Andrée Tainsy

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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.

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2004
Kings & Queen
Movie La grand-mère
2004
Red Sunset
Movie Princesse Czerry
2001
Under the Sand
Movie Suzanne
2000
The Blind
Movie The Old Woman
2000
Code Unknown
Movie Mrs. Becker
1996
Love, etc.
Movie Mireille
1996
The Phantom Heart
Movie The old lady
1990
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Movie Germaine
1985
Simone
Movie La grand mère
1985
Cop au Vin
Movie Marthe
1982
Boulevard des assassins
Movie Mrs. Graveline
1980
Ali in Wonderland
Movie
1980
Mathieu Gaston Peluche
Movie Propriétaire du cheval
1979
Twice a Woman
Movie
1978
Adieu voyages lents
Movie La mère
1977
A. Constant
Movie Jeanne

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1977
Gloria
Movie Estelle
1977
Spoiled Children
Movie Madame Descombes
1977
Solemn Communion
Movie Charlotte Fourcignie
1976
Henry James Stories
TV show Mme Grose
1975
Love and Death
Movie Woman (uncredited)
1975
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Movie Nun
1974
Le Tour d'Écrou
Movie Mme Grose
1974
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Movie Madeleine Fourmet
1973
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Movie Clarisse de Saint-Clair
1972
Handsome Face
Movie
1972
La Mare au diable
Movie Mère Maurice
1972
Man with the Transplanted Brain
Movie
1972
Le Sagouin
Movie 'Fraulein'
1972
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Movie The Grandmother
1971
Le Prussien
Movie Yvonne
1971
The Strangler
Movie Jeanne
1971
Too Small My Friend
Movie Mme Herbin
1970
The Cousins of Constance
TV show Alice Guillou
1970
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
TV show Une femme du peuple
1969
Z
Movie Nick's Mother
1967
Hedda Gabler
Movie Julie Tesman
1966
The Mad Dog
Movie
1966
The Devil's Tricks
Movie La mère de Ginette
1965
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Movie Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")