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Mylène Demongeot

Actor, Producer
Born September 29, 1935Died December 1, 2022 (87 years)
Mylène Demongeot (born Marie-Hélène 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 Preminger's 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 France's most successful comedy trilogies as Madame Pic in Fabien Onteniente's 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 d'Honneur 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 Gilou's 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, Alpes-Maritimes, 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 half-brother, 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 Jean-Pierre 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 CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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  • The Midwife
  • The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Known For
  • Fantomas
  • Fantomas Unleashed
  • Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
  • Camping
  • The Midwife
  • The Giant of Marathon
  • Ménage
  • Oscar and the Lady in Pink
  • Camping 3
  • On My Way
  • The Three Musketeers: Part I - The Queen's Diamonds
  • Un amore a Roma
  • Maison de retraite
  • The Crucible
  • Camping 2
  • Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
  • The Singer Not the Song
  • OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
  • Be Beautiful But Shut Up
  • Under Ten Flags
  • Romulus and the Sabines
  • Upstairs and Downstairs
  • Three Murderesses
  • The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

Filmography

2022
Maison de retraite · as Simone Tournier
2019
Unfaithful (TV Series) · as Giulia
2018
Inside (2019) (TV Series) · as Rose Da Costa
2017
The Midwife · as Rolande
2016
Camping 3 · as Laurette Pic
2014
Captain Marleau (TV Series) · as Louise Lemaire
2013
On My Way · as Fanfan
2013
Les mauvaises têtes · as Virginie
2012
No Limit (TV Series) · as Christine Libérati
2012
Detective Cain (TV Series) · as Jacqueline Benedetti
2011
Si tu meurs, je te tue · as Geneviève
2010
Camping 2 · as Laurette Pic
2009
Oscar and the Lady in Pink · as Lily, La Mère De Rose
2009
So Woman! · as Mme Vallardin
2007
2006
La Californie · as Katia
2006
Camping · as Laurette Pic
2005
La tête haute · as La Tine
2005
Tokyo Tower · as Cast
2004
36th Precinct · as Manou Berliner
2004
Red Lights · as La Directrice De La Colonie De Vacances
1997
L'homme idéal · as Guillemette
1988
1988
Big Man (TV Series) · as Fernando
1986
Ménage · as La Femme Du Couple Au Lit
1984
Black Sequence (TV Series) · as La Baronne
1984
1983
Flics de choc · as La Maîtresse
1983
Le bâtard · as Brigitte
1983
Surprise Party · as Geneviève Lambert
1981
Signé Furax · as Malvina
1979
Minder (TV Series) · as Madeleine
1977
Recherche dans l'intérêt des familles (TV Series) · as Alcine Briant
1977
L'échappatoire · as Elisabeth
1975
1975
1974
Par le sang des autres · as La Prostituée
1973
I've Had It · as Mrs. De Chatiez
1972
1972
1971
Graf Luckner (TV Series) · as Daphne
1970
The Mushroom · as Anne Calder
1969
12 + 1 · as Judy
1968
1967
1966
Tender Scoundrel · as Muriel
1965
Fantomas Unleashed · as Hélène
1965
Uncle Tom's Cabin · as Harriet
1965
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer · as Anna-Maria Sulza
1964
Fantomas · as Hélène
1963
Girl's Apartment · as Mélanie
1963
Doctor in Distress · as Sonia
1963
1963
Gold for the Caesars · as Penelope
1962
Beach Casanova · as Cast
1962
Copacabana Palace · as Zina Von Raunacher
1961
1961
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers · as Milady De Winter
1961
1961
The Singer Not the Song · as Locha De Cortinez
1960
Un amore a Roma · as Anna Padoan
1960
Under Ten Flags · as Zizi
1959
The Giant of Marathon · as Andromeda
1959
The Big Night · as Laura
1959
1959
Three Murderesses · as Sabine
1959
Time Bomb · as Catherine Mougin
1958
That Night · as Sylvie Mallet
1958
Be Beautiful But Shut Up · as Virginie Dumayet
1958
1957
A Kiss for a Killer · as Eva Dollan
1957
The Crucible · as Abigail Williams
1956
1956
1955
Frou-Frou · as La Maîtresse De Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)
1955
School for Love · as The Future Star Who Vocalizes
1955
Father, Mother, My Wife and I · as La Fille Qui Ouvre La Porte (uncredited)
1953
Children of Love · as Nicole

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