Émilie Dequenne, the famend Belgian actress who gained the Greatest Actress prize on the Cannes Movie Pageant for her movie debut, has died. She was 43.

Dequenne died Sunday, March 16, in a hospital exterior of Paris, her longtime agent Danielle Acquire instructed the French information company Agence France-Presse (AFP). The actress introduced in October 2023 that she was battling a "uncommon most cancers" that was later revealed to be adrenocortical carcinoma, or most cancers of the adrenal gland. The illness compelled Dequenne right into a hiatus from appearing after her final undertaking, the English-language catastrophe movie Survive, was launched in 2024.

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Born in 1981, Dequenne shot to worldwide stardom at solely 17 when she was solid in Rosetta, the fourth characteristic movie from the Belgian directing group Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The younger actress' highly effective efficiency because the titular character, who struggles to raised her circumstances whereas residing in a caravan park together with her alcoholic mom, gained her the Greatest Actress prize on the 1999 Cannes Movie Pageant.

Amongst Dequenne's opponents for the award had been Catherine Deneuve, Penelope Cruz, Sissy Spacek, Gong Li, Elaine Cassidy, and Toni Colette. Her stunning win introduced a serious new expertise within the European movie scene, and was adopted by acclaimed performances in movies like Christophe Gans' interval horror movie Brotherhood of the Wolf and Catherine Corsini's The Very Merry Widows.

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Over her two and a half many years in filmmaking, Dequenne constructed a résumé of various and daring roles in movies by a number of the most esteemed working administrators, from André Téchiné (The Lady on the Practice) to André Forcier (The US of Albert) and Joachim Lafosse (Our Youngsters). She gained Greatest Actress at Cannes once more within the Un Sure Regard part for her function in Our Youngsters, which depicts the psychological state of a lady main as much as the homicide of her 5 kids.

The actress attracted sturdy constructive notices for her current function in Lukas Dhont's Close because the mom of a younger boy who commits suicide. Dequenne posed with the Shut group in a publish on Instagram from the 2023 Academy Awards, the place the movie was nominated for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie. "We're going house with out the statuette however with our hearts full!!!" she wrote.

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Commenting on the disjunction between her sunny character and infrequently darkish roles she chooses to play, Dequenne instructed The Guardian in 2013 that whereas "I’ve my very own neuroses like everybody else… It's true that principally I’ve a really playful character."

Dequenne was public about her battle with most cancers, continuously documenting hospital visits and progress updates on her Instagram. In one among her final posts, from Feb. 4, Dequenne commemorated World Most cancers Day with a smiling selfie, writing, "What a struggle! And we don't select… All my like to all those that are struggling like me towards their will. Handle yourselves."

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