Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne has died aged 43 of a rare cancer, her family and agent have revealed.

The award-winning actress – who starred in BBC drama The Missing as police officer Laurence Relaud – passed away Sunday in a hospital just outside of Paris.

She revealed in October 2023 that she was suffering from adrenocortical carcinoma, a cancer of the adrenal gland.

By April 2024, Dequenne shared the uplifting news of her complete remission, expressing her determination to return to her career and to life as she knew it.

‘I was close to forgetting because I was leaving the hospital today after 13 days… What a tough battle,’ she wrote on social media.

But, tragically, her health took a turn for the worse when she suffered a relapse of her illness at the end of last year.

On December 1, she told French television show TF1 she was focusing on her health, and publicly acknowledged her deteriorating condition.

‘I know I will not live as long as planned,’ she said.