Mylène Demongeot

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.

Known For

Self (archive footage)

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

Judy

12 + 1

Self - Actor

Camping : histoire d'un succès

Hélène

Fantômas se déchaîne

Hélène

Fantômas contre Scotland Yard

Hélène

Fantômas

Elsa

Bonjour Tristesse

The Wife in Bed

Tenue De Soirée

Milady de Winter

Les Trois Mousquetaires : Tome II - La Vengeance de Milady

Abigail Williams

Les Sorcières de Salem

Manou Berliner

36 quai des Orfèvres

Laurette Pic

Camping

Mme Vallardin

Tricheuse

Laurette Pic

Camping 2

Sonja Stromberg / Helga Stromberg

Doctor in Distress

Andromeda

La battaglia di Maratona

Self

Fantômas démasqué

Virginie Dumayet

Sois belle et tais-toi

Lily, la mère de Rose

Oscar et la dame rose

Anna Padoan

Un amore a Roma

Katia

La Californie

la mère

Victoire

Locha de Cortinez

The Singer Not the Song

Milady de Winter

Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1ère époque : Les Ferrets de la Reine

Gabby

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

Lisette

À cause, à cause d'une femme

Self

Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma

Mélanie

L'Appartement des filles

Eva Dollan

Une manche et la belle

Self - Actrice

Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma

Nous sommes tous des gagnants

Zizi

Sotto dieci bandiere

Fanfan

Elle s'en va

Rea

Il ratto delle sabine

Anne Calder

Le champignon

Harriet

Onkel Toms Hütte

Ingrid

Upstairs and Downstairs

Mrs. de Chatiez

J'ai mon voyage!

Herself

Урок французского

Penelope

Oro per i Cesari

Catherine Mougin

Le vent se lève

Laura

Quelques arpents de neige

Sabine

Faibles femmes

Malvina

Signé Furax

Virginie

Les mauvaises têtes

La Maîtresse

Flics de Choc

Muriel

Tendre voyou

Laurence

Il faut vivre dangereusement

Sylvie Mallet

Cette nuit là...

Self - Actress

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Madame Rochaise

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

ヨーロッパ特急

Georgie

It's a Wonderful World

Louise Perreau

Le fantôme du lac

Mon Ami Washington

La mère de Lucie

La Balade de Lucie

Madeleine

Des roses en hiver

Geneviève Lambert

Surprise Party

Nicole

Les enfants de l'amour

Quand vient l'amour

Brigitte

Le bâtard

Montréal blues

Zina von Raunacher

Copacabana Palace

Laurette Pic

Camping 3

Woman on the bench

Retenez-moi... ou je fais un malheur !

Thérèse

Les Toits de Paris

Geneviève

Si tu meurs, je te tue

Julia

Les Noces de porcelaine

Prostitute

Par le sang des autres

Anna-Maria Sulza

Furia à Bahia pour OSS 117

Rolande

Sage femme

Mylène Demongeot

Cherchez l'idole

Mamita

Trois mariages et un coup de foudre

Katia

L'explosion

Simone Tournier

Maison de retraite

La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)

Frou-Frou

La fille qui ouvre la porte (uncredited)

Papa, maman, ma femme et moi

Muriel

La Piste du télégraphe

The future star who vocalizes

Futures vedettes

Laura

La notte brava

Self

Les Scandaleuses

Self

Du Salon indien au multiplexe

La Tina

La Tête haute

Fernande

Big Man - Droga Polizza

La directrice de la colonie de vacances (voice)

Feux rouges

Self (archive footage)

Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son

Cécile Pallas

Un jour un tueur