Eva Green

About Eva Green

Eva Gaëlle Green is a French actress, producer, and model.

Green began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003). She played Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (2006), for which she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Her independent films include Cracks (2009), Womb (2010) and Perfect Sense (2011). In 2014, she played Artemisia in 300: Rise of an Empire and Ava Lord in Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. With director Tim Burton, she played Angelique Bouchard in Dark Shadows (2012), the title character in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and Colette Marchant in Dumbo (2019). Her role as an astronaut mother in Proxima (2019) earned her a nomination for the César Award for Best Actress.

Green played Morgan Pendragon in the Starz series Camelot (2011) and Vanessa Ives in the Showtime series Penny Dreadful (2014–2016). For Penny Dreadful, she received a nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.

Green has described her preference for graphic, sexually charged roles as "paradoxical" given her self-confessed shyness. Green also favours dark, twisted characters, as they allow her to feel liberated. She has said that playing Vanessa in Penny Dreadful felt like no longer wearing a corset and that she enjoyed it. She has also tried to take a variety of divergent roles in order to avoid being typecast.

Green has expressed interest in returning to theatre. She has said she has no plans to work in Hollywood full-time, citing the power studios hold over directors, and that her ambition "at this moment" was to find a good script.

Green is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Algerian, Breton, French, Spanish, and Swedish descent. She is the daughter of actress Marlene Jobert.