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Émilie Dequenne Dies: Belgian Cannes Best Actress Winner Was 43


Émilie Duquenne Dies: Belgian 'Rosetta' Cannes Best Actress Winner Was 43

Belgian 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. Dequenne enjoyed a high-profile career throughout the 2000s, appearing in Christophe Gans’ historic thriller The Brotherhood of the Wolf and Claude Berri’s The Housekeeper as well as making a foray into English-language movies with Mary McGuckian’s costume drama The Bridge of San Luis Rey, starring Gabriel Byrne, Robert de Niro and Cathy Bates.

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