Iranian French artist, animator and director Marjane Satrapi, best known internationally for her 2007 biographical animated feature Persepolis and Rosamund Pike-starring film Radioactive, has died. She was 56.
“Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,” a statement from close friends and family sent to the AFP news wire read. Satrapi’s husband the producer, actor, and screenwriter Ripa died on April 8, 2025.
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Iran-born artist and director Satrapi had lived in France since the early 1990s after her parents sent her to Europe to study as a teenager to escape the restrictions of living under the Islamic Republic regime and encouraged her to make her permanent home there.
Satrapi, who was nine-years old when Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, recounted her experiences growing up under his draconian government in the graphic novel Persepolis.
She turned the work into an animated feature in 2007, co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud, which went on to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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