Andrée Tainsy

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 costar 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 Remys 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 Tainsys 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 Desplechins 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 PèreLachaise Cemetery in Paris Source Article Andrée Tainsy from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30