Jean Seberg

Jean Seberg Headshot

Actress

Birth Date: November 13, 1938

Death Date: August 30, 1979

Birth Place: Marshalltown, Iowa

Spouses: Dennis Berry

Jean Seberg was a gamine, blonde actress who landed the title role in Otto Preminger's "Saint Joan" (1957) after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls. She was best-known, however, for her contribution to New Wave cinema.

The fresh-faced Iowan started acting in high school, but was a completely unknown 17-year-old when Preminger whisked her off to England. "Saint Joan" and its star were critically slammed, but Preminger went on to star her again in the soap opera "Bonjour Tristesse" (1958), which was scandalous and "modern" enough to buoy Seberg's career.

After the silly but popular British comedy "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), Seberg was cast in Jean-Luc Godard's landmark New Wave feature "A Bout de souffle/Breathless" (1959), which brought her renewed international attention. As an American in Paris, selling papers on the streets and romancing wanted criminal Jean-Paul Belmondo, she gave a careless, modern and very hip performance.

Seberg hopped back and forth from America to Europe, making a total of 30 films. In Mervyn LeRoy's "Moment to Moment" (1966), she was a professor's bored wife who drifts into an affair with murderous results. Seberg was another cheating wife in Irvin Kershner's "A Fine Madness" (also 1966) and played a woman sold to a hard-drinking prospector (Lee Marvin) in Joshua Logan's musical "Paint Your Wagon" (1969).

Seberg was the passenger relations expert in the all-star blockbuster "Airport" (1970) and a woman going mad in Northern Africa in "Ondata di Calore/Dead of Summer" (1970). Her last feature was "Die Wildente/The Wild Duck" (1976), a German-language version of the Henrik Ibsen play.

Seberg made her only US TV appearance in the ABC movie "Mousey" (1974), which co-starred Kirk Douglas and silent film veteran Bessie Love.

Credits

Le grand délire

Actor
Emily
Movie
1975

Les hautes solitudes

Self
Movie
1974

Mousey

Actor
Laura Anderson/Richardson
Movie
1974

Questa specie d'amore

Actor
Giovanna
Movie
1973

La corrupción de Chris Miller

Actor
Ruth Miller
Movie
1973

French Conspiracy

Actor
Edith Lemoine
Movie
1973

The White Horses of Summer

Actor
Lea Kingsburg
Movie
1973

Camorra

Actor
Luisa
Movie
1972

Kill!

Actor
Emily Hamilton
Movie
1971

Ondata di calore

Actor
Joyce Grasse
Movie
1970

Macho Callahan

Actor
Alexandra Mountford
Movie
1970

AirportStream

Actor
Tanya Livingston
Movie
1970
75%

Macho Callahan

Actor
Movie
1970

Pendulum

Actor
Adele Matthews
Movie
1969

Paint Your WagonStream

Actor
Elizabeth
Movie
1969
33%

The Road to Corinth

Actor
Movie
1968

Who's Got the Black Box

Actor
Movie
1968

ペルーの鳥

Actor
Movie
1968

La Route de Corinthe

Actor
Movie
1967

Estouffade aux Caraïbes

Actor
Colleen O'Hara
Movie
1967

La ligne de démarcation

Actor
Movie
1966

The Line of Demarcation

Actor
Movie
1966

A Fine Madness

Actor
Lydia West
Movie
1966

Moment to Moment

Actor
Kay Stanton
Movie
1966

Mujer Amada

Actor
Movie
1966

Diamonds Are Brittle

Actor
Bettina Ralton
Movie
1965

Choc

Actor
Movie
1965

LilithStream

Actor
Lilith Arthur
Movie
1964
86%

Échappement libre

Actor
Olga Celan
Movie
1964

In the French Style

Actor
Christina James
Movie
1963

Demarcation Line

Actor
Mary
Movie
1962

Time Out for Love

Actor
Ann
Movie
1962

La récréation

Actor
Kate
Movie
1961

L'amant de cinq jours

Actor
Claire
Movie
1961

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Actor
Barbara Holloway
Movie
1960

The Mouse That RoaredStream

Actor
Helen Kokintz
Movie
1959
90%

BreathlessStream

Actor
Patricia Franchini
Movie
1959
96%

Sin aliento

Actor
Movie
1959

Bonjour Tristesse

Actor
Cecile
Movie
1958

Saint JoanStream

Actor
St.Joan of Arc
Movie
1957
25%