ACTOR
Eva Green
- Known for
- Perfect Sense (2011), The Salvation (2014), White Bird in a Blizzard (2014), Les trois mousquetaires: D'Artagnan (2023)
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Eva Green is an actor best known for Perfect Sense, The Salvation and White Bird in a Blizzard.
All facts (58)
- #001
Eva Green is a natural blonde. She first dyed her hair black at age 14, thinking the color looked nicer and matched her skin tone, and she has said she does not want to return it to its original color unless it is for a film.
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One of Eva Green's dream acting jobs was to play a serial killer.
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In October 2017, Eva Green was among more than 80 women who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault.
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Because Eva Green was extremely shy in her youth, her mother sent her to a therapist. She instead took acting classes to become more open.
- #005
Eva Green had to use a stunt double for most of the action scenes in Casino Royale (2006). Even the scenes where she runs up the stairs were shot with a stunt double because she nearly broke her leg.
- #006
Eva Green's surname is Swedish and, according to her, is pronounced "grain/greyne"; the name is not derived from the English word "green," which means "grön" in Swedish. The family surname "Green" derives from the Swedish word "gren," meaning (tree) branch.
- #007
Eva Green has composed music for flute and piano.
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Eva Green prefers people to tell her she is a good actress rather than that she is beautiful.
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Eva Green received a letter from author Philip Pullman praising her performance in The Golden Compass (2007), the adaptation of his novel.
- #010
Eva Green only watches her films two or three times because she does not like seeing herself on screen.
- #011
Eva Green has a fraternal twin sister, Joy, who is two minutes younger; Joy trained in business and is married to Niccolò, Count Marzichi-Lenzi, from an old Florentine noble family, and is also the son of Ilaria of the Antinori marquises, a Chianti producer in Bolgheri, Tuscany. Joy and her husband live in Normandy, where they breed horses.
- #012
Eva Green described the atmosphere on the set of Franklyn (2008) as strange because she and her co-star Ryan Phillippe did not talk much, as both were very shy.
- #013
Eva Green is the fifth French actress to play a Bond girl.
- #014
Eva Green has played a witch three times: Angelique in Dark Shadows (2012), Morgan in Camelot (2011) and Serafina Pekkala in The Golden Compass (2007).
- #015
Eva Green shot 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) back to back. Both films are sequels and both are based on Frank Miller comics.
- #016
Eva Green collects religious icons.
- #017
Eva Green grew up in Paris, attended an English-speaking school and learned to speak the language at a young age. As a result of her perfectly fluent English, she takes English-language roles when playing American and British characters.
- #018
Eva Green's favorite actors are Joaquin Phoenix and Edward Norton.
- #019
Eva Green's family initially objected to her appearing in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), recalling the trauma Maria Schneider experienced after filming Last Tango in Paris (1972).
- #020
Eva Green's hobbies are collecting artworks and visiting museums.
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Eva Green has expressed a desire to work with the French citizen Marion Cotillard.
- #022
Eva Green was cast in a role in Kingdom of Heaven (2005) a week before filming began.
- #023
Eva Green was born to French-Algerian actress Marlène Jobert and Swedish dentist Walter Green. Green's mother was born in Algeria to French, Spanish and Sephardic Jewish heritage. Green's father is of Swedish, French and Breton origin. His great-grandfather was the French Breton composer and music critic Paul Le Flem.
- #024
Empire Magazine selected the character Vesper Lynd as the 9th sexiest female character in cinema history.
- #025
Eva Green trained in piano and flute.
- #026
In 2010, Eva Green auditioned for the role of Tauriel in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and lost the role to Evangeline Lilly. Her audition took place immediately after that of Benedict Cumberbatch, who successfully took on the role of Smaug in the films.
- #027
Eva Green was cast as Tessa Quayle in The Constant Gardener (2005) but had to withdraw due to scheduling conflicts. She was replaced by Rachel Weisz, who won an Oscar for the role.
- #028
Eva Green admires François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Tim Burton, Lars von Trier, David Lynch and David Fincher.
- #029
Eva Green appeared on her first magazine cover when she was only two months old.
- #030
Before he met Carla Bruni, French President Nicolas Sarkozy invited Green to join him on his campaign trail. She politely declined.
- #031
Eva Green turned down the role in Wonder Woman (2017), and Elena Anaya was cast in her place.
- #032
Eva Green turned down her role in Casino Royale to appear alongside Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia (2006).
- #033
Eva Green was cast as Marie Antoinette in Farewell, My Queen (2012) but left the film to work with Tim Burton on Dark Shadows (2012).
- #034
Empire magazine selected Eva Green as one of the 100 sexiest stars in cinema history (6th place). [2007].
- #035
Eva Green has a border terrier named Griffin.
- #036
While promoting The Golden Compass (2007), Eva Green said that her daemon would be a frog because it is French.
- #037
Eva Green had a relationship with actor Marton Csokas from 2005 to 2009.
- #038
Eva Green was cast for the female lead role in Antichrist (2009) but was dropped due to a complicated contract.
- #039
Eva Green's favorite film character is Adèle Hugo in The Story of Adele H. (1975).
- #040
Eva Green sees Bryce Dallas Howard as one of Hollywood's next big things.
- #041
Eva Green trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Nicholas Courtney, Julia Ormond, Rupert Friend, Angela Lansbury, Matthew Goode, Hugh Bonneville, Daniel Hunt, Minnie Driver and Julian Fellowes.
- #042
Eva Green is a cousin of Joséphine Jobert, an actress on Death in Paradise.
- #043
Eva Green's favorite actress is Isabelle Adjani.
- #044
With her roles in 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Eva Green is the only actress to appear in two adaptations of a Frank Miller graphic novel in the same year.
- #045
Eva Green was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful Women in Film by Los Angeles Times Magazine (#18) in 2011.
- #046
Eva Green is the face of an Emporio Armani campaign.
- #047
Eva Green studied English in Ramsgate, Kent, England.
- #048
Eva Green ranked 16th on Maxim's 2006 Hot List.
- #049
Eva Green was one of the candidates for the role of Carol Ferris in Green Lantern (2011).
- #050
Eva Green bought a new grand piano for her home in London.
- #051
Eva Green is the niece of cinematographer Christian Berger.
- #052
Eva Green was nominated for a Molière Award (Paris, 2002) in the Revelation Theatrale Feminine category for the play "Jalousie en Trois Fax".
- #053
Eva Green played the witch Serafina Pekkala in the filming of The Golden Compass (2007).
- #054
Eva Green is the daughter of Walter Green and Marlène Jobert, the niece of Charles Jobert, and a cousin of Georges Lunghini, Véronique Mucret Rouveyrollis, Marika Green, Christian Berger, Elsa Lunghini and Joséphine Jobert.
- #055
Eva Green was considered for the role of Jeanne Schneider in Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), but the part went to Cécile de France.
- #056
Eva Green is good friends with Jordan Scott.
- #057
Eva Green described her character in Cracks (2009) as complex.
- #058
Serge, the creator of the Cold Crash Pictures YouTube channel, stated that he writes scripts solely for Eva Green to play.
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