Andrée Tainsy
Acting • Born 1911-04-26 – Died 2004-12-19
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.
Filmography
54 credits
Cop au Vin
Movie • 1985
Marthe
Under the Sand
Movie • 2001
Suzanne
Hedda Gabler
Movie • 1967
Julie Tesman
The Sinners
Movie • 1949
Kitchen girl
Kings & Queen
Movie • 2004
La grand-mère
Adieu voyages lents
Movie • 1978
La mère
Man with the Transplanted Brain
Movie • 1972
Mannequins of Paris
Movie • 1956
Red Sunset
Movie • 2004
Princesse Czerry
My Wife Is Formidable
Movie • 1951
la femme de ménage
No More Vacation for the Good Lord
Movie • 1950
Julie de Carneilhan
Movie • 1950
Madame Sabrier
Fantomas Against Fantomas
Movie • 1949
(uncredited)
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Movie • 1965
Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
Simone
Movie • 1985
La grand mère
Matrimonial Agency
Movie • 1952
(uncredited)
Holiday for Henrietta
Movie • 1952
(uncredited)
Twice a Woman
Movie • 1979
Too Small My Friend
Movie • 1971
Mme Herbin
Le Sagouin
Movie • 1972
'Fraulein'
Boulevard des assassins
Movie • 1982
Mrs. Graveline
The Strangler
Movie • 1971
Jeanne
Solemn Communion
Movie • 1977
Charlotte Fourcignie
Love, etc.
Movie • 1996
Mireille
Le Prussien
Movie • 1971
Yvonne
Assassin's Check
Movie • 1962
La marchande de journaux
Mathieu Gaston peluche
Movie • 1980
Propriétaire du cheval
Les Lumières du soir
Movie • 1956
Job seeker
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Movie • 1990
Germaine
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Movie • 1972
The Grandmother
Demoniac
Movie • 1957
Business card seller
Love and Death
Movie • 1975
Woman (uncredited)
The Mad Dog
Movie • 1966
Z
Movie • 1969
Nick's Mother
Handsome Face
Movie • 1972
Code Unknown
Movie • 2000
Mrs. Becker
Le Tour d'Écrou
Movie • 1974
Mme Grose
Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie • 1964
La paysanne
Stain on the Snow
Movie • 1954
(uncredited)
Fantomas
Movie • 1964
Habilleuse
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Movie • 1974
Madeleine Fourmet
End of Desire
Movie • 1958
Ludivine - la servante
Mission in Tangier
Movie • 1949
Cabaret sweeper
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Movie • 1959
Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
The Devil's Tricks
Movie • 1966
La mère de Ginette
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Movie • 1973
Clarisse de Saint-Clair
A. Constant
Movie • 1977
Jeanne
The Phantom Heart
Movie • 1996
The old lady
Spoiled Children
Movie • 1977
Madame Descombes
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Movie • 1975
Nun
Gloria
Movie • 1977
Estelle
Les Cousins de la Constance
TV • 1970
Alice Guillou
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
TV • 1970
Une femme du peuple