Jean Seberg
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Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress who lived half her life in France. She appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Breathless, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples. She was also one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Her targeting was a well-documented retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide. Romain Gary, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death where he publicly blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media reported a false story that the FBI planted about her becoming pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970. Romain Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child's death, August 25.
Known for
Credits
Breathless (1960)
as Patricia Franchini
Airport (1970)
as Tanya Livingston
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
as Elizabeth Woodling
Line of Demarcation (1966)
as Mary de Damville
Kill! (1971)
as Emily Hamilton
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
as Cecile
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
as Helen Kokintz
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Actor
The Assassination (1972)
as Edith Lemoine
Eruption (1962)
as Annette
Philippe Garrel - Portrait d'un artiste (1999)
as archive footage
Playtime (1961)
as Kate Hoover
Macho Callahan (1971)
as Alexandra Mountford
Lilith (1964)
as Lilith Arthur
Backfire (1964)
as Olga Celan
The Big Delirium (1975)
as Emily
A Fine Madness (1966)
as Lydia West
Godard by Godard (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Dead of Summer (1970)
as Joyce Grasse
Saint Joan (1957)
as St. Joan of Arc
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
as Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Time Out for Love (1961)
as Ann
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
as Barbara Holloway
The Road to Corinth (1967)
as Shanny
Moment to Moment (1966)
as Kay Stanton
Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Les Hautes solitudes (1974)
Actor
The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
as Ruth Miller
Pendulum (1969)
as Adele Matthews
The Looters (1967)
as Colleen O'Hara
Ballad for Billy the Kid (1974)
as The Star
No Name City (1969)
as Self
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
Mousey (1974)
as Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
This Kind of Love (1972)
as Giovanna
Diamonds Are Brittle (1965)
as Bettina Ralton
Camorra (1972)
as Luisa
The Blue of the Origins (1979)
Actor
The Wild Duck (1976)
as Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
In the French Style (1963)
as Christina James
Le Grand Escroc (1964)
as Patricia
Five Day Lover (1961)
as Claire
Jean Seberg: American Actress (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Birds in Peru (1968)
as Adriana
White Horses of Summer (1975)
as Lea Kingsburg