Award-winning Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne has died from cancer at the age of 43. 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.

Émilie Dequenne, who starred in such movies as "Rosetta" and “The Brotherhood of the Wolf,” “The Housekeeper” and “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” has died. She was 43. The Belgian actress died in a Paris hospital of a rare adrenal gland cancer, according to Deadline and the Guardian.

Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne, who won the Best Actress award at Cannes 1999 for her performance in debut film Rosetta died at the age of 43, reported Deadline.

Her first role in 'Rosetta,' by the Dardenne brothers, started her career, after she won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival. Dequenne had revealed in October 2023 that she was suffering from adrenocortical carcinoma,

Dequenne, the Belgian actor who won a Cannes Film Festival prize for her breakout role in the 1999 film "Rosetta," died on Sunday. She was 43.

Dequenne worked with some of the most esteemed European directors of her generation, from the Dardenne brothers, to Andre Techine, to Emmanuel Mouret.

Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne died of a rare cancer Sunday in a hospital just outside Paris, her family and her agent told AFP. She was 43 years old.