In October 2023, Dequenne revealed that he had been diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma, a cancer of the adrenal glands of the kidney
Émilie Dequennethe Belgian actress who won an award at the Cannes Film Festival for her revelation role in the 1999 Dardenne brothers movie, Rosettahe died on Sunday. He was 43 years old.
Dequenne’s family confirmed to the French AFP news agency on Sunday night he died due to unusual cancer in a hospital on the outskirts of Paris. In October 2023, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma, cancer of the adrenal glands of the kidney.
The trajectory of Émilie Dequenne
Born in Belœil, Belgium, on August 29, 1981, Dequenne was only 18 years old when he became known in Rosettaa transition story to adulthood about a teenager who lives in a caravan park with his alcoholic mother. Your performance The prestigious award for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival earned himand Rosetta also won the Golden Palm at the 1999 Festival.
His next role was in the commercial success of Christophe Gans, The Wolf Brotherhood (2001), and subsequently starred in a mixture of commercial and independent cinema, including The light (2004) by Philippe Liret, the 2009 drama The train girl Together with Catherine Deneuve and the 2010 horror movie The pack From Franck Richard. In 2012, he reaped praise of critics again for his participation in the psychological drama of Joachim Lafosse, Our childrenwhere she played a Belgian woman who killed her five children. The film took her back to Cannes, where she won the award for the best actress in the section a Certain Rens of the festival.
Other outstanding works of Dequenne include Belgian romantic comedy Not My Type (2014), the political drama This is our land (2017), Love affair (s) (2020) by Emmanuel Mouret and the drama about the transition to adulthood Close (2022) by Lukas Dhont. Last year, he returned to Cannes to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Rosetta. His last film was the catastrophes movie in English Survive.
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