Name
Jean Seberg
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1938-11-13
Deathday
1979-08-30 (41 years old)
Place of Birth
Marshalltown, Iowa, USA
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.
Known For
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A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by ...
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A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Thei...
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Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, al...
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A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy...
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A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife....
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The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is ...
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A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stocka...
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It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne ...
- 1960 Breathless as Patricia Franchini
- 1958 Bonjour Tristesse as Cecile
- 1970 Airport as Tanya Livingston
- 1969 Paint Your Wagon as Elizabeth Woodling
- 1973 The Corruption of Chris Miller as Ruth Miller
- 1959 The Mouse That Roared as Helen Kokintz
- 1964 Lilith as Lilith Arthur
- 1961 Time Out for Love as Ann
- 1966 A Fine Madness as Lydia West
- 1966 Line of Demarcation as Mary de Damville
- 1974 Mousey as Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
- 1957 Saint Joan as St. Joan of Arc
- 1967 The Road to Corinth as Shanny
- 1972 The Assassination as Edith Lemoine
- 1960 Let No Man Write My Epitaph as Barbara Holloway
- 1964 Backfire as Olga Celan
- 1966 Moment to Moment as Kay Stanton
- 1963 In the French Style as Christina James
- 2023 Godard by Godard as Self (archive footage)
- 1971 Kill! as Emily Hamilton
- 1972 This Kind of Love as Giovanna
- 1969 Pendulum as Adele Matthews
- 1968 Birds in Peru as Adriana
- 1976 The Wild Duck as Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
- 1970 Dead of Summer as Joyce Grasse
- 1972 Camorra as Luisa
- 1965 Diamonds Are Brittle as Bettina Ralton
- 1967 The Looters as Colleen O'Hara
- 1975 White Horses of Summer as Lea Kingsburg
- 1974 Les Hautes solitudes
- 1995 From the Journals of Jean Seberg as Self (archive footage)
- 1961 Playtime as Kate Hoover
- 2019 Mike Wallace Is Here as Self (archive footage)
- 1961 Five Day Lover as Claire
- 1971 Macho Callahan as Alexandra Mountford
- 1964 The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers as Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
- 1969 No Name City as Self
- 1974 Ballad for Billy the Kid as The Star
- 1979 The Blue of the Origins
- 1975 The Big Delirium as Emily
- 1962 Eruption as Annette
- 1991 Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 Jean Seberg: American Actress as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 De Gaulle, the Last King of France as Self (archive footage)
- 1964 Le Grand Escroc as Patricia
- 2022 Belmondo: The Incorrigible
- 1999 Philippe Garrel - Portrait d'un artiste as archive footage
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 1 episode ) as Self (uncredited)
- 1956 Cinépanorama ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1964 Die Drehscheibe ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1957 Tonight Starring Jack Paar ( 1 episode ) as Self
