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Jean Seberg
Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress. She is considered an icon of the French New Wave as a result of her performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless.
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entertainment · American actress (1938–1979) · film actor · actor · film director · also Jean Seberg, Jean Dorothy Seberg, Seberg
Born 13 November 1938 · Died 30 August 1979 · Q230681
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 4 entries
Yahoo: Zoey Deutch on playing Jean Seberg in ‘Nouvelle Vague’: ‘I just wanted to give as much love and light and pay respect to this amazing woman’
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Yahoo: Zoey Deutch Plays Jean Seberg in Netflix's 'Nouvelle Vague'—Get to Know the Rest of the Cast
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AOL: Zoey Deutch's Transformation into Jean Seberg Took 2 Days, 4 Haircuts and a Major Bleach Job
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Zoey Deutch portrayed Seberg in Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, a film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless told in the style and spirit of that film
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2022· 1 entry
Kacey Rohl portrayed Seberg in White Dog (Chien blanc), a film adaptation by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette of Gary's 1970 book
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2019· 2 entries
The Hollywood Reporter: How Jean Seberg’s Renegade Pixie Cut Was Updated for Kristen Stewart
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Amazon released an original film based on Seberg's life called Seberg that focuses on her battle against the FBI, with the title role played by Kristen Stewart
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2015· 1 entry
The Village Voice: Jean Seberg Remains Wonderfully Commanding in ‘Lilith’
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2010· 1 entry
IndieWire: Jean Seberg Talks Breathless–Back in 1968
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2007· 1 entry
Libcom: Jean Seberg: screen icon and Black Panther supporter
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2004· 1 entry
French author Alain Absire published Jean S
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1995· 1 entry
Mark Rappaport created a documentary about Seberg, From the Journals of Jean Seberg
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1991· 1 entry
Actress Jodie Foster, a fan of Seberg's performance in Breathless, purchased the film rights to Played Out: The Jean Seberg Story, David Richards' biography of Seberg
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1986· 1 entry
Pop singer Madonna recreated Seberg's iconic Breathless look in her music video for "Papa Don't Preach," sporting a pixie blonde haircut, French striped jersey shirt and black capri pants in the style of Seberg's charact
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1983· 1 entry
A musical based on Seberg's life called Jean Seberg, by librettist Julian Barry, composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Christopher Adler, was presented at the National Theatre in London
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1980· 1 entry
The Los Angeles Times published logs of her Swiss wiretapped phone calls
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1979· 5 entries
Died 1979-08-30.
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Seberg disappeared from her Paris apartment
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While still legally married to her estranged husband Berry, Seberg went through "a form of marriage" to a 29-year-old Algerian named Ahmed Hasni
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Her death was ruled a probable suicide by Paris police, but the following year additional charges were filed against persons unknown for "non-assistance of a person in danger
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The FBI admitted what it had done nine years previously
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1975· 1 entry
For often using unattributed information in her column
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1972· 2 entries
Seberg married director Dennis Berry
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Appeared in Gang War in Naples, which was successful in Europe but not in the United States
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1970· 2 entries
The FBI created a false story from a San Francisco-based informant that the child Seberg was carrying was not fathered by her ex-husband Romain Gary, as initially claimed, but by Raymond Hewitt, a member of the Black Pan
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Was by a Black Panther, and how the trauma had resulted in her losing the baby
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1968· 1 entry
The FBI became aware of several gifts Seberg had made to the Black Panther Party, totaling an estimated $10,500 in contributions; these were noted among a list of other celebrities in FBI internal documents later declass
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1966· 1 entry
And 1967, Seberg played the leading roles in two French films directed by Claude Chabrol and co-starring Maurice Ronet
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1962· 2 entries
And he married Seberg secretly on October 6, 1962, in Corsica
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Gary's divorce from Blanch took place on September 5, 1962, and he married Seberg secretly on October 6, 1962, in Corsica.
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1961· 1 entry
Met French aviator, resistance member, novelist and diplomat Romain Gary, who was 24 years her senior and married to author Lesley Blanch
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1958· 1 entry
At the age of 19, Seberg married François Moreuil, a French lawyer (aged 23) in her native Marshalltown, having met him in France 15 months earlier
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1956· 1 entry
Seberg's only acting experience had been a single season of summer stock performances
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1948· 1 entry
Attended the same high school as Seberg, and was babysat by Seberg
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-11-13.
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1882· 1 entry
And observed, "There are too many Carlsons in the New World
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