Léa Seydoux

Born July 1, 1985 in Paris, France Birth Name Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne Height 5’ 6“ (1,68 m) Mini Bio (1) French actress Léa Seydoux was born in 1985 in Paris, France, to Valérie Schlumberger, a philanthropist, and Henri Seydoux, a businessman. Her grandfather, Jérôme Seydoux, is chairman of Pathé, and her father is a great-grandson of businessman and inventor Marcel Schlumberger (her mother also descends from the Schlumberger family). Her parents are both of mixed French and Alsatian German descent, with more distant Venezuelan (Spanish, Basque) roots on her father’s side. Léa began her acting career in French cinema, appearing in films such as The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She first came to attention after she received her first César Award nomination for her performance in Güzel insan (2008), and won the Trophée Chopard, an award given to promising actors at the Cannes Film Festival. Sin