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