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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Andrée Tainsy Biography / Wiki
| Name | Andrée Tainsy |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Etterbeek, Belgium |
| Date of Birth | 1911-04-26 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 93 |
| Deathday | 2004-12-19 |
Andrée Tainsy Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Mathieu Gaston peluche | Propriétaire du cheval | 1980-05-06 | … |
| Solemn Communion | Charlotte Fourcignie | 1977-06-04 | In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family’s life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families fro… |
| Le tour d’écrou | Mme Grose | 1974-02-25 | … |
| A. Constant | Jeanne | 1977-10-26 | Two sisters, Camille and Madeleine, make up the story of a woman: Alice Constant, the servant of their grandfather who committed suicide at the age of… |
| Le sagouin | ‘Fraulein’ | 1972-01-27 | In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a lif… |
| Under the Sand | Suzanne | 2000-09-11 | When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional…. |
| Hedda Gabler | Julie Tesman | 1967-10-24 | Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control th… |
| The Watchmaker of St. Paul | Madeleine Fourmet | 1974-01-16 | Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard kille… |
| Portrait-robot | La marchande de journaux | 1962-08-10 | In this French murder mystery, a young journalist goes from a bad situation to much worse. He has been having problems in his relationship with his gi… |
| Cop au Vin | Marthe | 1985-04-10 | Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly…. |
| The Sinners | Kitchen girl | 1949-09-30 | Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls’ reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell…. |
| Julie de Carneilhan | Madame Sabrier | 1950-04-21 | A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook…. |
| Le Prussien | Yvonne | 1971-11-29 | … |
| Fantomas | Habilleuse | 1964-11-04 | Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusi… |
| End of Desire | Ludivine – la servante | 1958-09-24 | Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Ju… |
| The Devil’s Tricks | La mère de Ginette | 1966-01-01 | Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and … |
| Man with the Transplanted Brain | 1972-03-29 | Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. On… | |
| Love, etc. | Mireille | 1996-11-27 | A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies’ man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the wo… |
| The Strangler | Jeanne, the owner of the bar restaurant | 1970-09-11 | Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective assigned … |
| Boulevard des assassins | Mrs. Graveline | 1982-03-29 | Scandal in the property business…. |
| Faustine and the Beautiful Summer | The Grandmother | 1972-01-12 | Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two broth… |
| My Wife Is Formidable | la femme de ménage | 1951-12-05 | Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not res… |
| The Phantom Heart | The old lady | 1996-03-27 | Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking abou… |
| Mission in Tangier | La balayeuse du cabaret | 1949-06-06 | During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London…. |
| Diary of a Chambermaid | La paysanne | 1964-01-01 | Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job a… |
| A Slightly Pregnant Man | Clarisse de Saint-Clair | 1973-09-20 | Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young child. After a series of dizzy spells, he goes to the doctor and disc… |
| Twice a Woman | 1979-05-23 | When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationshi… | |
| Code Unknown | Mrs. Becker | 2000-11-15 | A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film’s five characters together. Set in Paris, France… |
| Stain on the Snow | (uncredited) | 1954-02-19 | La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank … |
| Z | Nick’s Mother | 1969-02-26 | Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be… |
| Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case | Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited) | 1959-09-02 | Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has re… |
| Mission in Tangier | 1949-06-06 | During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London…. | |
| No More Vacation for the Good Lord | 1950-04-12 | Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang bu… | |
| Holiday for Henrietta | (uncredited) | 1952-12-17 | Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with… |
| Fantomas Against Fantomas | (uncredited) | 1949-02-08 | Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter… |
| Matrimonial Agency | (uncredited) | 1952-05-21 | Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it…. |
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