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Mylène Demongeot

1935 - 2022

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Mylène Demongeot (born Marie-Hélène Demongeot; 29 September 1935 – 1 December 2022) was a French film, television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100 credits in French, Italian, English and Japanese speaking productions.Demongeot became a star at age 21 with her portrayal of Abigail Williams in The Crucible (1957) which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles nomination and the best actress prize at the socialist Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Some other notable film roles include Elsa in Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958), alongside Deborah Kerr and David Niven, and as Milady de Winter in Les Trois Mousquetaires (1961).A "veteran of cinema" who started as one of the blond sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, she managed to avoid typecasting by exploring many film genres including thrillers, westerns, comedies, swashbucklers, period films and even pepla, such as Romulus and the Sabines (1961) opposite Roger Moore or Gold for the Caesars (1963). Demongeot also has a cult following based on the Fantomas trilogy, as Hélène Gurn opposite Louis de Funès and Jean Marais: Fantômas (1964), Fantômas Unleashed (1965) and Fantômas Against Scotland Yard (1967). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mylène Demongeot has received more than 394,618 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Mylène Demongeot is the 370th most popular actor (up from 634th in 2019), the 766th most popular biography from France (up from 1,150th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Actor.

Mylène Demongeot is most famous for being a popular French actress in the 1960s and 1970s.

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  • 390k

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  • 64.90

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Mylène Demongeot has had the most page views in the with 280,924 views, followed by Russian (73,636), and English (54,508). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (359.56%), Esperanto (68.90%), and Indonesian (58.86%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mylène Demongeot ranks 370 out of 13,578. Before her are George Peppard, Diana Rigg, Bill Bixby, Juliette Gréco, Fanny Ardant, and John Cleese. After her are Trevor Howard, Margot Robbie, Frances Farmer, Patrick Stewart, F. Murray Abraham, and Jane Russell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Mylène Demongeot ranks 32. Before her are Edward Said, John Cazale, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Sylvia Earle, William Friedkin, and Gherman Titov. After her are Mercedes Sosa, Bibi Andersson, Seiji Ozawa, Miroslav Blažević, Adnan Khashoggi, and Ryke Geerd Hamer. Among people deceased in 2022, Mylène Demongeot ranks 35. Before her are Angela Lansbury, Lata Mangeshkar, Peter Brook, Wolfgang Petersen, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and Bruno Latour. After her are Ray Liotta, James Caan, Bill Russell, William Hurt, Angelo Sodano, and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.

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In France

Among people born in France, Mylène Demongeot ranks 766 out of 6,770. Before her are Thomas Bangalter (1), Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), Juliette Gréco (1927), Fanny Ardant (1949), René Coty (1882), and Roscellinus (1050). After her are Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788), Eugène Sue (1804), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Eric Cantona (1966), and Adélaïde of France (1732).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Mylène Demongeot ranks 33. Before her are Maurice Chevalier (1888), Robert Hossein (1927), Michèle Mercier (1939), Marie Laforêt (1939), Juliette Gréco (1927), and Fanny Ardant (1949). After her are Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932), Vincent Cassel (1966), Bourvil (1917), Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944), Bruno Cremer (1929), and Emmanuelle Riva (1927).

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Television and Movie Roles

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Hélène
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Mar 16o 19676.716 / 10
Camping 3
Laurette Pic
Like every summer, our friends, the Pics, Jacky and Laurette, Gatineau, recently divorced from Sopie, and Patrick Chirac, ever true to form, get together at the Blue Waves camping grounds. This year, Patrick has decided to try car sharing. Believing that he'll travel through France alone with Vanessa, he finds himself accompanied by three young Dijon inhabitants: smooth-talking Robert, good-looking Benji and loudmouth José. Of course, after car sharing Patrick is forced to try out bed sharing...
Jun 29o 20164.7 / 10
Fantomas
Hélène
Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.
Nov 4o 19646.821 / 10