Editing Jean Seberg (section)

==Early life==
Seberg was born in [[Marshalltown, Iowa]], the daughter of Dorothy Arline (née Benson), a substitute teacher, and Edward Waldemar Seberg, a pharmacist.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/09/archives/jean-seberg-found-dead-in-paris-actress-was-missing-for-10-days-a.html|work=The New York Times|title=Jean Seberg Found Dead in Paris; Actress Was Missing for 10 Days; A Life of Personal Tragedy|date=September 9, 1979|access-date=May 6, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/30/archives/the-seberg-tragedy-jean-seberg.html|work=The New York Times|title=The Seberg Tragedy; Jean Seberg|date=November 30, 1980|access-date=May 6, 2010|first=Mel|last=Gussow}}</ref><ref name=lea>{{cite web |url=http://www.genealogi.se/shf9731.htm |title=Fler kända svenskamerikaner |first=Bo |last=Lindwall |date=August 24, 1998 |access-date=2012-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311034506/http://www.genealogi.se/shf9731.htm |archive-date=March 11, 2012 }}</ref> Her family was [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] and of Swedish, English, and German ancestry.<ref name=lea/><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/04/07/archives/evolution-of-a-new-saint-joan-jean-seberg-18-unknown-and-barely.html|work=The New York Times|title=Evolution of a New Saint Joan; Jean Seberg, 18, unknown and barely tried, illustrates how a star is made, if not born|date=April 7, 1957|access-date=May 6, 2010|first=Gilbert|last=Millstein}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alice-miller.com/articles_en.php?lang=en&nid=55&grp=11|title=Preface to From Rage to Courage|website=Alice-miller.com|date=November 13, 2009|access-date=October 14, 2017}}</ref> Seberg had a sister, Mary-Ann, and two brothers, Kurt and David, the younger of whom was killed in a car accident at the age of 18 in 1968.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=May 15, 2020|title=The Shocking True Story Behind Kristen Stewart's Seberg Is Stranger Than Fiction|url=https://www.eonline.com/news/1151914/the-shocking-true-story-behind-kristen-stewart-s-seberg-is-stranger-than-fiction|access-date=2021-05-05|website=E! Online}}</ref>

Her paternal grandfather, Edward Carlson, arrived in the U.S. in 1882 and observed, "there are too many Carlsons in the New World." He changed the family surname to Seberg in memory of the water and mountains of Sweden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://docublogger.typepad.com/seberg/jean-trivia/|title=Movie Star|website=Movie Star|access-date=October 14, 2017}}</ref>

In Marshalltown, Seberg babysat Mary Supinger, some eight years her junior, who became stage and film actress [[Mary Beth Hurt]]. After high school, Seberg enrolled at the [[University of Iowa]] to study dramatic arts but took up filmmaking instead.<ref>"At the time I was due to audition for Preminger, I was enrolled to study dramatic art at the State University of Iowa, my eventual goal being stardom on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], hopefully."<br />Seberg in ''[[Films and Filming]]'', p. 13, June 1974.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref>