Émilie Dequenne, Cannes Best Actress Winner for ‘Rosetta,’ Dies at 43
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variety.comEllise Shafer Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actor who won a Cannes Film Festival prize for her breakout role in the Dardenne Brothers’ 1999 film “Rosetta,” died on Sunday.
She was 43. Dequenne’s family confirmed to French news agency AFP (via The Guardian) on Sunday night that she died of a rare cancer in a hospital just outside Paris.
She revealed in October 2023 that she had been diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma, a cancer of the adrenal glands in the kidney.
Born in Belœil, Belgium on Aug. 29, 1981, Dequenne was just 18 when she broke out in “Rosetta,” a coming-of-age story about a teenager who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother.
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