Émilie Dequenne, who won the best actress at the Cannes Film Festival at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the Belgian film “Rosetta” at the Gustave Roussy Hospital in Villejuifa, France. She was 43 years old.
Her death was confirmed by Marie-Laure Callette, assistant for a longtime agent of Mrs. Dequenne, Danielle Gain. Mrs. Dequenne was diagnosed with a adrenal gland cancer.
Mrs. Dequenne starred in her first film role when she played the lead in “Rosette“1999 film directed by the Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne brothers. The film, about the teenager of the working class fighting to hang on to work, was won by Palma d’Or, a major honor in Cannes.
Mrs. Dequenne discovered in October 2023 that her adrenocortic cancer was diagnosed, a rare and aggressive adrenal cancer.
She spoke about her diagnosis in an interview with a television show “Sept à huit“On the French Network of TF1, which was broadcast in December 2024. After the initial symptoms, she said, she had blood tests and scanning, and eventually faced the discovery of a great mass. She talked about the need to be honest about her illness and loneliness she caused.
During her career, Mrs. Dequenne appeared in nearly 50 films and won numerous awards, including César, one of the best French film honors, for the best supporting actress in the “Love affair (I)” (“Les Chose Quose Qu’on Dit, Les Chose Quose Fait”), and Emmonuel Mouret.
But she may have been best known for his roles in the 2012 drama. “Our children“(” À perre la raison “), Belgian director Joachim Lafosse and” Rosetta. “When she auditioned for the role in” Rosetta “made a immediate impression, Luc Dardenne recalled in an interview with the French radio station Franceinfo, which was aired on Monday.
“The first day she shot in front of a real camera, she managed to gather the whole team,” Mr. Dardenne said the Belgian Emitter RTBF. “It happened, and it got better and better as the shot progressed.”
Mrs. Dequenne was born in Belogi, Belgium on August 29, 1981. She studied the drama in Académie de Musique et des Arts de la Palole de Baudour in Belgium. She started her acting career at a company headquartered in the Belgium region near the border with France.
She was survived by her husband Michel Ferracci and daughter Mill Savarese with her former partner, Belgian DJ Alexandre Savarese.
Last May, while Cancer was in remission, celebrated the 25th anniversary of “Rosetta” at the Cannes Film Festival. She also promoted a new movie, “Survive“Published last year. She recently appeared in the movie” Tkt “, a movie about the mistreatment that was set up in Belgian high school.
