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
Spoiled Children (1977)
as Madame Descombes
Fantomas (1964)
as Habilleuse
Z (1969)
as Nick's Mother
Under the Sand (2001)
as Suzanne
Code Unknown (2000)
as Mrs. Becker
Love and Death (1975)
as Woman (uncredited)
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
as La paysanne
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972)
as The Grandmother
Le Prussien (1971)
as Yvonne
Love, etc. (1996)
as Mireille
Kings & Queen (2004)
as La grand-mère
Twice a Woman (1979)
Actor
A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
as Clarisse de Saint-Clair
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
as Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
The Strangler (1971)
as Jeanne
Cop au Vin (1985)
as Marthe
The Phantom Heart (1996)
as The old lady
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)
as Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
as Nun
Holiday for Henrietta (1952)
as (uncredited)
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)
as Madeleine Fourmet
Les Lumières du soir (1956)
as Job seeker
The Sinners (1949)
as Kitchen girl
End of Desire (1958)
as Ludivine - la servante
Hedda Gabler (1967)
as Julie Tesman
Stain on the Snow (1954)
as (uncredited)
Boulevard des assassins (1982)
as Mrs. Graveline
Demoniac (1957)
as Business card seller
Simone (1985)
as La grand mère
Man with the Transplanted Brain (1972)
Actor
My Wife Is Formidable (1951)
as la femme de ménage
Le Tour d'Écrou (1974)
as Mme Grose
The Mad Dog (1966)
Actor
Red Sunset (2004)
as Princesse Czerry
Julie de Carneilhan (1950)
as Madame Sabrier
Mission in Tangier (1949)
as Cabaret sweeper
Bouvard et Pécuchet (1990)
as Germaine
Mannequins of Paris (1956)
Actor
The Devil's Tricks (1966)
as La mère de Ginette
Handsome Face (1972)
Actor
Assassin's Check (1962)
as La marchande de journaux
Le Sagouin (1972)
as 'Fraulein'
Too Small My Friend (1971)
as Mme Herbin
Gloria (1977)
as Estelle
Solemn Communion (1977)
as Charlotte Fourcignie
Matrimonial Agency (1952)
as (uncredited)
No More Vacation for the Good Lord (1950)
Actor
Ali in Wonderland (1980)
Actor
Fantomas Against Fantomas (1949)
as (uncredited)
A. Constant (1977)
as Jeanne
The Blind (2000)
as The Old Woman
Adieu voyages lents (1978)
as La mère
Mathieu Gaston peluche (1980)
as Propriétaire du cheval