Eva Green portrayed Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem in Ridley Scott's historical epic Kingdom of Heaven.
37 Facts About Eva Green
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Eva Green starred as Morgan Pendragon in the Starz historical fantasy series Camelot.
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Eva Gaelle Green was born two minutes earlier than her non-identical twin sister, Joy, on 6 July 1980.
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Eva Green is the daughter of French actress and author Marlene Jobert, and Walter Green, a Swedish dentist and occasional actor.
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Eva Green has described herself as "a secular Jew who never attended synagogue as a girl" and feels "like a citizen of the world".
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Eva Green has described her family as "bourgeois" and has said that her sister is very different from her.
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Eva Green is naturally dark blonde; she has dyed her hair brown since she was 15 years old.
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Eva Green is the great-granddaughter of French composer Paul Le Flem and of Swedish photographer Mia Green, the niece of actress Marika Green and the maternal first cousin of singer Elsa Lunghini and actress Josephine Jobert.
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Eva Green was raised in France and attended the American University of Paris, an English-speaking institution.
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Eva Green spent time between London and Ireland growing up.
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Eva Green was quiet in school and developed an interest in Egyptology when she visited the Louvre at age seven.
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Eva Green stated that when she was in drama school, she "always picked the really evil roles" because "it's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions".
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Eva Green appeared on stage in Jalousie en Trois Fax for which she was nominated for a Moliere Award.
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Eva 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", because of Schneider's traumatic experience during the filming of Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris.
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Eva Green's performance was well-received, and some compared her to Liv Tyler.
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Eva Green enjoyed the light-hearted role, although she has stated that she generally prefers more complex characters.
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Eva Green performed six screen tests and was hired only a week before principal photography began.
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Eva 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.
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Eva Green was satisfied when her character's complex subplot was restored in the director's cut.
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Eva Green was considered for roles in The Constant Gardener and The Black Dahlia.
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Eva Green was cast at the last minute for the role of Vesper Lynd in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale.
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Eva Green read the script, and found the character of Vesper far deeper than most Bond girls.
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Eva Green portrayed the witch Serafina Pekkala in the 2007 film adaptation of The Golden Compass.
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Eva Green hoped the religious themes of the book would be preserved, but references to Catholicism were removed from the film.
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Eva Green next appeared in Franklyn, as the tormented artist Emilia, and the mysterious Sally, who she described as, "full of life, very witty, big sense of humor".
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Eva Green 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.
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Eva Green was considered for the role eventually played by Cecile de France in Un Secret.
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In 2011, Eva Green signed with United Talent Agency in the US, remaining represented by Tavistock Wood in the UK.
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Eva Green then starred in the first season of Starz's series, Camelot, as the sorceress Morgan le Fay.
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Eva Green plays a snarling, insatiable, self-hating femme fatale and completely steals the show.
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Between May 2014 and 2016, Eva Green starred in the Showtime horror drama series Penny Dreadful as Vanessa Ives.
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Eva Green played the titular role of Ava Lord in the Sin City sequel film, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
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In 2016, Eva Green reunited with Tim Burton in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a film based on the 2011 novel by Ransom Riggs.
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Eva Green collaborated once more with Burton in Disney's 2019 live-action adaptation of Dumbo, co-starring with Colin Farrell and Michael Keaton.
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Eva Green appeared in Nocebo, a thriller produced by teams from Ireland and the Philippines, released on 4 November 2022 in the US and on 9 December 2022 in the UK and Ireland.
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In June 2021, it was announced that Eva Green would serve as the lead character in the British-French Apple TV+ series Liaison, co-starring Vincent Cassel.
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Eva Green is non-religious Jewish, though she describes herself as "very spiritual" and having complex beliefs about supernatural forces.