Mylène Demongeot

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Age

Movies

Born: September 29, 1935 – December 1, 2022
From: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

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.

Works

86 films

Ménage

19866.6

Fantomas

19646.8

By the Blood of Others

19745.2

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

19555.9

The Midwife

20176.1

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

20096.5

Fantomas Unleashed

19656.7

Signé Furax

19815.0

36th Precinct

20046.9

Bonjour Tristesse

19586.7

Tender Scoundrel

19665.2

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

19676.7

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

20227.1

Time Bomb

19596.0

School for Love

19555.1

Women Are Weak

19595.6

The Witches of Salem

19576.9

Retirement Home

20225.9

The Hideout

19713.7

Romulus and the Sabines

19615.3

Copacabana Palace

19625.0

La Californie

20064.7

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

19585.6

Under Ten Flags

19605.7

It's a Wonderful World

19565.8

Love in Rome

19605.5

Victoire

20043.0

The Fighting Musketeers

19616.8

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

19686.3

Camping

20065.5

Uncle Tom's Cabin

19655.9

Twelve Plus One

19695.3

Red Lights

20045.6

The Big Night

19596.0

Upstairs and Downstairs

19595.8

The Defective Detective

19847.3

The Singer Not the Song

19616.4

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

19616.9

Les mauvaises têtes

20138.0

The Giant of Marathon

19595.2

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

19884.3

Camping : Histoire d'un succès

20216.0

Camping 3

20164.7

The Porcelain Anniversary

197510.0

Doctor in Distress

19636.3

OSS 117: Mission for a Killer

19657.5

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

20177.0

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma

2022

On My Way

20136.4

Camping 2

20104.8

We Are All Winners

199810.0

Cherchez l'idole

19646.4

Les Scandaleuses

20248.5

Mon Ami Washington

19849.0

A Kiss for a Killer

19575.6

Flics de Choc

19833.9

If You Die, I'll Kill You

20116.2

One Must Live Dangerously

19754.6

Surprise Party

19835.0

The Killer Strikes at Dawn

19706.0

Le fantôme du lac

20072.0

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

20206.0

Quand vient l'amour

195610.0

La Balade de Lucie

20136.0

Du Salon indien au multiplexe

1995

Because, Because of a Woman

19635.1

Frou-Frou

19556.0

So Woman!

20094.5

The Telegraph Route

19946.0

The Bastard

1983

Gold for the Caesars

19635.1

Urok Francuzskogo

2008

La Tête haute

20058.0

Des roses en hiver

20146.5

That Night

19585.8

A Few Acres of Snow

19729.0

Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma

20186.0

Girl's Apartment

19635.6

Children of Love

19536.5

Beneath the Rooftops of Paris

20076.2

I've Had It

19736.0

Trois mariages et un coup de foudre

20164.5

Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son

2013

Un jour un tueur

1980

Montréal blues

19725.5

Europe Express

198410.0