Émilie Dequenne Dies: Belgian Cannes Best Actress Winner Was 43
deadline.comBelgian actress Émilie Dequenne, who first achieved fame with her 1999 Cannes d’Or-winning, big screen debut in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s drama Rosetta, has died at the age 43.
The actress, who revealed she was battling a rare adrenal gland cancer in October 2023, died in hospital on the outskirts of Paris on Sunday evening, her agent Danielle Gain announced to AFP.
Born on August 29, 1981, Dequenne studied at Belgium’s Music & Spoken Word Academy in Baudour from an early age, taking up drama there at the age of 12, alongside joining the La Relève Theater troupe.
She landed her first cinema role at age 17 in Rosetta. She clinched Best Actress at Cannes in 1999 for her performance as the titular teenager living in a caravan with an alcoholic mother in the film, which also won the Dardenne brothers their first Palme d’Or.
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