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Also known as Mylene Demongeot

French actress

Key facts

Born
Marie-Hélène Demongeot , ( 1935-09-29 ) 29 September 1935, Nice , France
Died
1 December 2022 (2022-12-01) (aged 87), Paris , France
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1953–2022
Spouses
Henri Coste ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1968 ) ​ Marc Simenon ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 ; died 1999 ) ​

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Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Nice
Place of death
Paris
Occupation
actor
Languages spoken
French
Student of
Marie Ventura
Field of work
acting
Instrument
piano
Image
Mylene Demongeot au festival du film de Waterloo en octobre 2014.jpg
Height
171
Residence
Châtelain
Significant event
funeral
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end of work period
2022-00-00
Commons category
Mylène Demongeot
date of birth
1935-09-29
birth name
Marie-Hélène Demongeot
cause of death
peritoneal carcinoma
date of death
2022-12-01
start of work period
1953-00-00
manner of death
natural causes
date of burial or cremation
2022-12-10
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Encyclopedic overview

Mylène Demongeot ( French pronunciation: [milɛn dəmɔ̃ʒo]; born Marie-Hélène Demongeot [maʁi elɛn]; 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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mylène Demongeot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.