Andrée Tainsy

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

53

Gender

Female

Birthday

1911-04-26

Day of death

2004-12-19 (93 years old)

Place of Birth

Etterbeek, Belgium

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

  • Discorama

    Discorama

  • Fantomas

    Fantomas

  • Spoiled Children

    Spoiled Children

  • Boulevard des assassins

    Boulevard des assassins

  • Kings & Queen

    Kings & Queen

  • Love and Death

    Love and Death

  • The Phantom Heart

    The Phantom Heart

  • Z

    Z

  • Code Unknown

    Code Unknown

  • Man with the Transplanted Brain

    Man with the Transplanted Brain

  • The Sinners

    The Sinners

  • Le sagouin

    Le sagouin

  • Demoniac

    Demoniac

  • Under the Sand

    Under the Sand

  • Let Joy Reign Supreme

    Let Joy Reign Supreme

  • Red Sunset

    Red Sunset

  • Le Tour d'Écrou

    Le Tour d'Écrou

  • Cop au Vin

    Cop au Vin

  • How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

    How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

  • The Devil's Tricks

    The Devil's Tricks

  • Handsome Face

    Handsome Face

  • The Watchmaker of St. Paul

    The Watchmaker of St. Paul

  • Fantomas Against Fantomas

    Fantomas Against Fantomas

  • The Strangler

    The Strangler

  • Diary of a Chambermaid

    Diary of a Chambermaid

  • Assassin's Check

    Assassin's Check

  • End of Desire

    End of Desire

  • A Slightly Pregnant Man

    A Slightly Pregnant Man

  • Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

    Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

  • A. Constant

    A. Constant

  • Too Small My Friend

    Too Small My Friend

  • Les Lumières du soir

    Les Lumières du soir

  • Les Cousins de la Constance

    Les Cousins de la Constance

  • Love, etc.

    Love, etc.

  • Julie de Carneilhan

    Julie de Carneilhan

  • Le Prussien

    Le Prussien

  • Stain on the Snow

    Stain on the Snow

  • Holiday for Henrietta

    Holiday for Henrietta

  • Twice a Woman

    Twice a Woman

  • My Wife Is Formidable

    My Wife Is Formidable

  • Solemn Communion

    Solemn Communion

  • The Mad Dog

    The Mad Dog

  • Matrimonial Agency

    Matrimonial Agency

  • No More Vacation for the Good Lord

    No More Vacation for the Good Lord

  • Mission in Tangier

    Mission in Tangier

  • Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

    Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

  • Adieu voyages lents

    Adieu voyages lents

  • Mannequins of Paris

    Mannequins of Paris

  • Bouvard et Pécuchet

    Bouvard et Pécuchet

  • Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

  • Mathieu Gaston peluche

    Mathieu Gaston peluche

  • Simone

    Simone

  • Gloria

    Gloria