8.5
8.5
Les scandaleuses
2024
as Self
Mylène Demongeot
Also known as: Mylene Demongeot
Acting
Nationality:France
Height:5'7" (171 cm)
Education:Cours Simon
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CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Mylène Demongeot 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 death 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.
Notable Works
Fantômas trilogy
Filmography (83 movies)
8.0
8.0
Les mauvaises têtes
2013
as Virginie
7.5
7.5
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
1965
as Anna-Maria Sulza
7.5
7.5
The Defective Detective
1984
as Woman on the bench
7.1
7.1
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
2022
as Self
7.0
7.0
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Actress
6.9
6.9
The Fighting Musketeers
1961
as Milady de Winter
6.9
6.9
36th Precinct
2004
as Manou Berliner
6.9
6.9
The Witches of Salem
1957
as Abigail Williams
6.8
6.8
Fantomas
1964
as Hélène
6.8
6.8
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
1961
as Milady de Winter
6.7
6.7
Fantomas Unleashed
1965
as Hélène
6.7
6.7
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
1967
as Hélène
6.6
6.6
Ménage
1986
as The Wife in Bed
6.6
6.6
Bonjour Tristesse
1958
as Elsa
6.5
6.5
Des roses en hiver
2014
as Madeleine
6.5
6.5
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2009
as Lily, la mère de Rose
6.5
6.5
On My Way
2013
as Fanfan
6.3
6.3
The Singer Not the Song
1961
as Locha de Cortinez
6.2
6.2
Doctor in Distress
1963
as Sonia
6.2
6.2
Cherchez l'idole
1964
as Mylène Demongeot
6.2
6.2
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
2007
as Thérèse
6.1
6.1
The Midwife
2017
as Rolande
6.1
6.1
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968
as Gabby
6.0
6.0
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
as Self (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Camping : histoire d'un succès
2021
as Self - Actor
6.0
6.0
If You Die, I'll Kill You
2011
as Geneviève
6.0
6.0
Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma
2018
as Self
6.0
6.0
Children of Love
1953
as Nicole
6.0
6.0
La Balade de Lucie
2013
as La mère de Lucie
5.9
5.9
Retirement Home
2022
as Simone Tournier
5.9
5.9
The Big Night
1959
as Laura
5.6
5.6
Time Bomb
1959
as Catherine Mougin
5.6
5.6
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959
as Ingrid
5.6
5.6
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1965
as Harriet
5.5
5.5
Camping
2006
as Laurette Pic
5.5
5.5
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958
as Virginie Dumayet
5.4
5.4
Red Lights
2004
as La directrice de la colonie de vacances (voice)
5.4
5.4
Women Are Weak
1959
as Sabine
5.4
5.4
Under Ten Flags
1960
as Zizi
5.3
5.3
It's a Wonderful World
1956
as Georgie
5.3
5.3
A Kiss for a Killer
1957
as Eva Dollan
5.2
5.2
Love in Rome
1960
as Anna Padoan
5.2
5.2
Girl's Apartment
1963
as Mélanie
5.2
5.2
Twelve Plus One
1969
as Judy
5.1
5.1
Tender Scoundrel
1966
as Muriel
5.1
5.1
The Giant of Marathon
1959
as Andromeda
5.0
5.0
Romulus and the Sabines
1961
as Rea
5.0
5.0
Montréal blues
1972
5.0
5.0
That Night
1958
as Sylvie Mallet
5.0
5.0
I've Had It
1973
as Mrs. de Chatiez
4.8
4.8
School for Love
1955
as The future star who vocalizes
4.8
4.8
Camping 2
2010
as Laurette Pic
4.7
4.7
Camping 3
2016
as Laurette Pic
4.6
4.6
Because, Because of a Woman
1963
as Lisette
4.5
4.5
Copacabana Palace
1962
as Zina von Raunacher
4.5
4.5
Trois mariages et un coup de foudre
2016
as Mamita
4.5
4.5
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
1970
as Anne Calder
4.5
4.5
So Woman!
2009
as Mme Vallardin
4.5
4.5
Surprise Party
1983
as Geneviève Lambert
4.3
4.3
One Must Live Dangerously
1975
as Laurence
4.2
4.2
By the Blood of Others
1974
as Prostitute
4.2
4.2
Gold for the Caesars
1963
as Penelope
4.0
4.0
La Californie
2006
as Katia
4.0
4.0
The Telegraph Route
1994
as Muriel
3.7
3.7
Flics de Choc
1983
as La Maîtresse
3.3
3.3
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988
as Madame Rochaise
2.0
2.0
The Hideout
1971
as Katia
2.0
2.0
Le fantôme du lac
2007
as Louise Perreau
1.0
1.0
Victoire
2004
as la mère
Quand vient l'amour
1956
The Porcelain Anniversary
1975
as Julia
Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma
2022
as Self - Actrice
Un jour un tueur
1979
Big Man - Droga Polizza
1988
as Fernande
Europe Express
1984
We Are All Winners
1998
Mon Ami Washington
1984
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013
as Self (archive footage)
A Few Acres of Snow
1972
as Laura
Du Salon indien au multiplexe
1995
as Self
Urok Francuzskogo
2008
as Herself
The Bastard
1983
as Brigitte
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