Mylène Demongeot
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
- 2022 · Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma as Self - Actrice
- 2022 · Retirement Home as Simone Tournier
- 2022 · Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain as Self
- 2021 · Camping : histoire d'un succès as Self - Actor
- 2020 · Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma as Self
- 2017 · À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self - Actrice
- 2017 · The Midwife as Rolande
- 2016 · Trois mariages et un coup de foudre as Mamita
- 2016 · Amanda as Self
- 2016 · Camping 3 as Laurette Pic
- 2015 · Capitaine Marleau as Louise Lemaire
- 2014 · Des roses en hiver as Madeleine
- 2013 · Les mauvaises têtes as Virginie
- 2013 · On My Way as Fanfan
- 2013 · La Balade de Lucie as La mère de Lucie
- 2011 · If You Die, I'll Kill You as Geneviève
- 2010 · Camping 2 as Laurette Pic
- 2009 · Oscar and the Lady in Pink as Lily, la mère de Rose
- 2009 · So Woman! as Mme Vallardin
- 2008 · Urok Francuzskogo as Herself
- 2007 · Beneath the Rooftops of Paris as Thérèse
- 2007 · Le fantôme du lac as Louise Perreau
- 2006 · La Californie as Katia
- 2006 · Camping as Laurette Pic
- 2004 · Victoire as la mère
- 2004 · 36th Precinct as Manou Berliner
- 1998 · We Are All Winners as
- 1994 · The Telegraph Route as Muriel
- 1991 · Jack Clementi as Fernando
- 1988 · The Man Who Lived at the Ritz as Madame Rochaise
- 1988 · Big Man as Fernande
- 1988 · Big Man as Fernando
- 1986 · Ménage as la femme du couple au lit
- 1984 · The Defective Detective as
- 1984 · Europe Express as
- 1984 · Mon Ami Washington as
- 1983 · Flics de Choc as La Maîtresse
- 1983 · The Bastard as Brigitte
- 1983 · Surprise Party as Geneviève Lambert
- 1982 · Marion as Marion
- 1981 · Signé Furax as Malvina
- 1980 · Kick, Raoul, la moto, les jeunes et les autres as Martine n°2
- 1979 · Minder as Madeleine
- 1977 · Fan School as Self
- 1976 · 30 millions d'amis as Self
- 1975 · One Must Live Dangerously as Laurence
- 1975 · The Porcelain Anniversary as Julia
- 1974 · Par le sang des autres as La prostituée
- 1973 · I've Had It as Mrs. de Chatiez
- 1973 · Graf Luckner as Daphne
- 1972 · A Few Acres of Snow as Laura
- 1972 · Montréal blues as
- 1972 · Midi trente as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1971 · The Hideout as Katia
- 1971 · Samedi soir as Self
- 1970 · The Killer Strikes at Dawn as Anne Calder
- 1969 · Twelve Plus One as Judy
- 1968 · The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell as Gabby
- 1968 · Les Dossiers de l'Agence O as Myle Holga
- 1967 · Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard as Hélène
- 1966 · Tender Scoundrel as Muriel
- 1965 · Fantomas Unleashed as Hélène
- 1965 · OSS 117: Mission for a Killer as Anna-Maria Sulza
- 1965 · Uncle Tom's Cabin as Harriet
- 1964 · Fantomas as Hélène
- 1964 · Cherchez l'idole as Mylène Demongeot
- 1963 · Girl's Apartment as Mélanie
- 1963 · Because, Because of a Woman as Lisette
- 1963 · Doctor in Distress as Sonia
- 1963 · Gold for the Caesars as Penelope
- 1962 · Copacabana Palace as Zina von Raunacher
- 1961 · Romulus and the Sabines as Rea
- 1961 · Vengeance of the Three Musketeers as Milady de Winter
- 1961 · The Fighting Musketeers as Milady de Winter
- 1961 · The Singer Not the Song as Locha de Cortinez
- 1960 · Love in Rome as Anna Padoan
- 1960 · Under Ten Flags as Zizi
- 1959 · The Giant of Marathon as Andromeda
- 1959 · The Big Night as Laura
- 1959 · Upstairs and Downstairs as Ingrid
- 1959 · Women Are Weak as Sabine
- 1959 · Time Bomb as Catherine Mougin
- 1958 · That Night as Sylvie Mallet
- 1958 · Be Beautiful and Shut Up as Virginie Dumayet
- 1958 · Bonjour Tristesse as Elsa
- 1957 · A Kiss for a Killer as Eva Dollan
- 1957 · The Witches of Salem as Abigail Williams
- 1956 · Quand vient l'amour as
- 1956 · It's a Wonderful World as Georgie
- 1956 · Cinépanorama as Self
- 1955 · Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me as La fille qui ouvre la porte (non créditée)
- 1955 · Frou-Frou as La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)
- 1955 · School for Love as The future star who vocalizes
- 1953 · Children of Love as Nicole