Background

Brigitte Bardot was born on 28 September 1934 to Louis Bardot and Anne-Marie. Her father was an engineer engaged in the family business. Her family was an upper-middle-class Roman Catholic one.

Education

As a child, Brigitte Bardot attended Cours Hattemer, a private school, and also received classes at home. Her mother enrolled her in dance classes when she was young and Brigitte realized that she was naturally talented at dancing.

In seven years, Bridget has taught dance in the classroom under the guidance of Marcel Burge, who had been prime Parisian opera. Bridget capable and talented mentor succeed, the young Brigitte Bardot entered the National Conservatory of Dance in Paris. At the Conservatory, Bridget led dance genius Boris Knyazev honed his talent in dance to perfection, her movements were graceful and perfectly plastic.

Beautiful and graceful, she began modeling as a teenager and appeared on the cover of ‘Elle’ in 1950. She came to the notice of the film director Roger Vadim who arranged for her to audition for a role in ‘Les lauriers sont coupés.’ Brigitte got the role but the film was never made. However, this incident made her seriously consider acting as a career.

Career

Roger Vadim tried hard to convince parents to audition Bridget for the role in some movie. The perseverance of Roger Vadim was related to the fact that he fell in love at first sight in Brigitte Bardot, but the young age of Bridget, it was fifteen years old, did not allow him to care for her. Roger looked after Bridget very tactful and elegant, and in three years, when she became an adult, Brigitte Bardot agreed to become his wife.

Roger Vadim, a beginner writer and director, always helping his wife Brigitte Bardot in her film career. No time to finish the first part Bridget in the film, as it is released in the next film with a famous Jean Marais.

Brigitte Bardot became a real celebrity in 1955 when she starred in the controversial film "And God Created Woman." Roger Vadim wrote it specifically for Brigitte Bardot. It is about a beautiful woman who feels her power over men and despising hypocrisy aims in life to enjoy it. With the advent of Brigitte Bardot in the film industry, there is erotic in the film. Roger Vadim used one key for all their first films with Bridget - as sexual aggression actress. This is especially noticeable in the films "Jewelers Moonlight" and "Woman and a clown." That is the role of these films helped Bridget to remove some of the stiffness of the game and make her freer.

In early film career, Brigitte Bardot uses the same image of a sexy and young girl, in fact, she plays herself and became the idol of youth role models. Women around the world have tried to imitate the roles Brigitte Bardot, which led to the incident, after which the court banned the screening of films with Brigitte Bardot. In the film "Woman of Paris," directed by Michel Boiron, she was able to convey the image of a person, not just a sexy young girl.

The next step is the role in the movie "Babette Goes to War," directed by Christian-Jacque, where her role is not associated with female sexuality. In 1960, Brigitte Bardot appeared in the film "The Truth," where she plays the role of a young girl from the provinces. Despite having a similar image of sexuality for Bridget in this role, she was able to show the drama of the situation of many of her characters, for example, when the hero kills his enemy and commits suicide. French critics were delighted with the work of Bridget, and "The Truth" has collected many awards and Brigitte Bardot was highly recognized.

World fame came to the bridge, but the work and the psychological impact on Bridget made her very depressed, which led to the suicide attempt. Friends helped Bridget to survive a nervous shock, and Louis Malle persuaded Bridget Bordeaux to make a film about it. She agreed and as a result, there was a picture "Life," which tells the story of the provincial girl turned into a movie star.

During the filming of "Life," Brigitte Bardot printed several articles denouncing the extremists of the CCA, so the premiere was disrupted as the Paris authorities have banned the screening of the movie in cinemas on the Champs Elysees, fearing attacks.

Next was a wonderful role in the film "Contempt," "Viva Maria!", "Women," "The Bear and the Doll" and "Shalako," where she worked with Sean Connery. All films so impressed the audience that in November 1968, Brigitte Bardot has been voted the most popular actress.

Apart from work in movies, Brigitte Bardot studied singing, she sang and recorded music albums, which enjoyed popularity. Work in the film "Colin RO-Shirts" is the latest, after the film's release in 1973, Brigitte Bardot has ceased to act in films.

Achievements

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  Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot embarked on an acting career during the 1950s and soon became one of the best-known sex symbols of that era. Blessed with radiant beauty, poise, and grace, she was the epitome of femininity and gained a reputation for her free-flowing sensuality that made her famous not just in France but on an international level. She had acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress. She was also awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985 but refused to accept it.
  
  Following her retirement from the show business, she became an active animal rights activist and established the Foundation for the Protection of Distressed Animals.

Works

More photos

• book

  • Noonoah, le petit phoque blanc 1978
  • Initiales B.B: Mémoires 1996
  • Le carré de Pluton: Mémoires 1999
  • Un cri dans le silence 2003
  • Pourquoi ? 2006

• movie

  • Mio figlio Nerone

    (Mio figlio Nerone, released in the United States as Nero'...)

    1956
  • Contempt

    (Writer Paul Javal's marriage ends when he lets his wife, ...)

    1963
  • La vérité

    (As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gil...)

    1960
  • L'affaire d'une nuit

    (t Happened All Night is a 1960 French film directed by He...)

    1960
  • Masculin Feminin

    (Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a young idealist trying to figu...)

    1966
  • En Cas De Malheur

    (A girl (Brigitte Bardot) of the streets, arrested for rob...)

    1958
  • Helen of Troy

    (Helen of Troy is a 2003 British-American television minis...)

    1956
  • Shalako

    (While guiding a hunting party of clueless European aristo...)

    1968
  • Les Pétroleuses

    (An outlaw (Brigitte Bardot) and her four sisters fight an...)

    1971
  • Doctor At Sea

    (A youthful doctor tires of general practice and signs up ...)

    1955
  • Le Testament d'Orphee

    (Realizing he is not long for this world, an aging 18th-ce...)

    1960
  • Une Ravissante idiote

    (A Soviet agent (Anthony Perkins) recruits a beautiful but...)

    1964
  • La Pequeña B.B.

    (Editors (Louis Jourdan, Micheline Presle) of a French mag...)

    1956
  • Le Trou normand

    (A simple French villager (Bourvil) with a tricky cousin (...)

    1952
  • Caroline & the Rebels

    (A swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted so...)

    1955
  • Babette s'en va-t-en guerre

    (Beautiful housekeeper Babette (Brigitte Bardot) travels t...)

    1959
  • Cette Sacree Gamine

    (Jean, a nightclub entertainer, is assigned the task of be...)

    1956
  • La Chica del Bikini

    (Gerard, a 25-year-old student, decides to find a treasure...)

    1952
  • A Coeur Joie

    (Romantic complications arise when a fashion model meets a...)

    1967
  • Si Don Juan Fuese Mujer

    (A French heiress (Brigitte Bardot) confesses to the murde...)

    1971
  • L'Ours et la poupée

    (The Bear and the Doll is a 1970 French film directed by M...)

    1970
  • Les bijoutiers du clair de lune

    (Ursula finishes her studies and returns to her aunty Flor...)

    1958
  • Una Vida Privada

    (A Very Private Affair is a 1962 French film directed by L...)

    1962
  • Boulevard du rhum

    (During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is o...)

    1971
  • Si Versailles m'était conté

    (Royal Affairs in Versailles is a 1954 French-Italian hist...)

    1953
  • La Lumiere D'en Face

    (Tensions mount as the lonely wife of a trucker becomes in...)

    1955
  • La Bride Sur Le Cou

    (A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky ...)

    1961
  • Dear Brigitte

    (Professor Leaf reconciles to the fact that his eight-year...)

    1965
  • Futures vedettes

    (Eric, a handsome music teacher draws the attention of his...)

    1955
  • En effeuillant la marguerite

    (Due to an urgent need of money, Agnes participates in an ...)

    1956
  • Come Dance With Me

    (Herve argues with his wife, after which he meets an appea...)

    1959
  • Les Grandes manoeuvres

    (Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can sed...)

    1955
  • Portrait de son Père

    (His Father's Portrait is a 1953 French comedy film starri...)

    1953
  • El Descanso Del Guerrero

    (Genevieve, an innocent woman, gets involved with Renaud, ...)

    1962
  • Histoires extraordinaires

    (Spirits of the Dead is an "omnibus" film comprising three...)

    1968
  • La Femme et le pantin

    (The Woman and the Puppet is an 1898 novel by Pierre Louÿs.)

    1959
  • Viva Maria!

    (Maria falls in love with a local rebellion leader. When h...)

    1965
  • ...And God Created Woman

    (In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but...)

    1956

• music

  • Sings 1963
  • B.B.: La Légende 1964
  • Ah! Les P'Tites Femmes De Paris 1965
  • Brigitte Bardot Show 67 1967
  • Je T'aime, Moi Non Plus 1968
  • Chacun Son Homme by Brigitte Bardot & Annie Girard 1970
  • Sur Le Boulevard Du Rhum 1971
  • Vous Ma Lady 1973

Religion

Brigitte Bardot was raised a Catholic.

Politics

Bardot expressed support for President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s. Her husband Bernard d'Ormale is a former adviser of the National Front (now National Rally), the main far-right party in France, known for its nationalist and conservative beliefs.

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 (€6,000 in 2019 euros) 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.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (A Scream in the Silence), 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 said some contemporary homosexuals behave like "fairground freaks." In her own defense, 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."

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.

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

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, the largest of her fines to date. The prosecutor stated she was tired of charging Bardot with offenses related to racial hatred.

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 by her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.

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."

Bardot expressed support for Marine le Pen, leader of the National Front (National Rally), calling her "the Joan of Arc of the 21st century." She endorsed Le Pen in the 2017 French presidential election.

Views

An outspoken animal rights activist, Bardot established (1987) an animal welfare organization, the Foundation Brigitte Bardot. In later years she garnered attention for a series of controversial remarks that resulted in her being fined on several occasions for inciting racial hatred. Notably, in 2004 Bardot was convicted for comments made about Muslims in her book Un Cri dans le silence (2003; "A Scream in the Silence").

Quotations: "I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy."

"All these animals are put in cages, never see the sun or grass, and they leave this hell only to go to the slaughter-house. For me intensive breeding is a sign of human degeneration. If one can find that acceptable, then we humans have lost all moral value. … (How long have you been a vegetarian?) Since 1962, when I went on French television to denounce conditions of animal slaughter. That is when I became aware of the horror of factory farming, live transports and the killings of farm animals. I have always been sensitive to animal distress but from then on I refused to be involved in such inhuman industrial deaths."

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds."

"I accept differences of cultures in all countries. But unfortunately, cows are grown to be eaten, dogs are not. I accept that many people eat beef, but a cultured country does not allow its people to eat dogs."

"It is impossible to look young unless one is young."

"To experience the loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world."

"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."

Membership

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  Foundation Brigitte Bardot

Personality

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 also 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. 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. 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."

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. She was the subject of an Andy Warhol painting.

The Bardot pose describes an iconic modeling 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. This pose has been emulated numerous times by models and celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Elle Macpherson, and Monica Bellucci.

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. The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta.

Bardot was idolized by the young John Lennon and Paul McCartney. 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. 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 the Mayfair 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.") 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. The Australian pop group Bardot was named after her.

Physical Characteristics: Bardot is a breast cancer survivor.

Brigitte Bardo had a platinum blonde hair, voluptuous figure, seductive deep voice, gapped front teeth and a bouffant hairstyle known as the "Bardot bun."

Quotes from others about the person

• Jane Fonda wrote in the magazine Playboy: "The film "And God Created Woman" was one of the first to talk about the sexual freedom of women."

Interests

• Taking care of animals, reading, doing crosswords, and cooking vegetarian food - cakes

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Saint Francis of Assisi

• Politicians

  President Charles de Gaulle, Marine le Pen

• Writers

  Don Quixote, novel by Miguel de Cervantes

• Artists

  Roger Vadim

• Sport & Clubs

  Dancing

• Music & Bands

  John Lennon, Paul McCartney

Connections

On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director Roger Vadim. They divorced in 1957, after less than five years of marriage; 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. While married to Vadim, Bardot had an affair with Jean-Louis Trintignant, who was her co-star in And God Created Woman. Trintignant at the time was married to actress Stéphane Audran. The two 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.

In early 1958, her divorce from Vadim was followed in quick order by her break-up with Trintignant, and 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. She recovered within weeks and began an affair 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. 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.

Nicolas-Jacques married in 1984 to Anna Lina Bjerkan, Norwegian model and daughter of Norwegian diplomat and he has two daughters Anna (born 1985), and Thea (born 1990). Bardot had an affair with Glenn Ford in the early 1960s.

Bardot's third marriage was to German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs and lasted from 14 July 1966 to 1 October 1969. In 1968, she began dating Patrick Gilles, who went on to co-star with her in The Bear and the Doll (1970); but she ended their relationship in spring 1971.

Over the next few years, Bardot dated in succession bartender/ski instructor Christian Kalt, club owner Luigi Rizzi, musician (later producer) Bob Zagury, 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. The longest of these relationships was with sculptor Miroslav Brozek; she lived with him from 1975 to December 1979 and posed for some of his sculptures. After breaking up with Brozek, she was in a long-term relationship with French TV producer Allain Bougrain-duBourg.

Bardot's fourth and current husband is Bernard d'Ormale, a former adviser of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far right party National Front (now National Rally); they were married on 16 August 1992.

Father:

Louis Bardot

(1896 - 1975)

Mother:

Anne-Marie Bardot

(1912-1978)

Ex-husband:

Roger Vadim

(married 1952–1957)

Roger Vadim was a French screenwriter, film director, and producer, as well as an author, artist, and occasional actor. His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, such as And God Created Woman (1956), Barbarella (1968), and Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971).

Ex-husband:

Jacques Charrier

(married 1959–1962)

Jacques Charrier is a French actor in both film and the theater, a film producer, and an artist in painting and ceramics. He was formerly married to film actress Brigitte Bardot.

Ex-husband:

Gunter Sachs

(married 1966–1969)

Gunter Sachs was a German photographer, author, Rosenberg student, industrialist, and latterly head of an institute that researched claims of astrology. As a young man he became a sportsman, then gained international fame as a documentary film-maker, documentary photographer, and third husband of Brigitte Bardot.

husband:

Bernard d'Ormale

(married 1992)

Bardot's fourth and current husband is Bernard d'Ormale, a former adviser of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far right party National Front (now National Rally); they were married on 16 August 1992.

Son:

Nicolas-Jacques Charrier

(born 6 November 1936 in Metz)

Nicolas-Jacques Charrier is a French actor in both film and the theater, a film producer, and an artist in painting and ceramics. He was formerly married to film actress Brigitte Bardot.

Sister:

Mijanou Bardot

Marie-Jeanne Bardot is a French actress and writer. She starred in the 1960 film Sex Kittens Go to College with Mamie van Doren. She is married to Patrick Bauchau and they have a daughter, Camille. She lives in Los Angeles. She is the younger sister of Brigitte Bardot.

Partner:

Jean-Louis Trintignant

(born 11 December 1930)

Jean-Louis Trintignant is a French actor. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Best Actor Award at the César Awards 2013. He starred in classic films such as A Man and a Woman, The Great Silence, The Conformist, Three Colours: Red, and Amour.

colleague:

Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights, the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria!, and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea.

colleague:

Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films, between 1962 and 1983.

colleague:

Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italian film actor. He is regarded as Italy's biggest film star of all time.

References

• Brigitte Bardot - Twitter
• Initiales B.B: Mémoires
• Brigitte Bardot: A Biography
• Brigitte Bardot: The Life, the Legend, the Movies
• Brigitte Bardot: My Life in Fashion
• Brigitte Bardot
• Bardot