Andrée Tainsy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 26, 1911
- Died
- Dec 19, 2004 (aged 93)
- Place of birth
- Etterbeek, Belgium
- Credits
- 59
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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Known for
Filmography
Kings & Queen
2004Movie
La grand-mère
Red Sunset
2004Movie
Princesse Czerry
Under the Sand
2001Movie
Suzanne
The Blind
2000Movie
The Old Woman
Code Unknown
2000Movie
Mrs. Becker
Love, etc.
1996Movie
Mireille
The Phantom Heart
1996Movie
The old lady
Bouvard et Pécuchet
1990Movie
Germaine
Simone
1985Movie
La grand mère
Cop au Vin
1985Movie
Marthe
Boulevard des assassins
1982Movie
Mrs. Graveline
Ali in Wonderland
1980Movie
Mathieu Gaston Peluche
1980Movie
Propriétaire du cheval
Twice a Woman
1979Movie
Adieu voyages lents
1978Movie
La mère
A. Constant
1977Movie
Jeanne
Gloria
1977Movie
Estelle
Spoiled Children
1977Movie
Madame Descombes
Solemn Communion
1977Movie
Charlotte Fourcignie
Henry James Stories
1976TV
Mme Grose
Love and Death
1975Movie
Woman (uncredited)
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975Movie
Nun
Les Charmes de l'été
1975TV
Gabrielle
Le Tour d'Écrou
1974Movie
Mme Grose
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974Movie
Madeleine Fourmet
A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973Movie
Clarisse de Saint-Clair
Handsome Face
1972Movie
La Mare au diable
1972Movie
Mère Maurice
Man with the Transplanted Brain
1972Movie
Le Sagouin
1972Movie
'Fraulein'
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972Movie
The Grandmother
Le Prussien
1971Movie
Yvonne
The Strangler
1971Movie
Jeanne
Too Small My Friend
1971Movie
Mme Herbin
The Cousins of Constance
1970TV
Alice Guillou
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970TV
Une femme du peuple
Z
1969Movie
Nick's Mother
Hedda Gabler
1967Movie
Julie Tesman
The Mad Dog
1966Movie
The Devil's Tricks
1966Movie
La mère de Ginette
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965Movie
Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
Fantomas
1964Movie
Habilleuse
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964Movie
La paysanne
Assassin's Check
1962Movie
La marchande de journaux
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1959Movie
Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
Discorama
1959TV
Self
End of Desire
1958Movie
Ludivine - la servante
Demoniac
1957Movie
Business card seller
Les Lumières du soir
1956Movie
Job seeker
Mannequins of Paris
1956Movie
Stain on the Snow
1953Movie
(uncredited)
Holiday for Henrietta
1952Movie
(uncredited)
Matrimonial Agency
1952Movie
(uncredited)
My Wife Is Formidable
1951Movie
la femme de ménage
Julie de Carneilhan
1950Movie
Madame Sabrier
No More Vacation for the Good Lord
1950Movie
The Sinners
1949Movie
Kitchen girl
Mission in Tangier
1949Movie
Cabaret sweeper
Fantomas Against Fantomas
1949Movie
(uncredited)