 Green was born in Paris , France , two minutes earlier than her fraternal twin sister , Joy ( Johanne ) . She is the daughter of Marlène Jobert , an actress , and Walter Green , a dentist . ( Her father Walter has acted in film , appearing in Robert Bresson 's film Au Hasard Balthazar . ) Her father is of Swedish and French descent , and through him she is the great @-@ granddaughter of the French composer Paul Le Flem . Her mother , a native of French Algeria , later moved to Metropolitan France . Green is Jewish , as is her mother ( of Sephardi Jewish heritage ) . However , she was not raised religious at all ; she has said " I feel like a citizen of the world . Life and cinema don 't have borders . " Green has described her family as " bourgeois " , and has said that her sister is very different from her . Green is a natural dark blonde ; she has dyed her hair black since she was 15 years old . The French @-@ Swedish actress Marika Green is her aunt . The 1980s pop @-@ star Elsa <unk> is her first cousin , through their mothers . 
