Trivia

Was a huge fan of Marlon Brando since seeing his screen debut in the movie The Men (1950). As a teenager, Seberg wrote to Brando and invited him to stay with her parents in Iowa. She met him years later, and Brando asked her to renew the invitation.

Of her own movies, she considered Lilith (1964) to be her favorite.

Otto Preminger chose her to play Joan of Arc out of nearly 18,000 hopefuls.

Of all her leading men, only Jean-Paul Belmondo went to her funeral.

Gave birth to Nina Hart, her daughter by Carlos Navarra, two months prematurely on August 23, 1970. Two days later, on 25 August 1970, Nina died of complications sustained from Jean overdosing on sleeping pills during her pregnancy.

Her son Diego Gary was born out of wedlock on July 17, 1962 in Barcelona, Spain. Romain Gary was married to Lesley Blanch until September 1962. To avoid public scrutiny, he and Jean lied about Diego's year of birth, claiming that he was born in 1963.

Wrote and published an open letter to drug addicts in the daily paper Libération: 27th February 1978.

She had an affair with Clint Eastwood during the filming of Paint Your Wagon (1969) in Oregon. Unbeknownst to Seberg, Eastwood was simultaneously involved in a two-year affair with Danielle Cotet, who worked as an extra on the movie. He ghosted Jean once production moved to Paramount, leaving her traumatized.

On August 29, 1979, Seberg and Ahmed Hasni went to see Womanlight (1979). The owner of their apartment, Marie-Odile Bouilhet, reported having three telephone conversations with Seberg that evening, but the following morning Hasni told her that he and Seberg had argued and she had left the flat in the early hours. 10 days later, on September 8, police finally located the missing actress: they discovered her decomposing body in the backseat of her car, which was parked in the Rue du Général-Appert. The autopsy, confirming the initial findings of the police pathologist, revealed that she had absorbed an overdose of barbiturates. More puzzlingly, it also showed a level of alcohol in her system which would rapidly have resulted in coma, making driving impossible. Police suspected that her body had been moved after her death, but were unable to prove the involvement of any other individual. The final cause of death was left as "probable suicide," and the re-examination of the case in June 1980 was no more conclusive. The circumstances surrounding her death remain a mystery never satisfactorily clarified.

Her involvement with the Black Panther Party attracted the attention of the FBI, which in 1970 spread the rumor that she was pregnant by Raymond 'Masai' Hewitt, a Black Panther movement leader. Although Seberg initially claimed Romain Gary was the father, after the baby's death she confessed that the father was actually a student revolutionary named Carlos Navarra. The incident may have contributed to her persistent depression over the years, and her decision to take her own life in 1979.

Her marriage to 24-years-older Russian novelist Romain Gary was tempestuous and profoundly unhappy because of his obsessive, Svengali-like influence on her. He took his own life by gunshot in 1980, aged 66, stating in his suicide note that Jean's suicide the year before had nothing to do with his.

Met Carlos Navarra, her daughter's father, while filming Macho Callahan (1970) in Durango, Mexico.

Was considered for one of the two female leads in Fahrenheit 451 (1966) before François Truffaut decided that Julie Christie would play both parts as a dual role. Another role Seberg was considered for that ultimately went to Christie was that of Lara Antipova in Doctor Zhivago (1965).

Both of her parents survived her. Her father Edward Seberg died in 1984 and her mother Dorothy Benson died in 1997.

François Truffaut wanted her to play Julie in Day for Night (1973), but she never returned his calls, so Truffaut eventually gave up and cast Jacqueline Bisset.

A musical simply titled "Jean Seberg," based on her life, premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1983. It was written by Julian Barry with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Christopher Adler.

She is buried in the exclusive Montparnasse cemetery in Paris, France.

Had an older sister, Mary Ann (b. 1936) and two younger brothers, Kurt (1942-2023) and David (1950-1968).

Because they never divorced, Dennis Berry, and not Ahmed Hasni, is technically Seberg's widower.

Julie Andrews, Faye Dunaway, Mia Farrow, Diana Rigg, and Tuesday Weld each turned down the role that went to Seberg in Paint Your Wagon (1969). (Kim Novak actually wanted to play it but was rejected.) Actresses considered for Seberg's role in Lilith (1964) included Yvette Mimieux, Natalie Wood, Samantha Eggar, Sarah Miles, and Diane Cilento.

She was a close friend of Nico, and David Keller.

On May 31, 1979, she went through a form of marriage to 19-year-old Algerian playboy Ahmed Hasni. Reverend Thomas Duggan had officiated a "blessing" of the couple at the American Church in Paris, but the ceremony had no legal force because Seberg was still legally married to Dennis Berry.

Ex-daughter-in-law of John Berry.

Considered one of the Nouvelle Vague's icons.

One of the last of her lovers was French filmmaker Jean-Claude Messager, who spoke to CBS's Mike Wallace for a 1981 profile of the actress.

Linked romantically with Ricardo Franco, Carlos Fuentes and Fabio Testi.