Jean Seberg
Acting • Born 1938-11-13 – Died 1979-08-30
Biography
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.
Filmography
51 credits
Breathless
Movie • 1960
Patricia Franchini
Bonjour Tristesse
Movie • 1958
Cecile
Airport
Movie • 1970
Tanya Livingston
Paint Your Wagon
Movie • 1969
Elizabeth Woodling
The Corruption of Chris Miller
Movie • 1973
Ruth Miller
The Mouse That Roared
Movie • 1959
Helen Kokintz
Lilith
Movie • 1964
Lilith Arthur
Time Out for Love
Movie • 1961
Ann
A Fine Madness
Movie • 1966
Lydia West
Line of Demarcation
Movie • 1966
Mary de Damville
Mousey
Movie • 1974
Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
Saint Joan
Movie • 1957
St. Joan of Arc
The Road to Corinth
Movie • 1967
Shanny
The Assassination
Movie • 1972
Edith Lemoine
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Movie • 1960
Barbara Holloway
Backfire
Movie • 1964
Olga Celan
Moment to Moment
Movie • 1966
Kay Stanton
In the French Style
Movie • 1963
Christina James
Godard by Godard
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Kill!
Movie • 1971
Emily Hamilton
This Kind of Love
Movie • 1972
Giovanna
Pendulum
Movie • 1969
Adele Matthews
Birds in Peru
Movie • 1968
Adriana
The Wild Duck
Movie • 1976
Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
Dead of Summer
Movie • 1970
Joyce Grasse
Camorra
Movie • 1972
Luisa
Diamonds Are Brittle
Movie • 1965
Bettina Ralton
The Looters
Movie • 1967
Colleen O'Hara
White Horses of Summer
Movie • 1975
Lea Kingsburg
Les Hautes solitudes
Movie • 1974
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Movie • 1995
Self (archive footage)
Playtime
Movie • 1961
Kate Hoover
Mike Wallace Is Here
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Five Day Lover
Movie • 1961
Claire
Macho Callahan
Movie • 1971
Alexandra Mountford
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Movie • 1964
Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
No Name City
Movie • 1969
Self
Ballad for Billy the Kid
Movie • 1974
The Star
The Blue of the Origins
Movie • 1979
The Big Delirium
Movie • 1975
Emily
Eruption
Movie • 1962
Annette
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
Jean Seberg: American Actress
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Le Grand Escroc
Movie • 1964
Patricia
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie • 2022
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self (uncredited)
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Die Drehscheibe
TV • 1964
Self
Final Days of an Icon
TV • 2007