Mylène Demongeot

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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

Camping

20065.5

Fantomas Unleashed

19656.7

Bonjour Tristesse

19586.7

The Midwife

20176.1

Tender Scoundrel

19665.2

36th Precinct

20046.9

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

19676.7

Time Bomb

19596.0

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

20227.1

The Witches of Salem

19576.9

La Californie

20064.7

Retirement Home

20225.9

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

20096.5

Signé Furax

19815.0

The Fighting Musketeers

19616.8

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

19585.6

Romulus and the Sabines

19615.3

Women Are Weak

19595.6

Under Ten Flags

19605.7

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

19686.3

School for Love

19555.1

Copacabana Palace

19625.0

The Hideout

19713.7

Red Lights

20045.6

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma

2022

Love in Rome

19605.5

Camping : Histoire d'un succès

20216.0

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

19616.9

Victoire

20043.0

Les mauvaises têtes

20138.0

It's a Wonderful World

19565.8

The Singer Not the Song

19616.4

The Big Night

19596.0

Uncle Tom's Cabin

19655.9

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

19884.3

Twelve Plus One

19695.3

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

20177.0

On My Way

20136.4

Les Scandaleuses

20248.5

The Defective Detective

19847.3

Doctor in Distress

19636.3

Upstairs and Downstairs

19595.8

The Giant of Marathon

19595.2

Cherchez l'idole

19646.4

Du Salon indien au multiplexe

1995

A Kiss for a Killer

19575.6

We Are All Winners

199810.0

OSS 117: Mission for a Killer

19657.5

Mon Ami Washington

19849.0

Camping 2

20104.8

The Porcelain Anniversary

197510.0

Surprise Party

19835.0

Camping 3

20164.7

La Tête haute

20058.0

If You Die, I'll Kill You

20116.2

Quand vient l'amour

195610.0

Frou-Frou

19556.0

Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma

20186.0

La Balade de Lucie

20136.0

Urok Francuzskogo

2008

The Killer Strikes at Dawn

19706.0

Gold for the Caesars

19635.1

Le fantôme du lac

20072.0

Trois mariages et un coup de foudre

20164.5

Flics de Choc

19833.9

A Few Acres of Snow

19729.0

Because, Because of a Woman

19635.1

That Night

19585.8

Des roses en hiver

20146.5

The Bastard

1983

One Must Live Dangerously

19754.6

The Telegraph Route

19946.0

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

20206.0

Children of Love

19536.5

Beneath the Rooftops of Paris

20076.2

I've Had It

19736.0

So Woman!

20094.5

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

2013

Girl's Apartment

19635.6

Montréal blues

19725.5

Un jour un tueur

1980

Europe Express

198410.0