Congratulations to Léa as she is one of the final five nominated for ‘Best Upcoming Actress’ for the 36th César Ceremony!

Meilleur Espoir Féminin
Leïla Bekhti dans Tout Ce Qui Brille
Anaïs Demoustier dans D’Amour Et D’Eau Fraîche
Audrey Lamy dans Tout Ce Qui Brille
Léa Seydoux dans Belle épine
Yahima Torres dans Venus Noire

Louis Garrel’s short ‘Petit Tailleur’ in which Léa stars is also nominated for ‘Meilleur Court-Métrage’. The ceremony will take place in February 26th. Best of luck to Léa!

Léa is the face of Bijoux Jokko’s ‘Bracelet Magic’, a multi-purpose bracelet made of recycled plastic and fabricated by women organisations in Mali and Senegal. You can purchase it for only 7€ at its official site (www.braceletmagic.com). Also, if you’ve got facebook make sure to like CSAO.

Here’s the beautiful promotional shoot of Léa wearing the ‘Bracelet Magic’ differently:

Léa has been cast in Paramount’s fourth “Mission: Impossible” film! She will be starring opposite Tom Cruise and apparently she’s playing the villain which shall be interesting to see!

Lea Seydoux, the French actress who recently appeared in Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood” and the opening farmhouse scene of “Inglourious Basterds,” will square off against Tom Cruise in Paramount’s fourth “Mission: Impossible” movie. Seydoux will play the lead female villain in the picture, which just began shooting in Europe.

The “Mission: Impossible” role is 25-year-old Seydoux’s latest foray into English-language movies. She recently wrapped “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen’s latest film, which stars Marion Cotillard, Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams.

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Léa is in the January issue of Interview with a short article featuring a new gorgeous picture. It’s nice to see some article on her in english so we learn new information like that not only is she good at acting but singing and that she grew up wanting to be an opera singer. Very interesting, check it out! (Thanks to auxt from The Fashion Spot for the scan!)

The Sundance Film Festival started yesterday and “Lourdes” is one of the films that will premiere there. Hopefully Léa will make an appearance. We’ll keep you updated.

Here’s the trailer for ‘Lourdes’, the quality is not very good but at least it’s something! Hopefully a better quality one and more info about the film will be released soon.

I’ve also added the scans from the October 2008 issue of the french Glamour which Nora has very kindly donated and translated the article for the site.

GLAMOUR : Can you introduce yourself ?
Léa Seydoux : I grew up in Paris. I just turned 23. That’s it.

In what have we seen you and what’s new ?
I started with a comedy for teens, ‘Mes copines’, by Sylvie Ayme. I have had a small part in Catherine Breillat’s movie, ‘Une vieille maîtresse’. You will also see me in a movie by Bertrand Bonello which is out in October, in ’13 French Street’ by Jean-Pierre Mocky and ‘La Belle Personne’ by Christophe Honoré. I just finished a movie with Sylvie Testud.

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