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Andrée Tainsy

Actor
Died December 19, 2004 (93 years)
Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy (26 April 1911 – 19 December 2004) was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. Tainsy began her career with theater plays and her first film debut was in 1945, followed by over 80 different cinema and TV works as co-star. She worked until the day of her death.

She was born in Etterbeek, Belgium.

Andrée Tainsy attended Brussels' Conservatory, where she trained to become a theater performer in the early 1930s. She moved to Paris and made her debut with the Georges Pitoëff theatrical company in Les Voyageurs Sans Bagage (1937). Her film debut was ready in 1939 however, as World War II started, she fled to South America, where she reconnected with other artists who had also left. Her first experience in front of was in Chile a movie camera and in 1945 her movie career began starring in Jacques Remy's Le Moulin des Andes (Released in Chile as La Fruta Mordida).

Upon her return to France, after the end of the war, she resumed her theatrical activity with Les Amants de Noël and Joyeux Chagrins, both in 1948. Tainsy's career as an actress and comedian went on until the very end of her life. She worked until the day of her death. She appeared in a small role in Arnaud Desplechin's Rois et Reine on 22 December 2004, just three days after she died. Her cinema endeavors comprised works with several directors like Bertrand Tavernier, Woody Allen, Claude Chabrol, François Ozon and Arnaud Desplechin.

On 19 December 2004, after attending a presentation of a play by Pierre Desproges, she suffered a heart attack at her Parisian apartment. She was buried at Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Source: Article "Andrée Tainsy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Diary of a Chambermaid
Known For
  • Under the Sand
  • Fantomas
  • The Clockmaker
  • Cop Au Vin
  • Love, etc.
  • One Life
  • Solemn Communion
  • Seuls
  • La porteuse de pain
  • Paris-Deauville
  • Hedda Gabler
  • Le sagouin

Filmography

2004
Kings & Queen · as La Grand-Mère
2003
Dans le rouge du couchant · as Princesse Czerry
2003
Après Vous · as Louis' Grandmother
2000
Code Unknown · as Mrs. Becker
2000
Under the Sand · as Suzanne
2000
Paris-Deauville · as Mrs. Gauvin
1996
Love, etc. · as Mireille
1996
The Phantom Heart · as The Old Lady
1993
The Lie · as Maria
1990
Bouvard et Pécuchet (TV Series) · as Germaine
1989
Bouvard et Pécuchet · as Germaine
1985
Cop Au Vin · as Marthe
1982
Boulevard des assassins · as Mrs. Graveline
1981
Seuls · as La Tante
1981
Joëlle Mazart (TV Series) · as La Grand-Mère De Rolande
1980
Mathieu, Gaston, Peluche · as La Propriètaire Du Cheval
1979
1978
Emile Zola or Human Conscience (TV Series) · as Mme Bastian
1977
Spoiled Children · as La Locataire Âgée
1977
Solemn Communion · as Charlotte Fourcignie
1975
Cinéma 16 (TV Series) · as La Mère De Georges
1975
Love and Death · as Woman (uncredited)
1975
Let Joy Reign Supreme · as La Religieuse
1975
That Most Important Thing: Love · as La Mère De Jacques
1974
Le tour d'écrou · as Mme Grose
1974
The Clockmaker · as Madeleine Fourmet
1973
A Slightly Pregnant Man · as Clarisse De Saint-Clair
1973
La porteuse de pain (TV Series) · as Cast
1972
La mare au diable · as Mère Maurice
1972
1972
La Malle de Hambourg (TV Series) · as Eugénie
1972
Le sagouin · as 'fraulein'
1972
Faustine et le bel été · as The Grandmother
1971
Le Prussien · as Yvonne
1971
Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq (TV Series) · as La Mère Bonjour
1970
Donkey Skin · as La Mère
1970
Trop petit mon ami · as Mme Herbin
1970
The Strangler · as Jeanne, The Owner Of The Bar Restaurant
1969
Z · as Nick's Mother
1968
1967
Hedda Gabler · as Julie Tesman
1965
Les jeunes années (TV Series) · as Cast
1965
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning · as Germaine, La Gouvernante Renvoyée De Léon (les Bons Vivants)
1964
La chambre · as Cast
1964
Fantomas · as Habilleuse
1964
1962
L'Inspecteur Leclerc enquête (TV Series) · as L'infirmière
1961
1960
1960
Love and the Frenchwoman · as (segment "femme Seule, La")
1960
The Youth Theater (TV Series) · as Mme Magloire
1959
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case · as Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
1958
Les tricheurs · as La Réceptionniste
1958
One Life · as Ludivine - La Servante
1958
Seventh Heaven · as Madame Helier
1958
The Last Five Minutes (TV Series) · as Marie Malbosc
1957
The Camera explores time (TV Series) · as Jeannette
1957
1956
1956
Shadow of the Guillotine · as Une Émeutière
1954
The Snow Was Black · as (uncredited)
1953
The Knight of the Night · as L'habilleuse
1952
Holiday for Henrietta · as (uncredited)
1952
Matrimonial Agency · as (uncredited)
1951
My Wife Is Formidable · as La Femme De Ménage
1950
1950
I'm in the Revue · as Cast
1949
The Sinners · as Kitchen Girl
1949
Mission in Tangier · as La Balayeuse Du Cabaret
1949
Fantomas Against Fantomas · as (uncredited)

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