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Brigitte Bardot
Bardot in a publicity photo for A Very Private Affair (1962)
Born	Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot 28 September 1934 (age 88) Paris, France
Occupations	Actress (1952–1973) Singer (1962–1973) Animal rights activist (since 1973)
Years active	1952–present
Works	Filmography discography
Spouses	Roger Vadim ​ ​ (m. 1952; div. 1957)​ Jacques Charrier ​ ​ (m. 1959; div. 1962)​ Gunter Sachs ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1969)​ Bernard d’Ormale ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	1
Relatives	Mijanou Bardot (sister)
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Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( brizh-EET bar-DOH; French: [bʁiʒit baʁdo] (listen); born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B.,^[1][2] is a French, former actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major popular culture icon.^[3]

Born and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life. She started her acting career in 1952. She achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman (1956), and also caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome, which described her as a «locomotive of women’s history» and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France. She won a 1961 David di Donatello Best Foreign Actress Award for her work in The Truth. Bardot later starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris (1963). For her role in Louis Malle’s film Viva Maria! (1965) she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.

Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. She had acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985. After retiring, she became an animal rights activist and created the Fondation Brigitte Bardot. Bardot is known for her strong personality, outspokenness, and speeches on animal defence; she has been fined twice for public insults. She has also been a controversial political figure, having been fined five times for inciting racial hatred when she criticised immigration and Islam in France.^[4] She is married to Bernard d’Ormale, a former adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, a French far-right politician. Bardot is a member of the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme and has received awards from UNESCO and PETA. Los Angeles Times Magazine ranked her second on the «50 Most Beautiful Women In Film».

Early life[edit]

Bardot was born on 28 September 1934 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, to Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie Mucel (1912–1978).^[5] Bardot’s father, originated from Ligny-en-Barrois, was an engineer and the proprietor of several industrial factories in Paris.^[6][7] Her mother was the daughter of an insurance company director.^[8] She grew up in a conservative Catholic family, as had her father.^[9][10] She suffered from amblyopia as a child, which resulted in decreased vision of her left eye.^[11] She has one younger sister, Mijanou Bardot.^[12]

Bardot’s childhood was prosperous; she lived in her family’s seven-bedroom apartment in the luxurious 16th arrondissement.^[10][13] However, she recalled feeling resentful in her early years.^[14] Her father demanded that she follow strict behavioural standards, including good table manners, and wear appropriate clothes.^[15] Her mother was extremely selective in choosing companions for her, and as a result, Bardot had very few childhood friends.^[16] Bardot cited a personal traumatic incident when she and her sister broke her parents’ favourite vase while they were playing in the house; her father whipped the sisters 20 times and henceforth treated them like «strangers», demanding them to address their parents by the pronoun «vous», which is a formal style of address, used when speaking to unfamiliar or higher-status persons outside the immediate family.^[17] The incident decisively led to Bardot resenting her parents, and to her future rebellious lifestyle.^[18]

During World War II, when Paris was occupied by Nazi Germany, Bardot spent more time at home due to increasingly strict civilian surveillance.^[13] She became engrossed in dancing to records, which her mother saw as a potential for a ballet career.^[13] Bardot was admitted at the age of seven to the private school Cours Hattemer.^[19] She went to school three days a week, which gave her ample time to take dance lessons at a local studio, under her mother’s arrangements.^[16] In 1949, Bardot was accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris. For three years she attended ballet classes held by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.^[20] She also studied at the Institut de la Tour, a private Catholic high school near her home.^[21]

Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, the then-director of the magazines Elle and Le Jardin des Modes, hired Bardot in 1949 as a «junior» fashion model.^[22] On 8 March 1950, Bardot (aged 15 at the time) appeared on the cover of Elle, which brought her an acting offer for the film Les Lauriers sont coupés from director Marc Allégret.^[23] Her parents opposed her becoming an actress, but her grandfather was supportive, saying that «If this little girl is to become a whore, cinema will not be the cause.»^[A] At the audition, Bardot met Roger Vadim, who later notified her that she did not get the role.^[25] They subsequently fell in love.^[26] Her parents fiercely opposed their relationship; her father announced to her one evening that she would continue her education in England and that he had bought her a train ticket, the journey to take place the following day.^[27] Bardot reacted by putting her head into an oven with open fire; her parents stopped her and ultimately accepted the relationship, on condition that she marry Vadim at the age of 18.^[28]

Career[edit]

Beginnings: 1952–1955[edit]

Bardot appeared on the cover of Elle again in 1952, which landed her a movie offer for the comedy Crazy for Love (1952), starring Bourvil and directed by Jean Boyer.^[29] She was paid 200,000 francs (5558.69 US dollars) for the small role portraying a cousin of the main character.^[29] Bardot had her second film role in Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1953),^[B] directed by Willy Rozier.^[30] She also had roles in the films The Long Teeth and His Father’s Portrait (both 1953).

Bardot had a small role in a Hollywood-financed film being shot in Paris, Act of Love (1953), starring Kirk Douglas. She received media attention when she attended the Cannes Film Festival in April 1953.^[31]

Bardot had a leading role in an Italian melodrama, Concert of Intrigue (1954) and in a French adventure film, Caroline and the Rebels (1954). She had a good part as a flirtatious student in School for Love (1955), opposite Jean Marais, for director Marc Allégret.

Bardot played her first sizeable English-language role in Doctor at Sea (1955), as the love interest for Dirk Bogarde. The film was the third-most-popular movie at the British box-office that year.^[32]

She had a small role in The Grand Maneuver (1955) for director René Clair, supporting Gérard Philipe and Michelle Morgan. The part was bigger in The Light Across the Street (1956) for director Georges Lacombe. She had another in the Hollywood film, Helen of Troy, playing Helen’s handmaiden.

For the Italian movie Mio figlio Nerone (1956) Bardot was asked by the director to appear as a blonde. Rather than wear a wig to hide her naturally brunette hair she decided to dye her hair. She was so pleased with the results that she decided to retain the hair colour.^[33]

Rise to stardom: 1956–1962[edit]

Bardot then appeared in four movies that made her a star. First up was a musical, Naughty Girl (1956), where Bardot played a troublesome school girl. Directed by Michel Boisrond, it was co-written by Roger Vadim and was a big hit, the 12th most popular film of the year in France.^[34] It was followed by a comedy, Plucking the Daisy (1956), written by Vadim with the director Marc Allégret, and another success in France. So too was the comedy The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) with Louis Jourdan.

Finally there was the melodrama And God Created Woman (1956), Vadim’s debut as director, with Bardot starring opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant and Curt Jurgens. The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a huge success, not just in France but also around the world – it was among the ten most popular films in Britain in 1957.^[35] It turned Bardot into an international star.^[31] From at least 1956,^[36] she was being hailed as the «sex kitten».^[37][38][39] The film scandalized the United States and theatre managers were arrested for screening it.^[40]

During her early career, professional photographer Sam Lévin’s photos contributed to the image of Bardot’s sensuality. One showed Bardot from behind, dressed in a white corset. British photographer Cornel Lucas made images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s that have become representative of her public persona.

Bardot followed And God Created Woman with La Parisienne (1957), a comedy co-starring Charles Boyer for director Boisrond. She was reunited with Vadim in another melodrama The Night Heaven Fell (1958) and played a criminal who seduced Jean Gabin in In Case of Adversity (1958). The latter was the 13th most seen movie of the year in France.^[41] In 1958, Bardot became the highest-paid French actress.^[42]

The Female (1959) for director Julien Duvivier was popular, but Babette Goes to War (1959), a comedy set in World War II, was a huge hit, the fourth biggest movie of the year in France.^[43] Also widely seen was Come Dance with Me (1959) from Boisrond.

Her next film was the courtroom drama The Truth (1960), from Henri-Georges Clouzot. It was a highly publicised production, which resulted in Bardot having an affair and attempting suicide. The film was Bardot’s biggest commercial success in France, the third biggest hit of the year, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.^[44] Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in the film.^[45]

She made a comedy with Vadim, Please, Not Now! (1961), and had a role in the all-star anthology, Famous Love Affairs (1962).

Bardot starred alongside Marcello Mastroianni in a film inspired by her life in A Very Private Affair (Vie privée, 1962), directed by Louis Malle. More popular in France was Love on a Pillow (1962), another for Vadim.

International films and singing career: 1962–1968[edit]

In the mid-1960s, Bardot made films that seemed to be more aimed at the international market. She starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris (1963), produced by Joseph E. Levine and starring Jack Palance. The following year she co-starred with Anthony Perkins in the comedy Une ravissante idiote (1964).

Dear Brigitte (1965), Bardot’s first Hollywood film, was a comedy starring James Stewart as an academic whose son develops a crush on Bardot. Bardot’s appearance was relatively brief and the film was not a big hit.

More successful was the Western buddy comedy Viva Maria! (1965) for director Louis Malle, appearing opposite Jeanne Moreau. It was a big hit in France and worldwide, although it did not break through in the US as much as it had been hoped.^[46]

After a cameo in Godard’s Masculin Féminin (1966), she had her first outright flop for some years, Two Weeks in September (1968), a French–English co-production. She had a small role in the all-star Spirits of the Dead (1968), acting opposite Alain Delon, then tried a Hollywood film again: Shalako (1968), a Western starring Sean Connery, which was a box-office disappointment.^[47]

She participated in several musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including «Harley Davidson»; «Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît»; «Bubble gum»; «Contact»; «Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi»; «L’Appareil À Sous»; «La Madrague»; «On Déménage»; «Sidonie»; «Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?»; «Le Soleil De Ma Vie» (a cover of Stevie Wonder’s «You Are the Sunshine of My Life»); and «Je t’aime… moi non-plus». Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wish; the following year, he rerecorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin that became a massive hit all over Europe. The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a download hit in 2006 when Universal Music made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.^[48]

Final films: 1969–1973[edit]

From 1969 to 1978, Bardot was the official face of Marianne (who had previously been anonymous) to represent the liberty of France.^[49]

Les Femmes (1969) was a flop, although the screwball comedy The Bear and the Doll (1970) performed better. Her last few films were mostly comedies: Les Novices (1970), Boulevard du Rhum (1971) (with Lino Ventura). The Legend of Frenchie King (1971) was more popular, helped by Bardot co-starring with Claudia Cardinale.

She made one more with Vadim, Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973), playing the title role. Vadim said the film marked «Underneath what people call ‘the Bardot myth’ was something interesting, even though she was never considered the most professional actress in the world. For years, since she has been growing older, and the Bardot myth has become just a souvenir… I was curious in her as a woman and I had to get to the end of something with her, to get out of her and express many things I felt were in her. Brigitte always gave the impression of sexual freedom – she is a completely open and free person, without any aggression. So I gave her the part of a man – that amused me».^[50]

«If Don Juan is not my last movie it will be my next to last», said Bardot during filming.^[51] She kept her word and only made one more film, The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973).

In 1973, Bardot announced she was retiring from acting as «a way to get out elegantly».^[52]

Animal rights activism[edit]

After appearing in more than 40 motion pictures and recording several music albums, Bardot used her fame to promote animal rights.

In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.^[53] She became a vegetarian^[54] and raised three million francs (959169.7 US dollars) to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and personal belongings.^[53]

She once had a neighbour’s donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its «sexual harassment» of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey’s owner in 1989.^[55][56] Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of «torturing bears and killing the world’s last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs».

She has donated more than $140,000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest’s stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000.^[57]

Bardot is a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat. In support of animal protection, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country with Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.^[58] In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to the Queen of Denmark, Margarethe II, appealing for the sovereign to halt the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands. In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a «macabre spectacle» that «is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands … This is not a hunt but a mass slaughter … an outmoded tradition that has no acceptable justification in today’s world».^[59]

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially included bullfighting in the country’s cultural heritage. Bardot wrote him a highly critical letter of protest.^[60] On 25 May 2011, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.^[61]

From 2013 onwards, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in collaboration with Kagyupa International Monlam Trust of India has operated an annual veterinary care camp. She has committed to the cause of animal welfare in Bodhgaya year after year.^[62]

On 23 July 2015, Bardot condemned Australian politician Greg Hunt’s plan to eradicate 2 million cats to save endangered species such as the Warru and night parrot.^[63]

Personal life[edit]

Marriages and relationships[edit]

Throughout her life, Bardot had seventeen relationships with men and was married four times.^[64] Bardot was leaving for another relationship when «the present was getting lukewarm»; she said, «I have always looked for passion. That’s why I was often unfaithful. And when the passion was coming to an end, I was packing my suitcase».^[65]

On 20 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director Roger Vadim.^[66] In 1956, she had become romantically involved with Jean-Louis Trintignant, who was her co-star in And God Created Woman. Trintignant at the time was married to actress Stéphane Audran. Bardot and Vadim divorced in 1957; they had no children together, but remained in touch, and even collaborated on later projects. The stated reason for the divorce was Bardot’s affairs with two other men.^[67][31] Bardot and Trintignant lived together for about two years, spanning the period before and after Bardot’s divorce from Vadim, but they never married. Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant’s frequent absence due to military service and Bardot’s affair with musician Gilbert Bécaud.^[67]

After her separation from Vadim, Bardot acquired a historic property dating from the 16th century, called Le Castelet, in Cannes. The fourteen-bedroom villa, surrounded by lush gardens, olive trees, and vineyards, consisted of several buildings.^[68]

In 1958, she bought a second property called La Madrague, located in Saint-Tropez.^[68] In early 1958, her break-up with Trintignant was followed in quick order by a reported nervous breakdown in Italy, according to newspaper reports. A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was also noted but was denied by her public relations manager.^[69] She recovered within weeks and began a relationship with actor Jacques Charrier. She became pregnant well before they were married on 18 June 1959. Bardot’s only child, her son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was born on 11 January 1960.^[67] Bardot had an affair with Glenn Ford in the early 1960s.^[70] After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and had little contact with his biological mother until his adulthood.^[67] Sami Frey was mentioned as the reason for her divorce from Charrier. Bardot was enamoured of Frey, but he quickly left her.^[71]

From 1963 to 1965, she lived with musician Bob Zagury.^[72]

Bardot’s third marriage was to German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, lasting from 14 July 1966 to 7 October 1969, though they had separated the previous year.^[67][31][73] As she was on the set of Shalako, she had rejected Sean Connery’s advances; she said, «It didn’t last long because I wasn’t a James Bond girl! I have never succumbed to his charm!»^[74] In 1968, she began dating Patrick Gilles, who co-starred with her in The Bear and the Doll (1970); but she ended their relationship in spring 1971.^[72]

Over the next few years, Bardot dated in succession bartender/ski instructor Christian Kalt, club owner Luigi Rizzi, singer Serge Gainsbourg, writer John Gilmore, actor Warren Beatty, and Laurent Vergez, her co-star in Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman.^[72][75]

In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday. In 1975, she entered a relationship with artist Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures. Brozek was also an actor; his stage name is Jean Blaise [fr].^[76] The couple lived together at La Madrague. They separated in December 1979.^[77]

From 1980 to 1985, Bardot had a live-in relationship with French TV producer Allain Bougrain-Dubourg [fr].^[77] On 28 September 1983, her 49th birthday, Bardot took an overdose of sleeping pills or tranquilizers with red wine. She had to be rushed to the hospital, where her life was saved after a stomach pump was used to evacuate the pills from her body.^[77] Bardot was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984. She refused to undergo chemotherapy treatment and decided only to do radiation therapy. She recovered in 1986.^[78][79]

Bardot’s fourth and current husband is Bernard d’Ormale; they have been married since 16 August 1992.^[80] In 2018, in an interview accorded to Le Journal du Dimanche, she denied rumors of relationships with Johnny Hallyday, Jimi Hendrix, and Mick Jagger.^[71]

Politics and legal issues[edit]

Bardot expressed support for President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.^[67][81]

In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton (Pluto’s Square), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled «Open Letter to My Lost France», she writes that «my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims». For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs (7096.2 US dollars) in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in Le Figaro and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.^[82][83][84]

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (A Scream in the Silence), she contrasted her close gay friends with homosexuals who «jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through,» and said some contemporary homosexuals behave like «fairground freaks».^[85] In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: «Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants.»^[86][87]

In her book, she addressed issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and the religion of Islam. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes and praised previous generations who, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.^[88] On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000 (5913.5 US dollars).^[89] Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: «I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character.»^[90] In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in regard to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was «fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits». The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000 (17740.5 US dollars). The prosecutor stated she was tired of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.^[87]

During the 2008 United States presidential election, Bardot branded Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as «stupid» and a «disgrace to women». She criticized the former Alaskan governor for her stance on global warming and gun control. She was further offended by Palin’s support for Arctic oil exploration and by her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.^[91]

On 13 August 2010, Bardot criticised American filmmaker Kyle Newman for his plan to produce a biographical film about her. She told him, «Wait until I’m dead before you make a movie about my life!» otherwise «sparks will fly».^[92]

In 2014, Bardot wrote an open letter demanding the ban in France of shechita, describing it as «ritual sacrifice». In response, the European Jewish Congress released a statement saying “Bardot has once again shown her clear insensitivity for minority groups with the substance and style of her letter…She may well be concerned for the welfare of animals but her longstanding support for the far-Right and for discrimination against minorities in France shows a constant disdain for human rights instead.”^[93]

In 2015, Bardot threatened to sue a Saint-Tropez boutique selling items featuring her face.^[94] In 2018, Bardot expressed support for the yellow vests movement.^[95]

On 19 March 2019, Bardot issued an open letter to Réunion prefect Amaury de Saint-Quentin [fr] in which she accused inhabitants of the Indian Ocean island of animal cruelty and referred to them as «autochthonous who have kept the genes of savages». In her letter relating to animal abuse and sent through her foundation, she mentioned the «beheadings of goats and billy goats» during festivals, and associated these practices with «reminiscences of cannibalism from past centuries». The public prosecutor filed a lawsuit the following day.^[96]

In June 2021, eighty-six-year-old Bardot was fined €5,000 (5913.5 US dollars) by the Arras court for public insults against the hunters and their national president Willy Schraen [fr]. Initially, she had published a post at the end of 2019 on her foundation’s website, calling hunters «sub-men» and «drunkards» and carriers of «genes of cruel barbarism inherited from our primitive ancestors». Schraen was also insulted. At the time of the hearing, she had not removed the comments from the website.^[97] Following her letter sent to the prefect of Réunion in 2019, she was convicted on 4 November 2021 by a French court for public insults and fined €20,000 (23654 US dollars), the largest of her fines to date.^[98]

Bardot’s husband Bernard d’Ormale is a former adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far-right party National Front (now National Rally), the main far-right party in France, known for its nationalist beliefs.^[31][81] Bardot expressed support for Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front (National Rally), calling her «the Joan of Arc of the 21st century».^[99] She endorsed Le Pen in the 2012 and 2017 French presidential elections.^[100][101]

Legacy[edit]

The Guardian named Bardot «one of the most iconic faces, models, and actors of the 1950s and 1960s». She has been called a «style icon» and a «muse for Dior, Balmain, and Pierre Cardin».^[102]

In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide-open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers although it is also used for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the bikini in her early films such as Manina (1952) (released in France as Manina, la fille sans voiles). The following year she was also photographed in a bikini on every beach in the south of France during the Cannes Film Festival.^[103] She gained additional attention when she filmed …And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant (released in France as Et Dieu Créa La Femme). In it Bardot portrays an immoral teenager cavorting in a bikini who seduces men in a respectable small-town setting. The film was an international success.^[31] Bardot’s image was linked to the shoemaker Repetto, who created a pair of ballerinas for her in 1956.^[104] The bikini was in the 1950s relatively well accepted in France but was still considered risqué in the United States. As late as 1959, Anne Cole, one of the United States’ largest swimsuit designers, said, «It’s nothing more than a G-string. It’s at the razor’s edge of decency.»^[105]

She also brought into fashion the choucroute («Sauerkraut») hairstyle (a sort of beehive hair style) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.^[106] She was the subject of an Andy Warhol painting.

Isabella Biedenharn of Elle wrote that Bardot «has inspired thousands (millions?) of women to tease their hair or try out winged eyeliner over the past few decades». A well-known evocative pose describes an iconic modelling portrait shot around 1960 where Bardot is dressed only in a pair of black pantyhose, cross-legged over her front and cross-armed over her breasts.^[107] This pose has been emulated numerous times by models and celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan,^[108] Elle Macpherson,^[109] Gisele Bündchen,^[110] and Rihanna.^[111] In the late 1960s, Bardot’s silhouette was used as a model for designing and modelling the statue’s bust of Marianne, a symbol of the French Republic.^[42]

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury. The place where she stayed in Búzios is today a small hotel, Pousada do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon.^[112] The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta.^[113]

Bardot was idolized by the young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.^[114][115] They made plans to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, similar to A Hard Day’s Night, but the plans were never fulfilled.^[31] Lennon’s first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair colour to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon. Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the May Fair Hotel, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other. Lennon recalled in a memoir: «I was on acid, and she was on her way out.»^[116] According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. He also mentioned her by name in «I Shall Be Free», which appeared on his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot’s influence and legacy opened in Boulogne-Billancourt on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.^[117] The Australian pop group Bardot was named after her.

Women who emulated and were inspired by Bardot include Claudia Schiffer, Emmanuelle Béart, Elke Sommer, Kate Moss, Faith Hill, Isabelle Adjani, Diane Kruger, Lara Stone, Kylie Minogue, Amy Winehouse, Georgia May Jagger, Zahia Dehar, Scarlett Johansson, Louise Bourgoin, and Paris Hilton. Bardot said: «None have my personality.» Laetitia Casta embodied Bardot in the 2010 French drama film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life by Joann Sfar.^[118]

In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine‘s list of «50 Most Beautiful Women In Film» ranked her number two.^[119]

Bardot inspired Nicole Kidman to promote the 2013 campaign shoot of the British brand Jimmy Choo.^[120]

In 2015, Bardot was ranked number six in «The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women Of All Time», according to a survey carried out by Amway’s beauty company in the UK which involved 2,000 women.^[121]

In 2020, Vogue named Bardot number one of «The most beautiful French actresses of all time».^[122] In a retrospective retracing women throughout the history of cinema, she was listed among «the most accomplished, talented and beautiful actresses of all time» by Glamour.^[123]

The French drama television series Bardot is scheduled to be broadcast on France 2 in 2023. It stars Julia de Nunez and is about Bardot’s career from her first casting at age 15 and until the filming of La Vérité ten years later.^[124]

Filmography[edit]

Discography[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Year	Original title	Translation	Songwriters(s)	Label	Main tracks
1956	Et dieu… créa la femme (music from Roger Vadim’s motion picture)	And God Created Woman	Paul Misraki	Versailles
1963	Brigitte	Brigitte Bardot Sings	Serge Gainsbourg Claude Bolling Jean-Max Rivière Fernand Bonifay Spencer Williams Gérard Bourgeois	Philips	L’appareil à sous Invitango Les amis de la musique La Madrague El Cuchipe
1964	B.B.		André Popp Jean-Michel Rivat Jean-Max Rivière Fernand Bonifay Gérard Bourgeois	Moi je joue Une histoire de plage Maria Ninguém Je danse donc je suis Ciel de lit
1968	Bonnie and Clyde (with Serge Gainsbourg)		Serge Gainsbourg Alain Goraguer Spencer Williams Jean-Max Rivière	Fontana	Bonnie And Clyde Bubble Gum Comic Strip
Show		Serge Gainsbourg Francis Lai Jean-Max Rivière	AZ	Harley Davidson Ay Que Viva La Sangria Contact

Other notable singles[edit]

Year	Original Title	Translation	Songwriters(s)	Label
1962	Sidonie (music from Louis Malle’s the motion picture Vie Privée)		Fiorenzo Capri Charles Cros Jean-Max Rivière	Barclay
1965	Viva Maria! (music from Louis Malle’s eponymous motion picture) (with Jeanne Moreau)		Jean-Claude Carrière Georges Delerue	Philips
1966	Le soleil	The Sun	Jean-Max Rivière Gérard Bourgeois	AZ
1969	La fille de paille	The Straw Girl	Franck Gérald Gérard Lenorman	Philips
1970	Tu veux ou tu veux pas (Nem Vem Que Nao Tem)	Do You Want Or Not	Pierre Cour Carlos Imperial	Barclay
Nue au soleil	Naked Under The Sun	Jean Fredenucci Jean Schmidtt
1972	Tu es venu mon amour / Vous Ma Lady (with Laurent Vergez)	You Came My Love / You My Lady	Hugues Aufray Eddy Marnay Eddie Barclay
Boulevard du rhum (with Guy Marchand) (music from Robert Enrico’s motion picture)	Boulevard Of Rhum	François De Roubaix Jean-Paul-Egide Martini
1973	Soleil de ma vie (with Sacha Distel)	Sun Of My Life	Stevie Wonder Jean Broussolle	Pathé
1982	Toutes les bêtes sont à aimer	All Animals Must Be Loved	Jean-Max Rivière	Polydor
1986	Je t’aime… moi non plus (with Serge Gainsbourg) (released and shelved in 1968)	I Love You… Me Neither	Serge Gainsbourg	Philips

Books[edit]

Bardot has also written five books:

• Noonoah: Le petit phoque blanc (Grasset, 1978)
• Initiales B.B. (autobiography, Grasset & Fasquelle, 1996)
• Le Carré de Pluton (Grasset & Fasquelle, 1999)
• Un Cri Dans Le Silence (Editions Du Rocher, 2003)
• Pourquoi? (Editions Du Rocher, 2006)

Accolades[edit]

Awards and nominations[edit]

• 12th Victoires du cinéma français (French cinema victories) (1957): Best Actress, win, as Juliette Hardy in And God Created Woman.^[125]
• 11th Bambi Awards (1958): Best Actress, nomination, as Juliette Hardy in And God Created Woman.^[126]
• 14th Victoires du cinéma français (1959): Best Actress, win, as Yvette Maudet in In Case of Adversity.^[127]
• Brussels European Awards (1960): Best Actress, win, as Dominique Marceau in The Truth.^[128]
• 5th David di Donatello Awards (1961): Best Foreign Actress, win, as Dominique Marceau in The Truth.^[45]
• 12th Étoiles de cristal (Crystal stars) by the French Cinema Academy (1966): Best Actress, win, as Marie Fitzgerald O’Malley in Viva Maria!.^[129]
• 18th Bambi Awards (1967): Bambi Award of Popularity, win.^[130]
• 20th BAFTA Awards (1967): BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, nomination, as Marie Fitzgerald O’Malley in Viva Maria!.^[131]

Honours[edit]

• 1980: Medal of the City of Trieste.^[132]
• 1985: Legion of Honour.^[C][134] Medal of the City of Lille.^[132]
• 1989: Peace Prize in humanitarian merit.^[132]
• 1992: Induction into the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global 500 Roll of Honour.^[135] Creation in Hollywood of the Brigitte Bardot International Award as part of the Genesis Awards.^[136]
• 1994: Medal of the City of Paris.^[137]
• 1995: Medal of the City of Saint-Tropez.^[138]
• 1996: Medal of the City of La Baule.^[132]
• 1997: Greece’s UNESCO Ecology Award. Medal of the City of Athens.^[132]
• 1999: Asteroid 17062 Bardot was named after her.^[139]
• 2001: PETA Humanitarian Award.^[104]
• 2008: Spanish Altarriba foundation Award.^[140]
• 2017: A statue of 700 kilograms (1,500 lb) and 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) high was erected in her honour in central Saint-Tropez.^[141]
• 2019: GAIA Lifetime Achievement Award from the Belgian association for the defence of animal rights.^[142]
• 2021: Her effigy in Saint-Tropez was dressed in 1400 gold leaves of 23.75 carats each.^[143]

See also[edit]

• List of animal rights advocates

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

Other sources

Literature[edit]

• Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) Brigitte Bardot. Filme 1953–1961. Anfänge des Mythos B.B. (Hildesheim 1982) ISBN 3-88842-109-8.
• Servat, Henry-Jean (2016). Brigitte Bardot – My Life in Fashion (Hardback). Paris: Flammation S.A. ISBN 978-2—08-0202697.

External links[edit]

• Official website (in English)
• Fondation Brigitte Bardot (in French)
• Brigitte Bardot at IMDb
• Brigitte Bardot at the TCM Movie Database
• Brigitte Bardot at AllMovie

Brigitte Bardot
Bardot in a publicity photo for A Very Private Affair (1962)
Born	Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot 28 September 1934 (age 88) Paris, France
Occupations	Actress (1952–1973) Singer (1962–1973) Animal rights activist (since 1973)
Years active	1952–present
Works	Filmography discography
Spouses	Roger Vadim ​ ​ (m. 1952; div. 1957)​ Jacques Charrier ​ ​ (m. 1959; div. 1962)​ Gunter Sachs ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1969)​ Bernard d’Ormale ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	1
Relatives	Mijanou Bardot (sister)
Signature

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( brizh-EET bar-DOH; French: [bʁiʒit baʁdo] (listen); born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B.,^[1][2] is a French, former actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major popular culture icon.^[3]

Born and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life. She started her acting career in 1952. She achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman (1956), and also caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome, which described her as a «locomotive of women’s history» and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France. She won a 1961 David di Donatello Best Foreign Actress Award for her work in The Truth. Bardot later starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris (1963). For her role in Louis Malle’s film Viva Maria! (1965) she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.

Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. She had acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985. After retiring, she became an animal rights activist and created the Fondation Brigitte Bardot. Bardot is known for her strong personality, outspokenness, and speeches on animal defence; she has been fined twice for public insults. She has also been a controversial political figure, having been fined five times for inciting racial hatred when she criticised immigration and Islam in France.^[4] She is married to Bernard d’Ormale, a former adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, a French far-right politician. Bardot is a member of the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme and has received awards from UNESCO and PETA. Los Angeles Times Magazine ranked her second on the «50 Most Beautiful Women In Film».

Early life[edit]

Bardot was born on 28 September 1934 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, to Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie Mucel (1912–1978).^[5] Bardot’s father, originated from Ligny-en-Barrois, was an engineer and the proprietor of several industrial factories in Paris.^[6][7] Her mother was the daughter of an insurance company director.^[8] She grew up in a conservative Catholic family, as had her father.^[9][10] She suffered from amblyopia as a child, which resulted in decreased vision of her left eye.^[11] She has one younger sister, Mijanou Bardot.^[12]

Bardot’s childhood was prosperous; she lived in her family’s seven-bedroom apartment in the luxurious 16th arrondissement.^[10][13] However, she recalled feeling resentful in her early years.^[14] Her father demanded that she follow strict behavioural standards, including good table manners, and wear appropriate clothes.^[15] Her mother was extremely selective in choosing companions for her, and as a result, Bardot had very few childhood friends.^[16] Bardot cited a personal traumatic incident when she and her sister broke her parents’ favourite vase while they were playing in the house; her father whipped the sisters 20 times and henceforth treated them like «strangers», demanding them to address their parents by the pronoun «vous», which is a formal style of address, used when speaking to unfamiliar or higher-status persons outside the immediate family.^[17] The incident decisively led to Bardot resenting her parents, and to her future rebellious lifestyle.^[18]

During World War II, when Paris was occupied by Nazi Germany, Bardot spent more time at home due to increasingly strict civilian surveillance.^[13] She became engrossed in dancing to records, which her mother saw as a potential for a ballet career.^[13] Bardot was admitted at the age of seven to the private school Cours Hattemer.^[19] She went to school three days a week, which gave her ample time to take dance lessons at a local studio, under her mother’s arrangements.^[16] In 1949, Bardot was accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris. For three years she attended ballet classes held by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.^[20] She also studied at the Institut de la Tour, a private Catholic high school near her home.^[21]

Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, the then-director of the magazines Elle and Le Jardin des Modes, hired Bardot in 1949 as a «junior» fashion model.^[22] On 8 March 1950, Bardot (aged 15 at the time) appeared on the cover of Elle, which brought her an acting offer for the film Les Lauriers sont coupés from director Marc Allégret.^[23] Her parents opposed her becoming an actress, but her grandfather was supportive, saying that «If this little girl is to become a whore, cinema will not be the cause.»^[A] At the audition, Bardot met Roger Vadim, who later notified her that she did not get the role.^[25] They subsequently fell in love.^[26] Her parents fiercely opposed their relationship; her father announced to her one evening that she would continue her education in England and that he had bought her a train ticket, the journey to take place the following day.^[27] Bardot reacted by putting her head into an oven with open fire; her parents stopped her and ultimately accepted the relationship, on condition that she marry Vadim at the age of 18.^[28]

Career[edit]

Beginnings: 1952–1955[edit]

Bardot appeared on the cover of Elle again in 1952, which landed her a movie offer for the comedy Crazy for Love (1952), starring Bourvil and directed by Jean Boyer.^[29] She was paid 200,000 francs (5558.69 US dollars) for the small role portraying a cousin of the main character.^[29] Bardot had her second film role in Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1953),^[B] directed by Willy Rozier.^[30] She also had roles in the films The Long Teeth and His Father’s Portrait (both 1953).

Bardot had a small role in a Hollywood-financed film being shot in Paris, Act of Love (1953), starring Kirk Douglas. She received media attention when she attended the Cannes Film Festival in April 1953.^[31]

Bardot had a leading role in an Italian melodrama, Concert of Intrigue (1954) and in a French adventure film, Caroline and the Rebels (1954). She had a good part as a flirtatious student in School for Love (1955), opposite Jean Marais, for director Marc Allégret.

Bardot played her first sizeable English-language role in Doctor at Sea (1955), as the love interest for Dirk Bogarde. The film was the third-most-popular movie at the British box-office that year.^[32]

She had a small role in The Grand Maneuver (1955) for director René Clair, supporting Gérard Philipe and Michelle Morgan. The part was bigger in The Light Across the Street (1956) for director Georges Lacombe. She had another in the Hollywood film, Helen of Troy, playing Helen’s handmaiden.

For the Italian movie Mio figlio Nerone (1956) Bardot was asked by the director to appear as a blonde. Rather than wear a wig to hide her naturally brunette hair she decided to dye her hair. She was so pleased with the results that she decided to retain the hair colour.^[33]

Rise to stardom: 1956–1962[edit]

Bardot then appeared in four movies that made her a star. First up was a musical, Naughty Girl (1956), where Bardot played a troublesome school girl. Directed by Michel Boisrond, it was co-written by Roger Vadim and was a big hit, the 12th most popular film of the year in France.^[34] It was followed by a comedy, Plucking the Daisy (1956), written by Vadim with the director Marc Allégret, and another success in France. So too was the comedy The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) with Louis Jourdan.

Finally there was the melodrama And God Created Woman (1956), Vadim’s debut as director, with Bardot starring opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant and Curt Jurgens. The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a huge success, not just in France but also around the world – it was among the ten most popular films in Britain in 1957.^[35] It turned Bardot into an international star.^[31] From at least 1956,^[36] she was being hailed as the «sex kitten».^[37][38][39] The film scandalized the United States and theatre managers were arrested for screening it.^[40]

During her early career, professional photographer Sam Lévin’s photos contributed to the image of Bardot’s sensuality. One showed Bardot from behind, dressed in a white corset. British photographer Cornel Lucas made images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s that have become representative of her public persona.

Bardot followed And God Created Woman with La Parisienne (1957), a comedy co-starring Charles Boyer for director Boisrond. She was reunited with Vadim in another melodrama The Night Heaven Fell (1958) and played a criminal who seduced Jean Gabin in In Case of Adversity (1958). The latter was the 13th most seen movie of the year in France.^[41] In 1958, Bardot became the highest-paid French actress.^[42]

The Female (1959) for director Julien Duvivier was popular, but Babette Goes to War (1959), a comedy set in World War II, was a huge hit, the fourth biggest movie of the year in France.^[43] Also widely seen was Come Dance with Me (1959) from Boisrond.

Her next film was the courtroom drama The Truth (1960), from Henri-Georges Clouzot. It was a highly publicised production, which resulted in Bardot having an affair and attempting suicide. The film was Bardot’s biggest commercial success in France, the third biggest hit of the year, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.^[44] Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in the film.^[45]

She made a comedy with Vadim, Please, Not Now! (1961), and had a role in the all-star anthology, Famous Love Affairs (1962).

Bardot starred alongside Marcello Mastroianni in a film inspired by her life in A Very Private Affair (Vie privée, 1962), directed by Louis Malle. More popular in France was Love on a Pillow (1962), another for Vadim.

International films and singing career: 1962–1968[edit]

In the mid-1960s, Bardot made films that seemed to be more aimed at the international market. She starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris (1963), produced by Joseph E. Levine and starring Jack Palance. The following year she co-starred with Anthony Perkins in the comedy Une ravissante idiote (1964).

Dear Brigitte (1965), Bardot’s first Hollywood film, was a comedy starring James Stewart as an academic whose son develops a crush on Bardot. Bardot’s appearance was relatively brief and the film was not a big hit.

More successful was the Western buddy comedy Viva Maria! (1965) for director Louis Malle, appearing opposite Jeanne Moreau. It was a big hit in France and worldwide, although it did not break through in the US as much as it had been hoped.^[46]

After a cameo in Godard’s Masculin Féminin (1966), she had her first outright flop for some years, Two Weeks in September (1968), a French–English co-production. She had a small role in the all-star Spirits of the Dead (1968), acting opposite Alain Delon, then tried a Hollywood film again: Shalako (1968), a Western starring Sean Connery, which was a box-office disappointment.^[47]

She participated in several musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including «Harley Davidson»; «Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît»; «Bubble gum»; «Contact»; «Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi»; «L’Appareil À Sous»; «La Madrague»; «On Déménage»; «Sidonie»; «Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?»; «Le Soleil De Ma Vie» (a cover of Stevie Wonder’s «You Are the Sunshine of My Life»); and «Je t’aime… moi non-plus». Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wish; the following year, he rerecorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin that became a massive hit all over Europe. The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a download hit in 2006 when Universal Music made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.^[48]

Final films: 1969–1973[edit]

From 1969 to 1978, Bardot was the official face of Marianne (who had previously been anonymous) to represent the liberty of France.^[49]

Les Femmes (1969) was a flop, although the screwball comedy The Bear and the Doll (1970) performed better. Her last few films were mostly comedies: Les Novices (1970), Boulevard du Rhum (1971) (with Lino Ventura). The Legend of Frenchie King (1971) was more popular, helped by Bardot co-starring with Claudia Cardinale.

She made one more with Vadim, Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973), playing the title role. Vadim said the film marked «Underneath what people call ‘the Bardot myth’ was something interesting, even though she was never considered the most professional actress in the world. For years, since she has been growing older, and the Bardot myth has become just a souvenir… I was curious in her as a woman and I had to get to the end of something with her, to get out of her and express many things I felt were in her. Brigitte always gave the impression of sexual freedom – she is a completely open and free person, without any aggression. So I gave her the part of a man – that amused me».^[50]

«If Don Juan is not my last movie it will be my next to last», said Bardot during filming.^[51] She kept her word and only made one more film, The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973).

In 1973, Bardot announced she was retiring from acting as «a way to get out elegantly».^[52]

Animal rights activism[edit]

After appearing in more than 40 motion pictures and recording several music albums, Bardot used her fame to promote animal rights.

In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.^[53] She became a vegetarian^[54] and raised three million francs (959169.7 US dollars) to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and personal belongings.^[53]

She once had a neighbour’s donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its «sexual harassment» of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey’s owner in 1989.^[55][56] Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of «torturing bears and killing the world’s last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs».

She has donated more than $140,000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest’s stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000.^[57]

Bardot is a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat. In support of animal protection, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country with Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.^[58] In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to the Queen of Denmark, Margarethe II, appealing for the sovereign to halt the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands. In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a «macabre spectacle» that «is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands … This is not a hunt but a mass slaughter … an outmoded tradition that has no acceptable justification in today’s world».^[59]

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially included bullfighting in the country’s cultural heritage. Bardot wrote him a highly critical letter of protest.^[60] On 25 May 2011, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.^[61]

From 2013 onwards, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in collaboration with Kagyupa International Monlam Trust of India has operated an annual veterinary care camp. She has committed to the cause of animal welfare in Bodhgaya year after year.^[62]

On 23 July 2015, Bardot condemned Australian politician Greg Hunt’s plan to eradicate 2 million cats to save endangered species such as the Warru and night parrot.^[63]

Personal life[edit]

Marriages and relationships[edit]

Throughout her life, Bardot had seventeen relationships with men and was married four times.^[64] Bardot was leaving for another relationship when «the present was getting lukewarm»; she said, «I have always looked for passion. That’s why I was often unfaithful. And when the passion was coming to an end, I was packing my suitcase».^[65]

On 20 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director Roger Vadim.^[66] In 1956, she had become romantically involved with Jean-Louis Trintignant, who was her co-star in And God Created Woman. Trintignant at the time was married to actress Stéphane Audran. Bardot and Vadim divorced in 1957; they had no children together, but remained in touch, and even collaborated on later projects. The stated reason for the divorce was Bardot’s affairs with two other men.^[67][31] Bardot and Trintignant lived together for about two years, spanning the period before and after Bardot’s divorce from Vadim, but they never married. Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant’s frequent absence due to military service and Bardot’s affair with musician Gilbert Bécaud.^[67]

After her separation from Vadim, Bardot acquired a historic property dating from the 16th century, called Le Castelet, in Cannes. The fourteen-bedroom villa, surrounded by lush gardens, olive trees, and vineyards, consisted of several buildings.^[68]

In 1958, she bought a second property called La Madrague, located in Saint-Tropez.^[68] In early 1958, her break-up with Trintignant was followed in quick order by a reported nervous breakdown in Italy, according to newspaper reports. A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was also noted but was denied by her public relations manager.^[69] She recovered within weeks and began a relationship with actor Jacques Charrier. She became pregnant well before they were married on 18 June 1959. Bardot’s only child, her son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was born on 11 January 1960.^[67] Bardot had an affair with Glenn Ford in the early 1960s.^[70] After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and had little contact with his biological mother until his adulthood.^[67] Sami Frey was mentioned as the reason for her divorce from Charrier. Bardot was enamoured of Frey, but he quickly left her.^[71]

From 1963 to 1965, she lived with musician Bob Zagury.^[72]

Bardot’s third marriage was to German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, lasting from 14 July 1966 to 7 October 1969, though they had separated the previous year.^[67][31][73] As she was on the set of Shalako, she had rejected Sean Connery’s advances; she said, «It didn’t last long because I wasn’t a James Bond girl! I have never succumbed to his charm!»^[74] In 1968, she began dating Patrick Gilles, who co-starred with her in The Bear and the Doll (1970); but she ended their relationship in spring 1971.^[72]

Over the next few years, Bardot dated in succession bartender/ski instructor Christian Kalt, club owner Luigi Rizzi, singer Serge Gainsbourg, writer John Gilmore, actor Warren Beatty, and Laurent Vergez, her co-star in Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman.^[72][75]

In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday. In 1975, she entered a relationship with artist Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures. Brozek was also an actor; his stage name is Jean Blaise [fr].^[76] The couple lived together at La Madrague. They separated in December 1979.^[77]

From 1980 to 1985, Bardot had a live-in relationship with French TV producer Allain Bougrain-Dubourg [fr].^[77] On 28 September 1983, her 49th birthday, Bardot took an overdose of sleeping pills or tranquilizers with red wine. She had to be rushed to the hospital, where her life was saved after a stomach pump was used to evacuate the pills from her body.^[77] Bardot was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984. She refused to undergo chemotherapy treatment and decided only to do radiation therapy. She recovered in 1986.^[78][79]

Bardot’s fourth and current husband is Bernard d’Ormale; they have been married since 16 August 1992.^[80] In 2018, in an interview accorded to Le Journal du Dimanche, she denied rumors of relationships with Johnny Hallyday, Jimi Hendrix, and Mick Jagger.^[71]

Politics and legal issues[edit]

Bardot expressed support for President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.^[67][81]

In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton (Pluto’s Square), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled «Open Letter to My Lost France», she writes that «my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims». For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs (7096.2 US dollars) in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in Le Figaro and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.^[82][83][84]

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (A Scream in the Silence), she contrasted her close gay friends with homosexuals who «jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through,» and said some contemporary homosexuals behave like «fairground freaks».^[85] In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: «Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants.»^[86][87]

In her book, she addressed issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and the religion of Islam. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes and praised previous generations who, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.^[88] On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000 (5913.5 US dollars).^[89] Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: «I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character.»^[90] In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in regard to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was «fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits». The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000 (17740.5 US dollars). The prosecutor stated she was tired of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.^[87]

During the 2008 United States presidential election, Bardot branded Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as «stupid» and a «disgrace to women». She criticized the former Alaskan governor for her stance on global warming and gun control. She was further offended by Palin’s support for Arctic oil exploration and by her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.^[91]

On 13 August 2010, Bardot criticised American filmmaker Kyle Newman for his plan to produce a biographical film about her. She told him, «Wait until I’m dead before you make a movie about my life!» otherwise «sparks will fly».^[92]

In 2014, Bardot wrote an open letter demanding the ban in France of shechita, describing it as «ritual sacrifice». In response, the European Jewish Congress released a statement saying “Bardot has once again shown her clear insensitivity for minority groups with the substance and style of her letter…She may well be concerned for the welfare of animals but her longstanding support for the far-Right and for discrimination against minorities in France shows a constant disdain for human rights instead.”^[93]

In 2015, Bardot threatened to sue a Saint-Tropez boutique selling items featuring her face.^[94] In 2018, Bardot expressed support for the yellow vests movement.^[95]

On 19 March 2019, Bardot issued an open letter to Réunion prefect Amaury de Saint-Quentin [fr] in which she accused inhabitants of the Indian Ocean island of animal cruelty and referred to them as «autochthonous who have kept the genes of savages». In her letter relating to animal abuse and sent through her foundation, she mentioned the «beheadings of goats and billy goats» during festivals, and associated these practices with «reminiscences of cannibalism from past centuries». The public prosecutor filed a lawsuit the following day.^[96]

In June 2021, eighty-six-year-old Bardot was fined €5,000 (5913.5 US dollars) by the Arras court for public insults against the hunters and their national president Willy Schraen [fr]. Initially, she had published a post at the end of 2019 on her foundation’s website, calling hunters «sub-men» and «drunkards» and carriers of «genes of cruel barbarism inherited from our primitive ancestors». Schraen was also insulted. At the time of the hearing, she had not removed the comments from the website.^[97] Following her letter sent to the prefect of Réunion in 2019, she was convicted on 4 November 2021 by a French court for public insults and fined €20,000 (23654 US dollars), the largest of her fines to date.^[98]

Bardot’s husband Bernard d’Ormale is a former adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far-right party National Front (now National Rally), the main far-right party in France, known for its nationalist beliefs.^[31][81] Bardot expressed support for Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front (National Rally), calling her «the Joan of Arc of the 21st century».^[99] She endorsed Le Pen in the 2012 and 2017 French presidential elections.^[100][101]

Legacy[edit]

The Guardian named Bardot «one of the most iconic faces, models, and actors of the 1950s and 1960s». She has been called a «style icon» and a «muse for Dior, Balmain, and Pierre Cardin».^[102]

In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide-open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers although it is also used for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the bikini in her early films such as Manina (1952) (released in France as Manina, la fille sans voiles). The following year she was also photographed in a bikini on every beach in the south of France during the Cannes Film Festival.^[103] She gained additional attention when she filmed …And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant (released in France as Et Dieu Créa La Femme). In it Bardot portrays an immoral teenager cavorting in a bikini who seduces men in a respectable small-town setting. The film was an international success.^[31] Bardot’s image was linked to the shoemaker Repetto, who created a pair of ballerinas for her in 1956.^[104] The bikini was in the 1950s relatively well accepted in France but was still considered risqué in the United States. As late as 1959, Anne Cole, one of the United States’ largest swimsuit designers, said, «It’s nothing more than a G-string. It’s at the razor’s edge of decency.»^[105]

She also brought into fashion the choucroute («Sauerkraut») hairstyle (a sort of beehive hair style) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.^[106] She was the subject of an Andy Warhol painting.

Isabella Biedenharn of Elle wrote that Bardot «has inspired thousands (millions?) of women to tease their hair or try out winged eyeliner over the past few decades». A well-known evocative pose describes an iconic modelling portrait shot around 1960 where Bardot is dressed only in a pair of black pantyhose, cross-legged over her front and cross-armed over her breasts.^[107] This pose has been emulated numerous times by models and celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan,^[108] Elle Macpherson,^[109] Gisele Bündchen,^[110] and Rihanna.^[111] In the late 1960s, Bardot’s silhouette was used as a model for designing and modelling the statue’s bust of Marianne, a symbol of the French Republic.^[42]

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury. The place where she stayed in Búzios is today a small hotel, Pousada do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon.^[112] The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta.^[113]

Bardot was idolized by the young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.^[114][115] They made plans to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, similar to A Hard Day’s Night, but the plans were never fulfilled.^[31] Lennon’s first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair colour to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon. Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the May Fair Hotel, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other. Lennon recalled in a memoir: «I was on acid, and she was on her way out.»^[116] According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. He also mentioned her by name in «I Shall Be Free», which appeared on his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot’s influence and legacy opened in Boulogne-Billancourt on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.^[117] The Australian pop group Bardot was named after her.

Women who emulated and were inspired by Bardot include Claudia Schiffer, Emmanuelle Béart, Elke Sommer, Kate Moss, Faith Hill, Isabelle Adjani, Diane Kruger, Lara Stone, Kylie Minogue, Amy Winehouse, Georgia May Jagger, Zahia Dehar, Scarlett Johansson, Louise Bourgoin, and Paris Hilton. Bardot said: «None have my personality.» Laetitia Casta embodied Bardot in the 2010 French drama film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life by Joann Sfar.^[118]

In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine‘s list of «50 Most Beautiful Women In Film» ranked her number two.^[119]

Bardot inspired Nicole Kidman to promote the 2013 campaign shoot of the British brand Jimmy Choo.^[120]

In 2015, Bardot was ranked number six in «The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women Of All Time», according to a survey carried out by Amway’s beauty company in the UK which involved 2,000 women.^[121]

In 2020, Vogue named Bardot number one of «The most beautiful French actresses of all time».^[122] In a retrospective retracing women throughout the history of cinema, she was listed among «the most accomplished, talented and beautiful actresses of all time» by Glamour.^[123]

The French drama television series Bardot is scheduled to be broadcast on France 2 in 2023. It stars Julia de Nunez and is about Bardot’s career from her first casting at age 15 and until the filming of La Vérité ten years later.^[124]

Filmography[edit]

Discography[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Year	Original title	Translation	Songwriters(s)	Label	Main tracks
1956	Et dieu… créa la femme (music from Roger Vadim’s motion picture)	And God Created Woman	Paul Misraki	Versailles
1963	Brigitte	Brigitte Bardot Sings	Serge Gainsbourg Claude Bolling Jean-Max Rivière Fernand Bonifay Spencer Williams Gérard Bourgeois	Philips	L’appareil à sous Invitango Les amis de la musique La Madrague El Cuchipe
1964	B.B.		André Popp Jean-Michel Rivat Jean-Max Rivière Fernand Bonifay Gérard Bourgeois	Moi je joue Une histoire de plage Maria Ninguém Je danse donc je suis Ciel de lit
1968	Bonnie and Clyde (with Serge Gainsbourg)		Serge Gainsbourg Alain Goraguer Spencer Williams Jean-Max Rivière	Fontana	Bonnie And Clyde Bubble Gum Comic Strip
Show		Serge Gainsbourg Francis Lai Jean-Max Rivière	AZ	Harley Davidson Ay Que Viva La Sangria Contact

Other notable singles[edit]

Year	Original Title	Translation	Songwriters(s)	Label
1962	Sidonie (music from Louis Malle’s the motion picture Vie Privée)		Fiorenzo Capri Charles Cros Jean-Max Rivière	Barclay
1965	Viva Maria! (music from Louis Malle’s eponymous motion picture) (with Jeanne Moreau)		Jean-Claude Carrière Georges Delerue	Philips
1966	Le soleil	The Sun	Jean-Max Rivière Gérard Bourgeois	AZ
1969	La fille de paille	The Straw Girl	Franck Gérald Gérard Lenorman	Philips
1970	Tu veux ou tu veux pas (Nem Vem Que Nao Tem)	Do You Want Or Not	Pierre Cour Carlos Imperial	Barclay
Nue au soleil	Naked Under The Sun	Jean Fredenucci Jean Schmidtt
1972	Tu es venu mon amour / Vous Ma Lady (with Laurent Vergez)	You Came My Love / You My Lady	Hugues Aufray Eddy Marnay Eddie Barclay
Boulevard du rhum (with Guy Marchand) (music from Robert Enrico’s motion picture)	Boulevard Of Rhum	François De Roubaix Jean-Paul-Egide Martini
1973	Soleil de ma vie (with Sacha Distel)	Sun Of My Life	Stevie Wonder Jean Broussolle	Pathé
1982	Toutes les bêtes sont à aimer	All Animals Must Be Loved	Jean-Max Rivière	Polydor
1986	Je t’aime… moi non plus (with Serge Gainsbourg) (released and shelved in 1968)	I Love You… Me Neither	Serge Gainsbourg	Philips

Books[edit]

Bardot has also written five books:

• Noonoah: Le petit phoque blanc (Grasset, 1978)
• Initiales B.B. (autobiography, Grasset & Fasquelle, 1996)
• Le Carré de Pluton (Grasset & Fasquelle, 1999)
• Un Cri Dans Le Silence (Editions Du Rocher, 2003)
• Pourquoi? (Editions Du Rocher, 2006)

Accolades[edit]

Awards and nominations[edit]

• 12th Victoires du cinéma français (French cinema victories) (1957): Best Actress, win, as Juliette Hardy in And God Created Woman.^[125]
• 11th Bambi Awards (1958): Best Actress, nomination, as Juliette Hardy in And God Created Woman.^[126]
• 14th Victoires du cinéma français (1959): Best Actress, win, as Yvette Maudet in In Case of Adversity.^[127]
• Brussels European Awards (1960): Best Actress, win, as Dominique Marceau in The Truth.^[128]
• 5th David di Donatello Awards (1961): Best Foreign Actress, win, as Dominique Marceau in The Truth.^[45]
• 12th Étoiles de cristal (Crystal stars) by the French Cinema Academy (1966): Best Actress, win, as Marie Fitzgerald O’Malley in Viva Maria!.^[129]
• 18th Bambi Awards (1967): Bambi Award of Popularity, win.^[130]
• 20th BAFTA Awards (1967): BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, nomination, as Marie Fitzgerald O’Malley in Viva Maria!.^[131]

Honours[edit]

• 1980: Medal of the City of Trieste.^[132]
• 1985: Legion of Honour.^[C][134] Medal of the City of Lille.^[132]
• 1989: Peace Prize in humanitarian merit.^[132]
• 1992: Induction into the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global 500 Roll of Honour.^[135] Creation in Hollywood of the Brigitte Bardot International Award as part of the Genesis Awards.^[136]
• 1994: Medal of the City of Paris.^[137]
• 1995: Medal of the City of Saint-Tropez.^[138]
• 1996: Medal of the City of La Baule.^[132]
• 1997: Greece’s UNESCO Ecology Award. Medal of the City of Athens.^[132]
• 1999: Asteroid 17062 Bardot was named after her.^[139]
• 2001: PETA Humanitarian Award.^[104]
• 2008: Spanish Altarriba foundation Award.^[140]
• 2017: A statue of 700 kilograms (1,500 lb) and 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) high was erected in her honour in central Saint-Tropez.^[141]
• 2019: GAIA Lifetime Achievement Award from the Belgian association for the defence of animal rights.^[142]
• 2021: Her effigy in Saint-Tropez was dressed in 1400 gold leaves of 23.75 carats each.^[143]

See also[edit]

• List of animal rights advocates

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

Other sources

Literature[edit]

• Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) Brigitte Bardot. Filme 1953–1961. Anfänge des Mythos B.B. (Hildesheim 1982) ISBN 3-88842-109-8.
• Servat, Henry-Jean (2016). Brigitte Bardot – My Life in Fashion (Hardback). Paris: Flammation S.A. ISBN 978-2—08-0202697.

External links[edit]

• Official website (in English)
• Fondation Brigitte Bardot (in French)
• Brigitte Bardot at IMDb
• Brigitte Bardot at the TCM Movie Database
• Brigitte Bardot at AllMovie

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Брижит Бардо
Brigitte Bardot
Брижит Бардо в 2002 году
Имя при рождении:	Брижит Анн-Мари Бардо
Дата рождения:	28 сентября 1934 (78 лет)
Место рождения:	Париж, Франция
Профессия:	актриса, певица, фотомодель, защитница животных
Карьера:	1952—1973
IMDb:	ID 0000003
Фонд Брижит Бардо

Брижи́т Анн-Мари́ Бардо́^[1][2] (фр. Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot [bʁi.ʒit baʁ.do]; род. 28 сентября 1934 года) — французская певица, киноактриса, фотомодель и защитница животных.

Впервые снялась в кино в 1952 году. Завоевала всемирную популярность благодаря роли в фильме «И Бог создал женщину» 1956 года. В 1950-х она была для Европы таким же секс-символом, как Мэрилин Монро для Америки. В течение своей 21-летней карьеры в шоу-бизнесе снялась в 48 фильмах, записала 80 песен, выступила в различных музыкальных шоу. Закончив кинокарьеру в 1973 году, Бардо начала деятельность по защите животных. С 1990-х неоднократно выступала с критикой иммигрантов и ислама во Франции, гомосексуализма и межрасовых браков, в результате чего 5 раз была осуждена «за разжигание межнациональной розни». В 2010 году совместно в домом Lancel придумала сумочку B.B., которая «отражает ее вкусы, ее жизнь, ее фигуру. Это настоящее воплощение женственности и естественности — как, впрочем, и сама Брижит».

Биография

Брижит Бардо родилась 28 сентября 1934 года в Париже, в семье бизнесмена Луи Бардо и Анны-Мари Мюсель. Под влиянием матери Бардо вместе с младшей сестрой Мари-Жанной (Мижану) с детства занималась танцами. Мижану проявила большую склонность к точным наукам и вскоре оставила танцы, в то время как Брижит, которая не была способной ученицей в школе, но обладала природной пластикой и грацией, решила сосредоточиться на балетной карьере.

В 1947 году Бардо сдала вступительный экзамен в Национальную Академию танца и, несмотря на жёсткий отбор и ограниченное число мест, оказалась в числе восьми зачисленных на обучение. В течение трёх лет она посещала класс русского хореографа Бориса Князева.

В 1949 году Бардо участвовала в показе мод по приглашению знакомого матери; в этом же году снялась для журнала «Jardin des Modes» («Сад Моды»). В 1950 году появилась на обложке журнала «ELLE» («Она») № 232 и была замечена начинающим режиссёром Роже Вадимом. Он показал фотографии девушки своему другу, режиссёру и сценаристу Марку Аллегре, который затем пригласил Бардо на кинопробы. Кинопробы для Бардо прошли удачно и она получила роль, но съёмки фильма были отменены. Тем не менее, знакомство с Вадимом, который присутствовал на пробах, повлияло на её дальнейшую жизнь и карьеру.^[1]

В 1952 году впервые снялась в фильме (картина Le Trou Normand). В том же году, в 18 лет вышла замуж за Роже Вадима. С 1952 по 1956 год снялась в 17 фильмах, в основном, лирических комедиях и мелодрамах, играла в театре в постановке пьесы «Приглашение в замок» Жана Ануя. В 1953 посетила Каннский кинофестиваль и начала набирать популярность. Однако всемирной известности Бардо способствовала картина «И Бог создал женщину» (1956), режиссёрский дебют Роже Вадима. Бардо сыграла главную героиню, необузданную восемнадцатилетнюю Жюльет Арди, мечущуюся между несколькими мужчинами. В Европе фильм шокировал зрителей, получил массу негативных откликов и был осуждён католической церковью из-за вызывающего поведения героини Брижит и сцен, в которых актриса появляется обнажённой и танцует на столе. В сравнительно консервативной Америке фильм стал сенсацией, так как прежде столь откровенные сцены не были свойственны голливудским фильмам. Огромная популярность фильма в Штатах способствовала его повторному выпуску в Европе. Историки считают картину предвестником сексуальной революции 1960-х^[3].

С тех пор Бардо работала с такими известными режиссёрами как Луи Маль, Жан-Люк Годар, Кристиан Жак. Другие известные фильмы с её участием: «Бабетта идёт на войну» (позднее появится причёска «бабетта», созданная по образцу героини Бардо в фильме), «Истина», «Презрение», «Вива Мария!», «Ромовый бульвар».

В 1960-е годы Бардо продолжала исполнять свойственные ей роли инженю и женщин-вамп. В 1966 году впервые работала в Голливуде, снявшись в фильме «Милая Брижит» с Джимми Стюартом в главной роли.

За всю свою карьеру в кино Бардо снялась в более чем пятидесяти кинокартинах. Среди её партнёров по фильмам — Ален Делон («Знаменитые любовные истории», «Три шага в бреду»), Жан Габен («В случае несчастья»), Шон Коннери («Шалако»), Жан Марэ («Будущие звёзды», «Любовь в Версале»), Клаудия Кардинале («Нефтедобытчицы»), Анни Жирардо («Послушницы»), Марчелло Мастроянни («Частная жизнь»), Джейн Биркин («Дон Жуан 73»), Жанна Моро («Вива Мария!»), Лино Вентура («Ромовый бульвар»).

В 1973 году, незадолго до своего сорокалетия Бардо объявила о завершении кинематографической карьеры и в дальнейшем посвятила свою жизнь борьбе за благосостояние животных.

С конца пятидесятых годов проживает в вилле «Мадраг» в Сен-Тропе на юге Франции.

Личная жизнь

Разведясь с Роже Вадимом в 1957 году, Бардо больше года жила со своим партнёром по фильму «И Бог создал женщину» Жаном-Луи Трентиньяном. В 1959 году вышла замуж за актёра Жака Шарье, от которого в 1960 году родила сына Николя. После их развода ребёнок был отдан на воспитание в семью Шарье. Встречалась с французскими музыкантами Сашей Дистелем, Бобом Загури и Сержем Генсбуром (с которым записала несколько известных хитов, включая скандально известную «Я тебя люблю… я тебя тоже нет» (Je t’aime… moi non plus), впоследствии исполненную Генсбуром в дуэте с Джейн Биркин). Была замужем за немецким миллионером Гунтером Саксом (1966—1969)^[1][2]. В 1992 году Бардо вышла замуж за Бернара д’Ормаля. Но через несколько лет развелась с ним. Сейчас она живет одна на вилле с парой сотен животных.^[4]

Защита животных

В 1986 она открыла Фонд Брижит Бардо для благополучия и защиты животных (англ. Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals). Она стала вегетарианкой и заработала 3 миллиона франков, продавая на аукционе драгоценности и личные вещи, чтобы поддержать фонд. Сейчас она — защитница животных и противник потребления конины. Находясь в Канаде, она осуждала охоту на тюленей и пыталась обсудить это со Стивеном Харпером, хотя ей отказали во встрече.

Однажды она кастрировала соседского осла, когда, присматривая за ним, увидела, что он «пристает» к её ослу и кобыле, из-за чего владелец осла подал на неё в суд в 1989 году^[5][6]. В 1999 Бардо написала письмо китайскому президенту Цзян Цзэминю, опубликованное во французском журнале «VSD», в котором она обвиняла китайцев в «издевательствах над медведями и убийстве последних в мире тигров и носорогов для создания афродизиаков».

Она пожертвовала^{[когда?]} больше 140 000 долларов за два года для массовой стерилизации и усыновления бухарестских бездомных собак, которых насчитывалось около 300 000. Бардо собирается^{[когда?]} приютить многих этих собак в новом животном спасательном центре, который она построила на своей частной территории.

28 сентября 2009 г., в свой 75-й день рождения, Бардо выступила с просьбой к актрисе Софи Лорен отказаться от ношения мехов. По её словам, это было бы для неё лучшим подарком^[7].

Политика

Бардо поддерживала президента Шарля де Голля в 1960-х. Её муж Бернар д’Ормаль — бывший советник праворадикальной партии «Национальный Фронт». Вопреки распространённому мнению, что она поддерживает программу Жан-Мари Лепена, Бардо всегда заявляла, что аполитична и не состоит ни в какой политической партии^[8].

Бардо осуждали 5 раз за «разжигание расовой неприязни». В 1997 году её оштрафовали за комментарии, выпущенные в газете «Le Figaro». В 1998 её осудили за заявление о растущем количестве мечетей во Франции.

В книге «Площадь Плутона» (фр. Le Carré de Pluton), которую она написала в 1999 году, она критиковала мусульманский фестиваль ид аль-адха, так как на нём закалывают овец. За это в июне 2000 года французский суд оштрафовал её на 30000 франков.

В той же книге в главе «Открытое письмо моей потерянной Франции» (англ. Open Letter to My Lost France) она написала: «…моя страна, Франция, моя родина, моя земля снова заполнена толпой чужеземцев, особенно мусульман»^[9].

В книге «Крик в тишине» (англ. A Scream in the Silence), написанной в 2003 году, она предупреждала об «исламизации Франции» и сказала о переселении мусульман: «За последние двадцать лет мы уступили подпольному, опасному и неуправляемому проникновению, которое не только противоречит нашим законам и устоям, но и попытается спустя годы навязать свои». В этой книге она рассказывает о друзьях-гомосексуалах и о сегодняшних геях говорит: «трясут задницами, поднимают маленькие пальчики и голосами кастратов стонут о том, как отвратительные гетеро заставляют их страдать». Она говорит, что французские политики это «флюгера, показывающие влево или вправо, пока фантазия управляет ими… даже французские проститутки не такие, как они». Она говорит, что современное искусство это «говно, как буквально, так и образно».

В мае 2003 года Движение против расизма и за дружбу между народами (фр. Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples) объявило, что подаст в суд на Бардо. Против Бардо также выступила Лига по правам человека (фр. Ligue des Droits de l’Homme).

В книге Бардо также обратили внимание на фразы «смешение генов» и предыдущие поколения «отдали жизнь, чтобы вытеснить захватчиков»^[10].

В 2008 году, её осудили за «разжигание расовой/религиозной неприязни» из-за письма, копию которого она отправила Николя Саркози, когда тот был Министром внутренних дел Франции. В письме она возражала против ритуального перерезания горла баранов на мусульманском празднике без оглушения. Она также порицала быстрорастущее мусульманское сообщество, пытающееся захватить власть и распространять их культуру, ценности, образ жизни. Суд закончился 3 июня 2008 года с самым крупным штрафом в её жизни — 15 000 евро. Прокурор заявил, что устал предъявлять обвинения Бардо из-за расовой неприязни.

Интересные факты

• Известно, что Брижит Бардо была идеалом красоты для юного Джона Леннона^[2]. Как символ пятидесятых, её имя упоминается во многих популярных песнях, включая хиты в исполнении The Who («It’s Not Enough»), Red Hot Chili Peppers («Warlocks»), Боба Дилана («I Shall Be Free»), Элтона Джона («I Think I’m Going To Kill Myself») и Нины Хаген («Frühling in Paris»). В фильме-мюзикле «Через Вселенную», основанном на 34 композициях The Beatles, её портрет украшает общежитие Принстонского университета.
• Имеет привычку говорить о себе в третьем лице^[11].
• В 1963 году Бардо могла бы стать главной (и единственной) героиней фильма начинающего режиссёра Энди Уорхола в его «анти-фильме» «Спи», длиною в 321 минуту. Но роль была отдана любовнику режиссёра Джону Джиорно^[12][13].
• В 1970 году Бардо была избрана моделью для бюста Марианны, символа Франции.
• Считается, что Бардо ввела в моду купальник бикини, щеголяя в этом одеянии на Каннском фестивале и в своих ранних фильмах; клетчатую одежду, появившись в розовом платье в клетку на своей свадьбе с Жаком Шарье, и причёску «кислая капуста»^[1]. Бардо также способствовала росту популярности курортных городов Сан-Тропе (Франция) и Бузиос (Бразилия) как мест для отдыха.
• Распространено ошибочное мнение, что настоящее имя Бардо — Камилла Жавал (Camille Javal), которое является именем её героини в фильме «Презрение» (Le mépris)^[2].
• Брижит Бардо является вегетарианкой.
• Именем Брижит Бардо названо судно, принадлежащее обществу охраны морской фауны.

Фильмы с участием Бриджит

• 1952 — «Нормандская дыра» / Le trou normand
• 1952 — «Длинные зубы» / Les dents longues
• 1952 — «Манина, девушка без покрывала» / Manina, la fille sans voile
• 1953 — «Портрет его отца» / Le portrait de son père
• 1953 — «Акт любви» / Un acte d’amour
• 1954 — «Ночь любви» / Tradita
• 1954 — «Тайны Версаля» / Si Versailles m’était conté
• 1955 — «Уличный свет» / La lumière d’en face
• 1955 — «Будущие звёзды» / Futures vedettes
• 1955 — «Сын Каролины Шери» / Le fils de Caroline chérie
• 1955 — «Доктор на море» / Doctor at Sea
• 1955 — «Большие манёвры» / Les grandes manoeuvres
• 1956 — «Невеста слишком хороша» / La mariée est trop belle
• 1956 — «Елена Троянская» / Helen of Troy
• 1956 — «Грязная девчонка» / Cette sacrée gamine
• 1956 — «Мой дорогой Нерон» / Mio figlio Nerone
• 1956 — «Мадемуазель Стриптиз» / En effeuillant la marguerite
• 1956 — «…И Бог создал женщину» / Et Dieu… créa la femme
• 1957 — «Парижанка» / Une parisienne
• 1958 — «Небо рухнуло ночью (Ювелиры Лунного Света)» / Les bijoutiers du clair de lune
• 1958 — «В случае несчастья» / En cas de malheur
• 1959 — «Женщина и паяц» / La femme et le pantin
• 1959 — «Бабетта идёт на войну» / Babette s’en va-t-en guerre
• 1959 — «Потанцуете со мной?» / Voulez-vous danser avec moi?
• 1960 — «Ночной роман» / L’ affaire d’une nuit
• 1960 — «Истина» / La vérité
• 1961 — «Пожалуйста, не сейчас» / La bride sur le cou
• 1961 — «Знаменитые любовные истории» / Amours célèbres
• 1962 — «Частная жизнь» / Vie privée
• 1962 — «Отдых воина» / Le repos du guerrier
• 1963 — «Презрение» / Le mépris
• 1964 — «Очаровательная идиотка» / Une ravissante idiote
• 1965 — «Вива, Мария!» / Viva Maria!
• 1966 — / Marie Soleil
• 1966 — «Мужское — женское» / Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis
• 1967 — «Две недели в сентябре» / À coeur joie
• 1968 — «Три шага в бреду» / Tre passi nel delirio
• 1968 — «Шалако» / Shalako
• 1969 — «Медведь и кукла» / L’ ours et la poupée
• 1969 — «Женщины» / Les femmes
• 1970 — «Послушницы» / Les novices
• 1971 — «Ромовый бульвар» / Boulevard du rhum
• 1971 — «Нефтедобытчицы» / Les pétroleuses
• 1973 — «Дон Жуан-73» / Don Juan 73 ou Si Don Juan était une femme…
• 1973 — «История про Колино-юбочника» / L’ histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise

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Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot[1][2] (; French: [bʁiʒit baʁˈdo]; born 28 September 1934) is a French former actress, singer and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials.[3] Starting in 1969, Bardot became the official face of Marianne (who had previously been anonymous) to represent the liberty of France.[4]

Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in early life. She started her acting career in 1952 and after appearing in 16 routine comedy films, with limited international release, became world-famous in 1957, with the controversial film And God Created Woman. She later starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 film Le Mépris. For her role inLouis Malle’s 1965 film Viva Maria! Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress. Bardot caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a «locomotive of women’s history» and built uponexistentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.[5]

Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. During her career in show business, she starred in 47 films, performed in several musical shows and recorded over 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985 but refused to receive it.[6] After her retirement, she established herself as an animal rights activist. During the 1990s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration and Islam in France and has been fined five times for inciting racial hatred.[7][8]

Early life[]

Bardot was born in Paris, the daughter of Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie «Toty» Bardot (née Mucel; 1912–1978). Louis had an engineering degree and worked with his father, Charles Bardot, in the family business. Louis and Anne-Marie married in 1933. Bardot grew up in a middle-class Roman Catholic observant home.[9] When she was seven she was admitted to the Cours Hattemer, a private school. She went to school three days a week, and otherwise studied at home. This gave time for lessons at Madame Bourget’s dance studio three days a week.[10] Brigitte’s mother also enrolled Brigitte’s younger sister, Marie-Jeanne (born 5 May 1938), in dance. Marie-Jeanne eventually gave up dancing lessons and did not tell her mother, whereas Brigitte concentrated on ballet. In 1947, Bardot was accepted to theConservatoire de Paris. For three years she attended ballet classes by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev. One of her classmates was Leslie Caron. The other ballerinas nicknamed Bardot «Bichette» («Little Doe»).[11]

At the invitation of an acquaintance of her mother, she modelled in a fashion show in 1949. In the same year, she modelled for a fashion magazine «Jardin des Modes» managed by journalist Hélène Lazareff. Aged 15, she appeared on an 8 March 1950 cover of Elle[12] and was noticed by a young film director, Roger Vadim, while babysitting. He showed an issue of the magazine to director and screenwriter Marc Allégret, who offered Bardot the opportunity to audition for Les lauriers sont coupés. Although Bardot got the role, the film was cancelled but made her consider becoming an actress. Her acquaintance with Vadim, who attended the audition, influenced her further life and career.[13][14]

Career[]

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, Bardot was one of the few European actresses to have the mass media’s attention in the United States, an interest which she did not reciprocate. She debuted in a 1952 comedy film, Le Trou Normand (English title: Crazy for Love). From 1952 to 1956, she appeared in seventeen films; in 1953 she played a role in Jean Anouilh’s stageplay L’Invitation au Château (Invitation to the Castle). She received media attention when she attended the Cannes Film Festival in April 1953.[14]

Brigitte Bardot and the young Billy Mumy in Dear Brigitte, 1965.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often appearing nude or nearly so. She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea (1955) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy (1954), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen’s handmaid and Act of Love (1954) with Kirk Douglas. Her French-language films were dubbed for international release. Roger Vadim (her husband) was not content with this light fare. The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally and he felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman (1956) opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a huge success and turned Bardot into an international star.[14] During her early career, professional photographer Sam Lévin’s photos contributed to her image of Bardot’s sensuality. One showed Bardot from behind, dressed in a white corset. British photographer Cornel Lucas made images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s, that have become representative of her public persona.

Bardot in 1968.

She divorced Vadim in 1957. In 1959, she married actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette Goes to War. The press took great interest in her marriage, while she and her husband clashed over the direction of her career. Bardot’s only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was a product of her marriage to Jacques Charrier.[citation needed]

Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign actress for her role in A Very Private Affair(Vie privée, 1962), directed by Louis Malle.[15]

In May 1958, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France, where she had bought the house La Madrague in Saint-Tropez. In 1963, she starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris. Bardot was featured in many other films along with notable actors such as Alain Delon (Famous Love Affairs; Spirits of the Dead);Jean Gabin (In Case of Adversity); Sean Connery (Shalako); Jean Marais (Royal Affairs in Versailles; School for Love); Lino Ventura (Rum Runners); Annie Girardot (The Novices); Claudia Cardinale (The Legend of Frenchie King); Jeanne Moreau (Viva Maria!); Jane Birkin (Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman). Her career had traversed epochs where it was possible to say, «In the Sixties and early Seventies, there was no better known — or more scandalous — movie star on earth. — Not since the death of Valentino had a star aroused such insane devotion in their fans.»[16] In 1973, Bardot announced she was retiring from acting as «a way to get out elegantly».[17] A decade later she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she survived.[18][19]

She participated in several musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including «Harley Davidson»; «Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît»; «Bubble gum»; «Contact»; «Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi»; «L’Appareil À Sous»; «La Madrague»; «On Déménage»; «Sidonie»; «Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?»; «Le Soleil De Ma Vie» (the cover ofStevie Wonder’s «You Are the Sunshine of My Life»); and the notorious «Je t’aime… moi non-plus». Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wishes; the following year, he rerecorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin that became a massive hit all over Europe. The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 whenUniversal Records made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.[20]

Personal life[]

On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director Roger Vadim, seven years her senior. To receive permission from Bardot’s parents to marry her, Vadim, originally a Russian Orthodox Christian, was urged to convert to Catholicism, although it is not clear if he ever did so. They divorced five years later, but remained friends and collaborated in later work.

Bardot and Sami Frey in St. Tropez, 1963

Bardot had an affair with her And God Created Woman co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant (married at the time to actress Stéphane Audran) before her divorce from Vadim.[13][14] The two lived together for about two years. Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant’s frequent absence due to military service and Bardot’s affair with musician Gilbert Bécaud, and they eventually separated.[13]

In early 1958, Bardot recovered, in Italy, from a reported nervous breakdown, according to newspaper reports. A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was also noted, but was denied by her public relations manager.[21]

On 18 June 1959, she married actor Jacques Charrier, by whom she had her only child, a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier (born 11 January 1960). After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and did not maintain close contact with Bardot until his adulthood.[13]

Bardot’s third marriage was to German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs from 14 July 1966 to 1 October 1969.[13][14] In the 1970s, Bardot lived with sculptor Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures. In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday.

Brigitte Bardot with Charles Aznavour in the 60s.

Bardot’s fourth and current husband is Bernard d’Ormale, former adviser of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far right party Front National; they have been married since 16 August 1992.[22]

Animal welfare activism[]

In 1973, before her 39th birthday, Bardot announced her retirement. After appearing in more than forty motion pictures and recording several music albums, most notably with Serge Gainsbourg, she chose to use her fame to promote animal rights.

In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare andPROTECTION of Animals.[23]She became a vegetarian[24] and raised three million francs to fund the foundation by auctioning offJEWELLERY and personal belongings.[23]

She is a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat. In support of animalPROTECTION, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country with Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.[25] On 25 May 2011 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.[26]

She once had a neighbour’s donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its «sexual harassment» of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey’s owner in 1989.[27][28] Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of «torturing bears and killing the world’s last tigers and rhinos to makeaphrodisiacs».[29]

She has donated more than $140,000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program forBucharest’s stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000.[30]

In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II of Denmark, appealing for the sovereign to halt the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands. In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a «macabre spectacle» that «is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands … This is not a hunt but a mass slaughter … an outmoded tradition that has no acceptable justification in today’s world».[31]

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially included bullfighting in the country’s cultural heritage. Bardot wrote him a highly critical letter of protest.[32]

From 2013 onwards the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in collaboration with Kagyupa International Monlam Trust of India has operated annual Veterinary Care Camp. She has committed to the cause of animal welfare in Bodhgaya year after year.[33]

Politics and legal issues[]

BardotEXPRESSED support for President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.[13][34] Her husband Bernard d’Ormale is a former adviser of the Front National, the main far right party in France, known for its nationalist and conservative beliefs.[5][14][34]

Brigitte Bardot (2002)

In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton («Pluto’s Square«), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled, «Open Letter to My Lost France», Bardot writes that «my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims». For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in Le Figaro and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.[29][35][36] In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence («A Scream in the Silence«), she warned of an «Islamicization of France», and said of Muslim immigration:

Over the last twenty years, we have given in to a subterranean, dangerous, and uncontrolled infiltration, which not only resists adjusting to our laws and customs but which will, as the years pass, attempt to impose its own.[37]

In the book, she contrasted her close gay friends with today’s homosexuals, who «jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through» and that some contemporary homosexuals behave like «fairground freaks».[38] In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: «Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants.»[39]

In her book she wrote about issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and Islam. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes and praised previous generations who, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.[40]

Brigitte Bardot during a protest in Brussels, 1995.

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for «inciting racial hatred» and fined €5,000.[41] Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: «I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character.»[42]

In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was «fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits». The trial[43] concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000, the largest of her fines to date. The prosecutor stated that she was tired of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.[7]

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as «stupid» and a «disgrace to women». She criticized the former governor of Alaska for her stance on global warming and gun control. She was also offended by Palin’s support for Arctic oil exploration and for her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.[44]

On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plan to make a biographical film on her life. She told him, «Wait until I’m dead before you make a movie about my life!» otherwise «sparks will fly».[45]

Influence in pop culture[]

Statue of Brigitte Bardot in Buzios, Brazil

In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers although it is also used for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the bikini in her early films such as Manina (1952) (released in France as Manina, la fille sans voiles). The following year she was also photographed in a bikini on every beach in the south of France during the Cannes Film Festival.[46] She gained additional attention when she filmed …And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant (released in France as Et Dieu Créa La Femme). Bardot portrayed an immoral teenager cavorting in a bikini who seduces men in a respectable small-town setting. The film was an international success.[14] The bikini was in the 1950s relatively well accepted in France but was still considered risqué in the United States. As late as 1959, Anne Cole, one of the United State’s largest swimsuit designers, said, «It’s nothing more than a G-string. It’s at the razor’s edge of decency.»[47] She also brought into fashion the choucroute («Sauerkraut») hairstyle (a sort of beehive hair style) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.[48] She was the subject for an Andy Warhol painting.

Painting of Brigitte Bardot in Lisbon, Portugal.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has been credited with popularizing the city ofSt. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury. The place where she stayed in Búzios is today aSMALL HOTEL, Pousada do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon.[49]

A statue by Christina Motta[50] honours Brigitte Bardot in Armação dos Búzios.

Bardot was idolized by the young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.[51][52] They made plans to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, similar to A Hard Day’s Night, but the plans were never fulfilled.[14]Lennon’s first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon. Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at theMAYFAIR HOTEL, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other. (Lennon recalled in a memoir, «I was on acid, and she was on her way out.»)[53] According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. He also mentioned her by name in «I Shall Be Free», which appeared on his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot’s influence and legacy opened in Paris on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.[54]

A type of Czechoslovak diesel-electric locomotives (Classes 751 and 749) manufactured in the 1960s/70s was nicknamed «Bardotka», reportedly because of the fact that the locomotive has a distinctively shaped front, resembling a woman’s bosom.[citation needed]

Filmography[]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1952	Le Trou normand  (fr)	Javotte Lemoine	(Crazy for Love)
Manina, la fille sans voile	Manina	(The Lighthouse-Keeper’s Daughter / The Girl in the Bikini)
Les dents longues	Bridesmaid	(The Long Teeth) Uncredited
1953	Le Portrait de son père  (fr)	Domino	(His Father’s Portrait)
Act of Love	Mimi
1954	Si Versailles m’était conté	Mademoiselle de Rozille	(Royal Affairs in Versailles)
Tradita  (it)	Anna	(Concert of Intrigue)
1955	Le Fils de Caroline chérie  (fr)	Pilar d’Aranda	(Caroline and the Rebels)
Futures vedettes	Sophie	(Sweet Sixteen / School for Love)
Doctor at Sea	Hélène Colbert
Les grandes manoeuvres	Lucie	(The Grand Maneuver)
La Lumière d’en face  (fr)	Olivia Marceau	(The Light Across the Street )
1956	Helen of Troy	Andraste
Cette sacrée gamine  (fr)	Brigitte Latour	(Mam’zelle Pigalle / Naughty Girl)
Mio figlio Nerone	Poppaea	(Nero’s Weekend)
En effeuillant la marguerite  (fr)	Agnès Dumont	(Plucking the Daisy / Mademoiselle Striptease)
Et Dieu créa la femme	Juliette Hardy	(And God Created Woman)
La Mariée est trop belle	Chouchou	(The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful)
1957	Une Parisienne	Brigitte Laurier
1958	Les bijoutiers du clair de lune	Ursula	(The Night Heaven Fell)
En cas de malheur	Séverine Serizy	(In Case of Adversity)
1959	La femme et le Pantin	Eva Marchand	(A Woman Like Satan)
Babette s’en va-t-en guerre  (fr)	Babette	(Babette Goes to War)
Voulez-vous danser avec moi?	Virginie Dandieu	(Come Dance with Me!)
1960	Le Testament d’Orphée	Herself	(The Testament of Orphée) Cameo
‘Affaire d’une nuit (fr)	Woman in restaurant	(It Happened All Night) Cameo, uncredited
La Vérité	Dominique Marceau	(The Truth) David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress
1961	La Bride sur le cou	Sophie	(Please!, Not Now!)
Les Amours célèbres	Agnes Bernauer	(Famous Love Affairs)
1962	Vie privée	Jill	(A Very Private Affair)
Le Repos du guerrier  (fr)	Geneviève Le Theil	(Warrior’s Rest)
1963	Le Mépris	Camille Javal	(Contempt)
1964	Une ravissante idiote	Penelope Lightfeather	(The Ravishing Idiot)
1965	Dear Brigitte	Herself
Viva Maria!	Maria I	Nomination – BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
1966	Marie Soleil	Herself	Cameo
Masculin, féminin	Herself	Actress in bistro (cameo)
1967	À coeur joie	Cecile	(Two Weeks in September)
1968	Histoires extraordinaires	Giuseppina	(Spirits of the Dead)
Shalako	Countess Irina Lazaar
1969	Les Femmes	Clara	(The Vixen)
1970	L’Ours et la Poupée  (fr)	Felicia	(The Bear and the Doll)
Les Novices	Agnès	(The Novices)
1971	Boulevard du Rhum	Linda Larue	(Rum Runners)
Les Pétroleuses	Louise	(The Legend of Frenchie King)
1973	Don Juan 1973 ou Si Don Juan était une femme…	Jeanne	(Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman)
L’histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise	Arabelle	(The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot)

Discography[]

Bardot released several albums and singles during the 1960s and 1970s[55]

• «Sidonie» (1961, Barclay), lyrics by Charles Cros, music by Jean-Max Rivière and Yanis Spanos, guitar by Brigitte – first song, from the film Vie privée
• Brigitte Bardot Sings (1963, Philips) – collaborations by Serge Gainsbourg («L’Appareil à sous», «Je me donne à qui me plaît»), Jean-Max Rivière as writer («La Madrague») and singer («Tiens ! C’est toi!»), Claude Bolling and Gérard Bourgeois
• B.B. (1964, Philips) with Claude Bolling, Alain Goraguer, Gérard Bourgeois
• «Ah ! Les p’tites femmes de Paris», duet with Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria (1965, Philips),DIRECTED by Georges Delerue
• Brigitte Bardot Show 67 (1967, Mercury) with Serge Gainsbourg (writes «Harley Davidson», «Comic Strip», «Contact» and «Bonnie and Clyde»), Sacha Distel,Manitas de Plata, Claude Brasseur and David Bailey
• «Je t’aime… moi non plus», duet with Serge Gainsbourg (1967, published by Philips in 1986)
• Brigitte Bardot Show (1968, Mercury), themes by Francis Lai
• [Burlington Cameo Brings You] Special Bardot (1968. RCA) with «The Good Life» by Sacha Distel and «Comic Strip (with Gainsbourg) in English
• Single Duet with Serge Gainsbourg «Bonnie and Clyde» (Fontana)
• «La Fille de paille»/»Je voudrais perdre la mémoire» (1969, Philips), collaboration with Gérard Lenorman
• Tu veux ou tu veux pas (1970, Barclay) with the hit «Tu veux ou tu veux pas» (the French version of the Brazilian «Nem Vem Que Não Tem»), directed by François Bernheim; «John and Michael», hymn to the collective love; «Mon léopard et moi», a collaboration with Darry Cowl, and «Depuis que tu m’as quitté»
• «Nue au soleil»/»C’est une bossa nova» (1970, Barclay)
• «Chacun son homme», duet with Annie Girardot in Les Novices (1970, Barclay)
• «Boulevard du rhum» and «Plaisir d’amour», duet with Guy Marchand, in Boulevard du rhum (1971, Barclay)
• «Vous ma lady», duet with Laurent Vergez, and «Tu es venu mon amour» (1973, Barclay)
• «Le Soleil de ma vie», duet with Sacha Distel
• «Toutes les bêtes sont à aimer» (1982, Polydor)

Books[]

Bardot has also written five books:

• Noonoah: Le petit phoque blanc (Grasset, 1978)
• Initales B.B. (autobiography, Grasset & Fasquelle, 1996)
• Le Carré de Pluton (Grasset & Fasquelle, 1999)
• Un Cri Dans Le Silence (Editions Du Rocher, 2003)
• Pourquoi? (Editions Du Rocher, 2006)

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot[1][2] (; French: [bʁiʒit baʁˈdo]; born 28 September 1934) is a French former actress, singer and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials.[3] Starting in 1969, Bardot became the official face of Marianne (who had previously been anonymous) to represent the liberty of France.[4]

Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in early life. She started her acting career in 1952 and after appearing in 16 routine comedy films, with limited international release, became world-famous in 1957, with the controversial film And God Created Woman. She later starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 film Le Mépris. For her role inLouis Malle’s 1965 film Viva Maria! Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress. Bardot caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a «locomotive of women’s history» and built uponexistentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.[5]

Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. During her career in show business, she starred in 47 films, performed in several musical shows and recorded over 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985 but refused to receive it.[6] After her retirement, she established herself as an animal rights activist. During the 1990s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration and Islam in France and has been fined five times for inciting racial hatred.[7][8]

Early life[]

Bardot was born in Paris, the daughter of Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie «Toty» Bardot (née Mucel; 1912–1978). Louis had an engineering degree and worked with his father, Charles Bardot, in the family business. Louis and Anne-Marie married in 1933. Bardot grew up in a middle-class Roman Catholic observant home.[9] When she was seven she was admitted to the Cours Hattemer, a private school. She went to school three days a week, and otherwise studied at home. This gave time for lessons at Madame Bourget’s dance studio three days a week.[10] Brigitte’s mother also enrolled Brigitte’s younger sister, Marie-Jeanne (born 5 May 1938), in dance. Marie-Jeanne eventually gave up dancing lessons and did not tell her mother, whereas Brigitte concentrated on ballet. In 1947, Bardot was accepted to theConservatoire de Paris. For three years she attended ballet classes by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev. One of her classmates was Leslie Caron. The other ballerinas nicknamed Bardot «Bichette» («Little Doe»).[11]

At the invitation of an acquaintance of her mother, she modelled in a fashion show in 1949. In the same year, she modelled for a fashion magazine «Jardin des Modes» managed by journalist Hélène Lazareff. Aged 15, she appeared on an 8 March 1950 cover of Elle[12] and was noticed by a young film director, Roger Vadim, while babysitting. He showed an issue of the magazine to director and screenwriter Marc Allégret, who offered Bardot the opportunity to audition for Les lauriers sont coupés. Although Bardot got the role, the film was cancelled but made her consider becoming an actress. Her acquaintance with Vadim, who attended the audition, influenced her further life and career.[13][14]

Career[]

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, Bardot was one of the few European actresses to have the mass media’s attention in the United States, an interest which she did not reciprocate. She debuted in a 1952 comedy film, Le Trou Normand (English title: Crazy for Love). From 1952 to 1956, she appeared in seventeen films; in 1953 she played a role in Jean Anouilh’s stageplay L’Invitation au Château (Invitation to the Castle). She received media attention when she attended the Cannes Film Festival in April 1953.[14]

Brigitte Bardot and the young Billy Mumy in Dear Brigitte, 1965.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often appearing nude or nearly so. She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea (1955) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy (1954), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen’s handmaid and Act of Love (1954) with Kirk Douglas. Her French-language films were dubbed for international release. Roger Vadim (her husband) was not content with this light fare. The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally and he felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman (1956) opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a huge success and turned Bardot into an international star.[14] During her early career, professional photographer Sam Lévin’s photos contributed to her image of Bardot’s sensuality. One showed Bardot from behind, dressed in a white corset. British photographer Cornel Lucas made images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s, that have become representative of her public persona.

Bardot in 1968.

She divorced Vadim in 1957. In 1959, she married actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette Goes to War. The press took great interest in her marriage, while she and her husband clashed over the direction of her career. Bardot’s only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was a product of her marriage to Jacques Charrier.[citation needed]

Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign actress for her role in A Very Private Affair(Vie privée, 1962), directed by Louis Malle.[15]

In May 1958, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France, where she had bought the house La Madrague in Saint-Tropez. In 1963, she starred in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris. Bardot was featured in many other films along with notable actors such as Alain Delon (Famous Love Affairs; Spirits of the Dead);Jean Gabin (In Case of Adversity); Sean Connery (Shalako); Jean Marais (Royal Affairs in Versailles; School for Love); Lino Ventura (Rum Runners); Annie Girardot (The Novices); Claudia Cardinale (The Legend of Frenchie King); Jeanne Moreau (Viva Maria!); Jane Birkin (Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman). Her career had traversed epochs where it was possible to say, «In the Sixties and early Seventies, there was no better known — or more scandalous — movie star on earth. — Not since the death of Valentino had a star aroused such insane devotion in their fans.»[16] In 1973, Bardot announced she was retiring from acting as «a way to get out elegantly».[17] A decade later she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she survived.[18][19]

She participated in several musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including «Harley Davidson»; «Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît»; «Bubble gum»; «Contact»; «Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi»; «L’Appareil À Sous»; «La Madrague»; «On Déménage»; «Sidonie»; «Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?»; «Le Soleil De Ma Vie» (the cover ofStevie Wonder’s «You Are the Sunshine of My Life»); and the notorious «Je t’aime… moi non-plus». Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wishes; the following year, he rerecorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin that became a massive hit all over Europe. The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 whenUniversal Records made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.[20]

Personal life[]

On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director Roger Vadim, seven years her senior. To receive permission from Bardot’s parents to marry her, Vadim, originally a Russian Orthodox Christian, was urged to convert to Catholicism, although it is not clear if he ever did so. They divorced five years later, but remained friends and collaborated in later work.

Bardot and Sami Frey in St. Tropez, 1963

Bardot had an affair with her And God Created Woman co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant (married at the time to actress Stéphane Audran) before her divorce from Vadim.[13][14] The two lived together for about two years. Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant’s frequent absence due to military service and Bardot’s affair with musician Gilbert Bécaud, and they eventually separated.[13]

In early 1958, Bardot recovered, in Italy, from a reported nervous breakdown, according to newspaper reports. A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was also noted, but was denied by her public relations manager.[21]

On 18 June 1959, she married actor Jacques Charrier, by whom she had her only child, a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier (born 11 January 1960). After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and did not maintain close contact with Bardot until his adulthood.[13]

Bardot’s third marriage was to German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs from 14 July 1966 to 1 October 1969.[13][14] In the 1970s, Bardot lived with sculptor Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures. In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday.

Brigitte Bardot with Charles Aznavour in the 60s.

Bardot’s fourth and current husband is Bernard d’Ormale, former adviser of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far right party Front National; they have been married since 16 August 1992.[22]

Animal welfare activism[]

In 1973, before her 39th birthday, Bardot announced her retirement. After appearing in more than forty motion pictures and recording several music albums, most notably with Serge Gainsbourg, she chose to use her fame to promote animal rights.

In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare andPROTECTION of Animals.[23]She became a vegetarian[24] and raised three million francs to fund the foundation by auctioning offJEWELLERY and personal belongings.[23]

She is a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat. In support of animalPROTECTION, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country with Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.[25] On 25 May 2011 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.[26]

She once had a neighbour’s donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its «sexual harassment» of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey’s owner in 1989.[27][28] Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of «torturing bears and killing the world’s last tigers and rhinos to makeaphrodisiacs».[29]

She has donated more than $140,000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program forBucharest’s stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000.[30]

In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II of Denmark, appealing for the sovereign to halt the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands. In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a «macabre spectacle» that «is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands … This is not a hunt but a mass slaughter … an outmoded tradition that has no acceptable justification in today’s world».[31]

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially included bullfighting in the country’s cultural heritage. Bardot wrote him a highly critical letter of protest.[32]

From 2013 onwards the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in collaboration with Kagyupa International Monlam Trust of India has operated annual Veterinary Care Camp. She has committed to the cause of animal welfare in Bodhgaya year after year.[33]

Politics and legal issues[]

BardotEXPRESSED support for President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.[13][34] Her husband Bernard d’Ormale is a former adviser of the Front National, the main far right party in France, known for its nationalist and conservative beliefs.[5][14][34]

Brigitte Bardot (2002)

In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton («Pluto’s Square«), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled, «Open Letter to My Lost France», Bardot writes that «my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims». For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in Le Figaro and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.[29][35][36] In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence («A Scream in the Silence«), she warned of an «Islamicization of France», and said of Muslim immigration:

Over the last twenty years, we have given in to a subterranean, dangerous, and uncontrolled infiltration, which not only resists adjusting to our laws and customs but which will, as the years pass, attempt to impose its own.[37]

In the book, she contrasted her close gay friends with today’s homosexuals, who «jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through» and that some contemporary homosexuals behave like «fairground freaks».[38] In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: «Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants.»[39]

In her book she wrote about issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and Islam. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes and praised previous generations who, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.[40]

Brigitte Bardot during a protest in Brussels, 1995.

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for «inciting racial hatred» and fined €5,000.[41] Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: «I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character.»[42]

In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was «fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits». The trial[43] concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000, the largest of her fines to date. The prosecutor stated that she was tired of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.[7]

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as «stupid» and a «disgrace to women». She criticized the former governor of Alaska for her stance on global warming and gun control. She was also offended by Palin’s support for Arctic oil exploration and for her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.[44]

On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plan to make a biographical film on her life. She told him, «Wait until I’m dead before you make a movie about my life!» otherwise «sparks will fly».[45]

Influence in pop culture[]

Statue of Brigitte Bardot in Buzios, Brazil

In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers although it is also used for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the bikini in her early films such as Manina (1952) (released in France as Manina, la fille sans voiles). The following year she was also photographed in a bikini on every beach in the south of France during the Cannes Film Festival.[46] She gained additional attention when she filmed …And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant (released in France as Et Dieu Créa La Femme). Bardot portrayed an immoral teenager cavorting in a bikini who seduces men in a respectable small-town setting. The film was an international success.[14] The bikini was in the 1950s relatively well accepted in France but was still considered risqué in the United States. As late as 1959, Anne Cole, one of the United State’s largest swimsuit designers, said, «It’s nothing more than a G-string. It’s at the razor’s edge of decency.»[47] She also brought into fashion the choucroute («Sauerkraut») hairstyle (a sort of beehive hair style) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.[48] She was the subject for an Andy Warhol painting.

Painting of Brigitte Bardot in Lisbon, Portugal.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has been credited with popularizing the city ofSt. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury. The place where she stayed in Búzios is today aSMALL HOTEL, Pousada do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon.[49]

A statue by Christina Motta[50] honours Brigitte Bardot in Armação dos Búzios.

Bardot was idolized by the young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.[51][52] They made plans to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, similar to A Hard Day’s Night, but the plans were never fulfilled.[14]Lennon’s first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon. Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at theMAYFAIR HOTEL, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other. (Lennon recalled in a memoir, «I was on acid, and she was on her way out.»)[53] According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. He also mentioned her by name in «I Shall Be Free», which appeared on his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot’s influence and legacy opened in Paris on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.[54]

A type of Czechoslovak diesel-electric locomotives (Classes 751 and 749) manufactured in the 1960s/70s was nicknamed «Bardotka», reportedly because of the fact that the locomotive has a distinctively shaped front, resembling a woman’s bosom.[citation needed]

Filmography[]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1952	Le Trou normand  (fr)	Javotte Lemoine	(Crazy for Love)
Manina, la fille sans voile	Manina	(The Lighthouse-Keeper’s Daughter / The Girl in the Bikini)
Les dents longues	Bridesmaid	(The Long Teeth) Uncredited
1953	Le Portrait de son père  (fr)	Domino	(His Father’s Portrait)
Act of Love	Mimi
1954	Si Versailles m’était conté	Mademoiselle de Rozille	(Royal Affairs in Versailles)
Tradita  (it)	Anna	(Concert of Intrigue)
1955	Le Fils de Caroline chérie  (fr)	Pilar d’Aranda	(Caroline and the Rebels)
Futures vedettes	Sophie	(Sweet Sixteen / School for Love)
Doctor at Sea	Hélène Colbert
Les grandes manoeuvres	Lucie	(The Grand Maneuver)
La Lumière d’en face  (fr)	Olivia Marceau	(The Light Across the Street )
1956	Helen of Troy	Andraste
Cette sacrée gamine  (fr)	Brigitte Latour	(Mam’zelle Pigalle / Naughty Girl)
Mio figlio Nerone	Poppaea	(Nero’s Weekend)
En effeuillant la marguerite  (fr)	Agnès Dumont	(Plucking the Daisy / Mademoiselle Striptease)
Et Dieu créa la femme	Juliette Hardy	(And God Created Woman)
La Mariée est trop belle	Chouchou	(The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful)
1957	Une Parisienne	Brigitte Laurier
1958	Les bijoutiers du clair de lune	Ursula	(The Night Heaven Fell)
En cas de malheur	Séverine Serizy	(In Case of Adversity)
1959	La femme et le Pantin	Eva Marchand	(A Woman Like Satan)
Babette s’en va-t-en guerre  (fr)	Babette	(Babette Goes to War)
Voulez-vous danser avec moi?	Virginie Dandieu	(Come Dance with Me!)
1960	Le Testament d’Orphée	Herself	(The Testament of Orphée) Cameo
‘Affaire d’une nuit (fr)	Woman in restaurant	(It Happened All Night) Cameo, uncredited
La Vérité	Dominique Marceau	(The Truth) David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress
1961	La Bride sur le cou	Sophie	(Please!, Not Now!)
Les Amours célèbres	Agnes Bernauer	(Famous Love Affairs)
1962	Vie privée	Jill	(A Very Private Affair)
Le Repos du guerrier  (fr)	Geneviève Le Theil	(Warrior’s Rest)
1963	Le Mépris	Camille Javal	(Contempt)
1964	Une ravissante idiote	Penelope Lightfeather	(The Ravishing Idiot)
1965	Dear Brigitte	Herself
Viva Maria!	Maria I	Nomination – BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
1966	Marie Soleil	Herself	Cameo
Masculin, féminin	Herself	Actress in bistro (cameo)
1967	À coeur joie	Cecile	(Two Weeks in September)
1968	Histoires extraordinaires	Giuseppina	(Spirits of the Dead)
Shalako	Countess Irina Lazaar
1969	Les Femmes	Clara	(The Vixen)
1970	L’Ours et la Poupée  (fr)	Felicia	(The Bear and the Doll)
Les Novices	Agnès	(The Novices)
1971	Boulevard du Rhum	Linda Larue	(Rum Runners)
Les Pétroleuses	Louise	(The Legend of Frenchie King)
1973	Don Juan 1973 ou Si Don Juan était une femme…	Jeanne	(Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman)
L’histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise	Arabelle	(The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot)

Discography[]

Bardot released several albums and singles during the 1960s and 1970s[55]

• «Sidonie» (1961, Barclay), lyrics by Charles Cros, music by Jean-Max Rivière and Yanis Spanos, guitar by Brigitte – first song, from the film Vie privée
• Brigitte Bardot Sings (1963, Philips) – collaborations by Serge Gainsbourg («L’Appareil à sous», «Je me donne à qui me plaît»), Jean-Max Rivière as writer («La Madrague») and singer («Tiens ! C’est toi!»), Claude Bolling and Gérard Bourgeois
• B.B. (1964, Philips) with Claude Bolling, Alain Goraguer, Gérard Bourgeois
• «Ah ! Les p’tites femmes de Paris», duet with Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria (1965, Philips),DIRECTED by Georges Delerue
• Brigitte Bardot Show 67 (1967, Mercury) with Serge Gainsbourg (writes «Harley Davidson», «Comic Strip», «Contact» and «Bonnie and Clyde»), Sacha Distel,Manitas de Plata, Claude Brasseur and David Bailey
• «Je t’aime… moi non plus», duet with Serge Gainsbourg (1967, published by Philips in 1986)
• Brigitte Bardot Show (1968, Mercury), themes by Francis Lai
• [Burlington Cameo Brings You] Special Bardot (1968. RCA) with «The Good Life» by Sacha Distel and «Comic Strip (with Gainsbourg) in English
• Single Duet with Serge Gainsbourg «Bonnie and Clyde» (Fontana)
• «La Fille de paille»/»Je voudrais perdre la mémoire» (1969, Philips), collaboration with Gérard Lenorman
• Tu veux ou tu veux pas (1970, Barclay) with the hit «Tu veux ou tu veux pas» (the French version of the Brazilian «Nem Vem Que Não Tem»), directed by François Bernheim; «John and Michael», hymn to the collective love; «Mon léopard et moi», a collaboration with Darry Cowl, and «Depuis que tu m’as quitté»
• «Nue au soleil»/»C’est une bossa nova» (1970, Barclay)
• «Chacun son homme», duet with Annie Girardot in Les Novices (1970, Barclay)
• «Boulevard du rhum» and «Plaisir d’amour», duet with Guy Marchand, in Boulevard du rhum (1971, Barclay)
• «Vous ma lady», duet with Laurent Vergez, and «Tu es venu mon amour» (1973, Barclay)
• «Le Soleil de ma vie», duet with Sacha Distel
• «Toutes les bêtes sont à aimer» (1982, Polydor)

Books[]

Bardot has also written five books:

• Noonoah: Le petit phoque blanc (Grasset, 1978)
• Initales B.B. (autobiography, Grasset & Fasquelle, 1996)
• Le Carré de Pluton (Grasset & Fasquelle, 1999)
• Un Cri Dans Le Silence (Editions Du Rocher, 2003)
• Pourquoi? (Editions Du Rocher, 2006)

Французская модель, актер, певица и защитник прав животных

Брижит Бардо
Бардо в 1962 году
Родилась	Бриджит Анн-Мари Бардо. (1934-09-28) 28 сентября 1934 г. (86 лет). Париж, Франция
Род занятий	Актриса (1952–1973) Певец (1962–1973) Активист по защите прав животных (1973 – настоящее время)
Супруг (а)	Роджер Вадим ​​(m.1952; раздел 1957) ​ Жак Шаррье ​​(m.1959; див. 1962) ​ Гюнтер Сакс ​​(m.1966; див. 1969) ​ Бернар д’Ормаль. ​​(m.1992) ​
Дети	1
Родственники	Миджану Бардо (сестра)
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Брижит Энн -Мэри Бардо ((слушайте ) ; французский: (слушайте ); родилась 28 сентября 1934 г.), часто называемая ее инициалами B.B., — французская бывшая актриса и певица, а также борец за права животных. Известная тем, что изображала сексуально эмансипированных персонажей с гедонистическим образом жизни, она была одним из самых известных секс-символов 1950-х и 1960-х годов. Несмотря на то, что она ушла из индустрии развлечений в 1973 году, она остается главной иконой поп-культуры.

Бардо родилась и выросла в Париже. В молодости Бардо была начинающей балериной. Она начала свою актерскую карьеру в 1952 году. В 1957 году она добилась международного признания за роль в скандальном фильме И Бог создал женщину, а также привлекла внимание французских интеллектуалов. Она была предметом эссе Симоны де Бовуар 1959 года «Синдром Лолиты», в котором она описывалась как «локомотив женской истории» и строилась на экзистенциалистских темах, чтобы объявить ее первой и самая раскрепощенная женщина послевоенной Франции. Позже Бардо снялся в фильме Жана-Люка Годара 1963 года Le Mépris. За роль в фильме Луи Малле 1965 года Viva Maria! она была номинирована на премию BAFTA за лучшую иностранную женскую роль.

Бардо ушла из индустрии развлечений в 1973 году. Она снялась в 47 фильмах, выступила в нескольких мюзиклах и записала более 60 песен. В 1985 году она была награждена знаком Почетного легиона, но отказалась принять его. Выйдя на пенсию, она стала активисткой по защите прав животных . В течение 2000-х она вызвала споры, критикуя иммиграцию и ислам во Франции, и ее пять раз штрафовали за разжигание расовой ненависти. Бардо замужем за Бернаром д’Ормаль, бывшим советником Национального собрания, главной ультраправой политической партии Франции.

Содержание

• 1 Ранние годы
• 2 Карьера
  • 2.1 Начало
  • 2.2 Восхождение к славе
  • 2.3 Международные фильмы и певческая карьера
  • 2.4 Заключительные фильмы
• 3 Активность в защиту прав животных
• 4 Личная жизнь
  • 4.1 Политика и правовые вопросы
• 5 Наследие
• 6 Фильмография
• 7 Дискография
• 8 Книги
• 9 Ссылки
  • 9.1 Примечания
  • 9.2 Сноски
  • 9.3 Источники
• 10 Литература
• 11 Внешние ссылки

Ранние годы

Брижит Анн-Мари Бардо родилась 28 сентября 1934 года в 15-м округе Парижа, Луи Бардо (1896–1975) и Анн-Мари Мюсель (1912–1978). Отец Бардо, выходец из Линьи-ан-Барруа, был инженером и владельцем нескольких промышленных фабрик в Париже. Ее мать была дочерью директора страховой компании. Она выросла в консервативной католической семье, как и ее отец. В детстве она страдала амблиопией, что привело к ухудшению зрения левого глаза. У нее есть младшая сестра, Миджану.

Детство Бардо было благополучным; она жила в семейной квартире с семью спальнями в роскошном 16-м округе. Однако она вспомнила, как в ранние годы чувствовала себя обиженной. Ее отец требовал, чтобы она следовала строгим стандартам поведения, включая хорошие манеры за столом, и носила соответствующую одежду. Ее мать была чрезвычайно избирательна в выборе компаньонов, и в результате у Бардо было очень мало друзей детства. Бардо привела личный травматический инцидент, когда она и ее сестра разбили любимую вазу родителей, когда они играли в доме; ее отец 20 раз хлестал сестер и отныне обращался с ними как с «незнакомцами», требуя, чтобы они обращались к своим родителям с помощью местоимения «vous », которое используется для обращения к незнакомым или респектабельным людям во французском языке. Инцидент решительно привел к тому, что Бардо обиделась на своих родителей и к ее будущему бунтарскому образу жизни.

Во время Второй мировой войны, когда Париж был оккупирован нацистской Германией, Бардо потратил больше времени дома из-за все более строгого гражданского наблюдения. Она увлеклась танцами под пластинки, что ее мать рассматривала как потенциал для балетной карьеры. Бардо был принят в семилетнем возрасте в частную школу Cours Hattemer. Она ходила в школу три дня в неделю, что давало ей достаточно времени, чтобы брать уроки танцев в местной студии по распоряжению матери. В 1949 году Бардо был принят в Парижскую консерваторию. Три года она посещала балетные классы у русского хореографа Бориса Князева. Она также училась в Institut de la Tour, частной католической средней школе рядом с ее домом.

Элен Гордон-Лазарефф, тогдашний директор журналов Elle и Le Jardin des Modes, нанял Бардо в 1949 году в качестве «младшей» манекенщицы. 8 марта 1950 года Бардо (в то время 15 лет) появилась на обложке Elle, которая принесла ей предложение стать актрисой в фильме Les Lauriers sont coupés от режиссера Марка Аллегре. Ее родители возражали против того, чтобы она стала актрисой, но ее дедушка поддержал ее, сказав: «Если эта маленькая девочка станет шлюхой, кино не будет причиной». На прослушивании Бардо познакомилась с Роджером Вадимом, который позже сообщил ей, что она не получила роль. Впоследствии они полюбили друг друга. Ее родители яростно воспротивились их отношениям; ее отец объявил ей однажды вечером, что она продолжит образование в Англии и что он купил ей билет на поезд, поездка должна состояться на следующий день. Бардо отреагировала тем, что сунула голову в печь с открытым огнем; родители остановили ее и в конечном итоге приняли отношения при условии, что она выйдет замуж за Вадима в возрасте 18 лет.

Карьера

Начало

Бардо снова появилась на обложке Elle в 1952 году, после чего ей было предложено сняться в комедии Безумно от любви (1952) с Бурвилем в главной роли и режиссером Жаном Бойе. Ей заплатили 200000 франков (4700 евро в евро в 2019 году) за небольшую роль двоюродного брата главного героя. Бардо сыграла вторую роль в фильме Манина, Девушка в бикини (1953), режиссер Вилли Розье. У нее также были роли в фильмах 1953 года Длинные зубы и Портрет его отца.

Бардо сыграл небольшую роль в финансируемом Голливудом фильме, который снимался в Париже, Акт любви (1953), в главной роли Кирк Дуглас. Она привлекла внимание средств массовой информации, когда посетила Каннский кинофестиваль в апреле 1953 года.

Бардо сыграла ведущую роль в итальянской мелодраме Концерт интриг (1954) и во французском приключенческом фильме Кэролайн и повстанцы (1954). У нее была хорошая роль кокетливой ученицы в Школе любви (1955), напротив Жана Марэ режиссера Марка Аллегре.

Бардо сыграла свою первую значительную англоязычную роль в Докторе на море (1955), как любовное увлечение Дирка Богарда. Этот фильм стал третьим по популярности фильмом в британском прокате того года.

У нее была небольшая роль в Большой маневр (1955) для режиссера Рене Клера <36.>, поддерживая Жерара Филипа и Мишель Морган. Роль была больше в Свет через улицу (1956) для режиссера Жоржа Лакомба. В другом фильме она снялась в голливудском фильме Елена Троянская, сыграв служанку Хелен.

В итальянском фильме 1956 года Mio figlio Nerone Режиссер попросил Бардо сняться блондинкой. Вместо того, чтобы носить парик, чтобы скрыть свои от природы темные волосы, она решила покрасить волосы. Она была так довольна результатами, что решила сохранить цвет волос.

Восхождение к славе

Брижит Бардо в 1958 году Венецианский кинофестиваль

Затем Бардо снялась в четырех фильмах, которые сделали ее звезда. Первым был мюзикл Непослушная девочка (1956), где Бардо сыграла проблемную школьницу. Режиссер Мишель Буазрон, он был написан в соавторстве с Роджером Вадимом и стал большим хитом, заняв 12-е место по популярности во Франции. За ним последовала комедия Сорвать ромашку (1956), написанная Вадимом с режиссером Марком Аллегретом, и еще один успех во Франции. Так же была комедия Невеста слишком красива (1956) с Луи Журданом.

Наконец была мелодрама И Бог создал женщину (1956), дебют Вадима. как режиссер, с Бардо в главных ролях напротив Жана-Луи Трентиньяна и Курта Юргенса. Фильм об аморальном подростке в респектабельном городке имел огромный успех не только во Франции, но и во всем мире — в 1957 году он вошел в десятку самых популярных фильмов Великобритании. Он превратил Бардо в звезду мирового масштаба.. По крайней мере, с 1956 года ее называли «половым котенком «.

. В начале своей карьеры фотографии профессионального фотографа Сэма Левина способствовали изображению чувственности Бардо. На одной Бардо была изображена сзади, одетая в белый корсет. Британский фотограф Корнел Лукас сделал снимки Бардо в 1950-х и 1960-х годах, которые стали репрезентативными для ее публичного образа.

Бардо последовал за «И Бог создал женщину» с Парижской ( 1957), комедия с участием Чарльза Бойера для режиссера Буазронда. Она воссоединилась с Вадимом в другой мелодраме Ночные небеса пали (1958) и сыграла преступника, соблазнившего Жан Габен в фильме В случае невзгод (1958). Последний был 13-м по популярности фильмом года во Франции.

Женщина (1959) для режиссера Жюльен Дювивье был популярен, но комедия Бабетта идет на войну (1959), действие которой происходит во время Второй мировой войны, стала огромным хитом, четвертым по величине фильмом года во Франции. ru был Танцуй со мной (1959) из Буасронда.

Следующим ее фильмом была драма в зале суда Правда (1960) из фильма Анри-Жоржа Клузо. Это была широко разрекламированная постановка, в результате которой Бардо закрутил роман и предпринял попытку самоубийства. Этот фильм стал самым большим коммерческим успехом Бардо во Франции, стал третьим по величине хитом года и был номинирован на премию «Оскар» за лучший иностранный фильм. Бардо была удостоена премии Давида ди Донателло как лучшая иностранная актриса за роль в фильме.

Она снялась в комедии с Вадимом, Пожалуйста, не сейчас! (1961) и сыграла роль в звездной антологии Знаменитые любовные связи (1962).

Бардо снялась вместе с Марчелло Мастроянни в фильме, вдохновленном ее жизнью в Очень частном деле (Vie privée, 1962), режиссера Луи Малле. Более популярным во Франции был Любовь на подушке (1962), еще один для Вадима.

Международные фильмы и певческая карьера

Брижит Бардо посетила Бразилию, 1964

В середине 1960-х Бардо снимал фильмы, которые, казалось, были больше ориентированы на международный рынок. В 1963 году она снялась в фильме Жана-Люка Годара Le Mépris, продюсера Джозефа Э. Левина и в главной роли Джека Паланса. В следующем году она снялась вместе с Энтони Перкинсом в комедии Une ravissante idiote (1964).

Бардо наконец появился в голливудском фильме Дорогая Бриджит (1965), комедии с Джеймсом Стюартом в главной роли в роли академика, сын которого влюбляется в Бардо. Появление Бардо было относительно коротким, и фильм не имел большого успеха.

Более успешной была западная приятельская комедия Viva Maria! (1965) режиссера Луи Малля, в которой снималась Жанна Моро. Это был большой успех во Франции и во всем мире, хотя в США он не стал настолько популярным, как хотелось бы.

После эпизодической роли в фильме Годара Masculin Féminin (1966) она у нее был свой первый провал за долгое время, Две недели в сентябре (1968), совместное французско-английское производство. У нее была небольшая роль в звездном фильме Духи мертвых (1968), где она играла с Аленом Делоном, затем снова попробовала сняться в голливудском фильме: Шалако ( 1968), вестерна с Шоном Коннери в главной роли, что принесло разочарование в прокате.

Она участвовала в нескольких музыкальных шоу и записала много популярных песен в 1960-х и 1970-х, в основном в сотрудничестве с Серж Генсбур, Боб Загури и Саша Дистел, включая «Харлей Дэвидсон»; «Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît»; «Жвачка»; «Контакт»; «Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi»; «L’Appareil À Sous»; «Ла Мадраг»; «On Déménage»; «Сидоние»; «Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?»; «Le Soleil De Ma Vie» (обложка фильма Стиви Уандера «You Are the Sunshine of My Life «); и пресловутое «Je t’aime… moi non-plus». Бардо умолял Генсбура не выпускать этот дуэт, и он выполнил ее желание; в следующем году он перезаписал версию с британской моделью и актрисой Джейн Биркин, которая стала хитом по всей Европе. Версия с Бардо была выпущена в 1986 году и стала популярным хитом загрузки в 2006 году, когда Universal Music сделала свой задний каталог доступным для покупки в Интернете, при этом эта версия песни заняла третье место по популярности среди загрузок.

Заключительные фильмы

Бардо в 1968 году

С 1969 по 1978 год Бардо был официальным лицом Марианны (которая ранее была анонимной), представлявшей свободу Франции.

Les Femmes (1969) провалились, хотя чокнутая комедия Медведь и кукла (1970) показала себя немного лучше. Последние несколько ее фильмов были в основном комедиями: Les Novices (1970), Boulevard du Rhum (1971) (с Лино Вентура ). Легенда о Френчи Кинг (1971) была более популярной, чему способствовала Бардо, снявшаяся вместе с Клаудией Кардинале. Она сделала еще одну с Вадимом, Дон Хуаном, или Если бы Дон Хуан был женщиной (1973), сыграв главную роль. Вадим сказал, что фильм с пометкой «Под тем, что люди называют« мифом о Бардо », был чем-то интересным, хотя она никогда не считалась самой профессиональной актрисой в мире. В течение многих лет, с тех пор как она взрослеет, миф о Бардо стал просто сувенир… В ней мне было любопытно, как в женщине, и я должен был довести с ней что-то до конца, выйти из нее и выразить многие вещи, которые, как я чувствовал, были в ней. Бриджит всегда производила впечатление сексуальной свободы — она абсолютно открытый и свободный человек, без какой-либо агрессии. Поэтому я дал ей роль мужчины — это меня развеселило.

«Если« Дон Хуан не будет моим последним фильмом, то он будет моим предпоследним ». — сказала Бардо во время съемок. Она сдержала свое слово и сняла еще один фильм, Поучительная и радостная история Колино (1973).

В 1973 году Бардо объявила, что уходит из актерской карьеры. как «способ выйти из моды элегантно».

Активизм в защиту прав животных

В 1973 году, незадолго до своего 39-летия, Бардо объявила о выходе на пенсию энт. После появления более чем в сорока фильмах и записи нескольких музыкальных альбомов, в первую очередь с Сержем Генсбуром, она использовала свою известность для продвижения прав животных.

В 1986 году она основала Бриджит Фонд Бардо за благополучие и защиту животных. Она стала вегетарианкой и собрала три миллиона франков (811000 евро в евро в 2019 году) для финансирования фонда путем продажи ювелирных изделий и личных вещей с аукциона.

Она является активным борцом за права животных и ярым противником потребления конина. В поддержку защиты животных она осудила охоту на тюленей в Канаде во время визита в эту страну с Полом Уотсоном из Общества охраны морских пастухов. 25 мая 2011 года Общество охраны природы «Морской пастух» переименовало свое судно-перехватчик MV Gojira в MV Brigitte Bardot в знак признательности за ее поддержку.

Однажды она кастрировала соседского осла во время присмотра за ней. она была связана с «сексуальными домогательствами» в отношении ее собственного осла и кобылы, за что она была привлечена к суду владельцем осла в 1989 году. Бардо написала письмо президенту Китая Цзян Цзэминю в 1999 году, опубликованное во французском журнале VSD, в котором она обвинила китайцев в «пытках медведей и убийстве последних тигров и носорогов в мире для создания афродизиаков ».

Она пожертвовала более 140 000 долларов за два года на массовую стерилизацию и программу усыновления бездомных собак Бухареста, количество 300 000.

В августе 2010 года Бардо направил письмо королеве Дании Маргрете II Дании с призывом к государю прекратить убийство дельфинов в Фарерские острова. В письме Бардо описывает это мероприятие как «жуткое зрелище», которое «является позором для Дании и Фарерских островов… Это не охота, а массовая резня… устаревшая традиция, не имеющая приемлемого оправдания в сегодняшнем мире. мир «.

22 апреля 2011 года министр культуры Франции Фредерик Миттеран официально включил корриду в культурное наследие страны. Бардо написал ему крайне критическое письмо протеста.

С 2013 года Фонд Брижит Бардо в сотрудничестве с Индийским международным фондом Монлам Кагьюпа организовал ежегодный ветеринарный лагерь. Из года в год она посвятила себя делу защиты животных в Бодхгайе.

23 июля 2015 года Бардо осудила план австралийского политика Грега Ханта по уничтожению 2 миллионов кошек для спасения исчезающих видов. такие как Варру и Ночной попугай.

Личная жизнь

Бардо и Сами Фрей в Сен-Тропе, 1963

Он 20 декабря 1952 года в возрасте 18 лет Бардо вышла замуж за режиссера Роже Вадима. Они развелись в 1957 году; У них не было детей вместе, но они поддерживали связь и даже сотрудничали в более поздних проектах. Заявленной причиной развода стали романы Бардо с двумя другими мужчинами. В 1956 году у нее возникли романтические отношения с Жаном-Луи Трентиньяном, который был ее партнером по фильму И Бог создал женщину. Трентиньян в то время был женат на актрисе Стефан Одран. Они прожили вместе около двух лет, до и после развода Бардо с Вадимом, но так и не поженились. Их отношения осложнялись частым отсутствием Трентиньяна из-за военной службы и романом Бардо с музыкантом Жильбер Беко.

В начале 1958 года ее разрыв с Трентиньяном быстро сменился нервным срывом в Италии. газетные сообщения. Также была отмечена попытка самоубийства со снотворным двумя днями ранее, но ее менеджер по связям с общественностью отверг ее. Она выздоровела в течение нескольких недель и начала отношения с актером Жаком Шарье. Она забеременела задолго до того, как они поженились 18 июня 1959 года. Единственный ребенок Бардо, ее сын Николя-Жак Шаррье, родился 11 января 1960 года. После того, как она и Шаррье развелись в 1962 году, Николас вырос в семье Шаррье и почти не общался. со своей биологической матерью до его совершеннолетия.

У Бардо был роман с Гленном Фордом в начале 1960-х. С 1963 по 1965 год она жила с музыкантом Бобом Загури.

Третий брак Бардо был с немецким плейбоем-миллионером Гюнтером Саксом, который длился с 14 июля 1966 года по 7 октября 1969 года, хотя они и расстались предыдущий год. В 1968 году она начала встречаться с Патриком Жилем, который снялся вместе с ней в фильме Медведь и кукла (1970); но она разорвала их отношения весной 1971 года.

В течение следующих нескольких лет Бардо последовательно встречалась с барменом / лыжным инструктором Кристианом Кальтом, владельцем клуба Луиджи Рицци, певцом Сержем Генсбуром, писателем Джон Гилмор, актер Уоррен Битти, и Лоран Вергез, ее партнер по фильму Дон Хуан, или Если бы Дон Хуан был женщиной.

В 1974 году Бардо снялась в обнаженном виде. сниматься в журнале Playboy, отметившем ее 40-летие. В 1975 году она познакомилась с художником Мирославом Брозеком и позировала для некоторых его скульптур. Брозек был также актером; его сценический псевдоним [fr ]. Пара жила вместе в доме La Madrague в Сен-Тропе. Они расстались в декабре 1979 года.

С 1980 по 1985 год Бардо жила в отношениях с французским телепродюсером. [fr ].

28 сентября 1983 года, в свой 49-й день рождения, Бардо приняла передозировку снотворного или снотворного. транквилизаторы с красным вином. Ее пришлось срочно доставить в больницу, где ее жизнь была спасена после того, как желудочный насос был использован для удаления таблеток из ее тела.

Бардо лечилась от рака груди в 1983–1984 годах..

Четвертый и нынешний муж Бардо — Бернар д’Ормаль, бывший советник Жана-Мари Ле Пена, бывшего лидера крайне правой партии Национальный фронт (ныне Национальное собрание ); они женаты с 16 августа 1992 года.

Политика и правовые вопросы

Бардо выразил поддержку президенту Шарлю де Голлю в 1960-х годах. Ее муж Бернар д’Ормаль — бывший советник Национального фронта (ныне Национальное собрание ), главной ультраправой партии Франции, известной своими националистическими и консервативными взглядами.

В В своей книге 1999 года Le Carré de Pluton («Площадь Плутона») Бардо критикует процедуру, использованную в ритуальном забое овец во время мусульманского праздника Курбан-байрам. Кроме того, в разделе книги, озаглавленном «Открытое письмо моей потерянной Франции», Бардо пишет, что «моя страна, Франция, моя родина, моя земля снова захвачены перенаселенностью иностранцев, особенно мусульман». За этот комментарий французский суд в июне 2000 г. оштрафовал ее на 30 000 франков (6000 евро в евро 2019 г.). В 1997 г. она была оштрафована за первоначальную публикацию этого открытого письма в Le Figaro, а в 1998 г. — за делает аналогичные замечания.

Бардо и Иоанн Павел II в Риме, 1995

В своей книге 2003 года Un cri dans le silent (Крик в тишине) она противопоставляла своих близких друзей-геев сегодняшние гомосексуалисты, которые «шевелят задом, поднимают мизинцы вверх и своими маленькими кастратовскими голосами стонут о том, через что их вынесли эти ужасные гетеросексуалы», и говорят, что некоторые современные гомосексуалисты ведут себя как «ярмарочные уроды». В свою защиту Бардо написала в письме французскому гей-журналу: «Помимо моего мужа — который, возможно, тоже однажды перейдет, — я полностью окружена гомосексуалистами. В течение многих лет они были моей поддержкой, моими друзьями, мои приемные дети, мои доверенные лица ».

В своей книге она писала о таких проблемах, как расовое смешение, иммиграция, роль женщин в политике и ислам. В книге также есть раздел, атакующий то, что она назвала смешением генов, и восхваление предыдущих поколений, которые, по ее словам, отдали свои жизни, чтобы изгнать захватчиков.

10 июня 2004 г. Бардо был осужден в четвертый раз. французским судом за разжигание расовой ненависти и оштрафован на 5000 евро. Бардо отрицал обвинение в расовой ненависти и извинился в суде, заявив: «Я никогда сознательно не хотел никого обидеть. Это не в моем характере».

В 2008 году Бардо был осужден за разжигание расовой / религиозной ненависти в отношении к ее письму, копию которого она отправила Николя Саркози, когда он был министром внутренних дел Франции. В письме говорилось о ее возражениях против мусульман во Франции ритуального забоя овец, перерезав им горло без предварительной анестезии. Она также сказала, говоря о мусульманах, что ей «надоело находиться под пятой этого населения, которое разрушает нас, разрушает нашу страну и навязывает свои привычки». Судебный процесс завершился 3 июня 2008 года обвинительным приговором и штрафом в размере 15 000 евро, самым крупным из ее штрафов на сегодняшний день. Прокурор заявила, что ей надоело обвинять Бардо в преступлениях, связанных с расовой ненавистью.

Во время президентских выборов в США в 2008 году она заклеймила Республиканскую партию вице-президентом. кандидат Сара Пэйлин как «глупая» и «позорящая женщин». Она раскритиковала бывшего губернатора Аляски за ее позицию в отношении глобального потепления и контроля над оружием. Она также была оскорблена поддержкой Пэйлин разведки нефти в Арктике и тем, что она не заботилась о защите белых медведей.

13 августа 2010 года Бардо набросился на директора Кайла Ньюмана по поводу его плана по созданию биографический фильм о ее жизни. Она сказала ему: «Подожди, пока я умру, прежде чем снимать фильм о моей жизни!» иначе «искры полетят». В 2015 году она пригрозила подать в суд на бутик в Сен-Тропе, торгующий вещами с ее лицом.

Бардо выразила поддержку Марин ле Пен, лидеру Национального фронта (National Ралли ), назвав ее «Жанной д’Арк 21 века». Она поддержала Ле Пена на президентских выборах во Франции в 2017 году.

19 марта 2019 года Бардо направила открытое письмо префекту Реюньон [fr ], в котором она упомянула жителей острова Индийского океана как «аборигенов, сохранивших гены дикарей». На следующий день прокурор подал против нее иск за разжигание расовой ненависти.

Наследие

Статуя Брижит Бардо в Бузиосе, Бразилия

В моде Бардо вырез (широко открытая шея, обнажающая оба плеча) назван в ее честь. Бардо популяризировал этот стиль, который особенно используется для вязаных свитеров или джемперов, хотя он также используется для других топов и платьев. Бардо популяризировала бикини в своих ранних фильмах, таких как Manina (1952) (выпущенный во Франции как Manina, la fille sans voiles). В следующем году ее также сфотографировали в бикини на каждом пляже юга Франции во время Каннского кинофестиваля. Она привлекла дополнительное внимание, когда сняла фильм … И Бог создал женщину (1956) с Жаном-Луи Трентиньяном (выпущен во Франции как Et Dieu Créa La Femme). В нем Бардо изображает аморального подростка, прыгающего в бикини и соблазняющего мужчин в респектабельном городке. Фильм имел международный успех. Бикини в 1950-х годах было относительно хорошо принято во Франции, но все еще считалось рискованным в Соединенных Штатах. Еще в 1959 году Энн Коул, один из крупнейших дизайнеров купальных костюмов в США, сказала: «Это не что иное, как стринги. Это на грани приличия».

Она также внесла свой вклад в моду. прическа choucroute («квашеная капуста») (своего рода прическа «улей» ) и одежда в клетку после ношения розового платья в клетку, разработанного Жаком Эстерелем, на ее свадьба с Шаррье. Она была героем картины Энди Уорхола.

Мода Бардо в 1961 году

Поза Бардо описывает культовый портрет модели, снятый примерно в 1960 году, где Бардо одет только в пару черных колготок, скрещенных на ногах. спереди и скрещенными на груди. Этой позе много раз подражали модели и знаменитости, такие как Линдси Лохан, Эль Макферсон и Моника Беллуччи.

Помимо популяризации купального костюма в стиле бикини, Бардо также приписывают популяризацию города Св. Тропе и город Армасан-дус-Бузиос в Бразилии, который она посетила в 1964 году со своим тогдашним парнем, бразильским музыкантом Бобом Загури. Место, где она остановилась в Бузиусе, сегодня — это небольшой отель Pousada do Sol, а также французский ресторан Cigalon. В городе находится статуя Бардо работы Кристины Мотта.

Бардо боготворили молодые Джон Леннон и Пол Маккартни. Они планировали снять фильм с участием The Beatles и Бардо, похожий на A Hard Day’s Night, но планы так и не были реализованы. Первая жена Леннона Синтия Пауэлл осветлила цвет своих волос, чтобы больше походить на Бардо, в то время как Джордж Харрисон сравнил Бардо и его первую жену Патти Бойд, как написала Синтия. позже в «Повороте Леннона». Леннон и Бардо встретились лично однажды, в 1968 году в отеле Mayfair Hotel, которого представил пресс-агент Beatles Дерек Тейлор ; нервный Леннон перед приездом принял ЛСД, и ни одна из звезд не впечатлила другую. (Леннон вспоминал в своих мемуарах: «Я был под кислотой, а она собиралась уходить».) Согласно заметкам на обложке его первого (одноименного) альбома, музыкант Боб Дилан посвятил первый песня, которую он когда-либо писал Бардо. Он также упомянул ее по имени в «I Shall Be Free», который появился на его втором альбоме The Freewheelin ‘Bob Dylan. Первая в истории официальная выставка, посвященная влиянию и наследию Бардо, открылась в Булонь-Бийанкур 29 сентября 2009 года — на следующий день после ее 75-летия. Австралийская поп-группа Бардо была названа в ее честь.

Фильмография

Дискография

Бардо выпустил несколько альбомов и синглов в течение 1960-х и 1970-х.

• «Sidonie» (1961, Barclay), слова Чарльз Крос, музыка Жана-Макса Ривьера и Яниса Спаноса, гитара Брижит — первая песня, из фильма Vie privée
• Brigitte Bardot Sings (1963, Philips) — сотрудничество Сержа Генсбура («L’Appareil à sous», «Je me donne à qui me plaît»), Жан-Макс Ривьер как писатель («La Madrague ») и певец («Tiens! C’est toi! «), Клод Боллинг и Жерар Буржуа
• BB (1964, Philips) с Клодом Боллингом, Аленом Горагером, Жераром Буржуа
• «Ах! Les p’tites femmes de Paris», дуэт с Жанной Моро в Viva Мария (1965, Philips), режиссер Жорж Делеру
• Брижит Бардо Шоу 67 (1967, Меркьюри) с Сержем Генсбуром (пишет «Харлей Дэвидсон», «Комикс», «Контакт» и «Бонни и Клайд »), Саша Дистел, Манитас де Плата, Клод Брассер и Дэвид Бейли
• Шоу Брижит Бардо (1968, Меркьюри), темы Фрэнсиса Лая
• Je t’aime… moi non-plus, дуэт 1968 года с Сержем Генсбуром
• [Burlington Cameo Brings You] Special Bardot (1968. RCA) с «Хорошей жизнью» Саши Дистел и «Комикс (с Генсбуром) на английском языке
• Сингл-дуэт с Сержем Генсбуром« Бонни и Клайд » (Фонтана)
• «La Fille de paille» / «Je voudrais perdre la mémoire» (1969, Philips), сотрудничество с Жераром Ленорманом
• Tu veux ou tu veux pas (1970, Barclay) with the hit «Tu veux ou tu veux pas» (the French version of the Brazilian «Nem Vem Que Não Tem»), directed by François Bernheim; «John and Michael», hymn to the collective love; «Mon léopard et moi», a collaboration with Darry Cowl, and «Depuis que tu m’as quitté»
• «Nue au soleil»/»C’est une bossa nova» (1970, Barclay)
• «Chacun son homme», duet with Annie Girardot in Les Novices (1970, Barclay)
• «Boulevard du rhum» and «Plaisir d’amour», duet with Guy Marchand, in Boulevard du rhum (1971, Barclay)
• «Vous ma lady», duet with Laurent Vergez, and «Tu es venu mon amour» (1973, Barclay)
• «Le Soleil de ma vie», duet with Sacha Distel
• «Toutes les bêtes sont à aimer» (1982, Polydor)

Books

Bardot has also written five books:

• Noonoah: Le petit phoque blanc (Grasset, 1978)
• Initales B.B. (autobiography, Grasset Fasquelle, 1996)
• Le Carré de Pluton (Grasset Fasquelle, 1999)
• Un Cri Dans Le Silence (Editions Du Rocher, 2003)
• Pourquoi? (Editions Du Rocher, 2006)

References

Notes

Footnotes

Sources

Literature

• Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) Brigitte Bardot. Filme 1953–1961. Anfänge des Mythos B.B. (Hildesheim 1982) ISBN 3-88842-109-8.
• Servat, Henry-Jean (2016). Brigitte Bardot – My Life in Fashion (Hardback). Paris: Flammation S.A. ISBN 978-2—08-0202697.

External links

• Fondation Brigitte Bardot (in French)
• Brigitte Bardot on IMDb
• Brigitte Bardot at the TCM Movie Database
• Brigitte Bardot at AllMovie