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Mylène Demongeot , of its true name Marie-Helene Demongeot , is a French actress born the September 29th 1935 with Nice in France.

Biography

Niçoise of grandmother niçoise and Ukrainian mother , it is 13 years old when its family settles in Paris. It is registered there initially with the Cours Simon, which it leaves for those of Marie Ventura. Parallel to its first small roles with the cinema starting from 1953, it poses for advertizing photographs and fall in love with the photographer Henri Coste whom it meets in 1956. It is besides thanks to one of these stereotypes that it will have to be noticed by Raymond Rouleau in the search of “its Abigail” for its next film the Witches of Salem , role which will bring the dedication to Mylène in 1957 to 21 years. Henri Coste, older than it and already married, will become her husband in 1958 after having divorced, and will remain it until 1968.

At its beginnings, the fairness and its grace mutine of Mylène make it compete with another young actress in vogue, Brigitte Bardot. But it will dissociate these comparisons with BB, with which it shares besides a friendship and the same love of the animals, by diversifying its employment. She turns very early in foreign productions, in particular in Hello sadness of Preminger in 1958 and especially in Italy. On this transalpine side, its profile of young Greek shepherd will hoist it with the very popular row of star as of 1959 with the Péplum the Battle of Marathon and with its participation very noticed near Laurent Terzieff in film of Bolognini, the Boys .

Easily étiquettée, at the time, of “sensual blonde”, her creditable dramatic services in the films Unsatiated the of Risi (1960) or the black Rider (1961) of Baker will be often ignored. Even when it radically changes register with its roles mischievous and tenderizing in the elegant light-hearted gallantries of Deville ( Because, because of a woman , the Apartment of the girls ), it seems that producers and public prefer it in popular series like the Three Musketeers or that of the Fantômas .

At the end of the Years 1960, during turning for the television of one of the episodes of the Files of the agency O , it meets Marc Simenon, realizer and wire of the writer Georges Simenon and it is the great love. For him, it puts its professional path to the plane second to assist it in its productions. They marry the September 16th 1968.

Marc Simenon dies accidentally the October 24th 1999. Since, Mylène shares its time between the writing, its action in favor of the animal cause and the fight against the mines-antipersonels (association HAMAP) while with the cinema, one finds its duality of popular actress and avant-gardist. She is able to turn as well with Michel Gerard as with authors like Bertrand Blier or Cédric Kahn or to imply in courageous and feminist productions like the Track of the telegraph of Liliane de Kermadec or Victoire of Stéphanie Murat.

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