Jean Seberg
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
Breathless
as Patricia Franchini 1960
Airport
as Tanya Livingston 1970
Paint Your Wagon
as Elizabeth Woodling 1969
Bonjour Tristesse
as Cecile 1958
The Mouse That Roared
as Helen Kokintz 1959
Lilith
as Lilith Arthur 1964
The Assassination
as Edith Lemoine 1972
Line of Demarcation
as Mary de Damville 1966
Kill!
as Emily Hamilton 1971
The Corruption of Chris Miller
as Ruth Miller 1973
Backfire
as Olga Celan 1964
Saint Joan
as St. Joan of Arc 1957
Les Hautes solitudes
1974
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc") 1964
Macho Callahan
as Alexandra Mountford 1971
A Fine Madness
as Lydia West 1966
Five Day Lover
as Claire 1961