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Jean Seberg (1938–1979)


Jean Dorothy Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to Dorothy Arline (Benson), a substitute teacher, and Edward Waldemar Seberg, a pharmacist. Her father was of Swedish descent and her mother was of English and German ancestry. One month before her eighteenth birthday, Jean landed the title role in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan (1957) after a ... See full bio »

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(age 40) in Paris, France

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Known For

À bout de souffle
À bout de souffle Patricia Franchini
(1960)
Airport
Airport Tanya Livingston
(1970)
Paint Your Wagon
Paint Your Wagon Elizabeth
(1969)
The Mouse That Roared
The Mouse That Roared Helen Kokintz
(1959)

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 1975 Le grand délire
Emily
 1975 Bianchi cavalli d'Agosto
Lea Kingsburg
 1974 Ballad for Billy the Kid (Short)
La star
 1974 Mousey (TV Movie)
Laura Anderson / Richardson
 1973 La corrupción de Chris Miller
Ruth Miller
 1972 L'attentat
Edith Lemoine - une infirmière gauchiste
 1972 Camorra
Luisa
 1972 Questa specie d'amore
Giovanna
 1971 Kill!
Emily Hamilton
 1970 Macho Callahan
Alexandra Mountford
 1970 Ondata di calore
Joyce Grasse
 1969 Pendulum
Adele Matthews
 1967 La route de Corinthe
Shanny
 1967 Estouffade à la Caraïbe
Colleen O'Hara
 1966 A Fine Madness
Lydia West
 1966 La ligne de démarcation
Mary, comtesse de Damville
 1965 Moment to Moment
Kay Stanton
 1965 Un milliard dans un billard
Bettina Ralton
 1964 Échappement libre
Olga Celan
 1964 Les plus belles escroqueries du monde
Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand Escroq") (scenes deleted)
 1963 In the French Style
Christina James
 1962 Congo vivo
Annette
 1961 L'amant de cinq jours
Claire
 1961 La récréation
Kate Hoover
 1960 Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Barbara Holloway
 1959 The Mouse That Roared
Helen Kokintz
 1958 Bonjour tristesse
Cecile
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5 Biographical Movies | 4 Print Biographies | 1 Interview | 4 Articles | 2 Pictorials | 4 Magazine Cover Photos | See more »

Height:

5' 3" (1.6 m)
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"I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. So, the conclusion I have come to is that I can't make acting my whole life. See more »

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Considered one of the Nouvelle Vague's icons. See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio

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