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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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2026 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

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6.97 Thriller 6

6.85 Fantasy 2

6.82 Action 5

6.57 Science Fiction 4

6.49 Comedy 10

6.44 War 2

6.32 Documentary 6

6.32 History 3

6.12 Romance 14

6.00 Horror 1

5.95 Drama 33

5.52 Crime 3

4.67 TV Movie 1