Mylène Demongeot
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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.
Known for
Credits
Fantomas (1964)
as Hélène
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
as Elsa
Camping (2006)
as Laurette Pic
Fantomas Unleashed (1965)
as Hélène
Romulus and the Sabines (1961)
as Rea
The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
as Milady de Winter
Tender Scoundrel (1966)
as Muriel
Camping 3 (2016)
as Laurette Pic
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain (2022)
as Self
36th Precinct (2004)
as Manou Berliner
School for Love (1955)
as The future star who vocalizes
Signé Furax (1981)
as Malvina
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers (1961)
as Milady de Winter
Twelve Plus One (1969)
as Judy
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967)
as Hélène
Camping 2 (2010)
as Laurette Pic
Copacabana Palace (1962)
as Zina von Raunacher
Ménage (1986)
as The Wife in Bed
Retirement Home (2022)
as Simone Tournier
The Midwife (2017)
as Rolande
Girl's Apartment (1963)
as Mélanie
Women Are Weak (1959)
as Sabine
Cherchez l'idole (1964)
as Mylène Demongeot
Under Ten Flags (1960)
as Zizi
Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)
as Lily, la mère de Rose
On My Way (2013)
as Fanfan
Victoire (2004)
as la mère
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (1988)
as Madame Rochaise
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
as Gabby
La Californie (2006)
as Katia
The Big Night (1959)
as Laura
Doctor in Distress (1963)
as Sonja Stromberg / Helga Stromberg
The Witches of Salem (1957)
as Abigail Williams
Love in Rome (1960)
as Anna Padoan
The Giant of Marathon (1959)
as Andromeda
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965)
as Harriet
The Hideout (1971)
as Katia
Frou-Frou (1955)
as La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (1965)
as Anna-Maria Sulza
Camping : Histoire d'un succès (2021)
as Self - Actor
Flics de Choc (1983)
as La Maîtresse
Red Lights (2004)
as La directrice de la colonie de vacances (voice)
Les mauvaises têtes (2013)
as Virginie
Be Beautiful and Shut Up (1958)
as Virginie Dumayet
The Singer Not the Song (1961)
as Locha de Cortinez
The Bastard (1983)
as Brigitte
Surprise Party (1983)
as Geneviève Lambert
By the Blood of Others (1974)
as Prostitute
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
as Ingrid
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me (1955)
as La fille qui ouvre la porte (uncredited)
Les Scandaleuses (2024)
as Self
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
as Self - Actress
If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011)
as Geneviève
Time Bomb (1959)
as Catherine Mougin
It's a Wonderful World (1956)
as Georgie
Europe Express (1984)
Actor
Gold for the Caesars (1963)
as Penelope
Le fantôme du lac (2007)
as Louise Perreau
One Must Live Dangerously (1975)
as Laurence
Because, Because of a Woman (1963)
as Lisette
Des roses en hiver (2014)
as Madeleine
We Are All Winners (1998)
Actor
The Porcelain Anniversary (1975)
as Julia
I've Had It (1973)
as Mrs. de Chatiez
Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma (2022)
as Self - Actrice
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Children of Love (1953)
as Nicole
The Killer Strikes at Dawn (1970)
as Anne Calder
So Woman! (2009)
as Mme Vallardin
That Night (1958)
as Sylvie Mallet
La Tête haute (2005)
as La Tina
A Kiss for a Killer (1957)
as Eva Dollan
Urok Francuzskogo (2008)
as Herself
Mon Ami Washington (1984)
Actor
The Telegraph Route (1994)
as Muriel
Trois mariages et un coup de foudre (2016)
as Mamita
Big Man - Droga Polizza (1988)
as Fernande
The Defective Detective (1984)
as Woman on the bench
La Balade de Lucie (2013)
as La mère de Lucie
Quand vient l'amour (1956)
Actor
Montréal blues (1972)
Actor
A Few Acres of Snow (1972)
as Laura
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris (2007)
as Thérèse
Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma (2018)
as Self
Un jour un tueur (1980)
as Cécile Pallas
Du Salon indien au multiplexe (1995)
as Self