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