
Brigitte Sy
Acting • Born 1956-01-26
Biography
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France. She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women. She is of Sephardic Jewish descent. Source: Article "Brigitte Sy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
39 credits
Versailles
Movie • 2008
Madame Herchel

Sang craché des lèvres belles
Movie

Fear(s) of the Dark
Movie • 2007
(voice)

Emergency Kisses
Movie • 1989
Jeanne

Declaration of War
Movie • 2011
Claudia Benaïm

Little Girl Blue
Movie • 2023
Monique Lange (voice)

Street Flow
Movie • 2019
TD Professor

A Better Life
Movie • 2011
La femme bénévole surendettement

The Last Screening
Movie • 2011
The taxi driver

La rupture
Movie • 2020
Josée

Melody for a Hustler
Movie • 1998
Véronique

Vandal
Movie • 2013
Christine, la tante

Nuts
Movie • 2013
Mme Herschel, la psy

Déluge
Movie • 2006
Her mother

Liberty at Night
Movie • 1984
Micheline

The Ministries of Art
Movie • 1989
Self

Casting
Movie • 1983
Woman of the cast

Unexpected Love
Movie • 2015
Hélène

A Place on Earth
Movie • 2013
Loraine Morin

I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Movie • 1991
Aline

Choosing Love
Movie • 2008
Isabelle

All That Divides Us
Movie • 2017
Ben's Mother

Wild Life
Movie • 2014
Geneviève

Online Billie
Movie • 2019
Brigitte

Closed Circuit
Movie • 2013
Michèle Solvy

Cinématon
Movie • 1978
N°250

Crack 6T
Movie • 1997
La principale du collège

Regular Lovers
Movie • 2005
la mère de François

The Invisibles
Movie • 2019
Béatrice, social services manager

Cinématon XXVI
Movie • 1982
N°250

Rien dans les poches
Movie • 2008
Agathe Manikowski

Nice
Movie • 2009
Fanny

Genealogies of a Crime
Movie • 1997
Jeanne

Memoirs of a French Whore
Movie • 1979

Le Joueur
Movie

Quadras
TV • 2017
Sylvianne

L'Opéra
TV • 2021
Nadia Menour

Black Spot
TV • 2017
Sabine Hennequin

Têtard
TV • 2019
La mère de Ben