Jean Seberg
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Jean Seberg (1938 - 1979) was an American actress who lived half of her life in France. Her performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless immortalized her as an icon of French New Wave cinema.
Seberg appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Breathless, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples. Seberg was among the best-known targets of the FBI's COINTELPRO project. Her targeting was in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party, a smear directly ordered by J. Edgar Hoover.
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 at which he blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her death. Gary mentioned the FBI-planted false rumors with American media outlets claiming that her 1970 pregnancy was a Black Panther's child, and said that the trauma had resulted in the child's miscarriage. Gary stated that Seberg had attempted suicide on numerous anniversaries of the child's death, August 25.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Language | Notes |
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1957 | Saint Joan | St. Joan of Arc | English | |
1958 | Bonjour Tristesse | Cecile | English | |
1959 | The Mouse That Roared | Helen Kokintz | English | |
1960 | Breathless | Patricia Franchini | French | |
1960 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph | Barbara Holloway | English | |
1961 | Time Out for Love | Ann | French | |
1961 | Love Play | Kate Hoover | French | |
1961 | Five Day Lover | Claire | French | |
1962 | Congo vivo | Annette | Italian | |
1963 | In the French Style | Christina James | English | |
1964 | The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers | Patricia Leacock | French | (segment "Le Grand Escroq") (scenes deleted) |
1964 | Backfire | Olga Celan | French | |
1964 | Lilith | Lilith Arthur | English | |
1965 | Diamonds Are Brittle | Bettina Ralton | French | |
1966 | Moment to Moment | Kay Stanton | English | |
1966 | A Fine Madness | Lydia West | English | |
1966 | Line of Demarcation | Mary, comtesse de Damville | French | |
1967 | The Looters | Colleen O'Hara | French | Alternate title: Revolt in the Caribbean |
1967 | The Road to Corinth | Shanny | French | Alternate title: Who's Got the Black Box? |
1968 | Birds in Peru | Adriana | French | |
1968 | The Girls | English | Documentary | |
1969 | Pendulum | Adele Matthews | English | |
1969 | Paint Your Wagon | Elizabeth | English | |
1970 | Airport | Tanya Livingston | English | |
1970 | Dead of Summer | Joyce Grasse | Italian | |
1970 | Macho Callahan | Alexandra Mountford | English | |
1972 | Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! | Emily Hamilton | English | |
1972 | This Kind of Love | Giovanna | Italian | |
1972 | Gang War in Naples | Luisa | Italian | |
1972 | Plot | Edith Lemoine | French | Alternate title: The French Conspiracy |
1973 | The Corruption of Chris Miller | Ruth Miller | Spanish | |
1974 | Les hautes solitudes | — | Silent film without named characters | |
1974 | Mousey | Laura Anderson / Richardson | English | Television film |
1974 | Ballad for the Kid (Short film) | La star | French | Director, writer, producer |
1975 | White Horses of Summer | Lea Kingsburg | Italian | |
1975 | The Big Delirium | Emily | French | |
1976 | Template:Interlanguage link multi | Gina Ekdal | German | (Final film role) |