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Émilie Dequenne, Cannes Best Actress Winner for ‘Rosetta,’ Dies at 43
Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actor who won a Cannes Film Festival prize for her breakout role in the 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. 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. Her next role was in Christophe Gans’ commercially successful “Brotherhood of the Wolf” (2001), and she went on to star in a mix of mainstream and indie fare including Philippe Lioret’s “The Light” (2004), the 2009 drama “The Girl on the Train” alongside Catherine Deneuve and Franck Richard’s 2010 horror film “The Pack.” In 2012, she once again garnered critical acclaim for her turn in Joachim Lafosse’s psychological drama “Our Children,” in which she played a Belgian woman who killed all five of her children.
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