Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (French: [lea sɛdu]; born 1 July 1985) is a French actress. Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received five César Award nominations, two Lumières Awards, a Palme d'Or and a BAFTA Award nomination. In 2009, she won the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Seydoux was appointed a Dame of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2022, the French government made her a Dame of the National Order of Merit.
She began her acting career with her film debut in Girlfriends (2006), with early roles in The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She won acclaim for her French roles in The Beautiful Person (2008), Belle Épine (2010), and Farewell, My Queen (2012). During this time, she expanded her career by appearing in supporting roles in high-profile Hollywood films, including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and the action film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).
Her breakthrough role came with the controversial and acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), for which she received the Lumières Award for Best Actress, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival alongside her co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos. She received her second Lumières Award in the same year for the film Grand Central. She gained international attention for her role as Bond girl Madeleine Swann in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
She has appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The French Dispatch (2021). Other notable roles include Beauty and the Beast (2014), Saint Laurent (2014), The Lobster (2015), Zoe (2018), France (2021), Crimes of the Future (2022), One Fine Morning (2022), The Beast (2023) and Dune: Part Two (2024).
Seydoux has also worked as a model. She has been showcased in Vogue Paris, American Vogue, L'Officiel, Another Magazine and W magazine, among others. Since 2016, she has been a brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton.
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From Passy, Paris, France
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RevenueActing
Primarily2026 Dune: Part Three as Lady Margot Fenring
2025 Alpha Gang
2025 The Unknown
2025 Silent Friend as Alice
2025 Separate Rooms
2025 Untitled Leos Carax Project
2025 The Thing That Hurts
2024 The Second Act as Florence
2024 Dune: Part Two as Lady Margot Fenring
2024 The Beast as Gabrielle
2023 Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds as Self
2023 Cannes Uncut as Self
2022 One Fine Morning as Sandra Kienzler
2022 Crimes of the Future as Caprice
2021 Designing Bond as Self
2021 The French Dispatch as Simone
2021 No Time to Die as Madeleine
2021 Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
2021 France as France de Meurs
2021 The Story of My Wife as Lizzy
2021 Deception as The English Lover
2019 QT8: The First Eight as Self (archive footage)
2019 Oh Mercy as Claude
2018 Kursk as Tanya Averina
2018 Zoe as Zoe
2016 It's Only the End of the World as Suzanne
2015 Spectre as Madeleine
2015 The Lobster as Loner Leader
2015 Diary of a Chambermaid as Célestine
2014 Saint Laurent as Loulou de la Falaise
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel as Clotilde
2014 Beauty and the Beast as Belle
2013 Blue Is the Warmest Color as Emma
2013 Grand Central as Karole
2013 Prada: Candy as Candy
2012 Sister as Louise
2012 Farewell, My Queen as Agathe-Sidonie Laborde
2011 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol as Sabine Moreau
2011 Time Doesn't Stand Still as Elle
2011 Midnight in Paris as Gabrielle
2011 My Wife's Romance as Ève
2010 Belle épine as Prudence Friedmann
2010 Mysteries of Lisbon as Blanche de Montfort
2010 Roses à crédit as Marjoline
2010 Little Tailor as Marie-Julie
2010 Robin Hood as Isabella of Angoulême
2010 Rose, c'est Paris as self
2010 Traceless as Fleur
2009 Going South as Léa
2009 Lourdes as Maria
2009 Inglourious Basterds as Charlotte LaPadite
2009 The Illusions as La fille du métro
2008 On War as Marie
2008 The Beautiful Person as Junie
2008 Dolls and Angels as Gisèle
2008 Les vacances de Clémence as Jackie
2007 13 French Street as Jenny
2007 The Last Mistress as Olivia
2007 La Consolation as Camille
2006 My Friends as Aurore