Léa Seydoux

Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (born 1 July 1985) is a French actress and model who has appeared in both French cinema and Hollywood productions. Over the course of her career, she has received nominations for five César Awards, two Lumière Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Palme d'Or. She has also served as a festival jury member and received official government honors in France.

Seydoux was born in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Her father, Henri Jérôme Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne, is the founder and CEO of the wireless company Parrot, and her mother, Valérie Schlumberger, is a philanthropist and former actress. She is one of seven children, and her family holds prominent ties to the film industry; her grandfather Jérôme Seydoux is chairman of Pathé, and her great-uncle Nicolas Seydoux is chairman of Gaumont. Raised in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris as a child before deciding at age 18 to pursue acting. She subsequently trained at the French drama school Les Enfants Terribles and later at the Actors Studio in New York.

Seydoux made her feature film debut in the 2006 French-Belgian comedy Girlfriends, following appearances in a music video and a commercial. She achieved wider recognition for her performance in Christophe Honoré's The Beautiful Person (2008), winning the Trophée Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival and earning her first César Award nomination. Soon after, she began appearing in prominent Hollywood productions, including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), and the action film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).

In 2012, Seydoux gained further acclaim for her lead roles in Benoît Jacquot's Farewell, My Queen, which earned her a César Award nomination for Best Actress, and Ursula Meier's Sister. Her major breakthrough occurred with Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), for which she shared the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival alongside her co-star and director, while also winning a Lumière Award for Best Actress.

Seydoux later achieved international prominence portraying Madeleine Swann in the James Bond films Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). Her other film credits include Christophe Gans's Beauty and the Beast (2014), Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent (2014), Yorgos Lanthimos's The Lobster (2015), Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World (2016), Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The French Dispatch (2021), David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (2022), and Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two (2024). She has also provided performances for the video games Death Stranding (2019) and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (2025).

Alongside her acting career, Seydoux has modeled for editorials in publications such as Vogue Paris, American Vogue, L'Officiel, and W magazine, and became a brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton in 2016. She was appointed a Dame of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2016 and a Dame of the National Order of Merit in 2022.