Eva Green

Adapted from the article Eva Green (http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Eva_Green), from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.. She received an OBE in 1983, an honorary DLitt from Lancaster University in 1989, and a DBE (thus becoming a "Dame") in 1993. In March 2004, she is scheduled to begin her third film as the female star alongside Orlando Bloom and Liam Neeson in director Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, scheduled for release in May of 2005. Thora Hird's energy and resilience were such that, even following the news that she had suffered a stroke, BBC bosses were still hoping that she would recover in order to appear in the next series of Last of the Summer Wine. Described by Bertolucci as "so beautiful, it's indecent," her performance brought her critical acclaim and she has finished her second movie role in the French film, Arsene Lupin,directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and co-starring Romain Duris and Kristin Scott Thomas. Although in recent years she had been thought of as a stereotypical old woman (with many jokes about her sideline advertising stairlifts), some of her youthful film work still survives, including her 1942 appearance in the classic wartime propaganda film Went the Day Well?. In addition to acting, she would like to compose music for film. Her tireless work for charity and work on television in spite of old age and ill health had made her an institution.

The multi-lingual Eva's name in Swedish is pronounced "grain." She studied in Paris and in London, England and performed on stage before making her film debut as the female lead in the Bernardo Bertolucci's 2003 film The Dreamers. Her most memorable line was, on hearing that her son had been having sex with his girlfriend in her house, "Not on the eiderdown!". A twin of Joy Green, a non-identical sister, Eva Green is the daughter of French actress Marlène Jobert and Walter Green, a Swedish dentist. Dame Thora's talent for comedy was shown to good effect in her performance as the potential battleaxe mother-in-law to Victoria Wood's character in the TV film Pat and Margaret. Eva Green, born July 5, 1980 in Paris, France, is an actress. Thora Hird was mainly associated with television comedy, notably the sitcoms Meet the Wife (a 1960s classic) and later series of Last of the Summer Wine. However, she played a variety of roles, including the nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and won a BAFTA Best Actress award for her role in one of Alan Bennett's monologues. Dame Thora Hird (May 28, 1911 - March 15, 2003) was a veteran British actress born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She was the mother of the actress Janette Scott, and thus formerly the mother-in-law of the singer Mel Tormé.

Dame Thora Hird'a autobiography, Scene And Hird (1976).