Andrée Tainsy
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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. Source: Article "Andrée Tainsy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Credits
Simone (1987)
as La grand mère
Under the Sand (2001)
as Suzanne
Fantomas (1964)
as Habilleuse
Z (1969)
as Nick's Mother
Hedda Gabler (1967)
as Julie Tesman
Love and Death (1975)
as Woman (uncredited)
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
as La paysanne
Code Unknown (2000)
as Mrs. Becker
Bouvard et Pécuchet (1990)
as Germaine
Mannequins of Paris (1956)
Actor
Le Prussien (1971)
as Yvonne
Holiday for Henrietta (1952)
as (uncredited)
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972)
as The Grandmother
Stain on the Snow (1953)
as (uncredited)
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
as Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
Cop au Vin (1985)
as Marthe
The Phantom Heart (1996)
as The old lady
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)
as Madeleine Fourmet
The Mad Dog (1966)
Actor
Spoiled Children (1977)
as Madame Descombes
A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
as Clarisse de Saint-Clair
La Mare au diable (1972)
as Mère Maurice
Kings & Queen (2004)
as La grand-mère
Adieu voyages lents (1978)
as La mère
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)
as Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
Les Lumières du soir (1956)
as Job seeker
The Blind (2000)
as The Old Woman
The Sinners (1949)
as Kitchen girl
Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
as Nun
Solemn Communion (1977)
as Charlotte Fourcignie
My Wife Is Formidable (1951)
as la femme de ménage
Man with the Transplanted Brain (1972)
Actor
Twice a Woman (1979)
Actor
Assassin's Check (1962)
as La marchande de journaux
Love, etc. (1996)
as Mireille
Demoniac (1957)
as Business card seller
Too Small My Friend (1971)
as Mme Herbin
Le Tour d'Écrou (1974)
as Mme Grose
The Devil's Tricks (1966)
as La mère de Ginette
End of Desire (1958)
as Ludivine - la servante
Red Sunset (2004)
as Princesse Czerry
No More Vacation for the Good Lord (1950)
Actor
Le Sagouin (1972)
as 'Fraulein'
Mission in Tangier (1949)
as Cabaret sweeper
Julie de Carneilhan (1950)
as Madame Sabrier
Fantomas Against Fantomas (1949)
as (uncredited)
Ali in Wonderland (1980)
Actor
Gloria (1977)
as Estelle
Boulevard des assassins (1982)
as Mrs. Graveline
Handsome Face (1972)
Actor
Matrimonial Agency (1952)
as (uncredited)
The Strangler (1971)
as Jeanne
A. Constant (1977)
as Jeanne
Mathieu Gaston Peluche (1980)
as Propriétaire du cheval