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person_profile-Andrée Tainsy

Andrée Tainsy Died at age: 93

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Apr 26, 1911

Country of birth:

Belgium

Died:

Dec 19, 2004

Biography of

Andrée Tainsy

    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.

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Andrée Tainsy

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Filmography of

Andrée Tainsy

Found 43 Movies in total

Kings & Queen

La grand-mère ( Actor )

... 2004

Red Sunset

Princesse Czerry ( Actor )

... 2004

Code Unknown

Mrs. Becker ( Actor )

... 2000

Under the Sand

Suzanne ( Actor )

... 2000

Love, etc.

Mireille ( Actor )

... 1996

The Phantom Heart

The old lady ( Actor )

... 1996

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Germaine ( Actor )

... 1990

Cop au Vin

Marthe ( Actor )

... 1985

Boulevard des assassins

Mrs. Graveline ( Actor )

... 1982

... 1979

A. Constant

Jeanne ( Actor )

... 1977

Spoiled Children

La locataire âgée ( Actor )

... 1977

Solemn Communion

Charlotte Fourcignie ( Actor )

... 1977

Love and Death

Man (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1975

Let Joy Reign Supreme

La religieuse ( Actor )

... 1975

Le tour d'écrou

Mme Grose ( Actor )

... 1974

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

Madeleine Fourmet ( Actor )

... 1974

A Slightly Pregnant Man

Clarisse de Saint-Clair ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1972

Le sagouin

'Fraulein' ( Actor )

... 1972

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

The Grandmother ( Actor )

... 1972

The Strangler

Jeanne, the owner of the bar restaurant ( Actor )

... 1971

Too Small My Friend

Mme Herbin ( Actor )

... 1971

Z

Nick's Mother ( Actor )

... 1969

Hedda Gabler

Julie Tesman ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1966

The Devil's Tricks

La mère de Ginette ( Actor )

... 1966

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

Germaine, la cuisinière de Léon renvoyée ( Actor )

... 1965

Fantomas

Habilleuse ( Actor )

... 1964

Diary of a Chambermaid

La paysanne ( Actor )

... 1964

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1959

End of Desire

Ludivine - la servante ( Actor )

... 1958

... 1957

Les Lumières du soir

Une demandeuse d'emploi ( Actor )

... 1956

... 1956

Stain on the Snow

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1954

Holiday for Henrietta

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1952

My Wife Is Formidable

la femme de ménage ( Actor )

... 1951

Julie de Carneilhan

Madame Sabrier ( Actor )

... 1950

The Sinners

Kitchen girl ( Actor )

... 1949

Mission in Tangier

La balayeuse du cabaret ( Actor )

... 1949

Fantomas Against Fantomas

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1949