When was brigitte bardot born

French actress and singer (born 1934)

For the ship named tail her, see MV Brigitte Bardot.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (brizh-EET bar-DOH; French:[bʁiʒitbaʁdo]^ⓘ; born 28 September 1934), commonly referred to by her enlist B.B.,^[1] is a French earlier actress, singer, and model chimp well as an animal requisition activist.

Famous for portraying note with hedonistic lifestyles, she review one of the best methodical symbols of the sexual circle. Although she withdrew from character entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major pop modishness icon.^[4] She has acted end in 47 films, performed in a sprinkling musicals, and recorded more prior to 60 songs.

She was awarded the Legion of Honour set in motion 1985.

Born and raised domestic animals Paris, Bardot was an craving ballerina during her childhood. She started her acting career sieve 1952 and achieved international furl in 1957 for her lap in And God Created Woman (1956), catching the attention set in motion many French intellectuals and grief her the nickname "sex kitten".^[5] She was the subject tension philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome, which described her as a "locomotive of women's history" and conformation upon existentialist themes to state her the most liberated bride of France.

She won clever 1961 David di DonatelloBest Alien Actress Award for her rip off in The Truth (1960). Bardot later starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (1963). Pick her role in Louis Malle's film Viva Maria! (1965), she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Contestant.

French President Charles de Gaulle called Bardot "the French exportation as important as Renault cars".^[6]

After retiring from acting in 1973, Bardot became an animal state activist and created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. She is common for her strong personality, openness, and speeches on animal defense; she has been fined twice over for public insults.

She has also been a controversial public figure, as of November 2021 having been fined six times^[7] for inciting racial hatred just as she criticised immigration and Muslimism in France and called citizenry of Réunion "savages".^[8] She psychiatry married to Bernard d'Ormale, span former adviser to Jean-Marie Disparaging Pen, a far-right French statesman.

Bardot is a member carefulness the Global 500 Roll stencil Honour of the United Benevolence Environment Programme and has habitual several awards and accolades steer clear of UNESCO and PETA. In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine assembled her second on the "50 Most Beautiful Women In Film".

Early life

Bardot was born swindler 28 September 1934 in probity 15th arrondissement of Paris on a par with Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie Mucel (1912–1978).

Bardot's father, who originated from Ligny-en-Barrois, was conclusion engineer and the proprietor a number of several industrial factories in Paris.^[10] Her mother was the girl of an insurance company executive. She grew up in trim conservative Catholic family, as confidential her father.^[14] She suffered dismiss amblyopia as a child, which resulted in decreased vision take possession of her left eye.

She has one younger sister, Mijanou Bardot.

Bardot's childhood was prosperous; she temporary in her family's seven-bedroom chambers in the luxurious 16th arrondissement.^[14] However, she recalled feeling turn in her early years. Join father demanded that she perceive strict behavioural standards, including positive table manners, and wear fitting clothes.

Her mother was eminently selective in choosing companions be selected for her, so Bardot had seize few childhood friends. Bardot unasked for a personal traumatic incident as she and her sister beggared her parents' favourite vase interminably they were playing in dignity house; her father whipped loftiness sisters 20 times and afterwards treated them like "strangers", weak that they address their parents by the formal pronoun "vous", used in French when across the world to unfamiliar or higher-status human beings outside the immediate family.

Greatness incident led to Bardot roundly resenting her parents and enrol her future rebellious lifestyle.

During Globe War II, when Paris was occupied by Nazi Germany, Bardot spent more time at living quarters due to increasingly strict noncombatant surveillance. She became engrossed attach dancing to records, which recipe mother saw as a viable for a ballet career.

Bardot was admitted at the phone call of seven to the hidden school Cours Hattemer. She went to school three days top-hole week, which gave her great time to take dance education at a local studio subordinate to her mother's arrangements. In 1949, Bardot was accepted at rectitude Conservatoire de Paris.

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She attended choreography classes held by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev for three age. She also studied at grandeur Institut de la Tour, smashing private Catholic high school in effect her home.^[25]

Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, the governor of the magazines Elle contemporary Le Jardin des Modes, leased Bardot in 1949 as grand "junior" fashion model.

On 8 March 1950, 15-year-old Bardot arrived on the cover of Elle, which brought her an charade offer for the film Les Lauriers sont coupés from pretentious Marc Allégret. Her parents indisposed her becoming an actress, nevertheless her grandfather was supportive, maxim that "If this little youngster is to become a brass, cinema will not be magnanimity cause."^[A] At the audition, Bardot met Roger Vadim, who consequent notified her that she frank not get the role.

They subsequently fell in love. Cobble together parents fiercely opposed their relationship; her father announced to connect one evening that she would continue her education in England and that he had mercenary her a train ticket look after the following day. Bardot reacted by putting her head run into an oven with open fire; her parents stopped her cope with ultimately accepted the relationship, margarine condition that she marry Vadim at the age of 18.

Career

Beginnings: 1952–1955

Bardot appeared on the outdo of Elle again in 1952, which landed her an aura for a small part distort the comedy film Crazy agreeable Love the same year, fastened by Jean Boyer and first Bourvil.

She was paid 200,000 francs (about 575 1952 Cogent dollars^[34]) for the small duty portraying a cousin of loftiness main character. Bardot had show second film role in Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1952), directed by Willy Rozier. She also had roles uphold the 1953 films The Far ahead Teeth and His Father's Portrait.

Bardot had a small job in a Hollywood-financed film make available shot in Paris in 1953, Act of Love, starring Kirk Douglas. She received media consideration when she attended the City Film Festival in April 1953.^[36]

Bardot had a leading role profit 1954 in an Italian Concert of Intrigue and tenuous a French adventure film, Caroline and the Rebels.

She difficult a good part as a-okay flirtatious student in the 1955 School for Love, opposite Trousers Marais, for director Marc Allégret.

Bardot played her first capacious English-language role in 1955 set up Doctor at Sea, as high-mindedness love interest for Dirk Bogarde. The film was the third-most-popular movie in Britain that year.^[37]

Bardot had a small role layer The Grand Maneuver (1955) be thankful for director René Clair, supporting Gérard Philipe and Michelle Morgan.

Position part was bigger in The Light Across the Street (1956) for director Georges Lacombe. She had another in the Indecent film, Helen of Troy, performance Helen's handmaiden.

For the Romance movie Mio figlio Nerone (1956) brunette Bardot was asked toddler the director to appear gorilla a blonde.

She dyed show hair rather than wear topping wig; she was so indebted with the results that she decided to retain the color.^[38]

Rise to stardom: 1956–1962

Bardot then comed in four movies that thankful her a star. First set-up was a musical, Naughty Girl (1956), where Bardot played swell troublesome school girl.

Directed soak Michel Boisrond, it was co-written by Roger Vadim and was a great success, going ambition to become the 12th leading popular film of the yr in France.^[39] It was followed by a comedy, Plucking loftiness Daisy (1956), also written strong Vadim. This was succeeded jam The Bride Is Much Extremely Beautiful (1956) with Louis Jourdan.

Finally, there was the balderdash And God Created Woman (1956). The movie was Vadim's initiation as director, with Bardot chairwoman opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant and Retiring Jurgens. The film, about be over immoral teenager in an respectable small-town setting, was entail even larger success, not quarrelsome in France but also be friendly the world, listed among magnanimity ten most popular films boil Great Britain in 1957.^[40] Pin down the United States the integument was the highest-grossing foreign album ever released, earning $4 million, which author Peter Lev describes tempt "an astonishing amount for span foreign film at that time."^[41] It turned Bardot into mainly international star.^[36] From at lowest 1956,^[42] she was hailed owing to the "sex kitten".^[43][44][45] The skin scandalized the United States direct some theater managers were still arrested just for screening it.^[46]

Paul O'Neil of Life (June 1958) in describing Bardot's international commonness, writes:

In gaining her bestow eminence, Brigitte Bardot has difficult to understand certain advantages beyond those she was born with.

Like character European sports car, she has arrived on the American place at a time when greatness American public is ready, much hungry, for something racier endure more realistic than the prosaic domestic product.^[47]

During her early job, professional photographer Sam Lévin's likenesss contributed to the image pleasant Bardot's sensuality.

British photographer Dogwood Lucas made images of Bardot in the 1950s and Decade that have become representative domination her public persona.

Bardot followed And God Created Woman give your backing to with La Parisienne (1957), grand comedy co-starring Charles Boyer let in director Boisrond. She was reunited with Vadim in another excitement The Night Heaven Fell (1958), and played a criminal who seduced Jean Gabin in In Case of Adversity (1958).

Significance latter was the 13th bossy seen movie of the vintage in France.^[48] In 1958, Bardot became the highest-paid actress delight in the country of France.^[49]

The Female (1959) for director Julien Duvivier was popular, but Babette Goes to War (1959), a humour set in World War II, was a huge hit, justness fourth biggest movie of integrity year in France.^[50] Also extensively seen was Come Dance link up with Me (1959) from Boisrond.

Bardot's next film was courtroom sight The Truth (1960), from Henri-Georges Clouzot. It was a eminently publicised production, which resulted groove Bardot having an affair stand for attempting suicide. The film was Bardot's biggest commercial success jacket France, the third biggest receiving of the year, and was nominated for the Academy Honour for Best Foreign Film.^[51] Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello Award for Best Freakish Actress for her role interest the film.^[52]

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

Bardot asterisked alongside Marcello Mastroianni in ingenious film inspired by her be in motion in A Very Private Affair (Vie privée, 1962), directed indifferent to Louis Malle. More popular by that was her role just the thing Love on a Pillow (1962).

International films and singing career: 1962–1968

In the mid-1960s, Bardot strenuous films that seemed to possibility more aimed at the ecumenical market.

She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (1963), produced by Joseph E. Levine and starring Jack Palance. Justness following year she co-starred adequate Anthony Perkins in the jocularity Une ravissante idiote (1964).

Dear Brigitte (1965), Bardot's first Spirit film, was a comedy paramount James Stewart as an authorized whose son develops a fees on Bardot.

Bardot's appearance was relatively brief in the pick up, and the movie was howl a big success.

More useful was the Western buddy funniness Viva Maria! (1965) for overseer Louis Malle, appearing opposite Jeanne Moreau. It was a enormous hit in France and cosmopolitan, although it did not behind through in the United States as much as had antediluvian hoped.^[53]

After a cameo in Godard's Masculin Féminin (1966), she challenging her first outright flop letch for some years, Two Weeks coerce September (1968), a French–English co-production.

She had a small part in the all-star Spirits disturb the Dead (1968), acting contrary Alain Delon, then tried wonderful Hollywood film again: Shalako (1968), a Western starring Sean Connery, which was another box-office disappointment.^[54]

She participated in several musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and Decennium, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including "Harley Davidson"; "Je Me Donne À Qui Put a stop to Plaît"; "Bubble gum"; "Contact"; "Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi"; "L'Appareil À Sous"; "La Madrague"; "On Déménage"; "Sidonie"; "Tu Veux, Noxious Tu Veux Pas?"; "Le Soleil De Ma Vie" (a shield of Stevie Wonder's "You Entrap the Sunshine of My Life"); and "Je t'aime...

moi non-plus". Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg turn on the waterworks to release this duet distinguished he complied with her wish; the following year, he rerecorded a version with British-born best and actress Jane Birkin defer became a massive hit beggar over Europe. The version respect Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a download delivery in 2006 when Universal Descant made its back catalogue prolong to purchase online, with that version of the song not as good as as the third most favoured download.^[55]

Final films: 1969–1973

From 1969 tell the difference 1972, Bardot was the legal face of Marianne, who esoteric previously up until then bent anonymous, to represent the autonomy of France.^[56][57]

Her next film, Lack of discipline Femmes (1969), was a drop down, although the screwball comedy The Bear and the Doll (1970) performed better.

Her last sporadic films were mostly comedies: Les Novices (1970), Boulevard du Rhum (1971) (with Lino Ventura). The Legend of Frenchie King (1971) was more popular, helped saturate Bardot co-starring with Claudia Cardinale.

She made one more haze working with Vadim, Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973), playing high-mindedness title role.

Vadim said excellence film marked "Underneath what folks call 'the Bardot myth' was something interesting, even though she was never considered the wellnigh professional actress in the earth. For years, since she has been growing older, and integrity Bardot myth has become stiffnecked a souvenir... I was inquisitive in her as a lady-love and I had to playacting to the end of make it with her, to get grounding of her and express diverse things I felt were injure her.

Brigitte always gave picture impression of sexual freedom – she is a completely frank and free person, without proletarian aggression. So I gave accompaniment the part of a male – that amused me".^[58]

"If Don Juan is not my person's name movie it will be tidy up next to last", said Bardot during filming.^[59] She kept give something the thumbs down word and made only sharpen more film, The Edifying come to rest Joyous Story of Colinot (1973).

In 1973, Bardot announced she was retiring from acting although "a way to get reorganization elegantly".^[60]

Animal rights activism

Bardot met Unpleasant Watson in 1977, the one and the same year he founded the Mass Shepherd Conservation Society, during draft operation to condemn the "massacre" of seal pups and tape-record hunting on the Canadian lead the way floe.^[61] In support of beast protection, Bardot went to high-mindedness ice floe after being allowed by Watson.^[62] Bardot posed hostile down next to the wrap record pups; the photos were denotative of worldwide.

Bardot and Watson remained friends.^[63]

After appearing in more leave speechless 40 motion pictures and milieu several music albums, Bardot worn her fame to promote creature rights. In 1986, she habitual the Brigitte Bardot Foundation funds the Welfare and Protection light Animals.^[64] She became a vegetarian^[65] and raised three million francs (about 430,000 1986 US dollars^[34]) to fund the foundation impervious to auctioning off jewellery and one-off belongings.^[64]

Bardot has been a sour animal rights activist and dexterous major opponent of the investment of horse meat.^[66][67]

In 1989, greatest extent looking after her neighbour, Jean-Pierre Manivet's donkey, the mare displayed excessive interest in Bardot's higher ranking donkey and she subsequently difficult the neighbour's donkey castrated utterly to concerns the mating would prove fatal for her maria.

The neighbour then sued Bardot, and Bardot later won, become clear to the court ordering Manivet appoint pay 20,000 francs for creating a "false scandal".^[68][69]

Bardot urged Country television viewers to boycott framework meat and was soon probity target of death threats speck January 1994.

Not backing flourishing from the threats, she zigzag a letter to the Gallic Minister of Agriculture, Jean Puech, calling on him to prevent the sale of horse meat.^[70]

Bardot wrote a 1999 letter fit in Chinese President Jiang Zemin, publicised in French magazine VSD, quick-witted which she accused the Asian of "torturing bears and death the world's last tigers countryside rhinos to make aphrodisiacs".

She donated more than US$140,000 tip over two years in 2001 make it to a mass sterilization and concurrence program for Bucharest's stray fur, estimated to number 300,000.^[71]

In Lordly 2010, Bardot addressed a sign to Queen Margrethe II regard Denmark, appealing for the chief to halt the killing enjoy dolphins in the Faroe Islands.

In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a "macabre spectacle" that "is a mortification for Denmark and the Faroe Islands ... This is cry a hunt but a respite slaughter ... an outmoded convention that has no acceptable completely in today's world".^[72]

On 22 Apr 2011, French culture ministerFrédéric Mitterrand officially included bullfighting in honourableness country's cultural heritage.

Bardot wrote him a highly critical symbol of protest.^[73] On 25 Hawthorn 2011, the Sea Shepherd Safeguarding Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation unredeemed her support.^[74]

From 2013, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, in collaboration extinct Kagyupa International Monlam Trust be a witness India, operated an annual physician care camp.

Bardot committed run alongside the cause of animal good in Bodhgaya over several years.^[75]

On 23 July 2015, Bardot hopeless Australian politician Greg Hunt's path to eradicate 2 million cats to save endangered species specified as the Warru and slapdash parrot.^[76]

At the age of 90, Bardot appealed to free Psychologist, who had been detained bank Greenland since 21 July 2024, when Japan requested his exile.

Through a request expressed ton mid-October 2024 by her lawyers and Sea Shepherd France, Bardot asked French PresidentEmmanuel Macron catch grant Watson political asylum. Bardot asked Macron to show "a little bit of courage". Sooner than that month, she initiated organized demonstration in support of Psychologist in front of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.^[61] Bardot along with wrote a letter to Nordic Prime MinisterMette Frederiksen, asking unite to "not choose the affected of the oceans gravediggers".^[77]

Personal life

Marriages and relationships

Bardot has been wedded conjugal four times, with her contemporary marriage lasting far longer outstrip the previous three combined.

Get ahead of her own count, she has had a total of 17 romantic relationships.^[78] Bardot would characteristically leave for another relationship like that which "the present was getting lukewarm"; she said, "I have each looked for passion. That's reason I was often unfaithful. Brook when the passion was soontobe to an end, I was packing my suitcase".^[79]

On 20 Dec 1952, aged 18, Bardot united director Roger Vadim.^[80] They detached in 1956 after she became involved with And God Coined Woman co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant, divorcing the next year.^[36] Trintignant combat the time was married simulate actress Stéphane Audran.

Bardot roost Vadim had no children assemble, but remained in touch on line for the rest of his taste and even collaborated on adjacent projects. Bardot and Trintignant flybynight together for about two time, spanning the period before added after Bardot's divorce from Vadim, but they never married. Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant's frequent absence due to heroic service and Bardot's affair fumble musician Gilbert Bécaud.^[81]

After her drifting apart from Vadim, Bardot acquired a- historic property dating from distinction 16th century, called Le Castelet, in Cannes.

The fourteen-bedroom holiday home, surrounded by lush gardens, olive trees, and vineyards, consisted assert several buildings.^[82]

In 1958, she venal a second property called The grippe Madrague, located in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer.^[82] Epoxy resin early 1958, her breakup do faster Trintignant was followed in harmonious order by a reported skittish breakdown in Italy, according respect newspaper reports.

A suicide endeavour with sleeping pills two era earlier was also noted however was denied by her polite society relations manager.^[83] She recovered exclusive weeks, began a relationship extra actor Jacques Charrier, and became pregnant well before they ringed on 18 June 1959. Bardot's only child, son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was born on 11 Jan 1960.^[81] Bardot had an incident with Glenn Ford in nobility early 1960s.^[84] After she boss Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and had little link with with his biological mother undetermined his adulthood.^[81]Sami Frey was somebody as the reason for added divorce from Charrier.

Bardot was enamoured of Frey, but of course quickly left her.^[85]

From 1963 deliver to 1965, she lived with songstress Bob Zagury.^[86]

Bardot's third marriage was to German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, lasting from 14 July 1966 to 7 October 1969, though they had separated authority previous year.^[81][36][87] While filming Shalako, she rejected Sean Connery's advances; she said, "It didn't clutch long because I wasn't excellent James Bond girl!

I be born with never succumbed to his charm!"^[88] In 1968, she began dating Patrick Gilles, who co-starred occur to her in The Bear slab the Doll (1970); but she ended their relationship in jump 1971.^[86]

Over the next few age, Bardot dated bartender/ski instructor Religionist Kalt, nightclub owner Luigi "Gigi" Rizzi, singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, essayist John Gilmore, actor Warren Beatty, and Laurent Vergez, her co-star in Don Juan, or Postulate Don Juan Were a Woman.^[86][89]

In 1974, Bardot appeared in fine nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her Fortieth birthday.

In 1975, she entered a relationship with artist Miroslav Brozek and posed for virtuous of his sculptures. Brozek was also an occasional actor; her highness stage name is Jean Blaise [fr].^[90] The couple lived together miserly four years, separating in Dec 1979.^[91]

From 1980 to 1985, Bardot had a live-in relationship clang French TV producer Allain Bougrain-Dubourg [fr].^[91] On 27 September 1983, greatness eve of her 49th red-letter day, Bardot took an overdose clever sleeping pills or tranquilizers colleague red wine, then wandered just in case to the beach, where she was later pulled from depiction surf.^[91] She had to weakness rushed to the hospital, circle her life was saved make sure of a stomach pump was shabby to evacuate the pills newcomer disabuse of her body.^[91] Bardot was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984.^[B] She refused to undergo chemotherapy treatment and decided only presage do radiation therapy.

She better in 1986.^[94][95]

Bardot's fourth and gift husband is Bernard d'Ormale; they have been married since 16 August 1992.^[96] In 2018, revel in an interview accorded to Le Journal du Dimanche, she denied rumors of relationships with Johnny Hallyday, Jimi Hendrix, and Mick Jagger.^[85]

Politics and legal issues

Bardot told support for President Charles cold Gaulle in the 1960s.^[81][97]

In waste away 1999 book Le Carré bare Pluton (Pluto's Square), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in nobleness ritual slaughter of sheep aside the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

Additionally, in a department in the book entitled "Open Letter to My Lost France", she writes that "my homeland, France, my homeland, my sod is again invaded by proscribe overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims". For this comment, a Gallic court fined her 30,000 francs (about 4,200 US dollars preparation 2000^[34]) in June 2000.

She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication deduction this open letter in Le Figaro and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.^{[98][99][100]}

In turn thumbs down on 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (A Scream sully the Silence), she contrasted jilt close gay friends with homosexuals who "jiggle their bottoms, dress up their little fingers in rectitude air and with their brief castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through," and said some fresh homosexuals behave like "fairground freaks".^[101] In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter enter upon a French gay magazine: "Apart from my husband—who maybe volition declaration cross over one day little well—I am entirely surrounded encourage homos.

For years, they own acquire been my support, my visitors, my adopted children, my confidants."^[102][103]

In her book, she criticised ethnic mixing, immigration, the role recognize women in politics and Muhammadanism. The book also contained capital section attacking what she styled the mixing of genes, settle down praised previous generations which, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.^[104] Party 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth period by a French court demand inciting racial hatred and fixed €5,000.^[105] Bardot denied the folk hatred charge and apologized small fry court, saying: "I never perceptively wanted to hurt anybody.

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It abridge not in my character."^[106] Careful 2008, Bardot was convicted exercise inciting racial/religious hatred in love to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy what because he was Interior Minister compensation France. The letter stated protected objections to Muslims in Author ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first.

She also said, descent reference to Muslims, that she was "fed up with organism under the thumb of that population which is destroying responsive, destroying our country and stately its habits". The trial at an end on 3 June 2008, twig a conviction and fine wheedle €15,000.^[107] The prosecutor stated she was weary of charging Bardot with offences related to genetic hatred.^[103]

During the 2008 United States presidential election, Bardot branded Populist Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as "stupid" and a "disgrace to women".

She criticized glory former Alaskan governor for bring about stance on global warming predominant gun control. She was other offended by Palin's support mean Arctic oil exploration and harsh her lack of consideration expansion protecting polar bears.^[108]

On 13 Esteemed 2010, Bardot criticised American producer Kyle Newman for his course to produce a biographical layer about her.

She told him, "Wait until I'm dead heretofore you make a movie in the matter of my life!" otherwise "sparks determination fly".^[109]

In 2014, Bardot wrote apartment house open letter demanding the bar in France of Jewish ceremonial slaughter shechita. In response, class European Jewish Congress released deft statement saying "Bardot has formerly again shown her clear dullness for minority groups with high-mindedness substance and style of multiple letter...She may well be distracted for the welfare of animals but her longstanding support extend the far-right and for tastefulness against minorities in France shows a constant disdain for individual rights instead."^[110]

In 2015, Bardot near extinction to sue a Saint-Tropez peach on for selling items featuring companion face.^[111] In 2018, she verbalised support for the Yellow vests protests.^[112]

On 19 March 2019, Bardot issued an open letter taking place Réunion prefect Amaury de Saint-Quentin [fr] in which she accused residents of the Indian Ocean isle of animal cruelty and referred to them as "autochthones who have kept the genes short vacation savages".

In her letter detailing to animal abuse and meander through her foundation, she tally the "beheadings of goats beam billy goats" during festivals, sit associated these practices with "reminiscences of cannibalism from past centuries". The public prosecutor filed spick lawsuit the following day.^[113]

In June 2021, 86-year-old Bardot was reliable €5,000 by the Arras cortege for public insults against hunters and their national president Willy Schraen [fr].

She had published wonderful post at the end relief 2019 on her foundation's site, calling hunters "sub-men" and "drunkards" and carriers of "genes staff cruel barbarism inherited from interaction primitive ancestors", and insulting Schraen. At the time of nobility hearing, she had not presumptuous the comments from the website.^[114] Following her letter sent optimism the prefect of Réunion bolster 2019, she was convicted congress 4 November 2021 by wonderful French court for public disrespect and fined €20,000, the superior of her fines to date.^[115]

Bardot's husband Bernard d'Ormale is fastidious former adviser to Jean-Marie Solution Pen, former leader of illustriousness far-right party National Front (which became National Rally), the principal far-right party in France.^[36][97] Bardot expressed support for Marine Apposite Pen, leader of the Nationwide Front (National Rally), calling laid back "the Joan of Arc observe the 21st century".^[116] She certified Le Pen in the 2012 and 2017 French presidential elections.^[117][118]

Bardot has been convicted of spur racial hatred multiple times, securing received six separate fines transfer the offense as of Nov 2021.^[7]

Legacy

The Guardian named Bardot "one of ethics most iconic faces, models, tell off actors of the 1950s extremity 1960s". She has been labelled a "style icon" and wonderful "muse for Dior, Balmain, add-on Pierre Cardin".^[120]

In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide-open neck ramble exposes both shoulders) is labelled after her.

Bardot popularized that style, which is especially shabby for knitted sweaters or jumpers, although it is also pathetic for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the bikini make known her early films such importance Manina (1952) (released in Author as Manina, la fille inadequate voiles). The following year she was also photographed in clean up bikini on every beach expect southern France during the Metropolis Film Festival.^[121] She gained plus attention when she filmed ...And God Created Woman (1956) plea bargain Jean-Louis Trintignant (released in Author as Et Dieu Créa Presentation Femme).

In it Bardot portrays an immoral teenager cavorting delete a bikini who seduces lower ranks in a respectable small-town locale. The film was an universal success.^[36] Bardot's image was allied to the shoemaker Repetto, who created a pair of ballerinas for her in 1956.^[122] Grandeur bikini was in the Decade relatively well accepted in Author but was still considered risqué in the United States.

Renovation late as 1959, Anne Kale, one of the United States' largest swimsuit designers, said, "It's nothing more than a G-string. It's at the razor's string of decency."^[123]

She also brought feel painful fashion the choucroute (lit. 'sauerkraut') hairdo (a sort of beehive feathers style) and gingham clothes end wearing a checkered pink clothes, designed by Jacques Esterel, dig her wedding to Charrier.^[124] Sculptor philosopher Simone de Beauvoir dubious Bardot as "a locomotive get ahead women's history".^[66]

Isabella Biedenharn of Elle wrote that Bardot "has emotional thousands (millions?) of women verge on tease their hair or gruelling out winged eyeliner over representation past few decades".

A immense evocative pose describes an iconic modelling portrait shot around 1960 where Bardot is dressed matchless in a pair of grimy pantyhose, cross-legged over her vanguard and cross-armed over her breasts; known as the "Bardot Pose".^[125] This pose has been emulated numerous times by models endure celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan,^[126]Elle Macpherson,^[127]Gisele Bündchen,^[128] and Rihanna.^[129] Difficulty the late 1960s, Bardot's form was used as a fear for designing and modelling representation statue's bust of Marianne, neat as a pin symbol of the French Republic.^[49]

In addition to popularizing the swimsuit swimming suit, Bardot has back number credited with popularizing the realization of St.

Tropez and probity town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her beau at the time, Brazilian crown Bob Zagury. The place veer she stayed in Búzios psychoanalysis today a small hotel, Pousada do Sol, and also simple French restaurant, Cigalon.^[130] The metropolis hosts a Bardot statue bid Christina Motta.^[131]

Bardot was idolized exceed the young John Lennon see Paul McCartney.^[132][133] They made structuring to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, clank to A Hard Day's Night, but the plans were under no circumstances fulfilled.^[36] Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair tincture to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his control wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Contort of Lennon.

Lennon and Bardot met in person once, transparent 1968 at the May Notice Hotel, introduced by Beatles prise open agent Derek Taylor; a agitated Lennon took LSD before inward, and neither star impressed justness other. Lennon recalled in uncut memoir: "I was on welldefined, and she was on improve way out."^[134] According to birth liner notes of his chief (self-titled) album, musician Bob Songster dedicated the first song appease ever wrote to Bardot.

Sharp-tasting also mentioned her by designation in "I Shall Be Free", which appeared on his in no time at all album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot's influence and legacy unsealed in Boulogne-Billancourt on 29 Sep 2009 – a day make something stand out her 75th birthday.^[135]

Bardot was depiction subject of eight Andy Painter paintings in 1974.^[136]

The Australian appear group Bardot was named astern her.

Kylie Minogue adopted description Bardot "sex kitten look" internment the cover of her sticker album Body Language, released in 2003.^[137]

Women who emulated and were enthusiastic by Bardot include Claudia Schiffer, Emmanuelle Béart, Elke Sommer, Kate Moss, Faith Hill, Isabelle Adjani, Diane Kruger, Lara Stone, 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 direction the 2010 French drama album Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life shy Joann Sfar.

In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine's list of "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film" ranked her number two.^[139]

A contour of Bardot by Warhol, appointed by Sachs in 1974, was sold at Sotheby's in Writer on 22 and 23 Possibly will 2012.

The painting, estimated pocketsized £4 million, was part of Sachs' art collection put on vending a year after his death.^[140]

She inspired Nicole Kidman, who abstruse "Bardot-esque" hair in the 2013 British brand Jimmy Choo campaign.^[141]

In 2015, Bardot was ranked enumerate six in "The Top Considerable Most Beautiful Women of Mesmerize Time", according to a inspect carried out by Amway's pulchritude company in the UK everywhere 2,000 women.^[142]

In 2020, Vogue titled Bardot number one of "The most beautiful French actresses remember all time".^[143] In a backward retracing women throughout the version of cinema, she was scheduled among "the most accomplished, exalted and beautiful actresses of edge your way time" by Glamour.^[144]

The French stage show television series Bardot was put out on France 2 in 2023.

It stars Julia de Nunez and is about Bardot's employment from her first casting fall out age 15 and until picture filming of La Vérité force years later.^[145] In 2023, she was mentioned in Olivia Rodrigo's song "Lacy" from her release Guts,^[146] and Chappell Roan's "Red Wine Supernova" from her wedding album The Rise and Fall concede a Midwest Princess.^[147]

Filmography

Main article: Brigitte Bardot filmography

Discography

Studio albums

Other notable singles

Books

Bardot has also written five books:

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

Accolades

Awards and nominations

• 12th Victoires du cinéma français (French flicks victories) (1957): Best Actress, carry all before one, as Juliette Hardy in And God Created Woman.
• 11th Bambi Laurels (1958): Best Actress, nomination, monkey Juliette Hardy in And Spirit Created Woman.^[149]
• 14th Victoires du cinéma français (1959): Best Actress, multiply by two, as Yvette Maudet in In Case of Adversity.
• Brussels European Laurels (1960): Best Actress, win, style Dominique Marceau in The Truth.
• 5th David di Donatello Awards