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.

Filmography

• 2022Retirement Home — Simone Tournier
• Inside — Rose Da Costa
• 2017The Midwife — Rolande
• 2016Camping 3 — Laurette Pic
• 2016Trois mariages et un coup de foudre — Mamita
• Capitaine Marleau — Louise Lemaire
• 2014Des roses en hiver — Madeleine
• 2013La Balade de Lucie — La mère de Lucie
• 2013Les mauvaises têtes — Virginie
• 2013On My Way — Fanfan
• 2011If You Die, I'll Kill You — Geneviève
• 2010Camping 2 — Laurette Pic
• 2009Oscar and the Lady in Pink — Lily, la mère de Rose
• 2009So Woman! — Mme Vallardin
• 2007Beneath the Rooftops of Paris — Thérèse
• 2007Le fantôme du lac — Louise Perreau
• 2006Camping — Laurette Pic
• 2006La Californie — Katia
• 2005La Tête haute — La Tina
• 200436th Precinct — Manou Berliner
• 2004Red Lights — La directrice de la colonie de vacances (voice)
• 2004Victoire — la mère
• 1998We Are All Winners
• 1994The Telegraph Route — Muriel
• Big Man — Fernande
• 1988The Man Who Lived at the Ritz — Madame Rochaise
• 1986Ménage — The Wife in Bed
• 1984Europe Express
• 1984Mon Ami Washington
• 1984The Defective Detective — Woman on the bench
• 1983Flics de Choc — La Maîtresse
• 1983Surprise Party — Geneviève Lambert
• 1983The Bastard — Brigitte
• Marion — Marion
• 1981Signé Furax — Malvina
• Kick, Raoul, la moto, les jeunes et les autres — Martine n°2
• 1980Un jour un tueur — Cécile Pallas
• Minder — Madeleine
• 1975One Must Live Dangerously — Laurence
• 1975The Porcelain Anniversary — Julia
• 1974By the Blood of Others — Prostitute
• 1973I've Had It — Mrs. de Chatiez
• 1972A Few Acres of Snow — Laura
• 1972Montréal blues
• Graf Luckner — Daphne
• 1971The Hideout — Katia
• 1970The Killer Strikes at Dawn — Anne Calder
• 1969Twelve Plus One — Judy
• Les Dossiers de l'Agence O — Myle Holga
• 1968The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell — Gabby
• 1967Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard — Hélène
• 1966Tender Scoundrel — Muriel
• 1965Fantomas Unleashed — Hélène
• 1965OSS 117: Mission for a Killer — Anna-Maria Sulza
• 1965Uncle Tom's Cabin — Harriet
• 1964Cherchez l'idole — Mylène Demongeot
• 1964Fantomas — Hélène
• 1963Because, Because of a Woman — Lisette
• 1963Doctor in Distress — Sonja Stromberg / Helga Stromberg
• 1963Girl's Apartment — Mélanie
• 1963Gold for the Caesars — Penelope
• 1962Copacabana Palace — Zina von Raunacher
• 1961Romulus and the Sabines — Rea
• 1961The Fighting Musketeers — Milady de Winter
• 1961The Singer Not the Song — Locha de Cortinez
• 1961Vengeance of the Three Musketeers — Milady de Winter
• 1960Love in Rome — Anna Padoan
• 1960Under Ten Flags — Zizi
• 1959The Big Night — Laura
• 1959The Giant of Marathon — Andromeda
• 1959Time Bomb — Catherine Mougin
• 1959Upstairs and Downstairs — Ingrid
• 1959Women Are Weak — Sabine
• 1958Be Beautiful and Shut Up — Virginie Dumayet
• 1958Bonjour Tristesse — Elsa
• 1958That Night — Sylvie Mallet
• 1957A Kiss for a Killer — Eva Dollan
• 1957The Witches of Salem — Abigail Williams
• 1956It's a Wonderful World — Georgie
• 1956Quand vient l'amour
• 1955Frou-Frou — La maîtresse de Cousinet-Duval (uncredited)
• 1955Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me — La fille qui ouvre la porte (uncredited)
• 1955School for Love — The future star who vocalizes
• 1953Children of Love — Nicole

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2024Les Scandaleuses — Self
• 2022Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain — Self
• 2022Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma — Self - Actrice
• 2021Camping : Histoire d'un succès — Self - Actor
• 2020Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma — Self
• 2017À la recherche de... Pierre Richard — Self - Actress
• Amanda — Self
• 2013Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Urok Francuzskogo — Herself
• 1995Du Salon indien au multiplexe — Self
• Fan School — Self
• 30 millions d'amis — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Samedi soir — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self