Overview
- French president’s office announced her death on Thursday and her family told AFP that Satrapi "died of sadness" a little over a year after the April 8, 2025 death of her husband, Mattias Ripa.
- She won global acclaim for Persepolis, her bestselling autobiographical comics series, and co-directed the 2007 animated film that won the Cannes Jury Prize and earned an Academy Award nomination.
- Satrapi was a persistent critic of Iran’s theocratic government and a visible supporter of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, for which she edited a 2024 anthology documenting the protests.
- She refused France’s Légion d’honneur in January 2025 citing what she called French hypocrisy toward Iran, and after her husband’s death she founded the Mattias and Marjane Ripa‑Satrapi Cinema Foundation to fund foreign film students in Paris.
- No medical cause beyond the family’s statement has been released, and cultural institutions and peers around the world have issued tributes noting her impact on comics, cinema and the Iranian diaspora.