Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne, who first achieved fame together with her 1999 Cannes d’Or-winning, massive display screen debut in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s drama Rosetta, has died on the age 43.
The actress, who revealed she was battling a uncommon adrenal gland most cancers in October 2023, died in hospital on the outskirts of Paris on Sunday night, her agent Danielle Acquire introduced to AFP.
Born on August 29, 1981, Dequenne studied at Belgium’s Music & Spoken Phrase Academy in Baudour from an early age, taking over drama there on the age of 12, alongside becoming a member of the La Relève Theater troupe.
She landed her first cinema position at age 17 in Rosetta. She clinched Finest Actress at Cannes in 1999 for her efficiency because the titular teenager residing in a caravan with an alcoholic mom within the movie, which additionally gained the Dardenne brothers their first Palme d’Or.
Dequenne loved a high-profile profession all through the 2000s, showing in Christophe Gans’ historic thriller The Brotherhood of the Wolf and Claude Berri’s The Housekeeper in addition to making a foray into English-language films with Mary McGuckian’s costume drama The Bridge of San Luis Rey, starring Gabriel Byrne, Robert de Niro and Cathy Bates.
Dequenne’s 61 appearing credit additionally embrace her more moderen Finest Supporting Actress César-winning efficiency in Emmanuel Mouret’s couple drama The Issues We Say, The Issues We Do.
Different profession highlights, included Joachim Lafosse’s 2012 psychological household drama Our Kids, reverse Tahar Rahim; Lucas Belvaux’s 2018 rise of the far-right drama This Is Our Land, for which she gained a Belgian Magritte for Finest actress, and Lukas Dhont’s Oscar-nominated movie Shut.
Dequenne was final seen on the large display screen final fall within the Belgian highschool bullying drama TKT within the position of the mom of younger sufferer who lands in a coma.
