Eva Green's Real Name: Eva Gaëlle Green

Quick answer: Eva Green's full name is Eva Gaëlle Green, the birth name recorded by the German film encyclopedia filmportal.de. She was born in Paris. Filmportal.de gives the date as July 6, 1980; a Library of Congress name-authority note gives July 5, 1980. She is usually billed as Eva Green. She became widely known as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (2006) (filmportal.de; The Guardian).

Real name and early life

Filmportal.de lists "Eva Gaëlle Green" as her birth name (Geburtsname) and gives her birth as 6 July 1980 in Paris, France. The Library of Congress heading is "Green, Eva, 1980-," with a note that also uses Eva Gaëlle Green but dates the birth to July 5. This page follows filmportal.de for the calendar date and notes the conflict. The Guardian, in a 2011 profile, said she was raised in Paris by a French-Algerian mother and a Swedish father. She now works in English as well as in French and has spoken about working hard on the accent for Vesper Lynd, and later with a dialect coach for an American accent.

Career highlights

The Guardian traces her early international attention to Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), in which she played Isabelle. She then appeared as Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005), a role the paper also discusses. In 2006 she played Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, opposite Daniel Craig. The Guardian called her the Bond character interesting enough to make 007 fall in love; the following year she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Later credits discussed in that 2011 profile include a witch-queen in The Golden Compass (2007), the television series Camelot, and a then-upcoming starring role in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, an adaptation of the cult 1960s American television series. Filmportal.de also lists later European films, including Proxima and the 2023 The Three Musketeers adaptations D'Artagnan and Milady.

Name notes for searchers

Eva Gaëlle Green is the documented birth name; Eva Green is the short form used in almost all credits. The acute accent in Gaëlle sometimes drops out in English databases. Searchers should be aware of the July 5 versus July 6 birth-date conflict.