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Andrée Tainsy
Actor
Born April 26, 1911Died 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.
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.
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 | La maison des autres · as Cast |
| 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 | Diary of a Chambermaid · as La Paysanne |
| 1962 | L'Inspecteur Leclerc enquête (TV Series) · as L'infirmière |
| 1961 | La vie que je t'ai donnée · as Élisabeth |
| 1960 | Bernadette of Lourdes · as Cast |
| 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) |