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Brigitte Sy
Actor, Writer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn January 26, 1956 (69 years)
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France.
She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women.
She is of Sephardic Jewish descent.
Source: Article "Brigitte Sy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women.
She is of Sephardic Jewish descent.
Source: Article "Brigitte Sy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
| 2023 | Little Girl Blue · as Monique Lange (voice) |
| 2021 | The Opera (TV Series) · as Nadia Menour |
| 2019 | Street Flow · as Td Professor |
| 2019 | Têtard (TV Series) · as La Mère De Ben |
| 2018 | Invisibles · as Béatrice, Social Services Manager |
| 2018 | The Great Pretender · as Thérèse's Mom |
| 2018 | Maroni (TV Series) · as Marie Le Gall |
| 2017 | All That Divides Us · as Ben's Mother |
| 2017 | Quadras (TV Series) · as Sylvianne |
| 2017 | Black Spot (TV Series) · as Sabine Hennequin |
| 2015 | Unexpected Love · as Hélène |
| 2015 | Astragal · as Rita |
| 2014 | Captain Marleau (TV Series) · as Victoire Bracconi |
| 2014 | Wild Life · as Geneviève |
| 2013 | Surveillance · as Michèle Solvy |
| 2013 | Vandal · as Christine, La Tante |
| 2013 | A Place on Earth · as Loraine Morin |
| 2013 | De l'usage du sex-toy en temps de crise · as Médecin Diagnostic |
| 2012 | Nuts · as Mme Herschel, La Psy |
| 2011 | Last Screening · as The Taxi Driver |
| 2011 | A Better Life · as La Femme Bénévole Surendettement |
| 2011 | Declaration of War · as Claudia Benaïm |
| 2010 | Cigarettes & Nylons · as La Présidente Des Vétéranes |
| 2010 | Free Hands · as Le Femme Blonde |
| 2009 | Nice · as Fanny |
| 2008 | Rien dans les poches · as Agathe Manikowski |
| 2008 | Versailles · as Madame Herchel |
| 2008 | Choisir d'aimer · as Isabelle |
| 2007 | Fear(s) of the Dark · as (voice) |
| 2006 | Déluge · as Her Mother |
| 2005 | Regular Lovers · as La Mère De François |
| 1998 | Melody for a Hustler · as Véronique |
| 1997 | Ma 6-T va crack-er · as La Principale Du Collège |
| 1997 | Genealogies of a Crime · as Jeanne |
| 1991 | Meeting Venus · as French Customs Officer |
| 1991 | I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar · as Aline |
| 1989 | Emergency Kisses · as Jeanne |
| 1984 | Liberté, la nuit · as Micheline |
| 1984 | Cinématon · as N°250 |
| 1979 |