Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne, who won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film “Rosetta,” has died. She was 43.
Her family and agent told Agence France-Presse that Dequenne died Sunday in a hospital outside Paris from a rare form of cancer.
In 2023, Dequenne announced that she had been diagnosed with adrenal cortex cancer.
Dequenne was 18 when she won the Best Actress Award at Cannes in 1999. In Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s film Rosetta, she played a teenager trying to escape a difficult life in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother. The film also won the Palme d’Or that same year.
