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).
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. ...
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Filmography (Movies)
Les Scandaleuses
Character:Self
Release Date:20/12/2024
Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma
Character:Self - Actrice
Release Date:27/03/2022
Retirement Home
Character:Simone Tournier
Release Date:16/02/2022
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
Character:Self
Release Date:21/01/2022
Camping : histoire d'un succès
Character:Self - Actor
Release Date:23/09/2021
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:09/09/2020
Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma
Character:Self
Release Date:17/10/2018
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character:Self - Actress
Release Date:01/09/2017
The Midwife
Character:Rolande
Release Date:22/03/2017
Trois mariages et un coup de foudre
Character:Mamita
Release Date:31/12/2016
Camping 3
Character:Laurette Pic
Release Date:29/06/2016
Des roses en hiver
Character:Madeleine
Release Date:12/09/2014
Les mauvaises têtes
Character:Virginie
Release Date:11/09/2013
On My Way
Character:Fanfan
Release Date:16/05/2013
La Balade de Lucie
Character:La mère de Lucie
Release Date:06/03/2013
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2013
If You Die, I'll Kill You
Character:Geneviève
Release Date:23/03/2011
Camping 2
Character:Laurette Pic
Release Date:21/04/2010
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Character:Lily, la mère de Rose
Release Date:15/11/2009
So Woman!
Character:Mme Vallardin
Release Date:15/07/2009
Urok Francuzskogo
Character:Herself
Release Date:06/06/2008
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
Character:Thérèse
Release Date:10/08/2007
Le fantôme du lac
Character:Louise Perreau
Release Date:20/01/2007
La Californie
Character:Katia
Release Date:26/05/2006
Camping
Character:Laurette Pic
Release Date:26/04/2006
La Tête haute
Character:La Tina
Release Date:20/12/2005
Victoire
Character:la mère
Release Date:22/12/2004
36th Precinct
Character:Manou Berliner
Release Date:24/11/2004
Red Lights
Character:La directrice de la colonie de vacances (voice)
Release Date:03/03/2004
We Are All Winners
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1998
Du Salon indien au multiplexe
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1995
The Telegraph Route
Character:Muriel
Release Date:30/11/1994
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Character:Madame Rochaise
Release Date:28/11/1988
Big Man - Droga Polizza
Character:Fernande
Release Date:25/11/1988
Ménage
Character:The Wife in Bed
Release Date:23/04/1986
The Defective Detective
Character:Woman on the bench
Release Date:31/10/1984
Europe Express
Character:
Release Date:14/01/1984
Mon Ami Washington
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1984
Flics de Choc
Character:La Maîtresse
Release Date:13/07/1983
The Bastard
Character:Brigitte
Release Date:15/06/1983
Surprise Party
Character:Geneviève Lambert
Release Date:20/04/1983
Signé Furax
Character:Malvina
Release Date:01/04/1981
Un jour un tueur
Character:Cécile Pallas
Release Date:01/04/1980
One Must Live Dangerously
Character:Laurence
Release Date:03/09/1975
The Porcelain Anniversary
Character:Julia
Release Date:20/05/1975
By the Blood of Others
Character:Prostitute
Release Date:07/03/1974
I've Had It
Character:Mrs. de Chatiez
Release Date:23/02/1973
A Few Acres of Snow
Character:Laura
Release Date:28/12/1972
Montréal blues
Character:
Release Date:14/09/1972
The Hideout
Character:Katia
Release Date:21/07/1971
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
Character:Anne Calder
Release Date:08/04/1970
Twelve Plus One
Character:Judy
Release Date:07/10/1969
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
Character:Gabby
Release Date:08/05/1968
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Character:Hélène
Release Date:16/03/1967
Tender Scoundrel
Character:Muriel
Release Date:12/12/1966
Fantomas Unleashed
Character:Hélène
Release Date:08/12/1965
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Character:Anna-Maria Sulza
Release Date:02/07/1965
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Character:Harriet
Release Date:13/04/1965
Fantomas
Character:Hélène
Release Date:04/11/1964
Cherchez l'idole
Character:Mylène Demongeot
Release Date:26/02/1964
Girl's Apartment
Character:Mélanie
Release Date:04/12/1963
Because, Because of a Woman
Character:Lisette
Release Date:17/08/1963
Doctor in Distress
Character:Sonja Stromberg / Helga Stromberg
Release Date:30/07/1963
Gold for the Caesars
Character:Penelope
Release Date:09/03/1963
Copacabana Palace
Character:Zina von Raunacher
Release Date:03/11/1962
Romulus and the Sabines
Character:Rea
Release Date:15/11/1961
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
Character:Milady de Winter
Release Date:25/10/1961
The Fighting Musketeers
Character:Milady de Winter
Release Date:04/10/1961
The Singer Not the Song
Character:Locha de Cortinez
Release Date:05/01/1961
Love in Rome
Character:Anna Padoan
Release Date:24/11/1960
Under Ten Flags
Character:Zizi
Release Date:15/09/1960
The Giant of Marathon
Character:Andromeda
Release Date:03/12/1959
The Big Night
Character:Laura
Release Date:12/11/1959
Upstairs and Downstairs
Character:Ingrid
Release Date:02/11/1959
Women Are Weak
Character:Sabine
Release Date:11/02/1959
Time Bomb
Character:Catherine Mougin
Release Date:20/01/1959
That Night
Character:Sylvie Mallet
Release Date:11/09/1958
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Character:Virginie Dumayet
Release Date:07/05/1958
Bonjour Tristesse
Character:Elsa
Release Date:15/01/1958
A Kiss for a Killer
Character:Eva Dollan
Release Date:27/11/1957
The Witches of Salem
Character:Abigail Williams
Release Date:26/04/1957
Quand vient l'amour
Character:
Release Date:28/09/1956
It's a Wonderful World
Character:Georgie
Release Date:28/08/1956
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Character:La fille qui ouvre la porte (uncredited)
Release Date:18/10/1955
Frou-Frou
Character:La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)
Release Date:19/06/1955
School for Love
Character:The future star who vocalizes
Release Date:15/06/1955
Children of Love
Character:Nicole
Release Date:10/11/1953
Television Appearances
Inside
Character:Rose Da Costa
Amanda
Character:Self
Capitaine Marleau
Character:Louise Lemaire
Big Man
Character:Fernande
Marion
Character:Marion
Kick, Raoul, la moto, les jeunes et les autres
Character:Martine n°2
Minder
Character:Madeleine
Fan School
Character:Self
30 millions d'amis
Character:Self
Midi trente
Character:Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Character:Self
Graf Luckner
Character:Daphne
Samedi soir
Character:Self
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Character:Myle Holga
Cinépanorama
Character:Self
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