Jean Seberg
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Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress who lived half her life in France. She appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Breathless, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples. She was also one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Her targeting was a well-documented retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide. Romain Gary, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death where he publicly blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media reported a false story that the FBI planted about her becoming pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970. Romain Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child's death, August 25.
Known for
Credits
Breathless (1960)
as Patricia Franchini
Airport (1970)
as Tanya Livingston
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
as Elizabeth Woodling
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
as Cecile
The Assassination (1972)
as Edith Lemoine
A Fine Madness (1966)
as Lydia West
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
as Helen Kokintz
Kill! (1971)
as Emily Hamilton
Lilith (1964)
as Lilith Arthur
De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Actor
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
as Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Backfire (1964)
as Olga Celan
Line of Demarcation (1966)
as Mary de Damville
Macho Callahan (1971)
as Alexandra Mountford
Pendulum (1969)
as Adele Matthews
Saint Joan (1957)
as St. Joan of Arc
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
as Barbara Holloway
Mousey (1974)
as Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
as Ruth Miller
The Wild Duck (1976)
as Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
Godard by Godard (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
The Road to Corinth (1967)
as Shanny
In the French Style (1963)
as Christina James
Moment to Moment (1966)
as Kay Stanton
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
No Name City (1969)
as Self
This Kind of Love (1972)
as Giovanna
Camorra (1972)
as Luisa
The Big Delirium (1975)
as Emily
Playtime (1961)
as Kate Hoover
Dead of Summer (1970)
as Joyce Grasse
Five Day Lover (1961)
as Claire
The Looters (1967)
as Colleen O'Hara
Eruption (1962)
as Annette
Ballad for Billy the Kid (1974)
as The Star
Diamonds Are Brittle (1965)
as Bettina Ralton
Time Out for Love (1961)
as Ann
Le Grand Escroc (1964)
as Patricia
Birds in Peru (1968)
as Adriana
The Blue of the Origins (1979)
Actor
White Horses of Summer (1975)
as Lea Kingsburg
Jean Seberg: American Actress (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Philippe Garrel - Portrait d'un artiste (1999)
as archive footage
Les Hautes solitudes (1974)
Actor