It is a figure of French cinema who is leaving. The actress Mylène Demongeot died at the age of 87, announces the journalist Henry-Jean Servat this Thursday, December 1. “I am devastated to have to share the flight to heaven today of Mylène Demongeot, artist so dear and so pretty, magnificent actress, adored friend of 40 years, and very active activist for the defense of animals“, he wrote on Twitter
Blonde icon of the 1960s, like her friend Brigitte Bardot, Mylène Demongeot was Hélène opposite Jean Marais in the series of Ghosts directed by André Hunebelle and Milady from the adaptation of Three Musketeers by Bernard Borderie. In 2004, after a long absence, she returned to the screen in 36 Quai des Goldsmiths by Olivier Marchal then the saga of Camping by Fabien Onteniente where she interpreted Laurette, the time of Jacky Pic, played by Claude Brasseur.
Mylène Demongeot had not been spared from health problems in recent years. In 2014, in a book titled The trapshe recounted her fight against “the pitiless enemy, this dear alcohol, this magnificent trap“. In 2020, she revealed that she had triumphed over cancer. After a recurrence the following year, she claimed to have overcome the disease last January.
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