French actress Eva Green will play Daniel Craig's leading lady in his debut James Bond performance. The 25-year-old will play Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale after a host of screen beauties including Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron and Thandie Newton reportedly snubbed producers. Green, who appeared opposite Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven, made her movie debut in 2003 in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers.
Born on July 5, 1980, and raised in Paris, the shy, sensitive Green took an early interest in acting, despite attempts by her mother, famed French actress Marlene Jobert, to dissuade her from entering the profession. Undeterred by Jobert’s concerns, Green attended the Eva St. Paul Drama School in Paris for three years during her late teens, before spending ten weeks at London’s Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts to further pursue her acting dreams.