Jean Seberg
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957
Die Drehscheibe
Self
1964
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self (uncredited)
1948
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Film
Breathless
Patricia Franchini
1960
Film
Airport
Tanya Livingston
1970
Film
Paint Your Wagon
Elizabeth Woodling
1969
Film
The Mouse That Roared
Helen Kokintz
1959
Film
Bonjour Tristesse
Cecile
1958
Film
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
1964
Film
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Film
The Assassination
Edith Lemoine
1972
Film
A Fine Madness
Lydia West
1966
Film
Lilith
Lilith Arthur
1964
Film
Line of Demarcation
Mary de Damville
1966
Film
Kill!
Emily Hamilton
1971
Film
Playtime
Kate Hoover
1961
Film
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Barbara Holloway
1960
Film
Saint Joan
St. Joan of Arc
1957
Film
Macho Callahan
Alexandra Mountford
1971
Film
Pendulum
Adele Matthews
1969
Film
The Big Delirium
Emily
1975
Film
Backfire
Olga Celan
1964
Film
The Wild Duck
Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
1976
Film
The Corruption of Chris Miller
Ruth Miller
1973
Film
Five Day Lover
Claire
1961
Film
In the French Style
Christina James
1963
Film
Mike Wallace Is Here
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
1991
Film
This Kind of Love
Giovanna
1972
Film
The Road to Corinth
Shanny
1967
Film
Diamonds Are Brittle
Bettina Ralton
1965
Film
The Looters
Colleen O'Hara
1967
Film
Philippe Garrel - Portrait d'un artiste
archive footage
1999
Film
Eruption
Annette
1962
Film
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Moment to Moment
Kay Stanton
1966
Film
White Horses of Summer
Lea Kingsburg
1975
Film
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Self (archive footage)
1995
Film
Dead of Summer
Joyce Grasse
1970
Film
Mousey
Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
1974
Film
Camorra
Luisa
1972
Ballad for Billy the Kid
The Star
1974
Film
Time Out for Love
Ann
1961
Film
Birds in Peru
Adriana
1968
Film
The Blue of the Origins
1979
Film
Les Hautes solitudes
1974
Film
No Name City
Self
1969
Film
Jean Seberg: American Actress
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
Le Grand Escroc
Patricia
1964