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Jean Seberg
Actor
Died August 30, 1979 (40 years)
Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress who lived half her life in France.
She appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Breathless, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples.
She was also one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Her targeting was a well-documented retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s.
Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide. Romain Gary, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death where he publicly blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media reported a false story that the FBI planted about her becoming pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970. Romain Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child's death, August 25.
Filmography
| 2003 | The Dreamers · as Patricia Franchini |
| 1975 | White Horses of Summer · as Lea Kingsburg |
| 1975 | The Big Delirium · as Emily |
| 1974 | Mousey · as Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson |
| 1973 | The Corruption of Chris Miller · as Ruth Miller |
| 1972 | The Assassination · as Edith Lemoine |
| 1972 | Gang War in Naples · as Luisa |
| 1971 | Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! · as Emily Hamilton |
| 1970 | Airport · as Tanya Livingston |
| 1970 | Macho Callahan · as Alexandra Mountford |
| 1969 | Paint Your Wagon · as Elizabeth Woodling |
| 1969 | Pendulum · as Adele Matthews |
| 1967 | The Road to Corinth · as Shanny |
| 1967 | The Looters · as Colleen O'Hara |
| 1966 | Line of Demarcation · as Mary de Damville |
| 1966 | A Fine Madness · as Lydia West |
| 1965 | Diamonds Are Brittle · as Bettina Ralton |
| 1964 | |
| 1964 | The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers · as Patricia Leacock |
| 1964 | Backfire · as Olga Celan |
| 1963 | In the French Style · as Christina James |
| 1962 | Eruption · as Annette |
| 1961 | Time Out for Love · as Ann |
| 1961 | Five Day Lover · as Claire |
| 1960 | Breathless · as Patricia Franchini |
| 1960 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph · as Barbara Holloway |
| 1959 | The Mouse That Roared · as Helen Kokintz |
| 1958 | Bonjour Tristesse · as Cecile |
| 1957 | Saint Joan · as St. Joan of Arc |