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Andrée Tainsy‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1911-04-26

Popularity

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Andrée Tainsy

Etterbeek, Belgium

Andrée Tainsy

Etterbeek, Belgium

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1911-04-26

Popularity

star0.8

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

Cop au Vin

Cop au Vin‌
star6.2
calendar 1985

Under the Sand

Under the Sand‌
star6.7
calendar 2000

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler‌
star0.0
calendar 1967

The Sinners

The Sinners‌
star6.1
calendar 1949

Kings and Queen

Kings and Queen‌
star7.1
calendar 2004

Adieu voyages lents

Adieu voyages lents‌
star0.0
calendar 1978

Man with the Transplanted Brain

Man with the Transplanted Brain‌
star6.0
calendar 1972

Mannequins of Paris

Mannequins of Paris‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

Red Sunset

Red Sunset‌
star5.0
calendar 2004

My Wife Is Formidable

My Wife Is Formidable‌
star4.7
calendar 1951

No More Vacation for the Good Lord

No More Vacation for the Good Lord‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Julie de Carneilhan

Julie de Carneilhan‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Fantomas Against Fantomas

Fantomas Against Fantomas‌
star6.9
calendar 1949

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning‌
star5.6
calendar 1965

Simone

Simone‌
star0.8
calendar 1985

Matrimonial Agency

Matrimonial Agency‌
star5.1
calendar 1952

Holiday for Henrietta

Holiday for Henrietta‌
star7.0
calendar 1952

Twice a Woman

Twice a Woman‌
star4.1
calendar 1979

Too Small My Friend

Too Small My Friend‌
star6.0
calendar 1971

Le sagouin

Le sagouin‌
star0.0
calendar 1972

Captive City

Captive City‌
star5.8
calendar 1982

The Strangler

The Strangler‌
star6.2
calendar 1971

Solemn Communion

Solemn Communion‌
star4.5
calendar 1977

Love, etc.

Love, etc.‌
star5.6
calendar 1996

Le Prussien

Le Prussien‌
star0.0
calendar 1971

Assassin's Check

Assassin's Check‌
star0.0
calendar 1962

Mathieu Gaston peluche

Mathieu Gaston peluche‌
star0.0
calendar 1980

Les Lumières du soir

Les Lumières du soir‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Bouvard et Pécuchet‌
star4.2
calendar 1990

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer‌
star6.1
calendar 1972

Demoniac

Demoniac‌
star6.0
calendar 1957

Love and Death

Love and Death‌
star7.5
calendar 1975

The Mad Dog

The Mad Dog‌
star2.5
calendar 1966

Z

Z‌
star7.8
calendar 1969

Handsome Face

Handsome Face‌
star0.0
calendar 1972

Code Unknown

Code Unknown‌
star6.7
calendar 2000

Le tour d'écrou

Le tour d'écrou‌
star7.0
calendar 1974

Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid‌
star7.1
calendar 1964

Stain on the Snow

Stain on the Snow‌
star5.4
calendar 1954

Fantomas

Fantomas‌
star6.8
calendar 1964

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

The Watchmaker of St. Paul‌
star6.9
calendar 1974

End of Desire

End of Desire‌
star5.5
calendar 1958

Mission in Tangier

Mission in Tangier‌
star5.7
calendar 1949

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case‌
star6.9
calendar 1959

The Devil's Tricks

The Devil's Tricks‌
star5.5
calendar 1966

A Slightly Pregnant Man

A Slightly Pregnant Man‌
star5.6
calendar 1973

A. Constant

A. Constant‌
star0.0
calendar 1977

The Phantom Heart

The Phantom Heart‌
star5.9
calendar 1996

Spoiled Children

Spoiled Children‌
star6.3
calendar 1977

Let Joy Reign Supreme

Let Joy Reign Supreme‌
star6.3
calendar 1975

Tv Credits

Les Cousins de la Constance

Les Cousins de la Constance‌
star8.0
calendar 1970

Discorama

Discorama‌
star0.0
calendar 1959