Andrée Tainsy
Age: N/A | From: Etterbeek, Belgium
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Etterbeek, Belgium
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Movie Involvements: 28
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
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(1969) Nick's Mother
Code Unknown
(2000) Mrs. Becker
Under the Sand
(2000) Suzanne
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
(1974) Madeleine Fourmet
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
(1959) Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
Cop au Vin
(1985) Marthe
Les Cousins de la Constance
(1970) Alice Guillou
Love, etc.
(1996) MireilleActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | La grand-mère | |
| Princesse Czerry | ||
| 2000 | Mrs. Becker | |
| Suzanne | ||
| 1996 | Mireille | |
| The old lady | ||
| 1990 | Germaine | |
| 1985 | N/A | |
| Marthe | ||
| 1982 | Mrs. Graveline | |
| 1980 | Propriétaire du cheval | |
| 1979 | N/A | |
| 1978 | La mère | |
| 1977 | Jeanne | |
| Charlotte Fourcignie | ||
| 1975 | Man (uncredited) | |
| 1974 | Mme Grose | |
| Madeleine Fourmet | ||
| 1973 | Clarisse de Saint-Clair | |
| 1972 | Jeanne, the owner of the bar restaurant | |
| N/A | ||
| 'Fraulein' | ||
| The Grandmother | ||
| 1971 | Yvonne | |
| Mme Herbin | ||
| 1970 | Alice Guillou | |
| 1969 | Nick's Mother | |
| 1967 | Julie Tesman | |
| 1966 | La mère de Ginette | |
| 1965 | Germaine, la cuisinière de Léon renvoyée | |
| 1964 | Habilleuse | |
| La paysanne | ||
| 1962 | La marchande de journaux | |
| 1959 | Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited) | |
| Self | ||
| 1958 | Ludivine - la servante | |
| 1956 | Une demandeuse d'emploi | |
| N/A | ||
| 1954 | (uncredited) | |
| 1952 | (uncredited) | |
| (uncredited) | ||
| 1951 | la femme de ménage | |
| 1950 | Madame Sabrier | |
| N/A | ||
| 1949 | Kitchen girl | |
| La balayeuse du cabaret | ||
| (uncredited) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
