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. ...
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Movies (86)
Les Scandaleuses
2024 · Self
Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma
2022 · Self - Actrice
Retirement Home
2022 · Simone Tournier
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
2022 · Self
Camping : Histoire d'un succès
2021 · Self - Actor
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma
2018 · Self
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017 · Self - Actress
The Midwife
2017 · Rolande
Trois mariages et un coup de foudre
2016 · Mamita
Camping 3
2016 · Laurette Pic
Des roses en hiver
2014 · Madeleine
Les mauvaises têtes
2013 · Virginie
On My Way
2013 · Fanfan
La Balade de Lucie
2013 · La mère de Lucie
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013 · Self (archive footage)
If You Die, I'll Kill You
2011 · Geneviève
Camping 2
2010 · Laurette Pic
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2009 · Lily, la mère de Rose
So Woman!
2009 · Mme Vallardin
Urok Francuzskogo
2008 · Herself
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
2007 · Thérèse
Le fantôme du lac
2007 · Louise Perreau
La Californie
2006 · Katia
Camping
2006 · Laurette Pic
La Tête haute
2005 · La Tina
Victoire
2004 · la mère
36th Precinct
2004 · Manou Berliner
Red Lights
2004 · La directrice de la colonie de vacances (voice)
We Are All Winners
1998
Du Salon indien au multiplexe
1995 · Self
The Telegraph Route
1994 · Muriel
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988 · Madame Rochaise
Ménage
1986 · The Wife in Bed
Europe Express
1984
The Defective Detective
1984 · Woman on the bench
Mon Ami Washington
1984
Flics de Choc
1983 · La Maîtresse
The Bastard
1983 · Brigitte
Surprise Party
1983 · Geneviève Lambert
Signé Furax
1981 · Malvina
Un jour un tueur
1980 · Cécile Pallas
One Must Live Dangerously
1975 · Laurence
The Porcelain Anniversary
1975 · Julia
By the Blood of Others
1974 · Prostitute
I've Had It
1973 · Mrs. de Chatiez
A Few Acres of Snow
1972 · Laura
Montréal blues
1972
The Hideout
1971 · Katia
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
1970 · Anne Calder
Twelve Plus One
1969 · Judy
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968 · Gabby
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
1967 · Hélène
Tender Scoundrel
1966 · Muriel
Fantomas Unleashed
1965 · Hélène
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
1965 · Anna-Maria Sulza
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1965 · Harriet
Fantomas
1964 · Hélène
Cherchez l'idole
1964 · Mylène Demongeot
Girl's Apartment
1963 · Mélanie
Because, Because of a Woman
1963 · Lisette
Doctor in Distress
1963 · Sonja Stromberg / Helga Stromberg
Gold for the Caesars
1963 · Penelope
Copacabana Palace
1962 · Zina von Raunacher
Romulus and the Sabines
1961 · Rea
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
1961 · Milady de Winter
The Fighting Musketeers
1961 · Milady de Winter
The Singer Not the Song
1961 · Locha de Cortinez
Love in Rome
1960 · Anna Padoan
Under Ten Flags
1960 · Zizi
The Giant of Marathon
1959 · Andromeda
The Big Night
1959 · Laura
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959 · Ingrid
Women Are Weak
1959 · Sabine
Time Bomb
1959 · Catherine Mougin
That Night
1958 · Sylvie Mallet
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958 · Virginie Dumayet
Bonjour Tristesse
1958 · Elsa
A Kiss for a Killer
1957 · Eva Dollan
The Witches of Salem
1957 · Abigail Williams
Quand vient l'amour
1956
It's a Wonderful World
1956 · Georgie
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
1955 · La fille qui ouvre la porte (uncredited)
Frou-Frou
1955 · La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)
School for Love
1955 · The future star who vocalizes
Children of Love
1953 · Nicole
TV shows (15)
Inside
2019 · Rose Da Costa
Amanda
2016 · Self
Inspectora Marleau
2015 · Louise Lemaire
Big Man
1988 · Fernande
Marion
1982 · Marion
Kick, Raoul, la moto, les jeunes et les autres
1980 · Martine n°2
Minder
1979 · Madeleine
Fan School
1977 · Self
30 millions d'amis
1976 · Self
Midi trente
1972 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Graf Luckner
1971 · Daphne
Samedi soir
1971 · Self
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
1968 · Myle Holga
Cinépanorama
1956 · Self