Cannes award-winning actress Dequenne dies at 43

Award-winning Belgian histrion Émilie Dequenne has died from crab astatine the property of 43.

Dequenne changeable to fame erstwhile she won the champion histrion grant astatine the Cannes Film Festival astatine the property of 18 for the movie Rosetta successful 1999.

She won different Cannes grant for À Perdre la Raison (Our Children) successful 2012, and received a Cesar, 1 of France's apical movie honours, for Les Choses Qu'on Dit, les Choses Qu'on Fait (The Things We Say, the Things We Do) successful 2021.

She chiefly acted successful French-language films but besides appeared arsenic constabulary serviceman Laurence Relaud successful 2014 BBC TV play The Missing.

Rosetta, a poignant communicative astir a teenager's conflict to flooded a beingness of misery, was Dequenne's archetypal surface role.

She had been unemployed aft losing her occupation successful a nutrient mill erstwhile she was picked for the role.

"The archetypal time she filmed successful beforehand of a existent camera, she managed to bring the full squad together," Luc Dardenne, who directed it with his member Jean-Pierre, said in a tribute to broadcaster RTBF.

"It got amended and amended arsenic the sprout progressed... She was magnificent and the movie owes a batch to her."

In The Missing, she played Laurence Relaud, which starred James Nesbitt arsenic the begetter of a lad who disappears during a household holiday.

Her different films included 2009's La fille du RER (The Girl connected the Train), 2014's Pas Son Genre (Not My Type) and 2022 Cannes nominee Close.

Others paying tribute included French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, who wrote: "Francophone cinema has lost, excessively soon, a talented histrion who inactive had truthful overmuch to offer."

Dequenne revealed successful October 2023 that she was suffering from adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), a crab of the adrenal gland.

In 1 of her past Instagram posts, for World Cancer Day successful February, she wrote: "What a pugnacious fight! And we don't choose..."