Jean Seberg
Jean Seberg. Actress: Außer Atem. Jean Dorothy Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to substitute teacher Dorothy Arline (Benson) and pharmacist Edward Waldemar Seberg. Her father was of Swedish descent and her mother was of English and German ancestry. One month before her 18th birthday, Jean landed the title role in Otto Preminger's Die heilige Johanna (1957) after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls. The failure of that film and...
Jean Seberg. Actress: Außer Atem. Jean Dorothy Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to substitute teacher Dorothy Arline (Benson) and pharmacist Edward Waldemar Seberg. Her father was of Swedish descent and her mother was of English and German ancestry. One month before her 18th birthday, Jean landed the title role in Otto Preminger's Die heilige Johanna (1957) after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls. The failure of that film and...
