Jean Seberg (Jean Seberg)

Jean Seberg (Seeberg) was born November 13, 1938 in Marshaltaune (Iowa, USA). While studying at the University of Iowa, she played in an amateur theatrical troupe, she attracted the attention of director Otto Premindzhera, select it from 18 thousand contenders for the title role in his film on the play by Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan". The film was released in 1957, and despite an active advertising, it has failed. The following year Premindzher again took the actress in the film adaptation of the novel by Francoise Sagan "Goodbye, sadness, and this film in which Seberg demonstrated his gift of acting, too, was not too successful. Then she starred in the UK in the film by Jack Arnold's "roaring mouse, . and soon Jean-Luc Godard, . then the famous French film critic, . asked Jean Seberg on the main role in his debut film "Breathless", . where she was partnered by Jean-Paul Belmondo,
. Studio Columbia, which at the time she signed the contract, agreed to let the actress almost for nothing. When the Godard film, now considered a classic of French New Wave, has been gaining popularity, the studio hastily took the actress in the new project, although in the future and not able to offer something relevant to its potential. Therefore, the most notable films in which Jean Seberg was filmed in Europe - "Lover of five days," Filip De Broca, "Assassination" by Yves Boisset, "Wild Duck" by Hans Gaysenderfera. At home she has brought great fame active struggle for civil rights and support for extremist organization "Black Panthers". Killed Jean Seberg in a rather mysterious circumstances - September 8, 1979 she was found dead in a Paris suburb, the official version of death - an overdose of barbiturates.