Andrée Tainsy
Acting
Born 1911-04-26
Died 2004-12-19
Etterbeek, Belgium
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
50 credits
Discorama
Love and Death
Fantomas
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Code Unknown
Z
Diary of a Chambermaid
Under the Sand
Henry James Stories
Kings & Queen
The Phantom Heart
Holiday for Henrietta
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Le Prussien
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Simone
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Cop au Vin
The Cousins of Constance
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
The Blind
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Too Small My Friend
Spoiled Children
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Stain on the Snow
The Strangler
Love, etc.
Les Lumières du soir
Hedda Gabler
End of Desire
Fantomas Against Fantomas
Solemn Communion
Matrimonial Agency
Boulevard des assassins
Red Sunset
Demoniac
Mission in Tangier
Adieu voyages lents
The Sinners
My Wife Is Formidable
The Devil's Tricks
Gloria
A. Constant
Assassin's Check
Julie de Carneilhan
Le Sagouin
Le Tour d'Écrou
Mathieu Gaston Peluche
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Twice a Woman
Mannequins of Paris
The Mad Dog
Handsome Face
Man with the Transplanted Brain
Ali in Wonderland
No More Vacation for the Good Lord
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