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Jean Seberg

ジーン・セバーグ　/　じーん・せばーぐ

American film actor

November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979　・　Marshalltown, Iowa, United States

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My Take

Jean Seberg fascinates me as both an icon and a cautionary tale. A small-town Iowa girl who became the face of the French New Wave through Godard's Breathless, she embodied a fresh, modern cool that still feels contemporary. Yet her life cut short at forty haunts me. I read her career as a reminder of how brightly talent can burn and how cruelly outside pressures can extinguish it. There is something profoundly moving about an artist who left such an indelible visual imprint while carrying so much private weight. She remains, for me, one of cinema's most poignant figures.

Overview

Jean Dorothy Seberg (; French: [ʒin sebɛʁɡ]; November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress. She is considered an icon of the French New Wave as a result of her performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Jean Seberg
Name (Japanese): ジーン・セバーグ
Reading: じーん・せばーぐ
Born: November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Tiger
Origin: Marshalltown, Iowa, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film actor / actor / film director

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Marshalltown High School
University: University of Iowa

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B0

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