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Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (French: [le.a sɛ.du] ; born 1 July 1985) is a French actress. Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received various accolades including five César Award nominations, two Lumières Awards, the Palme d'Or, a BAFTA Award nomination, and the Trophée Chopard Award. In 2016, Seydoux was honoured with the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2022, the French government made her a Knight of the Legion of Honour. She began her acting career with her film debut in Girlfriends (2006) with early roles in The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She won acclaim for her French roles in The Beautiful Person (2008), Belle Épine (2010), and Farewell, My Queen (2012). During this time she expanded her career appearing in supporting roles in high-profile Hollywood films, including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and the action film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011). Her breakthrough role came with the controversial and acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013) for which she received the Lumières Award for Best Actress, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival along with her co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos. She received her second Lumières Award within the same year for the film Grand Central. She gained international attention for her role as Bond girl Madeleine Swann in Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021). She has appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The French Dispatch (2021). Other notable roles include Beauty and the Beast (2014), Saint Laurent (2014), The Lobster (2015), Zoe (2018), France (2021), Crimes of the Future (2022), One Fine Morning (2022), and Dune: Part Two (2024). Seydoux is also known for her work as a model. She has been showcased in Vogue Paris, American Vogue, L'Officiel, Another Magazine and W magazine among others. Since 2016, she has been a brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton. Early life Born on 1 July 1985, Seydoux is the daughter of businessman Henri Seydoux and Valérie Schlumberger. She was born in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, and grew up in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 6th arrondissement. She had a strict Protestant upbringing, but she is not religious. Seydoux is one of seven children. She has three older half-siblings (Marine Bramly, Noémie Saglio and Ondine Saglio) from her mother's first marriage, an older sister, stylist Camille Seydoux from her parents' marriage, and a further two paternal half-brothers, Ismaël Seydoux and Omer Seydoux, from her father's marriage to model Farida Khelfa. Seydoux's parents are both partly of Alsatian descent. Her father is a great-grandson of businessman and inventor Marcel Schlumberger, while her mother is a granddaughter of Marcel's brother, Maurice Schlumberger. The family name came to exist in 1902, when Seydoux's great-great-grandfather Charles-Louis-Auguste-Jacques Seydoux (1870–1929) married Mathilde, daughter of Languedoc aristocrat François Fornier de Clausonne de Lédenon, whose family held the titles of Baron de Lédenon and seigneur de Clausonne, de Laugnac et de la Bastide d'Albe. The Seydoux family is widely known in France and influential in the movie industry. Her grandfather, Jérôme Seydoux, is the chairman of Pathé; her granduncle, Nicolas Seydoux, is the chairman of Gaumont Film Company; her other granduncle, Michel Seydoux, also a cinema producer, is the chairman of the Lille-based football club Lille OSC; and her father is the founder and CEO of the French wireless company Parrot. She has stated that her family initially took no interest in her film career and did not help her, and that she and her influential grandfather were not close. As a child, she had no desire to act. She instead wanted to be an opera singer, studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris. Seydoux's parents divorced when she was three years old and they were often away, her mother in Africa and her father on business, which, combined with her large family, meant that she "felt lost in the crowd... I was very lonely as a kid. Really I always had the feeling I was an orphan." Through her family involvement in media and entertainment, Seydoux grew up acquainted with prominent artists such as photographer Nan Goldin, musicians Lou Reed and Mick Jagger and footwear designer Christian Louboutin. For six years, Seydoux went to summer camp in the United States, at the behest of her father, who wanted her to learn to speak English. Her mother Valérie Schlumberger is a former actress-turned-philanthropist and the founder of the boutique Compagnie d'Afrique du Sénégal et de l'Afrique de l'ouest (CSAO), which promotes the work of African artists. Seydoux once worked as a model for their jewellery line Jokko. Schlumberger, who lived in Senegal as a teenager, is also the founder of the charitable organisations Association pour le Sénégal et l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ASAO) and Empire des enfants, a centre for homeless children in Dakar, of which Seydoux is the "godmother". Seydoux describes her youthful self as short-haired, slightly dishevelled, and widely viewed as a bit strange: "People liked me, but I always felt like a misfit." Still concerned for her shyness in adulthood, Seydoux has admitted to having had an anxiety crisis during the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Career 2005–2007: Career beginnings Seydoux says that as a child she wanted to become an opera singer, studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris, but eventually her shyness compelled her to drop the idea. It was not until the age of eighteen that she decided to become an actress. One of her friends was an actor, and Seydoux has said: "I found his life wonderful, I thought, 'Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss.'" She fell in love with an actor and decided to become an actress to impress him. She took acting classes at French drama school Les Enfants Terribles, and in 2007 she took further training at New York's Actors Studio with Corinne Blue. In 2005, Seydoux appeared in the music video for Raphaël's single "Ne partons pas fâchés". The following year, Seydoux played her first major screen role as one of the main characters in Sylvie Ayme's Girlfriends (Mes copines). She starred in Nicolas Klotz's short film La Consolation, which was exhibited at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In these years, she also did her first work as a model for American Apparel, posing for their Pantytime campaign, and had a role in the films 13 French Street and The Last Mistress. 2008–2012: French cinema and Hollywood expansion Seydoux came to widespread attention in 2008, when she appeared in Christophe Honoré's The Beautiful Person, a role that earned her the 2009 Chopard Award at the Cannes Film Festival for "Best Upcoming Actress" and a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actress. In 2009, she had a major .... Discover the Emma Lea popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Emma Lea books.
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A Royal Embarrassment
Emma LeaSavannah has a secret…a secret that could cost her everything she’s been working for. Coming to Merveille and taking up a position as one of Queen Alyssa’s ladies in waiting hadn’t...
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The Young Royals
Emma LeaThis is the complete Young Royals series and includes all nine books (seven fulllength novels and two novellas). Books Included: A Royal Engagement The spare is now the h...
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Learning to Breathe
Emma LeaWillow had done everything she could to escape her past...not that it was tragic or anything, just, well, emotionally scarring. Growing up in an 'alternative community' always made...
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The Poisoned Princess
Emma LeaI want to set the record straight. Everything you’ve heard about my stepmother is wrong. Okay, she did have a magic mirror of sorts, but that is about the only truth in the t...
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Twelve Days of Christmas, His Side of the Story
Emma LeaA reclusive billionaire who gives away millions of dollars worth of toys every year at Christmas? It sounds like a fairytale… I shouldn’t be here. I should be in Bora ...
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New Witch in Town
Avery GlassJust when Win and Grey finally find each other…Win is pulled back to Crescent Isle and nobody will explain anything!And it's not just Win floundering in a new and unfamiliar life…G...
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A Royal Engagement
Emma LeaThe Spare is now the Heir Alyssabeth never expected that one day she would be queen. She was the second child of the king and queen of Merveille and female. Two strikes...
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Manscaping
Emma LeaManscaping the fashion and style column on The Playbook online men’s magazine…and Mia’s new job. Well…internship. It was only for six weeks, just so she could get the c...
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The Young Royals Books 1-3
Emma LeaThe First three books in The Young Royals Series! A Royal Engagement Despite being the second child of the king and queen of Merveille, Alyssabeth thought that if she kept a...
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The Young Royals Books 1-4 Boxset
Emma LeaBooks 14 of The Young Royals Series including Lord Darkly Book 1 A Royal Engagement The Spare is now the Heir Alyssabeth never expected that one day she would be queen. She ...
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In Like Flynn
Emma LeaAlcohol, getting dumped and a smart phone were not a good mix. Peyton Sheppard thought her world was just weeks away from being perfect. The future she had always dreamed abo...
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The Young Billionaires
Emma LeaThe complete Young Billionaires series. This box set includes all six books of the The Young Billionaires. Book 1 The Billionaire Stepbrother Bailey Sheppard had loved Nick Heart ...
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The Christmas Stand-Off
Emma LeaLayne Miller is all set to change her cafe, Delicious, into a cafe/cocktail bar. It’s been in the works for months and top secret and now she’s just a month from opening…that ...
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A Royal Elopement
Emma LeaLady Meredith Bingham thought that she had her life sorted. She was a member of the royal guard an elite security team tasked with protecting the queen of Merveille. S...
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Amnesia
Emma LeaShe wants to remember… When Alison wakes up from a medically induced coma, nothing is familiar to her. The doctors tell her that her memory will return eventually and that sh...
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Unbreak My Heart
Emma LeaThis is a 20k word Novella previously published in the Be Mine Valentine’s Day Anthology Trina Farrady is coming home, although she doesn’t know if the small town of Hope Springs i...
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Meeting Prince Charming
Emma LeaGeorgie Danners is a nerd and proud of it. She is also the proud owner of Bookish, a bookshop/cafe in the small Northern Tablelands town of Oxley Crossing. She loves al...
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Meeting Santa Claus
Emma LeaIt was summer in Oxley Crossing and Christmas was fast approaching. The very last thing Millie Campbell needed was a speeding ticket from the new sheriff–err sergeant–in town....
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The Young Royals Books 5-7 Boxset
Emma LeaBooks 57 of The Young Royals series including A Very Royal Christmas Book 5 A Royal Elopement Lady Meredith Bingham thought that she had her life sorted. She was a member of...
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A Royal Expectation
Emma LeaLady Jeanette Bower had always known what her life was going to look like. It had been drummed into her since she was a little girl. She would marry a titled gentleman ...
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Royal Refinement
Emma LeaDuchess Sophia Dellis, Archontissa of Kalon, needed a date for the upcoming Kabiero Royal Ball. The man she planned to take as her date just dropped her for someone with a hi...
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A Very Royal Christmas
Emma LeaLady Georgina Darkly, the newly titled Duchess of Pemberton, did not need one more thing to deal with the week before Christmas. The temperature was dropping alarmingly, a sn...
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Want To Date You
Emma Lea"Two broken people didn't make a whole one. The friendship we had, it just worked. We were kindred spirits. We had shit in common. We were both running from...
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Meeting the Wizard of Oz
Emma LeaKit Alexander, better known as The Wizard of Oz, was an international football star. He may have hit a bad patch there for a while, but he was clawing his way back to the top...
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Final Notice
Emma LeaHana has had enough of Carter’s crap, so she’s given him her two weeks notice…except Carter seems determined to get her to stay.
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Strings
Emma LeaNadine Court was a hot mess. After crashing and burning in spectacular fashion during her debut tour with her band Court’n Jacks, Nadine had gone to rehab to get her…ahem…stuff in...
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Rock Star
Emma LeaNate Nash was a rock star… used to be a rock star. Now he was just a sad cautionary tale. He’d been living the high life for the last five years, since he was discover...
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Sticks
Emma LeaVanessa Court never had any aspirations of being famous, she just wanted to play with her band for the simple fact that she loved drumming. If her band had somehow made it to...
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Lord Darkly
Emma LeaThere are always two sides to the story… A Royal Engagement was told exclusively from Princess Alyssa’s point of view…now see Will’s side of the story. The last few years have been...
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Last Call
Emma LeaBest friends. Too many years apart. Too much alcohol. One hot night that changes everything. Kaila and Jasper have been best friends since he had rescued her from a tree, but life ...
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Hate to Want You
Emma LeaThis book was previously published under the title ‘Good Friday’ Forced to retire due to injury, ballet star Quinn Markam returns to his hometown to choreograph an up and coming gr...
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The Forbidden Magic Trilogy
Avery GlassThe Complete Forbidden Magic TrilogyWitch in the City Winsome Isla Northwood has played one too many practical jokes on her fellow witches on Crescent Isle and they've had en...
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Untangle My Heart
Emma LeaSutton Sharp’s life was perfectly fine, thank you very much. Maybe the entire town of Hope Springs treated her like a kid, but was it really that bad if people looked out for her? ...
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A Royal Entanglement
Emma LeaOn the day of the new queen’s coronation, a man from Lady Alexandra’s past turns up unannounced in Merveille. Lord Frédéric intercepts him and discovers that Alex had left th...
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Twelve Days of Christmas, Her Side of the Story
Emma LeaA reclusive billionaire who gives away millions of dollars worth of toys every year at Christmas? It sounds like a fairytale… I shouldn’t be here. I should be in Bora ...
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Songbird
Emma LeaStevie Jacks was on her way to the top. Her dreams of being a country music star were on the precipice of coming true, but there was something missing. Nate Nash. She t...
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A Royal Enticement
Emma LeaLady Margaret de la Fontaine was the forgotten lady in waiting. She didn’t mind…most of the time. She liked working with Lady Savannah and the others and believed whole...
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Walk of Shame
Emma LeaRevised Edition A cheating fiancé, a one night stand, and a lost Jimmy Choo… After Claire Bower, a sensible and practical bakery owner, finds her fiancé of five years in bed with a...
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A Royal Entrapment
Emma LeaThe queen is getting married and Priscilla is required to work alongside the Lord Chancellor, Dominique, to ensure that the whole affair goes off without a hitch and that they don’...
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Witch on the Run
Avery GlassGrey was gone and Win was not coping well.It wasn't supposed to be like this. They were soulmates, they should have been together, but with the witch council closing in and n...
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Royal Ruse
Emma LeaLucas Andino had been summoned by the king…the only problem? He needed a wife…or at least a fiancée, which wouldn’t have been a problem except…his girlfriend just broke up wi...
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Game Changer
Emma LeaNo one ever got a second chance to make a great first impression. That was something Jack Daniels knew all too well. (Yes, that was his real name. No, he was not ...
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Witch in the City
Avery GlassWinsome Isla Northwood has played one too many practical jokes on her fellow witches on Crescent Isle and they've had enough. She's been banished to the mainland until she ca...
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Love to Hate You
Emma LeaNoelle I was having a very bad day. The worst day of my life. With only eight weeks left until my thirtieth birthday (oh, and Christmas) I was determined to cram every ...
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Scandal
Emma LeaParker Grey, gossip columnist and author of The Locker Room blog had an unwanted houseguest. Well, not unwanted, exactly. In fact, there were a lot of people who wanted her…Parker ...
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Royal Holiday
Emma LeaLord Evan Anastas has lived as a recluse most of his life...with good reason. He shares the same surname as the country's worst traitors. But the king has decided it's time for him...