Andrée Tainsy
Acting

Andrée Tainsy

Born 26 April 1911 · Etterbeek, Belgium · Died 19 December 2004

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).

Known for

Fantomas
Z
Code Unknown
Diary of a Chambermaid
Under the Sand
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Cop au Vin
Kings & Queen
Let Joy Reign Supreme
A Slightly Pregnant Man
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
The Strangler
Kings & Queen
Red Sunset
Under the Sand
Code Unknown
The Blind
Love, etc.
The Phantom Heart
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Cop au Vin
Boulevard des assassins
Mathieu Gaston Peluche
Ali in Wonderland
Twice a Woman
Adieu voyages lents
Solemn Communion
A. Constant
Spoiled Children
Gloria
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Le Tour d'Écrou
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Man with the Transplanted Brain
Le Sagouin
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Handsome Face
Too Small My Friend
The Strangler
Le Prussien
Z
Hedda Gabler
The Mad Dog
The Devil's Tricks
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Diary of a Chambermaid
Fantomas
Assassin's Check
End of Desire
Demoniac
Mannequins of Paris
Les Lumières du soir
My Wife Is Formidable
No More Vacation for the Good Lord
Julie de Carneilhan
The Sinners
Mission in Tangier
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