Eva Green
Born: July 5 1980
Where: Paris, France
The Emporio Armani model was catapulted into the big time as Sibylla in Ridley Scott's historical blockbuster Kingdom of Heaven.
The following year she consolidated her position as a box office draw by playing Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Daniel Craig's debut as 007 Casino Royale.
The daughter of French actress Marlene Jobert and a Swedish dentist, she spent three years at the Eva St Paul School before attending acting workshops in London.
She studied acting at Saint Paul Drama School in Paris for three years then had a 10-week polishing course at the Weber Douglas Academy of dramatic Art in London.
She also studied directing at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University.
After returning to Paris and appearing on stage in Didier Long's Jealousie 3 Fax and Gerard Deshartes' Turcarcet, she was cast in The Dreamers.
In it, Green caused controversy for her sexually explicit debut role as an incestuous sister in the Bernardo Bertolucci drama.
In 2004, she starred in Arsene Lupin alongside Kristin Scott Thomas but lost out on the role that went to Rachel Weisz in The Constant Gardener.
Fearful of typecasting, she turned down the role eventually taken by Scarlett Johansson in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia.
Recent work includes the role of Vesper Lynd, a British treasury official sent to Montenegro to supervise a poker game involving James Bond.
