Eva Green at 46: The Full Story of Her Life, Casino Royale Fame, Career and Latest Projects

Eva Green is a French actress who built an international career by moving comfortably between French cinema, Hollywood blockbusters, independent films and television. After beginning professionally on the stage in the early 2000s, she made her major film breakthrough as Isabelle in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003), followed by the role of Sibylla in Kingdom of Heaven and her internationally recognized performance as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (2006). She later became closely associated with dark and unusual characters through films such as Dark Shadows, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Dumbo, Proxima, Nocebo and The Three Musketeers: Milady, as well as the television series Penny Dreadful. As of September 23, 2026, Green is still actively working: she recently appeared in Just Play Dead, has the 2026 film Trees Are Watching in the festival-release cycle, is working on Wednesday Season 3 as Aunt Ophelia, and is attached to the upcoming Blood on Snow.

Summary

• Full name: Eva Gaëlle Green
• Date of birth: July 6, 1980
• Current age: 46
• Birthplace: Paris, France
• Nationality: French
• Profession: Actress and former model
• Years active: Early 2000s–present
• Professional stage debut: Jalousie en trois fax and Turcaret
• Major film breakthrough: The Dreamers (2003)
• International breakthrough: Casino Royale (2006)
• Best-known television role: Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful
• Major award: 2007 BAFTA Rising Star Award
• Major nomination: 2016 Golden Globe nomination for Penny Dreadful
• French award recognition: 2020 César nomination for Proxima
• Latest 2026 film: Just Play Dead
• Other current work: Trees Are Watching, Wednesday Season 3 and Blood on Snow
• Relationship status: No current marriage or partner has been reliably confirmed in the sources reviewed
• Children: No publicly confirmed children
• Widely reported net-worth estimate: Around $10 million, although this is not an independently verified financial figure

Early Life and Childhood

Eva Gaëlle Green was born in Paris on July 6, 1980. As of September 23, 2026, she is 46 years old.

She grew up in a family with strong connections to the arts. Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is a French actress who later became a successful children's-book author. Her father, Walter Green, was a dentist of Swedish background and had briefly appeared as an actor when he was younger. Eva has a fraternal twin sister, Joy.

Growing up with a famous mother gave Green early exposure to acting, but becoming an actress was not automatically assumed to be her career path. Her mother initially worried about her entering the profession because of how demanding and competitive acting could be. Green later described her mother as a major source of support once she had made her decision.

Green has also spoken about watching her mother's films while growing up. Although the two women have different personalities and acting styles, her mother's career gave Green a firsthand understanding of the work involved in being an actress. Green has said that she was also strongly influenced by other performers, including Isabelle Adjani.

Her childhood was spent largely in France, and she later studied in English-speaking educational environments before moving fully into professional acting training. She grew up bilingual in French and English and developed a particularly international outlook through her family and education.

Her surname can sometimes cause confusion because it looks English. Green has explained that her father's family is Swedish and that "Green" comes from the Swedish family name rather than indicating English ancestry.

Education

Green's educational path moved toward acting rather than a conventional university career.

She attended the American School in Paris for a period before studying acting in Paris with teacher Eva Saint-Paul. The acting school lists Green among its former students, confirming that she trained there. She later completed further training at London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Her formal training helped prepare her for professional stage work. Before becoming a major film star, she appeared in French theatre productions, giving her experience in live performance before she became internationally recognized on screen.

Beginning of Career

Eva Green began her professional acting career on the stage. Among her early productions were Jalousie en trois fax and Turcaret in 2001 and 2002. Her work on Jalousie en trois fax led to a nomination associated with the Molières, France's major theatre awards.

Her theatre background was important because it gave her an opportunity to develop the controlled and expressive style that would later become part of her screen work.

Green then made the transition to film. Her first major movie role was in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), where she played Isabelle alongside Louis Garrel and Michael Pitt. The film was set in Paris during the political unrest of 1968 and received international attention, giving the young actress a major early opportunity. The European Film Academy lists Green as part of the film's main cast and records a 2004 People's Choice nomination for the movie.

The role immediately placed her in a different category from many newcomers. Rather than starting with only conventional commercial roles, Green established herself through demanding material and then gradually moved into larger productions.

Breakthrough

Green's first major Hollywood-scale role came when Ridley Scott cast her as Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, in Kingdom of Heaven (2005). The historical epic introduced her to a much wider international audience and demonstrated that she could work in large-scale studio productions.

Her biggest early breakthrough came one year later with Casino Royale (2006).

Green played Vesper Lynd opposite Daniel Craig's James Bond. The role was more substantial than the traditional Bond-girl formula because Vesper was closely connected to Bond's emotional development and the central story. The Academy's 2007 press material identified Green as the actress who played Vesper Lynd in the newest Bond film at the time.

Her performance also became closely connected to her first major British award recognition. BAFTA records show that Green won the 2007 Rising Star Award through the public vote.

That period transformed Green's career. She was no longer known mainly to audiences familiar with European cinema; she had become an international actress capable of moving between independent films and large Hollywood productions.

Major Career

After Casino Royale, Green did not simply follow the easiest blockbuster path. She continued taking roles in fantasy, psychological drama, horror, science fiction, action and historical films.

She appeared as Serafina Pekkala in The Golden Compass (2007), followed by more distinctive projects such as Franklyn, Cracks, Womb and Perfect Sense. The pattern was already becoming clear: Green often selected characters with difficult emotional material or unusual circumstances rather than limiting herself to one genre.

Her career took another major turn with Tim Burton.

Green worked with Burton on Dark Shadows (2012), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and Dumbo (2019). The Festival de Cannes describes her as a close collaborator of Burton and confirms the three-film partnership.

In Dark Shadows, she played Angelique Bouchard, while Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children saw her take the title role of Miss Peregrine. The latter was released by 20th Century Fox in September 2016 and featured Green alongside Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench and others.

In Dumbo, Burton gave Green a noticeably warmer character. She played Colette Marchant, a French-born aerialist who becomes part of the circus story surrounding the flying elephant. Disney's official material confirms the casting and the film's March 2019 release.

Penny Dreadful and Television Success

One of the defining stages of Green's career came with television.

She starred as Vanessa Ives in Showtime's Penny Dreadful, a dark drama that combined literary horror characters with original characters and stories. Green became one of the central figures in the series, which ran for three seasons from 2014 to 2016. Paramount's official series page lists her as Vanessa Ives and records 27 episodes.

The performance brought Green a Golden Globe nomination in 2016 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama. The Golden Globes' official database confirms the nomination.

For many viewers, Vanessa Ives became one of the most important characters of Green's career. The part gave her a much larger television platform and allowed her to explore a character over multiple seasons rather than within a two-hour film.

Proxima

Another important change came with Proxima (2019), directed by Alice Winocour.

Green played Sarah, a French astronaut preparing for a long-duration space mission while dealing with the emotional challenge of being separated from her young daughter. The film was different from Green's more familiar gothic and fantasy work and required her to approach the role through realism, physical preparation and emotional restraint. The French César Academy confirms that Green received a 2020 César nomination for Best Actress for the film.

Green's preparation also involved training connected to real astronauts. Interviews around the film described the work she put into understanding the physical and professional demands of an astronaut.

Later Film Career

Green remained active in both international and English-language cinema.

She appeared in Nocebo (2022), a psychological horror film directed by Lorcan Finnegan, and then took a major role in the French historical adventure The Three Musketeers films.

In The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023), Green played Milady de Winter. Pathé lists her among the principal cast and gives December 13, 2023 as the French release date for Milady.

She then appeared in Apple's international thriller series Liaison (2023), starring opposite Vincent Cassel. Apple TV describes it as a French-English thriller involving espionage, political intrigue and a complicated personal relationship between its central characters. The six-episode series premiered on February 24, 2023.

In 2024, Green played Jake in Dirty Angels, an action-thriller about an American soldier leading an all-women unit during a dangerous rescue operation. Lionsgate's official trailer campaign confirms Green in the lead role and lists the film's December 13, 2024 theatrical and on-demand release in the United States.

Her 2026 work has continued that pattern of moving between mainstream and genre productions.

Major Movies and TV Shows

The career list reflects major and currently relevant credits rather than every short appearance or minor credit.

Personal Life

Family

Family has played an important role in Green's story, although she generally keeps her private life away from the level of exposure associated with many Hollywood stars.

Her mother is actress and author Marlène Jobert, while her father, Walter Green, worked as a dentist. Green has a twin sister, Joy. Her mother has also spoken about how she slowed her acting career after having children, something Green later discussed when talking about the relationship between career and family.

Her family background also helped give her an early connection to European cinema, but Green has developed a career that is very much her own.

Relationships

Green has historically kept her romantic life private.

A 2011 Guardian interview reported that she was single after the end of her relationship with actor Marton Csokas, whom she had met while working on Kingdom of Heaven.

There have also been various media rumors involving other famous actors and filmmakers over the years. Those reports should not be treated as confirmed relationships unless supported directly by Green or reliable reporting.

As of September 23, 2026, I found no reliable current source confirming that Green is married or publicly identifying a current spouse or partner. For that reason, it is more accurate to describe her current relationship status as not publicly confirmed than to attach a name to her personal life.

Children and Family Life

Green said in an interview connected with Proxima that she did not have children at the time and discussed the complicated public expectations surrounding motherhood.

I found no reliable recent announcement confirming that she has since become a parent. Therefore, claims online giving names of supposed children should not be treated as confirmed information.

Philanthropy, Charity and Causes

Green has participated in charitable campaigns, particularly those connected with children and environmental education.

In 2019, she joined a Bvlgari and Save the Children campaign supporting children in vulnerable situations.

Earlier in her career, she also participated in the Small Steps Project's charity activities, which raised support and awareness for children living and working around landfill sites. British Vogue recorded Green among celebrities who donated shoes to the charity's campaign.

Environmental education has also been connected with Green's public work. The African Community & Conservation Foundation published a message from Green supporting the environmental education work of the Singita Grumeti Fund in Tanzania and its efforts to teach students about sustainability and protecting natural resources.

There are also records of Green attending charity events supporting UNICEF, although attendance at a fundraising event should not automatically be interpreted as an ongoing formal ambassador role.

Awards and Nominations

BAFTA officially records Green as the 2007 Rising Star winner, while the Golden Globes and César Academy independently confirm major nominations connected to Penny Dreadful and Proxima. Additional award records are documented in consolidated industry databases.

Latest Career Developments

Eva Green remains professionally active in 2026, with several significant projects either newly released or in production.

Just Play Dead — Released in 2026

Green stars opposite Samuel L. Jackson in Just Play Dead, directed by Martin Campbell.

Green plays Nora Wolfe, the wife of Jackson's character. The film revolves around a wealthy couple caught in a complicated scheme involving money, deception and competing plans.

According to UPI, the film opened in U.S. theaters on August 28, 2026 and became available through digital video-on-demand on September 1.

The film is notable for reuniting Green with Martin Campbell, the director of Casino Royale, more than a decade after their first collaboration.

Trees Are Watching — 2026

Green stars as Darya in Bahman Ghobadi's Trees Are Watching, a supernatural drama/horror film centered on a novelist returning to the Turkish town where she grew up.

The available release information places the film in the September 2026 release and festival period, with reviews appearing from the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival period.

This is another example of Green moving toward darker, atmospheric material, although unlike her earlier gothic projects, the film comes from Kurdish folklore and the work of Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi.

Wednesday Season 3 — In Production

One of Green's biggest new television roles is Aunt Ophelia in Wednesday Season 3.

Netflix announced in November 2025 that Green had joined the cast as Ophelia, the long-missing sister of Morticia Addams. The role also reunites Green with Tim Burton.

By February 2026, Netflix confirmed that production had officially begun near Dublin. In April, Netflix again confirmed that the third season was still in production and that Green remained part of the new cast.

As of September 23, 2026, Netflix has not announced a firm release date for Season 3. The project should therefore be described as in production, not as an already released series.

Blood on Snow — Upcoming

Green is also part of the cast of Blood on Snow, a crime thriller directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and based on Jo Nesbø's novel.

The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Aaron Taylor-Johnson alongside Green, Emma Laird and Ben Mendelsohn. Sky currently lists the film for UK cinema release in 2027, followed by Sky Cinema and NOW.

The project is listed in post-production, making it one of Green's clearest confirmed future film projects.

Current Projects

Net Worth

Eva Green's exact net worth is not publicly established through audited financial records.

Celebrity Net Worth currently estimates her wealth at $10 million, while other celebrity-finance websites publish different estimates. That difference is important because these sites generally rely on public information and estimates rather than complete financial records.

Therefore, a responsible biography should say:

Several entertainment websites estimate Eva Green's net worth at around $10 million, but the figure is not officially confirmed.

Her income over the years has come primarily from film and television acting, along with earlier modeling and commercial work. Exact salaries for individual projects are generally private.

Career Highlights

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Eva Green?

Eva Green is 46 years old as of September 23, 2026. She was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France.

Where was Eva Green born?

She was born in Paris, France.

What is Eva Green best known for?

She is best known internationally for playing Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale and Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful. She is also widely known for her collaborations with Tim Burton.

What was Eva Green's first major movie?

Her first major film role was Isabelle in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003).

What role did Eva Green play in Casino Royale?

She played Vesper Lynd, the Bond character opposite Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006).

Is Eva Green married?

As of September 23, 2026, I found no reliable current confirmation that Eva Green is married. Her current relationship status is generally kept private.

Does Eva Green have children?

There are no publicly confirmed children identified in the reliable sources reviewed for this article. In a 2020 interview, Green said she did not have children at that time and discussed her feelings about motherhood.

What awards has Eva Green won?

Her most notable award win is the 2007 BAFTA Rising Star Award. She has also received other nominations and recognition, including a Golden Globe nomination for Penny Dreadful and a César nomination for Proxima.

What is Eva Green's latest movie?

As of September 23, 2026, Just Play Dead is among her most recently released films. It opened in U.S. theaters on August 28, 2026 and was released digitally on September 1.

What is Eva Green working on now?

She is part of Wednesday Season 3 as Aunt Ophelia, with the series currently in production, and she is also attached to Blood on Snow, which Sky lists for UK cinemas in 2027.

What is Eva Green's net worth?

Celebrity Net Worth currently estimates her net worth at about $10 million, but this is an entertainment-industry estimate rather than a confirmed financial statement.

Has Eva Green worked with Tim Burton?

Yes. She has worked with Burton on Dark Shadows (2012), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), and Dumbo (2019). She is now working with him again through Wednesday Season 3.

References

Festival de Cannes — Eva Green profile: Festival de Cannes biography and filmography

BAFTA — EE Rising Star Award: BAFTA Rising Star Award records

Golden Globes — Eva Green: Golden Globes official profile

César Academy — Eva Green: Académie des César profile

Netflix Tudum — Wednesday Season 3: Netflix's official Wednesday Season 3 information

Sky Cinema — Blood on Snow: Official Sky Cinema project page

Apple TV Press — Liaison: Apple TV official Liaison page

Paramount+ — Penny Dreadful: Official Penny Dreadful page

Disney — Dumbo: Disney's official Dumbo page

Pathé Films — The Three Musketeers: Milady: Pathé official film information

The Guardian — Eva Green High Court case: Guardian report on the A Patriot court case and outcome

The Independent — Eva Green and Proxima interview: Interview about Proxima and motherhood

UPI — Just Play Dead: UPI report on the 2026 release

Celebrity Net Worth — Eva Green: Celebrity Net Worth estimate