Jean Seberg

Born: 1938-11-13 in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA

Died: 1979-08-30

Known For: Acting

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

2023

Godard by Godard as Self (archive footage)

2019

Mike Wallace Is Here as Self (archive footage)

1976

The Wild Duck as Gina Ekdal, seine Frau

1975

White Horses of Summer as Lea Kingsburg
The Big Delirium as Emily

1974

Mousey as Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
Les Hautes solitudes
Ballad for Billy the Kid as The Star

1973

The Corruption of Chris Miller as Ruth Miller

1972

Camorra as Luisa
The Assassination as Edith Lemoine
This Kind of Love as Giovanna

1971

Macho Callahan as Alexandra Mountford
Kill! as Emily Hamilton

1970

Airport as Tanya Livingston
Dead of Summer as Joyce Grasse

1969

Pendulum as Adele Matthews
Paint Your Wagon as Elizabeth Woodling
No Name City as Self

1968

Birds in Peru as Adriana

1967

The Road to Corinth as Shanny
The Looters as Colleen O'Hara

1966

Line of Demarcation as Mary de Damville
A Fine Madness as Lydia West
Moment to Moment as Kay Stanton

1965

Diamonds Are Brittle as Bettina Ralton

1964

Die Drehscheibe as Self
Backfire as Olga Celan
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers as Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
Lilith as Lilith Arthur
Le Grand Escroc as Patricia

1963

In the French Style as Christina James

1962

Eruption as Annette

1961

Five Day Lover as Claire
Time Out for Love as Ann
Playtime as Kate Hoover

1960

Breathless as Patricia Franchini
Let No Man Write My Epitaph as Barbara Holloway

1959

The Mouse That Roared as Helen Kokintz

1958

Bonjour Tristesse as Cecile

1957

Saint Joan as St. Joan of Arc

1956

Cinépanorama as Self

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self