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Eva Gaëlle Green (born July 5, 1980) is
a BAFTA award-winning French actress who has starred in
such film as The Dreamers, Kingdom of Heaven, and Casino
Royale.
Early life: Green was born in Paris, France to
French actress Marlène Jobert and Swedish dentist
Walter Green, who appeared in the 1966 film Au hasard
Balthazar, which was his first and only on-screen
appearance. She has said that she comes from a
"bourgeois" family, and was raised in the 17th
arrondissement of Paris.
Green attended the American School of
Paris for her formal years. She has one sibling, a
fraternal twin sister, Joy, from whom she is reportedly
estranged. Green's name is pronounced /gre:n/,
(approximately rhyming with "wren") in
Swedish; it comes from the Swedish word gren, which
means (tree) branch. She studied acting in Paris for
three years, followed by a ten-week polishing course at
the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London,
England.
Green has stated that she wanted to be an Egyptologist
when she was younger, but loved theatre classes. She
left school at 16; she had achieved good grades, but
"couldn't bear school any more".
Career: Green began her professional career in
2001, when she performed in the play Jalousie En Trois
Fax, playing the role of Iris – a performance that
brought her critical acclaim and a nomination for Les
Molières in the category Révélation Théâtrale Féminine.
In 2002, she made her second stage appearance as the
coquette in the play Turcaret.
In 2003, Green made her feature film
debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Dreamers with
Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel. She played the role of
Isabelle. Described by Bertolucci as "so beautiful
it's indecent", her performance brought her
critical acclaim, as well as some notoriety for her
extensive full frontal nudity.
While filming The Dreamers, Green was said to have found
Bertolucci manipulative, though in a creative way that
wasn't pushy. In comparison to her previous stage
acting, she has said that acting in front of the camera
makes you its "plaything". During filming,
Green's hair accidentally caught fire on a candle and
because she acted so calmly about it, the director
decided to leave it in.
She played Countess Clarisse de Dreux-Soubise (Clarisse
d'Etigues in the original French novel by Maurice
Leblanc) in the 2004 French film, Arsène Lupin,
directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and starring Romain Duris
and Kristin Scott Thomas. The film received mixed
reviews. In 2005, she portrayed Sibylla of Jerusalem in
Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, starring opposite
Orlando Bloom as Balian, a blacksmith from medieval
France.
Green met the director of The Constant
Gardener but couldn't take the part of Tessa Quayle due
to a clash with Kingdom of Heaven. She was also offered
a part in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia but again it
clashed with Kingdom of Heaven, though in the event
filming was postponed. Green stated she declined the
part because she did not want to be type-cast as a
"femme fatale" after her role in The Dreamers.
Green was cast as "Bond girl" Vesper Lynd in
the James Bond film Casino Royale with new 007 actor
Daniel Craig. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph
magazine she admitted that "I had reservations at
the beginning thinking I'll be typecast as the Bond Girl
- and after The Dreamers you have to be careful".
Having turned down the chance to audition a year before
shooting started and undergone a first blind audition
she was flown to Prague for a second audition mere days
before filming commenced. Given a new script which
impressed her, she accepted the role.
There were reservations on the part of the studio,
concerned about her having a French accent in an English
role. However, Green worked on her received
pronunciation and the part was hers. She is the fifth
French actress to portray a major "Bond girl"
(after Claudine Auger, Corinne Clery, Carole Bouquet,
and Sophie Marceau plus the uncredited appearance of
Miss World 1953, Denise Perrier in Diamonds Are Forever)
and the first one born in the 1980s. As Vesper works for
the British government, Green affected an English accent
for the role. Casino Royale was released in theaters
worldwide on November 17, 2006. In May of 2006, Maxim
named her #20 in its annual Hot 100 list.
Green has also joined the cast of New Line Cinema's His
Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, based on Phillip
Pullman's novel, and directed by Chris Weitz. She will
play Serafina Pekkala, the witch queen who guides Lyra
Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) on her journey to a
parallel universe. This project will reunite Green with
Bond alum Daniel Craig, and will see her work with Adam
Godley and Nicole Kidman, who are also in the cast. On
February 11, 2007, Green won the BAFTA Orange Rising
Star award.
On May 30, 2007 in Paris Green was announced the face of
the house of Dior by John Galliano at a ceremony at the
Opera Garnier. Green will represent the new fragrance
called Midnight Poison. Wong Kar Wai is the advertising
director of the commercial that was shown for the first
time[citation needed] during the same occasion. "I
hope you fall under the same spell I did," Galliano
said.
Personal life: Green speaks both French and
English fluently, noticeably speaking native-like
British English, and currently divides her time between
her residences in Paris and London. She is currently
dating the New Zealand actor Marton Csokas. They met
while shooting Kingdom of Heaven, in which he played her
character's husband. She previously dated French actor
Yann Claassen for over four years. |
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