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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 26, 1911
Died
December 19, 2004
Place of Birth
Etterbeek, Belgium
Andrée Tainsy
0.2 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
7.0
La grand-mère
Kings & Queen
2004
5.0
Princesse Czerry
Red Sunset
2004
6.6
Suzanne
Under the Sand
2001
6.7
Mrs. Becker
Code Unknown
2000
5.4
Mireille
Love, etc.
1996
5.9
The old lady
The Phantom Heart
1996
4.2
Germaine
Bouvard et Pécuchet
1990
🎬
0.8
La grand mère
Simone
1985
6.1
Marthe
Cop au Vin
1985
5.8
Mrs. Graveline
Boulevard des assassins
1982
Credits
Kings & Queen
as La grand-mère
2004
7.0
Red Sunset
as Princesse Czerry
2004
5.0
Under the Sand
as Suzanne
2001
6.6
Code Unknown
as Mrs. Becker
2000
6.7
Love, etc.
as Mireille
1996
5.4
The Phantom Heart
as The old lady
1996
5.9
Bouvard et Pécuchet
as Germaine
1990
4.2
🎬
Simone
as La grand mère
1985
0.8
Cop au Vin
as Marthe
1985
6.1
Boulevard des assassins
as Mrs. Graveline
1982
5.8
Mathieu Gaston peluche
as Propriétaire du cheval
1980
0.0
Twice a Woman
1979
4.0
🎬
Adieu voyages lents
as La mère
1978
0.0
A. Constant
as Jeanne
1977
0.0
Gloria
as Estelle
1977
5.3
Spoiled Children
as La locataire âgée
1977
6.2
Solemn Communion
as Charlotte Fourcignie
1977
4.1
Love and Death
as Woman (uncredited)
1975
7.5
Let Joy Reign Supreme
as Nun
1975
6.4
Le Tour d'Écrou
as Mme Grose
1974
7.0
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
as Madeleine Fourmet
1974
6.9
A Slightly Pregnant Man
as Clarisse de Saint-Clair
1973
5.7
Handsome Face
1972
0.0
Man with the Transplanted Brain
1972
6.0
Le sagouin
as 'Fraulein'
1972
8.0
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
as The Grandmother
1972
5.8
Le Prussien
as Yvonne
1971
0.0
The Strangler
as Jeanne
1971
5.9
Too Small My Friend
as Mme Herbin
1971
6.0
Les Cousins de la Constance
as Alice Guillou
1970
8.0
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
as Une femme du peuple
1970
0.0
Z
as Nick's Mother
1969
7.8
Hedda Gabler
as Julie Tesman
1967
0.0
The Mad Dog
1966
2.5
The Devil's Tricks
as La mère de Ginette
1966
5.5
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
as Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
1965
5.5
Fantomas
as Habilleuse
1964
6.8
Diary of a Chambermaid
as La paysanne
1964
7.1
Assassin's Check
as La marchande de journaux
1962
0.0
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
as Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
1959
6.9
Discorama
as Self
1959
0.0
End of Desire
as Ludivine - la servante
1958
5.4
Demoniac
as Business card seller
1957
6.0
Les Lumières du soir
as Job seeker
1956
0.0
Mannequins of Paris
1956
0.0
Stain on the Snow
as (uncredited)
1954
6.1
Holiday for Henrietta
as (uncredited)
1952
7.0
Matrimonial Agency
as (uncredited)
1952
5.3
My Wife Is Formidable
as la femme de ménage
1951
3.6
Julie de Carneilhan
as Madame Sabrier
1950
0.0
No More Vacation for the Good Lord
1950
0.0
The Sinners
as Kitchen girl
1949
5.6
Mission in Tangier
as Cabaret sweeper
1949
5.8
Fantomas Against Fantomas
as (uncredited)
1949
6.9