Eva Green played Queen Sibylla in Ridley Scott’s 2005 historical epic Kingdom of Heaven.
The film follows Balian of Ibelin, played by Orlando Bloom, as he travels from France to Jerusalem and becomes involved in the fragile politics surrounding the Crusader kingdom. Green’s Sibylla is the sister of the leper king Baldwin IV and the wife of Guy de Lusignan. Her character becomes romantically involved with Balian, although the film substantially reshapes the historical record.
Kingdom of Heaven dramatizes events leading to the Third Crusade and the 1187 fall of Jerusalem to Saladin. The historical Sibylla was married to Guy and was not the same composite character presented in the film; Scott and screenwriter William Monahan combined and reimagined details from several figures. That creative license is why the movie should not be treated as a straightforward biography.
Green’s performance is sometimes confused with other major women in Ridley Scott’s filmography, including Marion Cotillard in A Good Year or Sigourney Weaver in Exodus: Gods and Kings. She also reunited with Scott for the 2017 science-fiction sequel Alien: Covenant.