Eva Green Official

Born in Paris to a French mother (an actress) and a Swedish father (a dentist), Green emerged from the crucible of European art cinema. Her breakout role in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003) was a provocation. Nude, feral, and intellectually arrogant, she played a cinephile who uses sex and taboo to wake her twin brother and an American tourist from their bourgeois slumber. It was impossible to look away. She wasn’t just beautiful; she was haunting . Her eyes—those impossible, sea-floor green irises—contained the knowledge of a woman who had already died once and found it boring.

Hollywood tried to put her in a box. They gave her the “love interest” role in Kingdom of Heaven (2005). But even behind a veil, she radiated a medieval ferocity that Orlando Bloom’s stoic knight couldn't match. When they tried to make her a blockbuster villain in Dark Shadows (2012), she played the jilted witch Angelique with such operatic, feral glee that she nearly tore the film away from Johnny Depp. She is a character actor trapped in the body of a femme fatale. Eva Green

And the truth, as Vesper Lynd knew, always leaves a scar. Born in Paris to a French mother (an

In the pantheon of modern screen actors, Eva Green occupies the space between a cathedral and a morgue. It was impossible to look away