Green is naturally dark blonde she has dyed her hair brown since she was 15 years old. She has described her family as ' bourgeois' and has said that her sister is very different from her. Green has described herself as 'a secular Jew who never attended synagogue as a girl' and feels 'like a citizen of the world'. Green is of Jewish descent through her Algerian-born mother. She is the daughter of French actress and author Marlène Jobert, and Walter Green, a Swedish dentist and occasional actor ( Au Hasard Balthazar directed by Robert Bresson).

She also starred as Vanessa Ives in the Showtime horror drama series Penny Dreadful (2014–2016), earning critical acclaim and a nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.Įva Gaëlle Green was born on 6 July 1980, two minutes earlier than her fraternal twin sister Joy. Green starred as Morgan Pendragon in the Starz historical fantasy series Camelot (2011). For her role as an astronaut mother in the drama film Proxima (2019), she earned a nomination for the César Award for Best Actress.

Green is also known for her collaborations with director Tim Burton, starring as Angelique Bouchard in the horror comedy film Dark Shadows (2012), the titular character of the fantasy film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), and Colette Marchant in the fantasy film Dumbo (2019). In 2014, she played Artemisia in the 300 sequel 300: Rise of an Empire and Ava Lord in Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Green has since starred in numerous independent films, including Cracks (2009), Womb (2010), and Perfect Sense (2011).

The following year, she played Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006), for which she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. She portrayed Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem in Ridley Scott's historical epic Kingdom of Heaven (2005). The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003). Eva Gaëlle Green ( French:, Swedish: born ( )6 July 1980) is a French actress.

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