Jean Seberg

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1938-11-13 (41 years old)

Deathday

1979-08-30

Place of Birth

Marshalltown, Iowa, USA

Jean Seberg

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 sec...

Acting

1960

Breathless

as Patricia Franchini

1958

1970

Airport

as Tanya Livingston

1969

Paint Your Wagon

as Elizabeth Woodling

1959

The Mouse That Roared

as Helen Kokintz

1964

Lilith

as Lilith Arthur

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

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

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

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

1971

Macho Callahan

as Alexandra Mountford

1964

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

as Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")

1969

1975

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

Production

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