Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne, winner of the silver palm in Cannes in 1999 for her interpretation in Rosetta, He died on Sunday night at age 43 because of a rare type of cancer. The interpreter, who suffered a cancer of the adrenocortical gland (located near the kidneys), died in a Villejuif hospital, on the periphery of Paris, in which he was receiving palliative care, according to local media.
Dukenne debuted in the cinema with 18 years with Rosettathe Belgian brothers Dardenne film that achieved the Golden Palm at the 1999 Cannes Festival for the best film, and that also earned the interpreter the same award for the best actress. From there, the interpreter settled in French cinema and worked with the best filmmakers in this country in 60 film and television works, with titles such as THE LOBOS PACT (2001), The Great Meaulnes (2006), Charlotte Corday (2008) y It is not my guy (2014). She was nominated five times to the Cesar Awards, the most important in French cinema, and won the award in 2021 as best cast actress for The things we say, the things we do.
Émilie DEQUENNE left us after fighting against the disease.
Realized in Rosetta of the Dardenne brothers, this moving role earned him to be rewarded at Cannes at 17.
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The actress announced in October 2023, of which she spoke in public with courage, both in press interviews and in her social networks. In April 2024 he announced that he was in full remission although he had to follow up on a possible reappearance of the disease, and last December he communicated that he had fallen. “We have all been marked by their moving interpretations of powerful papers. Francophone cinema has lost too soon a talent actress who still had a lot to offer, ”the French minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, lamented on social networks.