trashed doing that film".[45]

Green starred in the first season of Starz's series, Camelot, as the sorceress Morgan le Fay.[46] Green stated, "This is such an iconic story and you have 10 episodes to explore a character. It's not a girlfriend role that you could have in a movie. It's a real ballsy character. She has some guts."[47] In 2012, Green played a vengeful witch Angelique Bouchard who curses Johnny Depp's character into a vampire in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. In 2014, she played Artemisia in the 300 sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire.[48] Since May 2014, Green starred in the Showtime series Penny Dreadful as Vanessa Ives.[49] She played the titular role Ava Lord in the Sin City sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014).[50]

In 2016, Green reunited with Tim Burton in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a film based on the 2011 novel by Ransom Riggs.[51]

Promotional work

In addition to her acting career, Green did endorsements for Montblanc, Breil, Emporio Armani, Lancôme, Heineken,[23] and Christian Dior's "Midnight Poison" perfume, in an advert directed by Wong Kar-wai.[16]

In media

In 2007, Green was voted the sixth sexiest movie star of all-time by Empire magazine.[52] Empire also listed her character Vesper Lynd as the ninth sexiest female character in cinema history.[53] In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine listed Green at No. 18 for their 50 most beautiful women in film.[54] In 2012, she was listed number 57 in AfterEllen Hot 100.[55] In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked her Number 2 on its list of "the 50 most talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish women in the world".[56]

Personal life

Green considers herself nerdy:[23] "When people first meet me, they find me very cold... I keep myself at a distance, and I think that's why I'm so drawn to acting. It allows me to wear a mask".[4][11][23] She lives alone and, by her own account, leads a low-key life when she's not working. When asked in an interview what people would be surprised to find out about her, she responded "I guess people would be surprised to find out that I am a bit of a homebody. I do not like clubbing or going to wild parties. After a day of shooting, I love to come home and relax by the fire with a glass of wine and a good book. Boring, huh?"[57]

Green has expressed interest in returning to the theatre.[28] She says she has no plans to work in Hollywood full-time because, "The problem with Hollywood is that the studios are super powerful, they have far more power than the directors. My ambition at this moment is just to find a good script".[58] She added that in Hollywood she would probably get typecast as a femme fatale.[17] Green supports UNICEF.[11][17] She has expressed interest in taxidermy and entomology. She collects preserved skulls and insects.[59][60]

In 2014, after playing a spiritualist in the TV series Penny Dreadful, she talked about her spiritual side. Green said while she is not religious, she does believe in the supernatural. "There are forces, yes – I’m not religious but I believe there is something other," she commented to press.[61]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2003 The Dreamers Isabelle
2004 Arsène Lupin Clarisse de Dreux-Soubise
2005 Kingdom of Heaven Sibylla
2006 Casino Royale Vesper Lynd
2007 The Golden Compass Serafina Pekkala
2008 Franklyn Emilia / Sally
2009 Cracks Miss G
2010 Womb Rebecca
2011 Perfect Sense Susan
2012 Dark Shadows Angelique Bouchard
2014 300: Rise of an Empire Artemisia
2014 White Bird in a Blizzard Eve Connor
2014 The Salvation Madelaine
2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Ava Lord
2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine
2017 Euphoria Emilie Filming
2017 D'après une histoire vraie Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Camelot Morgan Pendragon 10 episodes
2014–16 Penny Dreadful Vanessa Ives 24 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2004 European Film Award Best Actress The Dreamers Nominated [62]
2005 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Love Scene (shared with Orlando Bloom) – Kingdom of Heaven Nominated [62]
Choice Movie: Liplock Nominated [62]
2007 BAFTA Awards Rising Star Casino Royale Won [62]
2007 Irish Film & Television Awards Best International Actress Nominated [62]
2007 National Movie Awards Best Performance by a Female Nominated [62]
2007 Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated [62]
2007 Empire Awards Best Female Newcomer Won [62]
2015 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best TV Actress Penny Dreadful Nominated [62]
2015 Satellite Award Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated [62]
2015 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actress in a Drama Series Nominated [62]
2016 Golden Globe Awards Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated [62]
2016 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actress in a Drama Series Nominated [62]
2016 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best TV Actress Won [62]

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