Andrée Tainsy

Known For

Acting

Born

Apr 26, 1911

Died

Dec 19, 2004

Place of Birth

Etterbeek, Belgium

Credits

59 titles

Andrée Tainsy

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.

Known For

Filmography

2004

Kings & Queen

La grand-mère

Movie
2004

Red Sunset

Princesse Czerry

Movie
2001

Under the Sand

Suzanne

Movie
2000

The Blind

The Old Woman

Movie
2000

Code Unknown

Mrs. Becker

Movie
1996

Love, etc.

Mireille

Movie
1996

The Phantom Heart

The old lady

Movie
1990

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Germaine

Movie
1985

Simone

La grand mère

Movie
1985

Cop au Vin

Marthe

Movie
1982

Boulevard des assassins

Mrs. Graveline

Movie
1980

Ali in Wonderland

Movie
1980

Mathieu Gaston Peluche

Propriétaire du cheval

Movie
1979

Twice a Woman

Movie
1978

Adieu voyages lents

La mère

Movie
1977

A. Constant

Jeanne

Movie
1977

Gloria

Estelle

Movie
1977

Spoiled Children

Madame Descombes

Movie
1977

Solemn Communion

Charlotte Fourcignie

Movie
1976

Henry James Stories

Mme Grose

Tv
1975

Love and Death

Woman (uncredited)

Movie
1975

Let Joy Reign Supreme

Nun

Movie
1975

Les Charmes de l'été

Gabrielle

Tv
1974

Le Tour d'Écrou

Mme Grose

Movie
1974

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

Madeleine Fourmet

Movie
1973

A Slightly Pregnant Man

Clarisse de Saint-Clair

Movie
1972

Handsome Face

Movie
1972

La Mare au diable

Mère Maurice

Movie
1972

Man with the Transplanted Brain

Movie
1972

Le Sagouin

'Fraulein'

Movie
1972

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

The Grandmother

Movie
1971

Le Prussien

Yvonne

Movie
1971

The Strangler

Jeanne

Movie
1971

Too Small My Friend

Mme Herbin

Movie
1970

The Cousins of Constance

Alice Guillou

Tv
1970

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

Une femme du peuple

Tv
1969

Z

Nick's Mother

Movie
1967

Hedda Gabler

Julie Tesman

Movie
1966

The Mad Dog

Movie
1966

The Devil's Tricks

La mère de Ginette

Movie
1965

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")

Movie
1964

Fantomas

Habilleuse

Movie
1964

Diary of a Chambermaid

La paysanne

Movie
1962

Assassin's Check

La marchande de journaux

Movie
1959

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)

Movie
1959

Discorama

Self

Tv
1958

End of Desire

Ludivine - la servante

Movie
1957

Demoniac

Business card seller

Movie
1956

Les Lumières du soir

Job seeker

Movie
1956

Mannequins of Paris

Movie