She has been a model, actress and producer. Mylène Demongeot is dead, at the age of 87, announced this Thursday Henry-Jean Servat.
“I am devastated to have to announce the flight to heaven today of Mylène Demongeot, artist so dear and so pretty, magnificent actress, adored friend of more than forty years, and very active activist for the defense of animals. . Rest in peace. I love you forever “, said the journalist and writer on Twitter.
Joined by 20 minutesMylène Demongeot’s press officer confirmed that she died on Thursday afternoon in Paris.
Revealed in “The Witches of Salem”
In the spring, the actress had revealed a recurrence of her peritoneal cancer. “After I don’t know how many sessions between June and August, I was at my wit’s end, it was killing me! I was so exhausted that I implored my doctors to stop everything, she said in October to France Sunday. I could not any more. She had declared that she had postponed her hopes towards “immunotherapy”.
Born on September 29, 1935, Marie-Hélène Demongeot rose to fame as Mylène. First a model, she appeared for the first time in the cinema at the age of 17 in children of love. But it’s her performance as Abigail in The Witches of Salem, adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play for which she shared the poster with Simone Signoret and Yves Montand in 1957, which served as a springboard for her on the big screen. This role also earned her to be named among the female revelations of the year during the 1958 edition of the Baftas ceremony (the British equivalent of the Césars)
She was Laurette Pic
The public saw her in particular in Hello Sadness by Otto Preminger in 1958, and in André Hunebelle’s “Fantomas” saga between 1964 and 1967. Recently, she made an impression as Laurette Pic in the three parts of Camping by Fabien Onteniente, released between 2006 and 2016.
After having married, in second marriage (she had united with Henry Coste in 1958), Marc Simenon, the son of Georges Simenon, in 1966, Mylène Demongeot had continued her career between dotted lines, becoming rarer in the cinema. In 1980 she produced Signed Furaxa feature film directed by her husband.
She also spent part of her career in the theater and was particularly active on the boards between the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.
Two César nominations
If she was made Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and Knight of the Legion of Honor, she was never distinguished by her peers. She has only been nominated twice for the Césars, in 2005 and 2007, as best actress in a supporting role for, respectively, 36, Quai des Orfèvres by Olivier Marchal and California by Jacques Fieschi.
Mylène Demongeot had also signed several books, including autobiographical stories. His latest work, dear scammerspublished in 2019 was devoted to his financial setbacks with his wealth advisor.
She “was a committed actress, sensitive, in particular, to the defense of the animal and environmental cause and the right to die with dignity”, recalls her press officer in a press release.