Starring in “Dune: Part 2”

Léa Seydoux celebrated her 37th birthday. A birthday that comes shortly after a prestigious announcement: the actress from the north of France has been approached to play Lady Margot in the next installment of the “Dune” saga directed by Denis Villeneuve.

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A new character

Invented in Frank Herbert’s novels, the character of Lady Margot was absent from the first episode released last year. Lady Margot is part of the Bene Gesserit, the community of Sisters. She forms with Count Hasimir Fenring a very influential couple with the Emperor.

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A devoted actress

Now thirty-seven, Léa Seydoux is one of the most prominent actresses in French cinema and has worked for the most prestigious directors on both sides of the Atlantic. Discover in pictures the steps that have marked the career of the one who is now one of the most sought after French actresses.

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2006: first appearance at the cinema in “My girlfriends”

Her very first film role was in comedy. My friends by Sylvie Ayme, theatrically released in 2006.

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2008: headliner in “The Beautiful Person”

Léa Seydoux plays the main role in The beautiful persona loose adaptation of the novel The Princess of Clevessigned Christophe Honoré and released in 2008. A revelation for the young actress, whose interpretation is applauded by critics.

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2009: appearance in a Tarantino

The following year, the French actress appeared alongside Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterdsa feature film by Quentin Tarantino which stages a very free adaptation of the history of the Second World War.

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2011: Midnight in Paris

In 2011, Léa Seydoux appeared in a film by another prestigious American director, Woody Allen. Midnight in Paris pays homage to the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties in the French capital and won the Oscar for best original screenplay in 2012.

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2011: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

The same year, the actress played the French hitman Sabine Moreau in the fourth installment of the Mission impossible saga.

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2013: consecration in “La Vie d’Adèle”

It is undoubtedly his role in The Life of Adele by Abdellatif Kechiche who made Léa Seydoux one of the most renowned French actresses. The film depicts the ups and downs of the romantic relationship between young Adèle (played by Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Emma, ​​an art student played by Léa Seydoux, with whom she discovers her sexuality.

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Huge critical success

Despite some controversy over the shooting conditions, the film received a very enthusiastic reception from the press and achieved more than a million admissions in France. The Palme d’Or was awarded to Kechiche, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film also received a series of international distinctions. Léa Seydoux won the César for best actress the following year.

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2014 : The Grand Budapest Hotel

In 2014, she appeared for the first time in a film by Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel. This gritty, polished comedy is inspired by the works of Stefan Zweig and the atmosphere of the interwar period, with British actor Ralph Fiennes as the headliner.

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2014: Beauty and the Beast

The same year, Léa Seydoux obtained the role of Beauty in the adaptation of the tale The beauty and the Beast, directed by Christophe Gans. She is surrounded by Vincent Cassel, who plays the Beast, and André Dussolier. A success both critically and at the box office, with nearly two million admissions in France.

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2015: Léa Seydoux as James Bond Girl

In 2015, Léa Seydoux was chosen by Sam Mendes to interpret the next James Bond Girl, in the new opus 007 Spectre. The cast brings together for the fourth time Daniel Craig in the role of the British secret service agent, but also Monica Belucci and Christoph Waltz. The film triumphed in theaters and Léa Seydoux won the award for best actress in an action film at the Teen Choice Awards 2016.

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The return of Madeleine Swann

Still alongside Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux takes over the role of Madeleine Swann in Dying can waitthe last episode of the James Bond saga released in 2021.

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Member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival

In 2018, the now internationally recognized actress was part of the Cannes Film Festival jury chaired by Cate Blanchett. We find at his side, among others, the actress Kristen Stewart and the director Robert Guédiguian.

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2019: Roubaix, a light

In 2019, the native director of Roubaix Arnaud Desplechin stages his hometown in a detective film inspired by real events. The investigation leads the police commissioner, played brilliantly by Roschdy Zem, on the trail of two marginal young women who live together, played by Sara Forestier and Léa Seydoux.

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2021 : France

In 2021, it is the turn of another emblematic director from the north of France, Bruno Dumont, to shoot with Léa Seydoux. The film France depicts the trajectory of a star journalist, France de Meurs. Blanche Gardin and Benjamin Biolay accompany Léa Seydoux, who plays the title role.

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The French Dispatch

Last year was also marked by The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson. The story of an American newspaper that decides to give its audience news of France from the fictional town of Ennui-sur-Blasé. One of his articles deals with a psychotic inmate whose artistic talents are revealed. Léa Seydoux plays Simone, the strict prison guard who is also the muse of Moses Rosenthaler, the painter played by Benicio del Toro.

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My Wife’s Story

In this decidedly rich year 2021, Léa Seydoux also plays the main role of My Wife’s Storywhich tells the love story between a Dutch captain and a Parisian socialite in the 1920s.

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Deception

Finally, Léa Seydoux appeared alongside Denis Podalydès and Emmanuelle Devos in Deceptionan adaptation by Arnaud Desplechin of the homonymous novel by Philip Roth, and presented last year at the Cannes Film Festival.

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The Crimes of the Future

This year, Léa Seydoux played in “Les Crimes du futur”, the new opus by David Cronenberg, more than fifty after a first feature film of the same name directed by the American filmmaker. This harrowing science fiction film that evokes the possible transformations of the human body left the Cannes Film Festival empty-handed…

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Waiting for Dune

French actress among the most requested, benefiting from an international reputation, Léa Seydoux is present more and more often on the big screen and has a very wide range of roles. While waiting to see her as Lady Margot in “Dune”, let’s wish her a happy birthday!

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