Jean Seberg

Jean Dorothy Seberg (/ˈdʒiːn ˈsiːbərg/; French: [ʒɑ̃ sebɛʀ]; November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress, who lived half her life in France. She starred in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Breathless, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples. Seberg is also one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Her victimization was rendered as a well-documented retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. Jean Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide. 2Early life Jean Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, the daughter of Dorothy Arline (née Benson; July 11, 1909 – March 7, 1997), a substitute teacher, and Edward Waldemar Seberg (October 2, 1906 – September 5, 1984), a pharmacist. Her family was Lutheran and of Swedish, English, and German ancestry. Her paternal grandfather, Edward Carlson, arrived in the U.S. in 1882 and observed, "there are too many Carlsons in the New World". He decided to change the family's last name to Seberg in memory of the water and mountains of Sweden. Jean had a sister Mary-Ann (