Actress Emilie Dequenne died Sunday at the age of 43, after a long fight against cancer. In preparation of the funeral scheduled for March 26, the family made a specific request.
The death of Émilie Dequenne deeply shocked France, and particularly the French cinema. The Belgian actress, revealed in Rosetta Dardenne brothers died on Sunday March 16, 2025 at 43. She died in a room at Gustave Roussy Hospital in Villejuif, in Val-de-Marne, after long months to fight extremely rare cancer, corticosurrenaloma. Disturbing the endocrine system, this disease affects only one to two people out of one million inhabitants per year in France.
His relatives announced on Monday that his funeral will be held in ten days, on March 26, at 3.30 p.m. They will take place at the Père-Lachaise crematorium. Her family has made a special request: she requires that no flower or crown be purchased. On the other hand, she appealed to donations. The money raised will be donated to cancer research.
A fight against mediated cancer
The interpreter of Rosetta In the eponymous film of the Dardenne brothers did not make a secret of his illness. Émilie Duquenne had announced the arrival of cancer in her life in October 2023 in a message posted on Instagram: “Since mid-August, where I have undergone a heavy emergency operation, I continue to take care of myself. It is not easy every day, but I am determined to defeat this rare cancer who decided to come and upset my life. I will not let myself do it,” she said. And time first agreed to him: a few months later, in April 2024, the actress announced that she was in remission.
Cancer, however, returned to the field last December plunging the multi -thorough actress into the relapse. Émilie Dequenne had expressed her condition on TF1 that with this increasingly aggressive disease she would not live “as long as expected”. The Belgian made a good heart against bad fortune, keeping a smile on her social networks, but remained lucid: “We will never talk about healing.”
Several times awarded as the best actress
Émilie Dequenne was kept away from the film sets and the theater boards in recent months, because of the recurrence of her cancer. But the actress had time to mark the world of cinema before going out with a career started in 1999, she was not yet 18 years old, and filled with success. The first obtained from his first role under the objective of the Dardenne brothers for the film Rosetta which will earn him the prize for female interpretation at the Cannes Film Festival. She was again awarded the Croisette in 2012 for her role in To lose the reason.
Five times appointed to the César, Émilie Dequenne was finally devoted in 2021 by winning the prize of best actress in a supporting role for The things we say, the things we do. The actress had made a raid at home, in Belgium, with several victories at the Magritte du Cinéma, the Belgian equivalent of the César. She had won the Best Actress Prize in 2013, 2015 and 2018 respectively for her roles in To lose the reason,, Not his genre And With us. In 2023, it was the price of best actress in a supporting role that had been given to her for the film Closed.
A long career of more than 25 years, rich and varied with roles in large productions and successes in authors’ films. Émilie Dequenne left a trace in French cinema underlines the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, who reacted to the death of the actress: “We were all marked by her overwhelming interpretations in strong roles. French -speaking cinema loses, too early, a talented actress who still had so much to offer her”.