Brigitte Sy
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Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France. She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women. She is of Sephardic Jewish descent. Source: Article "Brigitte Sy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Credits
Another Day (2026)
as Catherine
Street Flow (2019)
as TD Professor
Closed Circuit (2013)
as Michèle Solvy
All That Divides Us (2017)
as Ben's Mother
Declaration of War (2011)
as Claudia Benaïm
Le Joueur (2027)
Actor
A Place on Earth (2013)
as Loraine Morin
Crack 6T (1997)
as La principale du collège
Fear(s) of the Dark (2007)
as (voice)
Choosing Love (2008)
as Isabelle
Nice (2009)
as Fanny
Little Girl Blue (2023)
as Monique Lange (voice)
The Invisibles (2019)
as Béatrice, social services manager
Emergency Kisses (1989)
as Jeanne
Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
Actor
Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
as Jeanne
A Better Life (2011)
as La femme bénévole surendettement
Cinématon (1978)
as N°250
Regular Lovers (2005)
as la mère de François
Cinématon XXVI (1982)
as N°250
Versailles (2008)
as Madame Herchel
Wild Life (2014)
as Geneviève
Nuts (2013)
as Mme Herschel, la psy
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (1991)
as Aline
Online Billie (2019)
as Brigitte
Rien dans les poches (2008)
as Agathe Manikowski
Déluge (2006)
as Her mother
The Ministries of Art (1989)
as Self
Unexpected Love (2015)
as Hélène
Melody for a Hustler (1998)
as Véronique
Liberty at Night (1984)
as Micheline
Casting (1983)
as Woman of the cast
La rupture (2020)
as Josée
Sang craché des lèvres belles (—)
as Béatrice
Vandal (2013)
as Christine, la tante
The Last Screening (2011)
as The taxi driver