Émilie Dequenne: Cannes award-winning actress dies at 43

Émilie Dequenne shot to fame when she won the best actress award at the film festival at the age of 18.

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Dequenne shot to fame when she won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival at the age of 18 for the film Rosetta in 1999.

She won another Cannes award for À Perdre la Raison (Our Children) in 2012, and received a Cesar, one of France's top film honours, for Les Choses Qu'on Dit, les Choses Qu'on Fait (The Things We Say, the Things We Do) in 2021.

She mainly acted in French-language films but also appeared as police officer Laurence Relaud in 2014 BBC TV drama The Missing.

Rosetta, a poignant tale about a teenager's struggle to overcome a life of misery, was Dequenne's first screen role.

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