Winona Ryder

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Biography of Eva Green
Il suo fascino ambiguo ed ammiccante le hanno fatto guadagnare il titolo di Femme Fatale. Ma lei,
Eva Green, la cui conturbante avvenenza sta facendo girare la testa ai maggiori cineasti
hollywoodiani, vuole a tutti i costi sbarazzarsi di questo appellativo.
Questa determinata “parisienne” di origini algerine-svedesi, è figlia d'arte: la madre è l'attrice
Marlène Jobert. Il padre Walter, che invece svolge la professione di dentista, ha avuto a che fare con
il mondo del cinema una sola volta: è stato uno degli interpreti di Au hasard Balthazar di Robert
Bresson. Eva ha anche una sorella gemella: Joy.
Con il talento artistico nel DNA, la giovane inizia a recitare prestissimo: calca i prestigiosi
palcoscenici di Francia, ottenendo numerosi consensi. Inoltre, frequenta per tre anni la St. Paul
Drama School di Parigi, prima di iscriversi al laboratorio teatrale londinese della Webber Douglas.
Giunta al suo 23esimo compleanno, la ragazza, viene notata da Bernardo Bertolucci, il quale rimane
folgorato da quella che in seguito dichiarerà "una bellezza indecente". L'audace regista italiano, la
scrittura cosi, nella sua ultima e scandalosa opera: The Dreamers.
Lo spudorato lungometraggio che racconta le vicende di tre studenti viziosi e contestatori, vede la
nostra mademoiselle nelle peccaminose vesti di Isabelle: ruolo che le regalerà un enorme successo
internazionale. Timida ma ambiziosa, Eva, svela che non ha nessun problema nel mostrarsi senza
veli di fronte all'obbiettivo.
Fumatrice accanita, questa fanciulla dall'animo
trasgressivo, afferma inoltre, di non amare le regole e di
rispecchiarsi nel personaggio che le ha dato notorietà.
Nel 2005 viene diretta da Ridley Scott ne Le Crociate,
dove indossa i panni della principessa Sibilla. Dodici
mesi dopo, è l'attraente Bond Girl - Vesper Lynd - che
affianca
Daniel
Craig
in
Casino
Royale.
È, inoltre, sul set del thriller Therese Raquin accanto a
Glenn Close e Giovanni Ribisi. Presto la rivedremo nel
fantasy In the Country of the Last Things, nonché
nell’action
L’Ennemi
public
n°
1.
Il suo sex appeal e la sua indole ribelle, la rendono
l'oggetto del desiderio di molte griffe: la vedette è
infatti l'incontrastata testimonial di Emporio Armani,
Lancome, Carter e Breil. Recentemente, la diva che non
ama essere identificata come "donna fatale", ha
rinunciato a girare il patinato noir di Brian De Palma: The Black Dalia. Nel tempo libero, Eva adora
guardare i film delle sue star preferite: Edward Norton e Isabelle Adjani.
Eva Green was born Eva Gaëlle Green on July
5, 1980, in Paris, France. She has a nonidentical twin sister. Her father, named Walter
Green, is a Swedish dentist who once appeared
in the 1966 film Au hasard Balthazar (1966).
Her mother, named Marlène Jobert, is an
Algerian-born (during the time Algeria was
part of France) French actress who retired from
acting and became a writer of children's books.
Young Eva Green left French school at 17. She
switched to English in Ramsgate, Kent, and
went to the American School in France for one
year. She studied acting at Saint Paul Drama
School in Paris for three years, then had a 10week polishing course at the Weber Douglas
Academy of dramatic Art in London. She also
studied directing at the Tisch School of Arts at
New York University. She returned to Paris as
an accomplished young actress, and played on
stage in several theater productions: "La
Jalousie en Trois Fax" and "Turcaret". There
she caught the eye of director Bernardo
Bertolucci. Green followed a recommendation
to work on her English. She studied for two
months with an English coach before doing The Dreamers (2003) with Bernardo Bertolucci. During
their work Bertolucci described Green as being "so beautiful it's indecent." Green won critical
acclaim for her role in The Dreamers (2003). She also attracted a great deal of attention from male
audiences for her full frontal nudity in several scenes of the film. Besides her work as an actress
Green also composed original music and recorded several sound tracks for the film score.
After The Dreamers Green's career ascended to the level where she revealed more of her
multifaceted acting talent. She played the love interest of cult French gentleman stealer Arsène
Lupin (2004) opposite Romain Duris. In 2005 she co-starred opposite Orlando Bloom and Liam
Neeson in Kingdom of Heaven (2005) produced and directed by Ridley Scott. The film became a
blockbuster in the US and worldwide and brought her a wider international exposure. She turned
down the femme fatale role in The Black Dahlia that went to Hilary Swank because she didn't want
to end up always typecast as a femme fatale after her role in The Dreamers. Instead, Eva Green
accepted the prestigious role of Vesper Lynd, one of three Bond girls, opposite Daniel Craig in
Casino Royale (2006) and became the 5th French actress to play a James Bond girl after Claudine
Auger in Thunderball (1965), Corinne Clery in Moonraker (1979), Carole Bouquet in For Your
Eyes Only (1981) and Sophie Marceau in The World is not enough (1999). Since her school years
Green has been a cosmopolitan multilingual and multicultural person. Yet, since her father always
lived in France with them and her mother, she and her twin sister can't speak Swedish. She
developed a wide scope of interests beyond her acting profession and became an aspiring art
connoisseur and an avid museum visitor. Her other activities outside of acting include playing and
composing music, cooking at home, walking her terrier, and collecting art. She currently shares
time between her two residencies, one is in Paris, France, and one in London, England.
Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder was born Winona
Horowitz and named after her the town
in which she was born, Winona
Minnesota. She grew up in a ranch
commune in Northern California where
there was no electricity. She is the
Goddaughter of Timothy Leary and her
parents were friends of Beat poet Allen
Ginsberg and once edited a book called
"Shaman Woman Mainline Lady" an
anthology of writings on the drug
experience in literature - this included
one piece by Louisa May Alcott.
Winona Ryder was later to star as Jo in
this author's Little Women (1994). She
moved with her parents to Petaluma
(near San Francisco) when she was ten
and enrolled in acting classes at the American Conservatory Theater. At 13 she had a video audition
to the film Desert Bloom (1986), but didn't get the part. Director David Seltzer, however, spotted
her and cast her in Lucas (1986). When telephoned to ask how she'd like to have her name appear
on the credits, she suggested Ryder as her father's Mitch Ryder album was playing the background.
Ryder was selected for the part of Mary Corleone in The Godfather: Part III (1990), but had to drop
out of the role after catching the flu from the strain of doing the films Welcome Home, Roxy
Carmichael (1990) and Mermaids (1990) back to back. She said she didn't want to let everyone
down by doing a substandard performance. She later made The Age of Innocence (1993) which was
directed by Martin Scorsese, who she believes to be "the best director in the world".
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