Andrée Tainsy
54 movies · 4 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 26, 1911
- Died
- Dec 19, 2004 (age 93)
- Place of birth
- Etterbeek, Belgium
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.
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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.
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Andrée Tainsy: movies and TV shows
Acting (58)
- 2004 Kings & Queen
as La grand-mère
- 2004 Red Sunset
as Princesse Czerry
- 2001 Under the Sand
as Suzanne
- 2000 The Blind
as The Old Woman
- 2000 Code Unknown
as Mrs. Becker
- 1996 Love, etc.
as Mireille
- 1996 The Phantom Heart
as The old lady
- 1990 Bouvard et Pécuchet
as Germaine
- 1985 Simone
as La grand mère
- 1985 Cop au Vin
as Marthe
- 1982 Boulevard des assassins
as Mrs. Graveline
- 1980
- 1980 Mathieu Gaston Peluche
as Propriétaire du cheval
- 1979
- 1978 Adieu voyages lents
as La mère
- 1977 A. Constant
as Jeanne
- 1977 Gloria
as Estelle
- 1977 Spoiled Children
as Madame Descombes
- 1977 Solemn Communion
as Charlotte Fourcignie
- 1976
- 1975 Love and Death
as Woman (uncredited)
- 1975 Let Joy Reign Supreme
as Nun
- 1975
- 1974 Le Tour d'Écrou
as Mme Grose
- 1974 The Watchmaker of St. Paul
as Madeleine Fourmet
- 1973 A Slightly Pregnant Man
as Clarisse de Saint-Clair
- 1972
- 1972 La Mare au diable
as Mère Maurice
- 1972
- 1972 Le Sagouin
as 'Fraulein'
- 1972 Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
as The Grandmother
- 1971 Le Prussien
as Yvonne
- 1971 The Strangler
as Jeanne
- 1971 Too Small My Friend
as Mme Herbin
- 1970
- 1970
- 1969 Z
as Nick's Mother
- 1967 Hedda Gabler
as Julie Tesman
- 1966
- 1966 The Devil's Tricks
as La mère de Ginette
- 1965 How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
as Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
- 1964 Fantomas
as Habilleuse
- 1964 Diary of a Chambermaid
as La paysanne
- 1962 Assassin's Check
as La marchande de journaux
- 1959 Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
as Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
- 1958 End of Desire
as Ludivine - la servante
- 1957 Demoniac
as Business card seller
- 1956 Les Lumières du soir
as Job seeker
- 1956
- 1953 Stain on the Snow
as (uncredited)
- 1952 Holiday for Henrietta
as (uncredited)
- 1952 Matrimonial Agency
as (uncredited)
- 1951 My Wife Is Formidable
as la femme de ménage
- 1950 Julie de Carneilhan
as Madame Sabrier
- 1950
- 1949 The Sinners
as Kitchen girl
- 1949 Mission in Tangier
as Cabaret sweeper
- 1949 Fantomas Against Fantomas
as (uncredited)
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1959 Discorama
1 episode