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Jean Seberg

Actor
Born November 13, 1938Died 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.
Known For
  • The Mouse That Roared
  • Airport
  • Lilith
  • Saint Joan
  • Line of Demarcation
  • A Fine Madness
  • Pendulum
  • In the French Style
  • The French Conspiracy
  • Five Day Lover
  • Mousey
  • Dead of Summer
  • The Looters
  • Time Out for Love
  • Diamonds Are Brittle
  • The Big Delirium
  • White Horses of Summer

Filmography

2022
Belmondo L'Incorrigible · as Patricia Franchini
2003
The Dreamers · as Patricia Franchini
1979
1976
The Wild Duck · as Gina Ekdal, Seine Frau
1975
The Big Delirium · as Emily
1975
White Horses of Summer · as Lea Kingsburg
1974
1974
Mousey · as Laura Richardson, Formerly Anderson
1973
1972
The French Conspiracy · as Edith Lemoine
1972
Gang War in Naples · as Luisa
1972
This Kind of Love · as Giovanna
1971
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! · as Emily Hamilton
1970
Macho Callahan · as Alexandra Mountford
1970
Dead of Summer · as Joyce Grasse
1970
Airport · as Tanya Livingston
1969
Paint Your Wagon · as Elizabeth Woodling
1969
Pendulum · as Adele Matthews
1968
Birds in Peru · as Adriana
1967
The Road to Corinth · as Shanny
1967
The Looters · as Colleen O'hara
1966
A Fine Madness · as Lydia West
1966
Line of Demarcation · as Mary De Damville
1966
Moment to Moment · as Kay Stanton
1965
Diamonds Are Brittle · as Bettina Ralton
1964
Lilith · as Lilith Arthur
1964
Backfire! · as Olga Celan
1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers · as Patricia Leacock (segment "le Grand Escroc")
1963
In the French Style · as Christina James
1962
Eruption · as Annette
1961
Five Day Lover · as Claire
1961
Love Play · as Kate Hoover
1961
1960
Let No Man Write My Epitaph · as Barbara Holloway
1960
Breathless · as Patricia Franchini
1959
The Mouse That Roared · as Helen Kokintz
1958
Bonjour Tristesse · as Cecile
1957
Saint Joan · as St. Joan Of Arc

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