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Brigitte Sy
Paris, France
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France. She is the…
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Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France. She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women. She is of Sephardic Jewish descent. Source: Article "Brigitte Sy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
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2025
Reformed
TV show Jeannine
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2024
Le bonheur est pour demain
Movie Director
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2023
Little Girl Blue
Movie Monique Lange (voice)
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2021
L'Opéra
TV show Nadia Menour
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2020
La rupture
Movie Josée
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2019
Online Billie
Movie Brigitte
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2019
Street Flow
Movie TD Professor
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2019
Têtard
TV show La mère de Ben
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2019
The Invisibles
Movie Béatrice, social services manager
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2017
All That Divides Us
Movie Ben's Mother
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2017
Quadras
TV show Sylvianne
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2017
Black Spot
TV show Sabine Hennequin
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2016
Ogres
Movie Writer
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2015
Unexpected Love
Movie Hélène
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2015
Astragal
Movie Director
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2014
Wild Life
Movie Geneviève
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2013
Closed Circuit
Movie Michèle Solvy
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2013
Vandal
Movie Christine, la tante
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2013
A Place on Earth
Movie Loraine Morin
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2013
Nuts
Movie Mme Herschel, la psy
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2011
A Better Life
Movie La femme bénévole surendettement
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2011
Declaration of War
Movie Claudia Benaïm
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2011
The Last Screening
Movie The taxi driver
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2010
Free Hands
Movie Director
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2009
Nice
Movie Fanny
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2008
Rien dans les poches
Movie Agathe Manikowski
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2008
Versailles
Movie Madame Herchel
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2008
Choosing Love
Movie Isabelle
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2007
Fear(s) of the Dark
Movie (voice)
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2006
Déluge
Movie Her mother
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2005
Regular Lovers
Movie la mère de François
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1998
Melody for a Hustler
Movie Véronique
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1997
Crack 6T
Movie La principale du collège
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1997
Genealogies of a Crime
Movie Jeanne
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1991
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Movie Aline
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1989
Emergency Kisses
Movie Jeanne
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1989
The Ministries of Art
Movie Self
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1984
Liberty at Night
Movie Micheline
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1983
Casting
Movie Woman of the cast
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1982
Cinématon XXVI
Movie N°250
