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
Kings & Queen
La grand-mère
Red Sunset
Princesse Czerry
Under the Sand
Suzanne
The Blind
The Old Woman
Code Unknown
Mrs. Becker
Love, etc.
Mireille
The Phantom Heart
The old lady
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Germaine
Simone
La grand mère
Cop au Vin
Marthe
Boulevard des assassins
Mrs. Graveline
Ali in Wonderland
Mathieu Gaston Peluche
Propriétaire du cheval
Twice a Woman
Adieu voyages lents
La mère
A. Constant
Jeanne
Gloria
Estelle
Spoiled Children
Madame Descombes
Solemn Communion
Charlotte Fourcignie
Henry James Stories
Mme Grose
Love and Death
Woman (uncredited)
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Nun
Les Charmes de l'été
Gabrielle
Le Tour d'Écrou
Mme Grose
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Madeleine Fourmet
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Clarisse de Saint-Clair
Handsome Face
La Mare au diable
Mère Maurice
Man with the Transplanted Brain
Le Sagouin
'Fraulein'
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
The Grandmother
Le Prussien
Yvonne
The Strangler
Jeanne
Too Small My Friend
Mme Herbin
The Cousins of Constance
Alice Guillou
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Une femme du peuple
Z
Nick's Mother
Hedda Gabler
Julie Tesman
The Mad Dog
The Devil's Tricks
La mère de Ginette
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
Fantomas
Habilleuse
Diary of a Chambermaid
La paysanne
Assassin's Check
La marchande de journaux
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
Discorama
Self
End of Desire
Ludivine - la servante
Demoniac
Business card seller
Les Lumières du soir
Job seeker
Mannequins of Paris