Mylène Demongeot
Acting • Born 1935-09-29 – Died 2022-12-01
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. ... Source: Article "Mylène Demongeot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
102 credits
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Twelve Plus One
Movie • 1969
Judy
Camping : histoire d'un succès
Movie • 2021
Self - Actor
Fantomas Unleashed
Movie • 1965
Hélène
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Movie • 1967
Hélène
Fantomas
Movie • 1964
Hélène
Bonjour Tristesse
Movie • 1958
Elsa
Ménage
Movie • 1986
The Wife in Bed
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
Movie • 1961
Milady de Winter
The Witches of Salem
Movie • 1957
Abigail Williams
36th Precinct
Movie • 2004
Manou Berliner
Camping
Movie • 2006
Laurette Pic
So Woman!
Movie • 2009
Mme Vallardin
Camping 2
Movie • 2010
Laurette Pic
Doctor in Distress
Movie • 1963
Sonja Stromberg / Helga Stromberg
The Giant of Marathon
Movie • 1959
Andromeda
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
Movie • 2022
Self
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Movie • 1958
Virginie Dumayet
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Movie • 2009
Lily, la mère de Rose
Love in Rome
Movie • 1960
Anna Padoan
La Californie
Movie • 2006
Katia
Victoire
Movie • 2004
la mère
The Singer Not the Song
Movie • 1961
Locha de Cortinez
The Fighting Musketeers
Movie • 1961
Milady de Winter
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
Movie • 1968
Gabby
Because, Because of a Woman
Movie • 1963
Lisette
Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma
Movie • 2018
Self
Girl's Apartment
Movie • 1963
Mélanie
A Kiss for a Killer
Movie • 1957
Eva Dollan
Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma
Movie • 2022
Self - Actrice
We Are All Winners
Movie • 1998
Under Ten Flags
Movie • 1960
Zizi
On My Way
Movie • 2013
Fanfan
Romulus and the Sabines
Movie • 1961
Rea
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
Movie • 1970
Anne Calder
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Movie • 1965
Harriet
Upstairs and Downstairs
Movie • 1959
Ingrid
I've Had It
Movie • 1973
Mrs. de Chatiez
Urok Francuzskogo
Movie • 2008
Herself
Gold for the Caesars
Movie • 1963
Penelope
Time Bomb
Movie • 1959
Catherine Mougin
A Few Acres of Snow
Movie • 1972
Laura
Women Are Weak
Movie • 1959
Sabine
Signé Furax
Movie • 1981
Malvina
Les mauvaises têtes
Movie • 2013
Virginie
Flics de Choc
Movie • 1983
La Maîtresse
Tender Scoundrel
Movie • 1966
Muriel
One Must Live Dangerously
Movie • 1975
Laurence
That Night
Movie • 1958
Sylvie Mallet
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie • 2017
Self - Actress
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Movie • 1988
Madame Rochaise
Europe Express
Movie • 1984
It's a Wonderful World
Movie • 1956
Georgie
Le fantôme du lac
Movie • 2007
Louise Perreau
Mon Ami Washington
Movie • 1984
La Balade de Lucie
Movie • 2013
La mère de Lucie
Des roses en hiver
Movie • 2014
Madeleine
Surprise-party
Movie • 1983
Geneviève Lambert
Children of Love
Movie • 1953
Nicole
Quand vient l'amour
Movie • 1956
The Bastard
Movie • 1983
Brigitte
Montréal blues
Movie • 1972
Copacabana Palace
Movie • 1962
Zina von Raunacher
Camping 3
Movie • 2016
Laurette Pic
The Defective Detective
Movie • 1984
Woman on the bench
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
Movie • 2007
Thérèse
If You Die, I'll Kill You
Movie • 2011
Geneviève
The Porcelain Anniversary
Movie • 1975
Julia
By the Blood of Others
Movie • 1974
Prostitute
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Movie • 1965
Anna-Maria Sulza
The Midwife
Movie • 2017
Rolande
Cherchez l'idole
Movie • 1964
Mylène Demongeot
Trois mariages et un coup de foudre
Movie • 2016
Mamita
The Hideout
Movie • 1971
Katia
Retirement Home
Movie • 2022
Simone Tournier
Frou-Frou
Movie • 1955
La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Movie • 1955
La fille qui ouvre la porte (uncredited)
The Telegraph Route
Movie • 1994
Muriel
School for Love
Movie • 1955
The future star who vocalizes
The Big Night
Movie • 1959
Laura
Les Scandaleuses
Movie • 2024
Self
Du Salon indien au multiplexe
Movie • 1995
Self
La Tête haute
Movie • 2005
La Tina
Big Man - Droga Polizza
Movie • 1988
Fernande
Red Lights
Movie • 2004
La directrice de la colonie de vacances (voice)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Un jour un tueur
Movie • 1980
Cécile Pallas
Marion
TV • 1982
Marion
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
TV • 1968
Myle Holga
Amanda
TV • 2016
Self
Graf Luckner
TV • 1971
Daphne
Minder
TV • 1979
Madeleine
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Capitaine Marleau
TV • 2015
Louise Lemaire
Fan School
TV • 1977
Self
Big Man
TV • 1988
Fernande
Kick, Raoul, la moto, les jeunes et les autres
TV • 1980
Martine n°2
30 millions d'amis
TV • 1976
Self
Inside
TV • 2019
Rose Da Costa