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Trivia
Birth name: Eva Gaelle Green
Date of birth: 5 July 1980
Place of birth: Paris, France
Nickname: Eva
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Named after the world's first woman, Eve, because she was born before her twin-sister.
According to herself, her last name isn't derived from an English name and is pronounced "grain" or
"Greyne".
Eva's last name doesn't mean green, which is grön in Swedish. Instead, her name comes from the Swedish word gren, which means (tree) branch.
Daughter of French actress Marlène
Jobert,
Father Walter Green (Swedish dentist), Mother is Marlène Jobert (actress; born on November 4, 1943).
Hair color is Dark brown. Eva's natural hair color is a dark blond. She always dyes it.
Attended the American school in Paris when she was about 17.
Eva grew up in a comfortable background - "bourgeois but quite
relaxed" - in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
Before debuting on the big screen in The Dreamers, Eva was in two professional plays: Jalousie en Trois Fax and
Turcaret.
The multi-lingual Green's name in Swedish is pronounced "grain", and does not mean green, which is grön in Swedish. Instead her name comes from the
Swedish word gren, which means (tree) branch.
She has a twin sister named Joy.
Eva was a very good student, but she worked during the weekends, so she never went out and enjoyed life when she was a teenager. She wanted good grades. "It was an obsession. I was going mad, mad, mad."
Jalousie en Trois Fax earned her a nomination for Les Molières (France's most important theatre award) for the category Révélation Théâtrale Féminine (Best Female Newcomer).
Father is a Swedish dentist.
She forgot some of her lines in Turcaret. "I still have nightmares about it!"
Whilst filming The Dreamers, Green was said to have found director Bernardo Bertolucci manipulative, though in a creative way that wasn't pushy. In comparison to her previous stage acting, she has said that acting in front of the camera makes you its "plaything."
Eva is very shy and reserved in real life.
Eva says she's most shy when she's on a red carpet and on TV.
Eva wanted to become an actress because she is a very shy person: "This was a way of getting rid of all my demons."
Fraternal twin sister is in business school.
Armani chose Eva to model for him after he saw her in The Dreamers. He said she has something that made him think of the classic Italian actresses.
She has one sibling, a fraternal twin (non-identical) sister, Joy Green.
Nominated for Les Molieres (Paris, 2002) for the play "Jalousie en
Trois Fax" for the category Revelation Theatrale Feminine.
The face of the Emporio Aramani campaign.
She doesn't like sexy outfits.
Eva is also the star of the 2005 Breil Jewels campaign. She starred in two TV spots directed by Mike Figgis with actor Ben Chaplin. She has also graced the pages of Italian magazines with several advertisements.
Eva studied in Paris and in London and performed on stage before making her film debut as the female lead in the Bernardo Bertolucci's 2003 film The Dreamers with Michael Pitt and Louis
Garrel.
In addition to acting, she composed music for the film. The Dreamers brought her some notoriety for her explicit full-frontal nude scenes.
She's been in a relationship with Yann Claasen since the late-90s.
Niece of Marika Green
Daughter of Walter Green
Is French/Swedish
She turned down a role in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia with Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson, because she didn't want to be typecast as a femme fatale after her very naked performance as Isabelle in The Dreamers. The role went to
Hilary
Swank.
Shares a birthday with Jean Cocteau.
Her favorite actress is Isabelle Adjani.
When her mother first found out that Eva wanted to be an actress, she was very scared for her. "She knows that I’m very sensitive and very insecure and it’s really a hard job, you’ve got to show yourself all the time, you can’t take nothing for granted. It’s very ephemeral – the most difficult thing is to last." But now she's fine.
Ridley Scott told her that she has an old soul and that she is going to
be a great actress.
Her favorite moment during the day is around 6 pm. "I have more
time for myself. People stop calling me because of work... And, then, I
go to bed early. I'm not a night bird at all."
Her favorite actor is Edward
Norton.
Cousin of singer/actress Elsa Lunghini.
Eva says the worst thing a man can do while trying to seduce her is to
make her drink. She likes wine with moderation, but, otherwise, she gets
sick quite easily.
The face of the Emporio Aramani campaign.
Her manager is Dominique Besnehard.
She smokes.
Eva thinks that one of the reasons why she wanted to become an actress is because she wanted to hide herself. "I'm very shy and this job seemed to be the only way I could express myself. I wanted to become someone else in order to not be myself, living somewhere else, in another world, another existence."
Fraternal twin sister is in business school.
Her favorite movie heroine is Adèle H. performed by Isabelle Adjani. PS: L'Histoire d'Adèle H. aka The Story of Adele H. (1975) is a French film by François
Truffaut. Synopsis: Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, whom she is madly in love with. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the great French poet Victor Hugo. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and made her understand it is hopeless. But Adèle is obsessed by him and keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionnate and obsessive love, and self-destruction, has been written from real Adèle Hugo's diary.
Nominated for Les Molieres (Paris, 2002) for the play Jalousie en Trois Fax for the category Revelation Theatrale Feminine.
Is upset that director Ridley Scott for removing most of the raunchy sex scene she had with screen hunk Orlando Bloom from KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
She turned down a role in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia (2006) with Josh
Hartnett and Scarlett
Johansson.
Despite admitting that she is lazy and doesn't exercize, Eva does
exercize a little! When she's not filming, Eva runs with her dog every
day around Parc Monceau in Paris. And once or twice a week, a personal
trainer goes to her apartment. They work on Eva's posture and do some
stretching exercises. "I recenter myself."
Has been cast as Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the new 007 movie CASINO
ROYALE. (February 18, 2006).
Described by THE DREAMERS director Bernardo Bertolucci as so beautiful, it's indecent.
In addition to acting, she would like to compose music for films,
soundtracks. She took piano lessons for several years and she remains
sensitive about that universe. |
