Brigitte Bardot
French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist; iconic sex kitten of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot was a French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist who lived from 28 September 1934 to 28 December 2025.[1] Her international fame came from the 1956 film And God Created Woman, and she was widely recognized as a figure of the sexual revolution.[2][3]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot
- Born
- 28 September 1934
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 28 December 2025
- Place of death
- Saint-Tropez, France
- Occupation
- Actress
- singer
- model
- animal rights activist
- Years active
- 1952–1973 (entertainer); 1973–2025 (activist)
- Children
- 1
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
She married director Roger Vadim on 20 December 1952 when she was 18.[4] Bardot achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman, which caught the attention of many French intellectuals.[3] Bardot's father, Louis Bardot, worked as an engineer and owned factories in Paris, while her mother, Anne-Marie Mucel, was the child of an insurance company director.[5] As a child, she had ambitions to be a ballerina and took dance lessons for three years under the Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.[3][6]
For her performance in The Truth (1960), Bardot received the 1961 David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress.[7]
What the cited sources add
In 1958, US exhibitors voted Brigitte Bardot the eighth biggest box office star in the country based entirely on French-language movies.[8] Vagg observed that Bardot was a true box-office draw whose appeal brought moviegoers into theaters globally.[8] Poirier reported that Bardot embodied a concept previously absent from society and fashion: the jeune fille.[9] De Breteuil also noted that in October 2024, Bardot requested that President Macron of France grant political asylum to Paul Watson.[10]
References
- Wikipedia, "Brigitte Bardot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "And Bardot Became BB", Institut français du Royaume-Uni; Probst 2012, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Brigitte Bardot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wypijewski, "Elizabeth Taylor: What Becomes a Legend Most", 30 March 2011 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Brigitte Bardot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Handley, "St. Tropez: What Hath Brigitte Bardot Wrought?", Chicago Tribune, 16 March 1986 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Brigitte Bardot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Neuhoff, "Brigitte Bardot et Roger Vadim – Le loup et la biche", Le Figaro, 12 August 2013, p. 18; Robinson, Jeffrey, "Bardot — Two Lives", Simon & Schuster, 1994 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Brigitte Bardot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bardot 1996, p. 15; "Brigitte Bardot: 'J'en ai les larmes aux yeux'", Le Républicain Lorrain, 23 May 2010; Singer 2006, p. 6; Bigot 2014, p. 12; Bigot 2014, p. 12; Poirier, "Brigitte Bardot at 80: still outrageous, outspoken and controversial", The Guardian, 20 September 2014; Lelièvre 2012, p. 18; Bardot 1996, p. 15 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Brigitte Bardot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Caron 2009, p. 62; Pigozzi, "Bardot s'en va toujours en guerre... pour les animaux", Paris Match, p. 76–83 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Brigitte Bardot" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Poirier, "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot", The Guardian, 21 September 2009 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Vagg, "Brigitte Bardot: Ten Films Worth Watching", 29 December 2025. facts only, no text reused. filmink.com.au
- Poirier, "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot", The Guardian, 21 September 2009. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
- De Breteuil, "Brigitte Bardot appelle à la mobilisation pour la libération de l'activiste écologiste Paul Watson", Le Figaro, 22 October 2024. facts only, no text reused. lefigaro.fr
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