Mylène Demongeot
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 29, 1935
- Died
- December 1, 2022 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Les Scandaleuses
Movie · as Self
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
Movie · as Self
Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma
Movie · as Self - Actrice
Retirement Home
Movie · as Simone Tournier
Camping : Histoire d'un succès
Movie · as Self - Actor
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Inside
TV · as Rose Da Costa · 6 eps
Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma
Movie · as Self
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie · as Self - Actress
The Midwife
Movie · as Rolande
Camping 3
Movie · as Laurette Pic
Trois mariages et un coup de foudre
Movie · as Mamita
Amanda
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Capitaine Marleau
TV · as Louise Lemaire · 1 ep
Des roses en hiver
Movie · as Madeleine
On My Way
Movie · as Fanfan
Les mauvaises têtes
Movie · as Virginie
La Balade de Lucie
Movie · as La mère de Lucie
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
If You Die, I'll Kill You
Movie · as Geneviève
Camping 2
Movie · as Laurette Pic
So Woman!
Movie · as Mme Vallardin
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Movie · as Lily, la mère de Rose
Urok Francuzskogo
Movie · as Herself
Le fantôme du lac
Movie · as Louise Perreau
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
Movie · as Thérèse
Camping
Movie · as Laurette Pic
La Californie
Movie · as Katia
La Tête haute
Movie · as La Tina
36th Precinct
Movie · as Manou Berliner
Victoire
Movie · as la mère
Red Lights
Movie · as La directrice de la colonie de vacances (voice)
We Are All Winners
Movie
Du Salon indien au multiplexe
Movie · as Self
The Telegraph Route
Movie · as Muriel
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Movie · as Madame Rochaise
Big Man
TV · as Fernande · 6 eps
Ménage
Movie · as The Wife in Bed
Europe Express
Movie
Mon Ami Washington
Movie
The Defective Detective
Movie · as Woman on the bench
Flics de Choc
Movie · as La Maîtresse
Surprise Party
Movie · as Geneviève Lambert
The Bastard
Movie · as Brigitte
Marion
TV · as Marion · 6 eps
Signé Furax
Movie · as Malvina
Un jour un tueur
Movie · as Cécile Pallas
Kick, Raoul, la moto, les jeunes et les autres
TV · as Martine n°2 · 6 eps
Minder
TV · as Madeleine · 1 ep
Fan School
TV · as Self · 1 ep
30 millions d'amis
TV · as Self · 1 ep
One Must Live Dangerously
Movie · as Laurence
The Porcelain Anniversary
Movie · as Julia
By the Blood of Others
Movie · as Prostitute
I've Had It
Movie · as Mrs. de Chatiez
A Few Acres of Snow
Movie · as Laura
Montréal blues
Movie
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Midi trente
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Hideout
Movie · as Katia
Graf Luckner
TV · as Daphne · 1 ep
Samedi soir
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
Movie · as Anne Calder
Twelve Plus One
Movie · as Judy
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
Movie · as Gabby
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
TV · as Myle Holga · 1 ep
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Movie · as Hélène
Tender Scoundrel
Movie · as Muriel
Fantomas Unleashed
Movie · as Hélène
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Movie · as Harriet
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Movie · as Anna-Maria Sulza
Fantomas
Movie · as Hélène
Cherchez l'idole
Movie · as Mylène Demongeot
Doctor in Distress
Movie · as Sonja Stromberg / Helga Stromberg
Because, Because of a Woman
Movie · as Lisette
Girl's Apartment
Movie · as Mélanie
Gold for the Caesars
Movie · as Penelope
Copacabana Palace
Movie · as Zina von Raunacher
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
Movie · as Milady de Winter
The Singer Not the Song
Movie · as Locha de Cortinez
The Fighting Musketeers
Movie · as Milady de Winter
Romulus and the Sabines
Movie · as Rea
Love in Rome
Movie · as Anna Padoan
Under Ten Flags
Movie · as Zizi
The Giant of Marathon
Movie · as Andromeda
Upstairs and Downstairs
Movie · as Ingrid
Time Bomb
Movie · as Catherine Mougin
Women Are Weak
Movie · as Sabine
The Big Night
Movie · as Laura
Bonjour Tristesse
Movie · as Elsa
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Movie · as Virginie Dumayet
That Night
Movie · as Sylvie Mallet
The Witches of Salem
Movie · as Abigail Williams
A Kiss for a Killer
Movie · as Eva Dollan
It's a Wonderful World
Movie · as Georgie
Quand vient l'amour
Movie
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Frou-Frou
Movie · as La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Movie · as La fille qui ouvre la porte (uncredited)
School for Love
Movie · as The future star who vocalizes
Children of Love
Movie · as Nicole