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Eva Green - Goddesses of the Silver Screen
619    Dibyendu Banerjee    12/07/2024

Born on 6 July 1980, in Paris, two minutes earlier than her twin sister Joy, Eva Gaëlle Green is the daughter of the French actress and author of children’s book Marlène Jobert and Walter Green, a Swedish dentist, who also appeared in a 1966 French tragedy Au Hasard Balthazar, also known as Balthazar, directed by Robert Bresso. She is of Jewish descent through her Algeria born mother, but never attended a synagogue as a girl and later described herself as a secular Jew. Although she was raised in France, she spent time between London and Ireland growing up.

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At the tender age of 14, she decided to become an actress, as she was very much impressed by the performance of Isabelle Yasmine Adjani, a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent, in the 1975 French historical drama film The Story of Adèle H, directed by François Roland Truffaut. Although her mother was initially apprehensive about the uncertain future career of her daughter as an actor, later came to support her ambition. Finally, she left her French school at 17, switched to the American School in France for one year, then went on to study acting at Saint Paul Drama School in Paris for three years, after which also completed a 10-week course at the Weber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, one of the leading drama schools in Britain.

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From London, Eva Green returned to Paris as an accomplished young actress, brimming with confidence and appeared on stage in several theatre productions, which included La Jalousie en Trois Fax, for which she was nominated for a Molière Award, the highest French theatre honour, the equivalent to the American Tony Award, and also appeared in Turcaret (2002). During that time, she caught the eye of Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci, who cast her for the role of Isabelle, who becomes entangled in an erotic triangle in the romantic drama film The Dreamers (2003). However, her agent and her parents begged her not to play the role, which involved her in extensive full frontal nude scenes as well as graphic sex scenes, since that might adversely affect her mental health which Maria Schneider experienced during the filming of Last Tango in Paris (1972), created by the same director. However, Eva boldly took the challenge and with her ethereal beauty and emotional complexity, she made an international breakthrough with her very first film.

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Eva Green in Dreamers (2003)

Set against the backdrop of Paris in the spring of 1968, when most students took the lead in the May revolution, The Dreamers, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, depicts the story of Matthew, an American exchange student in Paris, and the free-spirited twins of a French poet, Théo and Isabelle. One day, after dinner with their parents, Théo and Isabelle offer Matthew to stay with them while their parents are on a trip for a month, which he agreed. However, enclosed in the world of the apartment, Matthew found himself absorbed and involved in the unusual sexual obsessions of the twins and was compelled to lose all of his inhibitions and innocence to become involved in their game of sexual obsessions. While The New York Times described the film as disarmingly sweet and completely enchanting, reputed film critic Roger Ebert gave it four stars, his highest rating, describing The Dreamers as poignant and extraordinarily beautiful. At the same time, Eva Green was highly acclaimed for her completely uninhibited performance in the controversial erotic drama film, and it also propelled her from unknown to a sought-after actress.

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Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

For her daring performance in The Dreamers, British filmmaker Ridley Scott cast her in the leading female role of his historical epic Kingdom of Heaven (2005), in which she played the role of Sibylla, the princess of Jerusalem, which brought her a wider international exposure. However, as she did not want to end up typecast, she turned down the femme fatale role in the 2006 American neo-noir crime thriller film The Black Dahlia, directed by Brian De Palma that went to Hilary Swank. Instead, she accepted the prestigious role of Vesper Lynd, one of three Bond girls, opposite Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006), as she found the role far deeper than most of the earlier Bond girls. That made her the fifth French actress to play a James Bond girl, and her performance in the film was well received both by the audience and the critics. While she was rated as the fourth-best Bond girl of all time by Entertainment Weekly, an American digital-only entertainment magazine, she also won a BAFTA Rising Star Award and the Empire Award for the Best Female Newcomer.

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Moreover, she achieved international recognition for her performance in the film, reckoned as one of the highest-grossing Bond movies ever.

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In Franklyn (2008)

The next year, Eva Green appeared as Serafina Pekkala, the witch queen in the Oscar winning fantasy film The Golden Compass (2007), directed by Christopher John Weitz. However, after that, instead of continuing to play major roles in Hollywood, she left for Europe, where she appeared as the tormented artist Emilia in Franklyn (2008), played the role of Miss G, a teacher at a girls' school, who falls in love with one of her pupils in Cracks (2009) and also appeared in Womb (Clone 2010), playing Rebecca, a woman who bears the clone her dead boyfriend.

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Eva Green with Juno Temple in Cracks (2011)

After that, she appeared in the science fiction-romantic drama film Perfect Sense (2011), in which she appeared as Susan an epidemiologist, fighting against a global pandemic, as people suddenly begin losing all five senses, and also starred as Angelique Bouchard, a witch in the horror comedy film Dark Shadows (2012).

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However, apart from her role of Eve Connors, the disappeared mother of a teenage girl in White Bird in a Blizzard (2014), Eva Green received excellent reviews for playing the role of Artemisia in the American epic historical action film, the 300 sequel 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), and also for playing the titular role of Ava Lord in the Sin City sequel film Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014).

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Eva Green in 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

In 2016, Green reunited with Tim Burton, director of Dark Shadow, and appeared in his fantasy film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), depicting the story of the home's children and the headmistress, Miss Alma Lefay Peregrine, who possessed paranormal abilities. Her subsequent films include Proxyma (2010), a French drama film, in which she portrayed the role of Sara Loreau a woman trying to balance her work as an astronaut with her family life as the mother of a little daughter Stella. While the film was critically acclaimed, Eva Green was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress for her performance in it.

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Eva Green in a scene with her co-stars in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016).

In 2007, Eva Green was chosen as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in the film history by Empire magazine and was chosen as one of the 50 Most Beautiful Women in Film by Los Angeles Times Magazine in 2011. However, she prefers to be depicted as a good actress rather than a beautiful woman. She plays classical music and composed music for flute and piano. Her hobby is collecting art, religious icons and visiting museums. She was never married, but was in a relationship with the New Zealand born actor Márton Csókás from 2005 to 2009.

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Dibyendu Banerjee
Ex student of Scottish Church College. Served a Nationalised Bank for nearly 35 years. Authored novels in Bengali. Translated into Bengali novels/short stories of Leo Tolstoy, Eric Maria Remarque, D.H.Lawrence, Harold Robbins, Guy de Maupassant, Somerset Maugham and others. Also compiled collections of short stories from Africa and Third World. Interested in literature, history, music, sports and international films.
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