Andrée Tainsy
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.
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Películas (54)
Kings & Queen
2004 · La grand-mère
Red Sunset
2004 · Princesse Czerry
Under the Sand
2001 · Suzanne
The Blind
2000 · The Old Woman
Code Unknown
2000 · Mrs. Becker
Love, etc.
1996 · Mireille
The Phantom Heart
1996 · The old lady
Bouvard et Pécuchet
1990 · Germaine
Simone
1987 · La grand mère
Cop au Vin
1985 · Marthe
Boulevard des assassins
1982 · Mrs. Graveline
Ali in Wonderland
1980
Mathieu Gaston Peluche
1980 · Propriétaire du cheval
Twice a Woman
1979
Adieu voyages lents
1978 · La mère
A. Constant
1977 · Jeanne
Gloria
1977 · Estelle
Spoiled Children
1977 · Madame Descombes
Solemn Communion
1977 · Charlotte Fourcignie
Love and Death
1975 · Woman (uncredited)
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975 · Nun
Le Tour d'Écrou
1974 · Mme Grose
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974 · Madeleine Fourmet
A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973 · Clarisse de Saint-Clair
Handsome Face
1972
La Mare au diable
1972 · Mère Maurice
Man with the Transplanted Brain
1972
Le Sagouin
1972 · 'Fraulein'
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972 · The Grandmother
Le Prussien
1971 · Yvonne
The Strangler
1971 · Jeanne
Too Small My Friend
1971 · Mme Herbin
Z
1969 · Nick's Mother
Hedda Gabler
1967 · Julie Tesman
The Mad Dog
1966
The Devil's Tricks
1966 · La mère de Ginette
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965 · Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
Fantomas
1964 · Habilleuse
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 · La paysanne
Assassin's Check
1962 · La marchande de journaux
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1959 · Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
End of Desire
1958 · Ludivine - la servante
Demoniac
1957 · Business card seller
Les Lumières du soir
1956 · Job seeker
Mannequins of Paris
1956
Stain on the Snow
1953 · (uncredited)
Holiday for Henrietta
1952 · (uncredited)
Matrimonial Agency
1952 · (uncredited)
My Wife Is Formidable
1951 · la femme de ménage
Julie de Carneilhan
1950 · Madame Sabrier
No More Vacation for the Good Lord
1950
The Sinners
1949 · Kitchen girl
Mission in Tangier
1949 · Cabaret sweeper
Fantomas Against Fantomas
1949 · (uncredited)
