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Mylène Demongeot‌

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Birthday

calendar1935-09-29

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Mylène Demongeot

Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Mylène Demongeot

Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1935-09-29

Popularity

star15.2

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff‌
star6.0
calendar 2020

Twelve Plus One

Twelve Plus One‌
star5.3
calendar 1969

Camping : histoire d'un succès

Camping : histoire d'un succès‌
star6.0
calendar 2021

Fantomas Unleashed

Fantomas Unleashed‌
star6.8
calendar 1965

Fantomas

Fantomas‌
star6.8
calendar 1964

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard‌
star6.7
calendar 1967

Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse‌
star6.6
calendar 1958

Ménage

Ménage‌
star6.6
calendar 1986

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers‌
star6.8
calendar 1961

The Witches of Salem

The Witches of Salem‌
star6.9
calendar 1957

36th Precinct

36th Precinct‌
star6.9
calendar 2004

Camping

Camping‌
star5.6
calendar 2006

So Woman!

So Woman!‌
star3.5
calendar 2009

Camping 2

Camping 2‌
star4.8
calendar 2010

Doctor in Distress

Doctor in Distress‌
star6.2
calendar 1963

The Giant of Marathon

The Giant of Marathon‌
star5.2
calendar 1959

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain‌
star7.1
calendar 2022

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

Be Beautiful and Shut Up‌
star5.3
calendar 1958

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Oscar and the Lady in Pink‌
star6.5
calendar 2009

Love in Rome

Love in Rome‌
star5.6
calendar 1960

La Californie

La Californie‌
star4.0
calendar 2006

Victoire

Victoire‌
star1.0
calendar 2004

The Singer Not the Song

The Singer Not the Song‌
star6.8
calendar 1961

The Fighting Musketeers

The Fighting Musketeers‌
star6.9
calendar 1961

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell‌
star5.2
calendar 1968

Because, Because of a Woman

Because, Because of a Woman‌
star5.0
calendar 1963

Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma

Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma‌
star6.0
calendar 2018

Girl's Apartment

Girl's Apartment‌
star5.2
calendar 1963

A Kiss for a Killer

A Kiss for a Killer‌
star5.3
calendar 1957

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma‌
star0.0
calendar 2022

We Are All Winners

We Are All Winners‌
star0.0
calendar 1998

Under Ten Flags

Under Ten Flags‌
star5.4
calendar 1960

On My Way

On My Way‌
star6.5
calendar 2013

Romulus and the Sabines

Romulus and the Sabines‌
star5.0
calendar 1961

The Killer Strikes at Dawn

The Killer Strikes at Dawn‌
star4.5
calendar 1970

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin‌
star5.8
calendar 1965

I've Had It

I've Had It‌
star5.0
calendar 1973

Upstairs and Downstairs

Upstairs and Downstairs‌
star5.2
calendar 1959

Urok Francuzskogo

Urok Francuzskogo‌
star0.0
calendar 2008

Gold for the Caesars

Gold for the Caesars‌
star4.2
calendar 1963

Time Bomb

Time Bomb‌
star5.6
calendar 1959

A Few Acres of Snow

A Few Acres of Snow‌
star0.0
calendar 1972

Women Are Weak

Women Are Weak‌
star5.2
calendar 1959

Signé Furax

Signé Furax‌
star4.7
calendar 1981

Les mauvaises têtes

Les mauvaises têtes‌
star8.0
calendar 2013

Flics de Choc

Flics de Choc‌
star3.8
calendar 1983

Tender Scoundrel

Tender Scoundrel‌
star5.2
calendar 1966

One Must Live Dangerously

One Must Live Dangerously‌
star4.3
calendar 1975

That Night

That Night‌
star5.0
calendar 1958

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard‌
star7.0
calendar 2017

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz‌
star4.0
calendar 1988

Europe Express

Europe Express‌
star0.0
calendar 1984

It's a Wonderful World

It's a Wonderful World‌
star5.3
calendar 1956

Le fantôme du lac

Le fantôme du lac‌
star2.0
calendar 2007

Mon Ami Washington

Mon Ami Washington‌
star0.0
calendar 1984

La Balade de Lucie

La Balade de Lucie‌
star6.0
calendar 2013

Des roses en hiver

Des roses en hiver‌
star6.5
calendar 2014

Surprise Party

Surprise Party‌
star5.0
calendar 1983

Children of Love

Children of Love‌
star6.0
calendar 1953

Quand vient l'amour

Quand vient l'amour‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

The Bastard

The Bastard‌
star0.0
calendar 1983

Montréal blues

Montréal blues‌
star5.0
calendar 1972

Copacabana Palace

Copacabana Palace‌
star4.9
calendar 1962

Camping 3

Camping 3‌
star4.7
calendar 2016

The Defective Detective

The Defective Detective‌
star7.5
calendar 1984

Beneath the Rooftops of Paris

Beneath the Rooftops of Paris‌
star6.2
calendar 2007

If You Die, I'll Kill You

If You Die, I'll Kill You‌
star6.0
calendar 2011

The Porcelain Anniversary

The Porcelain Anniversary‌
star0.0
calendar 1975

Par le sang des autres

Par le sang des autres‌
star5.0
calendar 1974

OSS 117: Mission for a Killer

OSS 117: Mission for a Killer‌
star7.7
calendar 1965

The Midwife

The Midwife‌
star6.1
calendar 2017

Cherchez l'idole

Cherchez l'idole‌
star6.2
calendar 1964

Trois mariages et un coup de foudre

Trois mariages et un coup de foudre‌
star4.5
calendar 2016

The Hideout

The Hideout‌
star2.0
calendar 1971

Retirement Home

Retirement Home‌
star5.9
calendar 2022

Frou-Frou

Frou-Frou‌
star5.9
calendar 1955

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me‌
star5.8
calendar 1955

The Telegraph Route

The Telegraph Route‌
star4.0
calendar 1994

School for Love

School for Love‌
star5.1
calendar 1955

The Big Night

The Big Night‌
star6.1
calendar 1959

Tv Credits

Marion

Marion‌
star8.0
calendar 1982

Le Grand Échiquier

Le Grand Échiquier‌
star8.0
calendar 1972

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O‌
star10.0
calendar 1968

Amanda

Amanda‌
star0.0
calendar 2016

Graf Luckner

Graf Luckner‌
star0.0
calendar 1973

Minder

Minder‌
star6.7
calendar 1979

Big Man

Big Man‌
star5.5
calendar 1988

Samedi soir

Samedi soir‌
star6.0
calendar 1971

Midi trente

Midi trente‌
star6.0
calendar 1972

Cinépanorama

Cinépanorama‌
star8.0
calendar 1956

Capitaine Marleau

Capitaine Marleau‌
star5.8
calendar 2015

Fan School

Fan School‌
star6.5
calendar 1977

Big Man

Big Man‌
star5.5
calendar 1988

Kick, Raoul, la moto, les jeunes et les autres

Kick, Raoul, la moto, les jeunes et les autres‌
star6.5
calendar 1980

30 millions d'amis

30 millions d'amis‌
star5.8
calendar 1976

Jack Clementi

Jack Clementi‌
star0.0
calendar 1991