Age: 41
female
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.
Shifting focus toward France, the season opens with Louis I, Duke of Orleans being assassinated publicly by John the Fearless, his second assassination after the one he previously pulled off on Jean de Montagu's lover Jacqueline. While King Charles VI remains in a bout of madness, Isabeau now reigns on her own, but finds her power threatened by John the Fearless who seeks to claim power over the French throne himself by taking the position of Jean de Montagu. As France delves into a conflict between Jean and John, England faces its own clashes as Henry IV contends with multiple rebellions and Yorkist influence grows. Back in France, Jean fights off John's rebellion but is eventually overwhelmed and captured. Despite Isabeau's attempts to prevent an execution, John executes his rival taking even greater power as he does so, even appointing his children as dukes and duchesses. As the state of France grows increasingly dire, England loses its king after Henry IV falls I'll and passes away. With his son Henry taking the throne as Henry V, the season comes to its conclusion with the new English monarch swiftly stamping out rebellion across his country and leading a successful military campaign into France where he defeats the armies of John the Fearless. The season takes place from 1407-1417
