Léa Seydoux

After taking acting classes at Enfants Terribles, Léa Seydoux landed a role in 2007's The Last Mistress. Then, in 2008, she starred with Guillaume Depardieu in the film On War by Bertrand Bonello. She then took the lead role opposite Louis Garrel in La Belle Personne, directed by Christophe Honoré, a role for which she was nominated for a César.

In 2009, Seydoux appeared alongside Brad Pitt in the Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds, and in the following year appeared in Robin Hood, alongside Russell Crowe.

In 2010 she appeared in three further films, Belle Épine, which was selected at the Critics' Week at Cannes, Roses à credit, and The Mysteries of Lisbon. She was subsequently cast in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which opened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and also starred in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol alongside Tom Cruise.

In 2012, she was nominated for a César Award in the best actress category for her performance in Farewell, My Queen. She also starred in 2012's Sister, which won the Silver Bear award in Berlin. The following year she featured in Grand Central and Blue Is The Warmest Color. The latter won the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, and in unprecedented jury decision, the award was extended to the film's actresses as well as its director.

Her other film credits include Christophe Gans' film The Beauty and the Beast and Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. In 2014, she appeared in Saint Laurent and shot The Lobster and Le journal d'une femme de chambre. She is also the face of the perfume Prada Candy.

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