
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.
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Acting (49 movies)

Cop au Vin
1985

Under the Sand
2000

Hedda Gabler
1967

The Sinners
1949

Kings & Queen
2004

Man with the Transplanted Brain
1972

Mannequins of Paris
1956

Red Sunset
2004

My Wife Is Formidable
1951

No More Vacation for the Good Lord
1950

Julie de Carneilhan
1950

Fantomas Against Fantomas
1949

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965

Matrimonial Agency
1952

Holiday for Henrietta
1952

Twice a Woman
1979

Too Small My Friend
1971

Le sagouin
1972

Boulevard des assassins
1982

The Strangler
1971

Solemn Communion
1977

Love, etc.
1996

Le Prussien
1971

Assassin's Check
1962

Mathieu Gaston peluche
1980

Les Lumières du soir
1956

Bouvard et Pécuchet
1990

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972

Demoniac
1957

Love and Death
1975

The Mad Dog
1966

Z
1969

Handsome Face
1972

Code Unknown
2000

Le Tour d'Écrou
1974

Diary of a Chambermaid
1964

Stain on the Snow
1954

Fantomas
1964

The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974

End of Desire
1958

Mission in Tangier
1949

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1959

The Devil's Tricks
1966

A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973

A. Constant
1977

The Phantom Heart
1996

Spoiled Children
1977

Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975

Gloria
1977
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