Jean Seberg
Acting
Born: 1938-11-13 in 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
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self (uncredited)
Cinépanorama
Self
Breathless
Patricia Franchini
Airport
Tanya Livingston
Paint Your Wagon
Elizabeth Woodling
Bonjour Tristesse
Cecile
Kill!
Emily Hamilton
The Assassination
Edith Lemoine
Lilith
Lilith Arthur
The Mouse That Roared
Helen Kokintz
A Fine Madness
Lydia West
Line of Demarcation
Mary de Damville
Playtime
Kate Hoover
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Self (archive footage)
Saint Joan
St. Joan of Arc
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
The Wild Duck
Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
Camorra
Luisa
Macho Callahan
Alexandra Mountford
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Barbara Holloway
Backfire
Olga Celan
The Big Delirium
Emily
The Looters
Colleen O'Hara
Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Eruption
Annette
The Corruption of Chris Miller
Ruth Miller
The Road to Corinth
Shanny
This Kind of Love
Giovanna
Pendulum
Adele Matthews
Diamonds Are Brittle
Bettina Ralton
Five Day Lover
Claire
Moment to Moment
Kay Stanton
Dead of Summer
Joyce Grasse
Mousey
Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
Mike Wallace Is Here
Self (archive footage)