Mylène Demongeot

Mylène Demongeot born MarieHélène Demongeot 29 September 1935 1 December 2022 was a French film television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100 credits in French Italian English and Japanese speaking productions Demongeot became a star at age 21 with her portrayal of Abigail Williams in The Crucible 1957 which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles nomination and the best actress prize at the socialist Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Some other notable film roles include Elsa in Otto Premingers Bonjour Tristesse 1958 alongside Deborah Kerr and David Niven and as Milady de Winter in Les Trois Mousquetaires 1961 A veteran of cinema who started as one of the blond sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s she managed to avoid typecasting by exploring many film genres including thrillers westerns comedies swashbucklers period films and even pepla such as Romulus and the Sabines 1961 opposite Roger Moore or Gold for the Caesars 1963 Demongeot also has a cult following based on the Fantomas trilogy as Hélène Gurn opposite Louis de Funès and Jean Marais Fantômas 1964 Fantômas Unleashed 1965 and Fantômas Against Scotland Yard 1967 Thirty years later she starred again in another one of Frances most successful comedy trilogies as Madame Pic in Fabien Ontenientes Camping 2006 Camping 2 2010 and Camping 3 2016 She was twice nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the César Awards for 36 Quai des Orfèvres 2004 and French California 2006 In 2007 she was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et de Lettres of the French Republic In 2017 she was inducted into the Légion dHonneur by ethologist and neurologist Boris Cyrulnik with the rank of Chevalier She remained popular until her passing from peritoneal cancer At the time of her death she was starring in Thomas Gilous film Maison de retraite 2022 alongside Gérard Depardieu one of the biggest box office hits of 2022 in France Through an Élysée Palace official tribune President Emmanuel Macron paid a long tribute to her which included we salute the career of a great figure in the French Seventh Art who knew how to shine in all its genres to move all French people Demongeot was born in September 1935 in Nice AlpesMaritimes the daughter and only child of Alfred Jean Demongeot born Nice 30 January 1897 himself the son of Marie Joseph Marcel Demongeot career soldier and Clotilde Faussonne di Clavesana an Italian contessa and Claudia Troubnikova born 17 May 1904 in Kharkiv Ukraine Russian Empire Her parents both actors themselves had met in Shanghai China where her halfbrother Léonid Ivantov from the first marriage of her mother was born in Harbin on 17 December 1923 Like hundreds of other major European figures of stage and screen she trained at the Cours Simon in Paris where her classmates included JeanPierre Cassel Claude Berri and Guy Bedos She was a classically trained pianist and her first ambition was of becoming a professional Source Article Mylène Demongeot from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30