The latter was highly acclaimed and earned her a nomination for Les Molieres, France’s most prestigious theatre award, in the category of Best Female Newcomer.ĭescribed by Oscar®-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci as “so beautiful it’s indecent”, Green made her film debut in Bertolucci’s critically acclaimed The Dreamers (2003), a triangular love story set against the Paris riots of 1968 starring opposite Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel. She began her acting career on stage, appearing in 2001 in two plays “Turceret” directed by Gerard Descartes and “Jalousie En Trois Fax” directed by Didier Long. This was followed by a course at the London Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (since 2006 absorbed into the Central School of Speech and Drama).
Her father, Walter Green, is a Swedish dentist who appeared in Au hasard Balthazar (1966).
Eva Green was born 1980 in Paris, France.
