Andrée Tainsy
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 26, 1911
- Died
- December 19, 2004 (aged 93)
- Birthplace
- Etterbeek, Belgium
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.
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Filmography
Kings & Queen
Movie · as La grand-mère
Red Sunset
Movie · as Princesse Czerry
Under the Sand
Movie · as Suzanne
Code Unknown
Movie · as Mrs. Becker
The Blind
Movie · as The Old Woman
Love, etc.
Movie · as Mireille
The Phantom Heart
Movie · as The old lady
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Movie · as Germaine
Simone
Movie · as La grand mère
Cop au Vin
Movie · as Marthe
Boulevard des assassins
Movie · as Mrs. Graveline
Mathieu Gaston Peluche
Movie · as Propriétaire du cheval
Ali in Wonderland
Movie
Twice a Woman
Movie
Adieu voyages lents
Movie · as La mère
Solemn Communion
Movie · as Charlotte Fourcignie
A. Constant
Movie · as Jeanne
Spoiled Children
Movie · as Madame Descombes
Gloria
Movie · as Estelle
Henry James Stories
TV · as Mme Grose · 1 ep
Love and Death
Movie · as Woman (uncredited)
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Movie · as Nun
Les Charmes de l'été
TV · as Gabrielle · 5 eps
Le Tour d'Écrou
Movie · as Mme Grose
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Movie · as Madeleine Fourmet
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Movie · as Clarisse de Saint-Clair
Man with the Transplanted Brain
Movie
Le Sagouin
Movie · as 'Fraulein'
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Movie · as The Grandmother
Handsome Face
Movie
La Mare au diable
Movie · as Mère Maurice
Too Small My Friend
Movie · as Mme Herbin
The Strangler
Movie · as Jeanne
Le Prussien
Movie · as Yvonne
The Cousins of Constance
TV · as Alice Guillou · 6 eps
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
TV · as Une femme du peuple · 1 ep
Z
Movie · as Nick's Mother
Hedda Gabler
Movie · as Julie Tesman
The Mad Dog
Movie
The Devil's Tricks
Movie · as La mère de Ginette
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Movie · as Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie · as La paysanne
Fantomas
Movie · as Habilleuse
Assassin's Check
Movie · as La marchande de journaux
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Movie · as Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
Discorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
End of Desire
Movie · as Ludivine - la servante
Demoniac
Movie · as Business card seller
Mannequins of Paris
Movie
Les Lumières du soir
Movie · as Job seeker
Stain on the Snow
Movie · as (uncredited)
Matrimonial Agency
Movie · as (uncredited)
Holiday for Henrietta
Movie · as (uncredited)
My Wife Is Formidable
Movie · as la femme de ménage
No More Vacation for the Good Lord
Movie
Julie de Carneilhan
Movie · as Madame Sabrier
The Sinners
Movie · as Kitchen girl
Fantomas Against Fantomas
Movie · as (uncredited)
Mission in Tangier
Movie · as Cabaret sweeper