
Mylène Demongeot
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. ...
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Acting (84 movies)

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020

Twelve Plus One
1969

Camping : histoire d'un succès
2021

Fantomas Unleashed
1965

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
1967

Fantomas
1964

Bonjour Tristesse
1958

Ménage
1986

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
1961

The Witches of Salem
1957

36th Precinct
2004

Camping
2006

So Woman!
2009

Camping 2
2010

Doctor in Distress
1963

The Giant of Marathon
1959

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
2022

Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958

Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2009

Love in Rome
1960

La Californie
2006

Victoire
2004

The Singer Not the Song
1961

The Fighting Musketeers
1961

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968

Because, Because of a Woman
1963

Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma
2018

Girl's Apartment
1963

A Kiss for a Killer
1957

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma
2022

Under Ten Flags
1960

On My Way
2013

Romulus and the Sabines
1961

The Killer Strikes at Dawn
1970

Uncle Tom's Cabin
1965

Upstairs and Downstairs
1959

I've Had It
1973

Gold for the Caesars
1963

Time Bomb
1959

A Few Acres of Snow
1972

Women Are Weak
1959

Signé Furax
1981

Les mauvaises têtes
2013

Flics de Choc
1983

Tender Scoundrel
1966

One Must Live Dangerously
1975

That Night
1958

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988

Europe Express
1984

It's a Wonderful World
1956

Le fantôme du lac
2007

Mon Ami Washington
1984

La Balade de Lucie
2013

Des roses en hiver
2014

Surprise Party
1983

Children of Love
1953

Quand vient l'amour
1956

The Bastard
1983

Montréal blues
1972

Copacabana Palace
1962

Camping 3
2016

The Defective Detective
1984

Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
2007

If You Die, I'll Kill You
2011

The Porcelain Anniversary
1975

By the Blood of Others
1974

OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
1965

The Midwife
2017

Cherchez l'idole
1964

Trois mariages et un coup de foudre
2016

The Hideout
1971

Retirement Home
2022

Frou-Frou
1955

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
1955

The Telegraph Route
1994

School for Love
1955

The Big Night
1959

Les scandaleuses
2024

Du Salon indien au multiplexe
1995

Big Man - Droga Polizza
1988

Red Lights
2004

Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013

Un jour un tueur
1979
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