Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1938-11-13
Day of Death
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 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.
Filmography (47)
Godard by Godard
2023
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017
Philippe Garrel - Portrait d'un artiste
1999Jean Seberg: American Actress
1997
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
1995
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
The Blue of the Origins
1979
The Wild Duck
1976
The Big Delirium
1975
White Horses of Summer
1975
Les Hautes solitudes
1974Ballad for Billy the Kid
1974
