New Bond girl Eva Green turns 26 today

Actress Eva Green, who will play the latest James Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the forthcoming 007 movie "Casino Royale", turns 26 years-old today.



Born on 5th July 1980 in Paris, France, Eva Green is a talented actress and composer.

Once described by director Bernardo Bertolucci as "so beautiful it's indecent," Eva is the daughter of French actress Marlène Jobert and Walter Green a Swedish dentist.

In Swedish, her surname is pronounced "grain" or “greyne”. While many believed Eva was just an Anglicised “stage name”, it is in fact her birth name.

She studied in Paris and then in London at the Webber Douglas acting school.

She performed on stage in productions such as “Jalousie En Trois Fax” before making her film debut as the female lead in the Bernardo Bertolucci's 2003 film "The Dreamers", starring Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel.

In addition to playig a lead role, she also composed the music for the film.

This debut performance brought her critical acclaim and she has finished her second movie role in the French film, "Arsene Lupin", directed by Jean-Paul Salomé – co-starring Romain Duris and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Shortly after, Eva was said to have turned down a major role in Brian De Palma's “The Black Dahlia”, for the fear of being typecast.

In 2005, she had her first important role in Hollywood as Sibylla of Jerusalem in the movie "Kingdom of Heaven", her third film, as the female star alongside Orlando Bloom and Liam Neeson and directed by Ridley Scott.

Thanks to `Pierce - Daniel` for the alert.

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