An award-winning actress passed away at the age of 43

Emilie Dequenne, the star of the BBC drama The Missing, lost her battle to cancer two years after diagnosis.

Dequenne, an award-winning actress from Belgium, was diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma, a cancer of the adrenal gland, in October, 2023.

By April 2024, she shared with fans that she went into remission and opened up about returning to acting. “I was close to forgetting because I was leaving the hospital today after 13 days… What a tough battle,” she wrote on the social media.

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Sadly, the cancer returned again at the end of 2024.

Speaking to the French television show TF1 in December 2024, she revealed her health condition deteriorated. “I know I will not live as long as planned,” she said.

Emilie Dequenne died March 16, at a hospital on the outskirts of Paris, France, at the age of 43.

“Quelle injustice!! You have been an example to us all, with your extraordinary strength, your courage,” Dequenne’s press representative Charlotte Tourret wrote on Instagram, alongside a video of the actress’ photo from the 76th Cannes Festival.

“You are an inspiring woman, a great soul, a great actress, I remember your smiling eyes and your light. I love you forever my Emily 🕊️Milla, Michel, Danielle, Isabelle… I’m thinking about you so much,” Tourret added.

Dequenne rose to fame with the film Rosetta when she was just 17.

Throughout her career, she starred in a number of films, including French language films such as The Girl on the Train, released in 2009, and 2012 film Our Children.

Her last project was the English speaking film Survive released last year.

In one of her latest interviews, Dequenne shared that she didn’t know she was sick while filming.

In one of her last Instagram posts, for World Cancer Day in February, she wrote: “What a tough fight! And we don’t choose…”

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