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person_profile-Mylène Demongeot

Mylène Demongeot Died at age: 87

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Mylène Demongeot

Date of Birth:

Sep 29, 1935

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Dec 01, 2022

Biography of

Mylène Demongeot

    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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Mylène Demongeot

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Filmography of

Mylène Demongeot

Found 67 Movies in total

Les scandaleuses

Self ( Actor )

... 2024

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma

Self - Actrice ( Actor )

... 2022

Retirement Home

Simone Tournier ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2022

Camping : histoire d'un succès

Self - Actor ( Actor )

... 2021

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Actrice (Intervenante) ( Actor )

... 2017

The Midwife

Rolande ( Actor )

... 2017

Camping 3

Laurette Pic ( Actor )

... 2016

On My Way

Fanfan ( Actor )

... 2013

La Balade de Lucie

La mère de Lucie ( Actor )

... 2013

If You Die, I'll Kill You

Geneviève ( Actor )

... 2011

Camping 2

Laurette Pic ( Actor )

... 2010

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Lily, la mère de Rose ( Actor )

... 2009

So Woman!

Mme Vallardin ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2007

La Californie

Katia ( Actor )

... 2006

Camping

Laurette Pic ( Actor )

... 2006

Victoire

la mère ( Actor )

... 2004

36th Precinct

Manou Berliner ( Actor )

... 2004

The Telegraph Route

Muriel ( Actor )

... 1994

Ménage

la femme du couple au lit ( Actor )

... 1986

... 1984

... 1984

... 1984

Flics de Choc

La Maîtresse ( Actor )

... 1983

... 1983

Surprise Party

Geneviève Lambert ( Actor )

... 1983

Signé Furax

Malvina ( Actor )

... 1981

One Must Live Dangerously

Laurence ( Actor )

... 1975

I've Had It

Mrs. de Chatiez ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1972

The Hideout

Katia ( Actor )

... 1971

The Killer Strikes at Dawn

Anne Calder ( Actor )

... 1970

Twelve Plus One

Judy ( Actor )

... 1969

... 1968

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Hélène ( Actor )

... 1967

Tender Scoundrel

Muriel ( Actor )

... 1966

Fantomas Unleashed

Hélène ( Actor )

... 1965

OSS 117: Mission for a Killer

Anna-Maria Sulza ( Actor )

... 1965

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet ( Actor )

... 1965

Fantomas

Hélène ( Actor )

... 1964

Cherchez l'idole

Mylène Demongeot ( Actor )

... 1964

Girl's Apartment

Mélanie ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1963

Doctor in Distress

Sonia ( Actor )

... 1963

Gold for the Caesars

Penelope ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1961

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

Milady de Winter ( Actor )

... 1961

The Fighting Musketeers

Milady de Winter ( Actor )

... 1961

The Singer Not the Song

Locha de Cortinez ( Actor )

... 1961

Love in Rome

Anna Padoan ( Actor )

... 1960

Under Ten Flags

Zizi ( Actor )

... 1960

The Giant of Marathon

Andromeda ( Actor )

... 1959

The Big Night

Laura ( Actor )

... 1959

Upstairs and Downstairs

Ingrid ( Actor )

... 1959

Women Are Weak

Sabine ( Actor )

... 1959

That Night

Sylvie Mallet ( Actor )

... 1958

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

Virginie Dumayet ( Actor )

... 1958

Bonjour Tristesse

Elsa ( Actor )

... 1958

A Kiss for a Killer

Eva Dollan ( Actor )

... 1957

The Witches of Salem

Abigail Williams ( Actor )

... 1957

... 1956

It's a Wonderful World

Georgie ( Actor )

... 1956

Frou-Frou

La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1955

School for Love

The future star who vocalizes ( Actor )

... 1955

... 1953