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.
Early life She was born in Etterbeek, Belgium.
Career 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.
Later life 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.
Selected filmography
1945: La fruta mordida 1949: Fantômas contre Fantômas - (uncredited) 1949: Mission in Tangier - La balayeuse du cabaret 1949: The Sinners - La fille de cuisine 1950: Botta e risposta 1950: Plus de vacances pour le Bon Dieu 1950: Julie de Carneilhan - Madame Sabrier 1951: Ma femme est formidable - La femme de chambre 1952: Agence matrimoniale - (uncredited) 1952: Holiday for Henrietta - (uncredited) 1953: Le chevalier de la nuit - L'habilleuse 1954: La neige était sale - (uncredited) 1956: Marie Antoinette Queen of France - Une émeutière (uncredited) 1956: Manequins de Paris 1956: Les Lumières du soir - Une demandeuse d'emploi 1957: The She-Wolves (1957) - La vendeuse de cartes de viste 1958: Seventh Heaven - Madame Helier (uncredited) 1958: One Life (Original title Une vie) - Ludivine - la servante 1958: Young Sinners - La réceptionniste (uncredited) 1959: Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre - La patronne du Hula-Hoop (uncredited) 1960: Love and the Frenchwoman - (segment "Femme Seule, La") (uncredited) 1961: Bernadette of Lourdes 1962: Portrait-robot 1964: Diary of a Chambermaid - La paysanne 1964: Fantômas - L'habilleuse 1965: How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning - Germaine (segment "Bons vivants, Les") (uncredited) 1966: Les ruses du diable (Neuf portraits d'une jeune fille) - La mère de Ginette 1966: Le chien fou 1969: Z - La mère de Nick 1970: L'étrangleur - Mme Jeanne, la patronne du bar restaurant 1970: Trop petit mon ami - Mme Herbin 1970: Pele de Asno - La mère 1971: Man with the Transplanted Brain 1972: Faustine et le Bel Été - Grandmother 1972: Beau masque 1973: A Slightly Pregnant Man - Clarisse de Saint-Clair, une cliente du salon 1974: The Clockmaker of Saint Paul (Original title L'Horloger de Saint-Paul) - Madeleine Fourmet - qui a élevé Bernard 1975: That Most Important Thing: Love - La mère de Jacques (scenes deleted) 1975: Let Joy Reign Supreme - La religieuse 1975: Love and Death - (uncredited) 1977: Solemn Communion - Charlotte Fourcignie 1977: Spoiled Children - Madame Descombes 1977: Gloria - Estelle - la gouvernante 1977: A. Constant - Jeanne 1978: The Paradise of Riches (Original title Le Paradis des Riches) - Albertine 1978: Adieu voyages lents - La mère / Simone's Mother 1979: Twee vrouwen 1980: Ali in Wonderland 1981: Seuls - La tante 1981: Et pourtant elle tourne... - La grand-mère de Jeanne 1982: Boulevard des assassins - Mme Graveline 1985: Cop au Vin (Original title Poulet au Vinaigre) - Marthe 1993: Mensonge - Maria 1996: Le coeur fantôme - The old lady 1996: Love, etc. - Mireille 2000: Code Unknown - Mrs. Becker 2000: Under the Sand (Original title Sous le Sable* 1996 Love, etc - Suzanne 2003: Dans le rouge du couchant - Princesse Czerny 2003: Après vous... - Louis' Grandmother 2004: Kings and Queens (Original title Rois et Reine) - La grand-mère (final film role)
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