Age: 40
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Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (French: [lea sɛdu]; born 1 July 1985) is a French actress. Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received five César Award nominations, two Lumières Awards, a Palme d'Or and a BAFTA Award nomination. In 2009, she won the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Seydoux was appointed a Dame of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2022, the French government made her a Dame of the National Order of Merit. 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 by 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 alongside her co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos. She received her second Lumières Award in 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), The Beast (2023) and Dune: Part Two (2024). Seydoux has also worked 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.
Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, rulers of Thebes. After the suicide of Jocasta and the exile of Oedipus, the two brothers of Antigone, Eteocle and Polynice killed each other for the throne of Thebes. Creon, brother of Jocasta is - as such - the new king and decided to offer burial only to Etéocle and not to Polynice, described as thug and traitor. He warned by an edict that anyone who dares to bury the renegade's body will be punished with death. Nobody dares to brave the forbidden and the corpse of Polynice is abandoned to the sun and scavengers. Only Antigone refuses this situation. Despite the prohibition of her uncle, she goes several times to the body of his brother and tries to cover it with soil. Ismene, his sister, does not want to accompany him because she is afraid of Creon and death. Antigone is caught by the king's guards. Creon is obliged to apply the sentence of death to Antigone. After a long debate with her uncle on the purpose of existence, she is condemned to be buried alive. But just as the tomb is going to be sealed, Creon learns that his son, Hémon, fiancé of Antigone, has let himself be shut up with the one he loves. When the tomb is reopened, Antigone hangs with her belt and Hemon, spitting in her father's face, opens her belly with her sword. Despaired by the disappearance of the son she adored, Eurydice, Creon's wife, cuts her throat.
