Brigitte Bardot: biography, filmography and the personal life of the actress

The legendary French film actress Brigitte Bardot (full name Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot), was born on September 28, 1934 in Paris. Parents, Louis Bardo and Anna Maria Mussel, tried to connect Brigitte and her younger sister Jeanne to the dance. Girls willingly engaged in choreography, learned French and German dance performances. However, Jeanne soon abandoned her studies, as she was drawn to more exact sciences, mathematics and physics. Brigitte continued to study and dreamed of a career as a ballerina. The girl had a natural grace and was very plastic.

Podium and Vadim Roger

When Brigitte turned 13, she successfully passed the entrance exams to the Academy of Dance and was enrolled in the course of ballet art, led by a wonderful Russian pedagogue-choreographer Boris Knyazev.

Learning the dance art, Brigitte tried to find application of her talents in ordinary life. In 1949 she began to appear on the podium in fashion shows, and later she was invited to a photo shoot for the French magazine "Garden of Fashion". A year later the photos of Brigitte Bardot appeared in the popular glossy magazine ELLE. Then it was noticed by the young beginning film director Roger Vadim. He showed the photo of the girl to his friend, the more experienced director Mark Allegre, and he without hesitation invited Brigitte to screen test.

Debut in the cinema

Debut in the movie with Bardot took place in 1952 in the movie "The Norman Failure", where she played in a pair with Burville. In the next four years, the young, but already held actress starred in another 16 films that were classified as low-budget productions and could not have a significant impact on her career growth. Brigitte Bardot, whose films left much to be desired, was already the wife of the young director Roger Vadim. Thus, in 1953 she was at the Film Festival in Cannes and there she met many representatives of French cinema.

Breakthrough

The year 1956 was for Brigitte Bardot the beginning of her dizzying career, she starred in the movie "And God Created a Woman" in the role of eighteen-year-old Juliette Ardie, who literally bursts between fans. The film became the directorial debut of Roger Vadim, who tried to create as many shocking episodes in the course of the plot's development. The scene where the nude Juliette dances on the table, has resented the whole of conservative America, in Europe, too, not everyone liked this looseness of director's thought. Many considered the film the beginning of the sexual revolution. An outrageous film really served as an impetus to the reassessment of moral values by the American "dream factory".

Hollywood abandoned Puritanism in the film industry, stopped avoiding frivolous scenarios, actors and actresses appeared who were ready to appear in films with erotic episodes. French actress Brigitte Bardot became a symbol of sexual unrest in the cinema.

In 1959, Brigitte starred in the film "Babette Goes to War" directed by Christian-Jacques. She played Babette, who settled herself for a job in a brothel, but in connection with the outbreak of World War II and the general evacuation, she did not begin her duties. However, she still had to work, the girl was identified in the British intelligence service, and eventually Babette and her partner, the French intelligence officer Gerard, faced a task of military and political importance.

Main roles

In many films, Brigitte Bardot played the leading roles, and her partners were such French film stars as Jean Gaben and Alain Delon, Lino Venturo and Jean Marais. In addition, the actress had a period of cooperation with Hollywood, in 1966 she starred in an American-made film called "Sweet Brigitte" with Jimmy Stewart. Bardo accepted proposals from Italian filmmakers. Once her partner on the set was Marcello Mastroianni, and in the film "Oil Producers" in 1971, Brigitte played with the famous Italian actress Claudia Cardinale.

Filmography

Brigitte Bardot, whose filmography at that time contained more than 50 paintings, in 1973 announced her departure. In the list below are some films from the filmography of the actress:

• Year 1956 - "The Bride is too good," directed by Pierre Gaspar Yui / Shushu.
• Year 1957 - "Parisian", directed by Michel Boiron / Brigitte Laurier.
• Year 1958 - "In case of misfortune," directed by Claude Otan Lara / Yvette.
• Year 1959 - "Woman and Clown", directed by Julien Duvivier / Eva.
• The year 1960 - "Truth", directed by Henri Georges Clouseau / Domenic.
• The year 1961 - "Famous love stories", directed by M. Boiron / Agnes.
• The year 1962 - "Rest of the Warrior", directed by Roger Vadim / Genevieve.
• The year 1963 - "Contempt", directed by Jean Luc Godard / Camille Javal.
• Year 1964 - "Charming idiot", directed by Ed. Molinaro / Penelope.
• Year 1965 - "Viva, Maria", directed by Louis Mal / Maria.
• Year 1966 - "Male - female", directed by Jean Luc Godard / Madeleine.
• The year 1967 - "Two weeks in September", directed by Serge Bourguignon / Cecile.
• Year 1968 - "Three steps in delirium," directed by Louis Mal / Frederick.
• The year 1969 - "Women", directed by Jean Orel / Clara.
• Year 1970 - "Obedience", directed by Claude Chabrol / Agnes.
• The year 1971 - "Roma Boulevard", directed by Robert Enrico / Linda La Rue.
• Year 1972 - "Oil Producers", directed by Christian-Jacques / Louise.
• The year 1973 - "Don Juan", directed by Roger Vadim / Juanna.

The purpose of life of the legendary actress

After leaving the cinema, Brigitte retired to her villa "Madrag" in the city of Saint-Tropez, on the southern coast of France, and devoted her life entirely to protecting animals. The actress succeeded in this noble cause, she initiated hundreds of shelters throughout France for homeless dogs. Thanks to her persevering efforts, the government is developing whole programs to maintain rare populations of animals and birds. In 1986, Bardot founded the Foundation of its name, the charter of which records not only the protection of animals, but also their well-being. The actress was not aware of the enormous burden she had placed on her fragile shoulders, because animals on earth who need help are huge, and millions of dollars are needed to help everyone. However, Brigitte, possessing an iron character, decided not to back down and resolve the financial problems of the Fund in all available ways.

The Brigitte Bardot Foundation

The initial material base Brigitte created by selling their personal belongings at various auctions. Revenues amounted to three million francs, and all this amount was focused on the maintenance of shelters, veterinary clinics and even sanatoriums for animals. Activity of the actress sometimes crosses all borders, she is capable to undermine economy of the small country if the government of this state will listen to its requirements. For example, one day Brigitte appealed to the Prime Minister of Canada with a request to stop hunting for seals. The Cabinet of the Prime Minister prudently refrained from meeting with the Bardo, otherwise I would have to abolish both hunting and fishing, not to mention measures to save the fur-bearing beast. However, the requests of the World Protector of Animals are often heard, and to the account of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation from time to time, impressive amounts of money are received.

Protection of animals and political statements

Brigitte Bardot, a photo in her youth, was not much different from the pictures taken in adulthood, she began to notice that she had added wrinkles. However, she does not feel old. Energies Brigitte Bardot is enough to protect animals, and the political struggle. The idol of the actress was always French President Charles de Gaulle. The last actress's husband is Bernard d'Ormal, an active member of the right-wing radical party "National Front". However, Bardot divorced him not because of political disagreements, but because he was unable to love animals as they deserve. The actress is a fierce champion of the abolition of all Muslim rituals associated with the sacrifice. Brigitte is so active in defending her position that she has been tried several times for inciting hatred towards Islam. Each court session ended with the award of a large fine. The actress pays and immediately makes a new statement.

Islam

Biography Brigitte Bardot impresses with its diversity, among other things, she writes books in which she raises questions of a national and interethnic nature. At the same time, she does not hesitate to say: "French politicians are something like a weathervane, they turn where the wind blows ... In comparison with politicians, French prostitutes know more what they want ..." The actress regularly raises the question of Threatening France's Islamization, she counts the mosques built in France for each past year, calls people from Arab countries living in virtually all French cities, a crowd of strangers. In France, there is a "Movement Against Racism and for Friendship among Nations", which is going to once again sue Brigitte Bardot. "The League for Human Rights" also resists the onslaught of the actress, who states: "The French gave their lives, displacing the invaders, and what is happening today?" The new invaders are displacing the French. "

Personal life

After the divorce from her first husband, directed by Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot was not long alone. Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, partner actress for the movie "God created a woman," was in love with her, and Brigitte eventually reciprocated. Young people lived together for a year and a half. In 1959, Bardo married for the third time, for the actor Jacques Sharya. From it, she gave birth to her son Nicolas. After the divorce, the son of Brigitte Bardot and Jacques began to live in the house of Sharya's parents.

Then the actress agreed with the musician Sasha Distel, after him with Bob Zaguri, and finally, her close friend became Serge Gainsbourg. The next lawful husband of Brigitte became in 1966 the German Gunther Sachs, an industrialist-millionaire. The spouses lived for three years and were safely divorced. The last marriage of the actress took place in 1992, she agreed to become the wife of Bernard d'Ormal, a politician. After the divorce with him Brigitte put an end to the marriage contracts and began to live in a pleasant solitude in her villa.