France-based Iranian artist, animator and director Marjane Satrapi, best known for her Oscar-nominated 2007 biographical animated feature “Persepolis,” has died. She was 56. "Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa,

French-Iranian artist, author and women’s rights activist Marjane Satrapi, the illustrator behind the graphic novel memoir “Persepolis,” has died at 56.

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.

French-Iranian author, illustrator and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, best known for her acclaimed graphic memoir Persepolis and its Oscar-nominated film adaptation, has died in Paris aged 56. Family members and close friends announced her death on Wednesday,

Marjane Satrapi became known worldwide for her critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novel “Perspolis” - which she later directed as an animated feature. It premiered at Cannes in 2007 and was Oscar nominated.

France-based Iranian artist, animator and director Marjane Satrapi, best known for her Oscar-nominated 2007 biographical animated feature “Persepolis,” has died. She was 56. M

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.