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It’s Wednesday, which means it’s socially acceptable to very publicly crush on your favorite lady. This week, we’re head over heels for Spectre star Léa Seydoux.
The Parisian princess portrays sultry new Bond gal, Dr. Madeline Swann, in the latest installment of the James Bond franchise. Despite her foreign résumé, we’re sure you’ve seen Seydoux just about everywhere: from thrillers like Inglourious Basterds and Mission Impossible — Ghost Protocol to Woody Allen fare like Midnight in Paris. Back in 2013, the 30-year-old actress broke further into the international scene with Abdellatif Kechiche’s stunning (but heart-breaking) Blue Is the Warmest Color: an NC-17 lesbian love story that caught even the most ignorant moviegoer’s attention before sweeping the Cannes Film Festival award ceremony. Below, we’ve outlined how you can familiarize yourself with Seydoux’s diverse filmography before Spectre helps catapult her even further into international stardom.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GqClqvlObY]WHO’S THAT GAL?: Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne
WHY WE’RE CRUSHING: Just ask her Blue Is the Warmest Color co-star, Adèle Exarchopoulos, how easy is it to fall for the French beauty — but we’re not only about looks here at Decider. We dig Seydoux’s class and attitude, not to mention her ability to blend into any setting across just about every genre. Oh, and did we mention that she’s one of two actresses (Exarchopoulos being the other) in the history of cinema with a Palme d’Or from Cannes?
WHERE YOU KNOW HER FROM: Besides playing intriguing artist Emma in Blue Is the Warmest Color, Seydoux has recently starred in French hits Diary of a Chamermaid, Saint Laurent, and as Belle in France’s 2014 variation of Beauty and the Beast. Before that, you saw her running around the The Grand Budapest Hotel and opposite Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible — Ghost Protocol after she stole Owen Wilson’s heart in Woody Allen’s literary romantic comedy, Midnight in Paris. If you’re a Quentin Tarantino fan, you might remember her as the demure Charlotte LaPadite opposite her Spectre co-star Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds.
WHERE YOU’LL SEE HER NEXT: Look for Seydoux in the Colin Farrell-starring dystopian romance The Lobster, in French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan’s upcoming drama It’s Only the End of the World, and opposite Channing Tatum in action-adventure project Gambit out in 2016.
