Jean Seberg
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 · 48
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
Cinépanorama
1956 · Self
Breathless
1960 · Patricia Franchini
Paint Your Wagon
1969 · Elizabeth Woodling
Airport
1970 · Tanya Livingston
The Mouse That Roared
1959 · Helen Kokintz
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Bonjour Tristesse
1958 · Cecile
Line of Demarcation
1966 · Mary de Damville
Playtime
1961 · Kate Hoover
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960 · Barbara Holloway
Kill!
1971 · Emily Hamilton
Godard by Godard
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Self (archive footage)
The Assassination
1972 · Edith Lemoine
Eruption
1962 · Annette
Lilith
1964 · Lilith Arthur
The Big Delirium
1975 · Emily
Macho Callahan
1971 · Alexandra Mountford
Saint Joan
1957 · St. Joan of Arc
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019 · Self (archive footage)
The Corruption of Chris Miller
1973 · Ruth Miller
Pendulum
1969 · Adele Matthews
Dead of Summer
1970 · Joyce Grasse
A Fine Madness
1966 · Lydia West
Backfire
1964 · Olga Celan
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964 · Patricia Leacock (segm...
In the French Style
1963 · Christina James
Diamonds Are Brittle
1965 · Bettina Ralton
No Name City
1969 · Self
Time Out for Love
1961 · Ann
Camorra
1972 · Luisa
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017 · Self (archive footage)
This Kind of Love
1972 · Giovanna
Moment to Moment
1966 · Kay Stanton
Philippe Garrel - Portrait d'un artiste
1999 · archive footage
Five Day Lover
1961 · Claire
The Road to Corinth
1967 · Shanny
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
1995 · Self (archive footage)
The Wild Duck
1976 · Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
Jean Seberg: American Actress
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Mousey
1974 · Laura Richardson, form...
The Looters
1967 · Colleen O'Hara
White Horses of Summer
1975 · Lea Kingsburg
Birds in Peru
1968 · Adriana
Les Hautes solitudes
1974
Le Grand Escroc
1964 · Patricia
The Blue of the Origins
1979