Mylène Demongeot

Mylène Demongeot

  • Birthday: 1935-09-29
  • Deathday: 2022-12-01
  • Place of birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
  • Also know as: M.H. Demongeot

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.

Filmography

Love in Rome

1960

As Anna Padoan

The Killer Strikes at Dawn

1970

As Anne Calder

That Night

1958

As Sylvie Mallet

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

1961

As Milady de Winter

The Giant of Marathon

1959

As Andromeda

Be Beautiful But Shut Up

1958

As Virginie Dumayet

Victoire

2004

As la mère

The Fighting Musketeers

1961

As Milady de Winter

Girl's Apartment

1963

As Mélanie

A Kiss for a Killer

1957

As Eva Dollan

Gold for the Caesars

1963

As Penelope

Time Bomb

1959

As Catherine Mougin

Women Are Weak

1959

As Sabine

La Balade de Lucie

2013

As La mère de Lucie

Les Toits de Paris

2007

As Thérèse

OSS 117: Mission for a Killer

1965

As Anna-Maria Sulza

The Hideout

1971

As Katia

Fantomas Unleashed

1965

As Hélène

Fantomas

1964

As Hélène

The Witches of Salem

1957

As Abigail Williams

The Singer Not the Song

1961

As Locha de Cortinez

Under Ten Flags

1960

As Zizi

I've Had It

1973

As Mrs. de Chatiez

Urok Francuzskogo

2008

As Herself

Les mauvaises têtes

2013

As Virginie

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

1989

As Madame Rochaise

Des roses en hiver

2014

As Madeleine

Copacabana Palace

1962

As Zina von Raunacher

Camping 3

2016

As Laurette Pic

Cherchez l'idole

1964

As Mylène Demongeot

The Telegraph Route

1994

As Muriel

Bonjour Tristesse

1958

As Elsa

So Woman!

2009

As Mme Vallardin

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

2009

As Lily, la mère de Rose

La Californie

2006

As Katia

It's a Wonderful World

1956

As Georgie

Retirement Home

2022

As Simone Tournier

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

2017

As Actrice (Intervenante)

The Bastard

1983

As

Doctor in Distress

1963

As Sonia

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1965

As Harriet

Flics de Choc

1983

As La Maîtresse

The Midwife

2017

As Rolande

Camping

2006

As Laurette Pic

Camping 2

2010

As Laurette Pic

Par le sang des autres

1974

As La prostituée

If You Die, I'll Kill You

2011

As Geneviève

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma

2022

As Self - Actrice

Twelve Plus One

1969

As Judy

Tender Scoundrel

1966

As Muriel

School for Love

1955

As The future star who vocalizes

Le fantôme du lac

2007

As Louise Perreau

On My Way

2013

As Fanfan

Surprise Party

1983

As Geneviève Lambert

Ménage

1986

As la femme du couple au lit

Camping : histoire d'un succès

2021

As Self - Actor

The Big Night

1959

As Laura

One Must Live Dangerously

1975

As Laurence

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

2020

As Self (archive footage)

36th Precinct

2004

As Manou Berliner

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

1955

As La fille qui ouvre la porte (non créditée)

Frou-Frou

1955

As La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)

Signé Furax

1981

As Malvina

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