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