Overview
- The Élysée Palace and Satrapi’s family confirmed her death on Thursday, saying she "died of sadness" a little more than a year after her husband Mattias Ripa died on April 8, 2025.
- Satrapi won global acclaim for Persepolis, her four‑volume graphic memoir, and co‑directed its 2007 animated film that won the Cannes Jury Prize and received an Academy Award nomination.
- She used comics and film to document life under the Islamic Republic and to support the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, editing a related anthology published in 2024.
- In 2025 she declined France’s Legion of Honour in protest over French policy toward Iran, and earlier this year she founded the Mattias and Marjane Ripa‑Satrapi Cinema Foundation to help foreign students study filmmaking in Paris.
- Officials and cultural figures have paid tribute to her work, which reshaped Western views of Iran and may strengthen attention to exile, women’s rights, and opportunities for emerging filmmakers through her new foundation.