Brigitte Bardot
Born: 1934-09-28 in Paris, France
Died: 2025-12-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (September 28, 1934 – December 28, 2025) was a French actress, singer, model and animal rights activist. In her early life, Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer. She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman. She later starred in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 cult film, Contempt. She was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film, Viva Maria!. She caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a "locomotive of women's history" and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France. Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. During her career in show business Bardot starred in 47 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs. She was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1985 but refused to receive it. After her retirement, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist, but her longstanding support for the far-right and for discrimination against minorities in France showed a constant disdain for human rights instead.
Filmography
2025
- Bardot as Narrator (voice)
2024
- Les Scandaleuses as Self
2023
2022
- La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président as Self (archive footage)
- Deneuve, la reine Catherine as Self (archive footage)
- Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
- Belmondo: The Incorrigible
- Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
- Brigitte Bardot, the rebel as self
- Brigitte Bardot confidentiel
2021
2020
- Citizen Jane Fonda
- A Night at the Opera as Self (archive footage)
- Beautiful Like a Poem as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Oh Les Filles!
- Brigitte Bardot, rebel with a cause as Self
2018
- Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
- Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- She's French
- Lino Ventura, la part intime as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Hollywood-Diven von ihrer erotischen Seite as Self (archive footage)
- Coming Apart as (archive footage)
- Bardot Amoureuse as Self (archive footage)
- The Summer of Love
2016
- Vadim Mister Cool as Self (archive footage)
- Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
2015
- Spanish Western as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Soul Boys of the Western World
- The truth about Brigitte Bardot as Brigitte Bardot
2013
- That's Sexploitation! as Self (archive footage)
- Bardot, The Misunderstanding
2012
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- The Bardot mystery as Self
2011
- Bert Stern - Original Madman
- Hollywood Invasion as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Brunes et Blondes as Self
- Gainsbourg and His Girls as Self - Actress (voice)
- Lafayette: The Lost Hero as Self (archive footage)
2006
- Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2005
- French Beauty as Self
- Mag Bodard, un destin as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Brigitte Bardot : Divine B.B. as Herself
2003
- Celebrity Naked Ambition as Self (archive footage)
- The Passions of Louis Malle as Self - Interviewee
2002
- Heart of the Festival as Self (archive footage)
2000
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- French Love
- Doris Day: It's Magic as Self
1993
- Sant'Anna dos Pescadores as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- Seitenblicke as self
1986
- Electric Blue 22 as Herself (archive footage)
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Famous T & A as Jeanne (archive footage)
1981
- Electric Blue 006 as Self (archive footage)
1980
- Cœur bleu ... (Songs)
1976
- 30 millions d'amis as Self
- The Twelve Tasks of Asterix as Vénus
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self (archive footage)
1973
- Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman as Jeanne
- The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot as Arabelle
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self (arcgive footage)
1971
- The Legend of Frenchie King as Louise 'Frenchie King' Miller
- Rum Runners as Linda Larue
1970
- Treffpunkte as Self
- The Novices as Agnès
- The Bear and the Doll as Felicia
1969
- The Vixen as Clara
1968
- Spirits of the Dead as Giuseppina (segment "William Wilson")
- Shalako as Countess Irina Lazaar
- Spécial Bardot as Self
- Matalon Directs Bardot as Self
1967
- Mondo Hollywood
- Two Weeks in September as Cecile
1966
- Masculin Féminin as Brigitte Bardot (uncredited)
1965
- Viva Maria! as Maria I
- Dear Brigitte as Brigitte Bardot
- Forbidden Temptations as Herself
1964
- Agent 38-24-36 as Penelope 'Penny' Lightfeather
- Bardot et Godard as Self
- Paparazzi as Self
- Marie Soleil
1963
- Contempt as Camille Javal
- Report Mainz as Self
1962
- Love on a Pillow as Geneviève Le Theil
- A Very Private Affair as Jill
- Lykke og krone
1961
- Please, Not Now! as Sophie
- Famous Love Affairs as Agnès Bernauer
1960
- Testament of Orpheus as Elle-même (non crédité)
- The Truth as Dominique Marceau
- It Happened All Night as Brigitte Bardot
1959
- Discorama as Self
- Come Dance with Me! as Virginie Dandieu
- Babette Goes to War as Babette
- Zwischen Glück und Krone
1958
- Love Is My Profession as Yvette Maudet
- The Night Heaven Fell as Ursula Desfontaines
- Along the Coast as Self (archive footage)
- A Woman Like Satan as Eva Marchand
1957
- La Parisienne as Brigitte Laurier
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- ...And God Created Woman as Juliette Hardy
- Helen of Troy as Andraste
- Nero's Mistress as Poppea
- That Naughty Girl as Brigitte Latour
- Plucking the Daisy as Agnès Dumont
- Her Bridal Night as Chouchou
1955
- Caroline and the Rebels as Pilar d'Aranda
- The Grand Manoeuvre as Lucie
- The Light Across the Street as Olivia Marceau
- Doctor at Sea as Helene Colbert
- School for Love as Sophie Dimater
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- Night of Love as Anna
1953
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Miss de Rosille
- His Father's Portrait as Dominique Dupond-Durand, la demi-sœur de Paul
- Les Dents longues as la femme du témoin au mariage (uncredited)
- Act of Love as Mimi
1952
- Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter as Manina
- Crazy for Love as Javotte Lemoine, fille d'Augustine, cousine d'Hippolyte
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self