Eva Gaëlle Green (born July 5, 1980) is a French actress and composer. Green was born to a French mother and a Swedish father and raised Paris.

Eva Green.

Green began her professional career in 2001, when she performed in the play Jalousie En Trois Fax, playing the role of Iris – a performance that brought her critical acclaim and a nomination for Les Molières in the category Révélation Théâtrale Féminine. In 2002, she made her second stage appearance as the coquette in the play Turcaret.

In 2003, Green made her feature film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci’s film The Dreamers with Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel. She played the role of Isabelle and in addition to acting, also composed the score for the film. Described by Bertolucci as “so beautiful it’s indecent”, her performance brought her critical acclaim, as well as some notoriety for her extensive full frontal nudity.

She played Countess Clarisse de Dreux-Sobise in the 2004 French film, Arsène Lupin, directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and starring Romain Duris and Kristin Scott Thomas. The film received mixed reviews. In 2005, she portrayed Sibylla of Jerusalem in Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven, starring opposite Orlando Bloom as Balian.

Green was cast as “Bond girl” Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film Casino Royale with new 007 actor Daniel Craig. She is the fifth French actress to portray a major “Bond girl” (after Claudine Auger, Corinne Clery, Carole Bouquet, and Sophie Marceau plus the uncredited appearance of Miss World 1953, Denise Perrier in Diamonds are Forever) and the first one born in the 1980s. As Vesper works for the British government, Green affected an English accent for the role.