Happy Birthday Eva Green
French actress Eva Green first caught the world's attention as the Bond girl in Casino Royale. As the pretty actress turns a year older we bring you her life in pics.
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Happy Birthday Eva GreenShe is the daughter of Algerian-born French actress Marlène Jobert and Swedish dentist Walter Green. Her aunt is the French actress Marika Green. Eva was born by Caesarean section at the St Vincent de Paul hospital in Paris on July 5, 1980. -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenEva has a non-identical twin sister Joy, who is married to an Italian count and lives in Normandy. According to her mother Marlène, Joy Green "was never attracted by the lure of the cinema and devotes all her spare time to her horses." -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenShe left school to take up acting. Her schooldays were far from happy, she admitted in a later interview: "I was a very good student, but I was a perfectionist. I wanted to be perfect in French, English, maths, everything. It was too much. In my school, there was no real relationship with the teacher, and I was very shy, just eyeing the walls. You couldn't bloom as an individual. So I decided to stop school one night, when I was 16." -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenBefore her entry into films, Eva acted on stage. Her performance in plays like Didier Long's Jalousie En Trois Fax and Gerard Deshartes' Turcaret won her both critical acclaim and award nominations. (Photo Courtesy: Glamour magazine) -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenThe Dreamers was controversial for some scenes that demanded full frontal nudity and a sexual frankness that most actresses would never dare approach. However Eva did not shy away from the challenge. This is what she said later about the role: "It's not gratuitous. It's very pure, and not sick. We are like animals, pure animals - young puppies that are free". -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenA year later Green made her Hollywood debut opposite Orlando Bloom as the exotic Sybilla in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven. She reportedly had to go through six screen tests to bag the role. But it ended in somewhat of a disappointment for the actress because Scott was forced to edit out a large part of her role due to the length of the film. -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenReports suggest that Eva was first approached to play Vesper Lynd in 2005 but she refused, fearing that she would be typecast 'as that sex girl from The Dreamers. She eventually signed on for Casino Royale after reading the script. Eva was impressed by the complexity of Vesper Lynd's character and the love story between Vesper and Bond. -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenThe same year she starred in Cracks, as boarding school headmistress Miss G who develops a fascination with one her teenage pupils. According to her, the relationship was not depicted graphically enough on screen: "The love scene is soft - I wanted to go even further. In the book, she's more sexual." -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenEva was in a relationship with actor/director Yann Claassen who was several years her senior. After splitting from him, she began dating New Zealand actor Marton Csokas, again 14 years elder to her. She has enjoyed a steady relationship with Csokas whom she met on the sets of Kingdom of Heaven. -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenAbout going nude, the actress said this in an interview: "I like to show emotions and if that mean being naked and it's not gratuitous I might do it. I won't mind doing the act if the role demands." (Photo Courtesy: Max magazine) -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenEva Speaks: "I am a very shy person in life, very reserved, but you know, it's Bertolucci. I've seen Last Tango and it's not pornographic, it's not vulgar, it's not sick, so I trusted him. He's a master of love and eroticism, but it's good because I stopped being self-conscious. I felt like I was on drugs or anaesthetised because you have to be. You have to let yourself slip away and forget everything, forget the sound and all that." -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenEva Speaks: "I am aware of the whole sexy French girl thing. You become a product and people typecast you. It is very stressful because you take it personally if you are not right for a part and you question yourself a lot." -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenEva Speaks: "It must be very shocking for the American people, but what I don't understand is why they are so crazy about that. I don't understand why you can't see naked people on screen but we can see a baby being killed. It's quite strange. They're too puritan, too uptight." (Photo Courtesy: Arena magazine) -
Happy Birthday Eva GreenEva Speaks: "I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!' Juliette Binoche has set a good example of what I want to do, because she works all over the world, and that's what I want to do as well."
