Biography
Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy (26 April 1911 – 19 December 2004) was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. Tainsy began her career with theater plays and her first film debut was in 1945, followed by over 80 different cinema and TV works as co-star. She worked until the day of her death. She was born in Etterbeek, Belgium. Andrée Tainsy attended Brussels' Conservatory, where she trained to become a theater performer in the early 1930s. She moved to Paris and made her debut with the Georges Pitoëff theatrical company in Les Voyageurs Sans Bagage (1937). Her film debut was ready in 1939 however, as World War II started, she fled to South America, where she reconnected with other artists who had also left. Her first experience in front of was in Chile a movie camera and in 1945 her movie career began starring in Jacques Remy's Le Moulin des Andes (Released in Chile as La Fruta Mordida). Upon her return to France, after the end of the war, she resumed her theatrical activity with Les Amants de Noël and Joyeux Chagrins, bo…
Movies & TV Shows
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Love and Death (1975) — Woman (uncredited)
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Fantomas (1964) — Habilleuse
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Z (1969) — Nick's Mother
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Code Unknown (2000) — Mrs. Becker
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Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) — La paysanne
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Under the Sand (2001) — Suzanne
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The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974) — Madeleine Fourmet
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Cop au Vin (1985) — Marthe
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Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959) — Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
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Kings & Queen (2004) — La grand-mère
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Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975) — Nun
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A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973) — Clarisse de Saint-Clair
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965) — Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
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The Strangler (1971) — Jeanne
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End of Desire (1958) — Ludivine - la servante
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Spoiled Children (1977) — Madame Descombes
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Holiday for Henrietta (1952) — (uncredited)
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Love, etc. (1996) — Mireille
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Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972) — The Grandmother
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Twice a Woman (1979)
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The Sinners (1949) — Kitchen girl
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Stain on the Snow (1953) — (uncredited)
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Solemn Communion (1977) — Charlotte Fourcignie
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Mission in Tangier (1949) — Cabaret sweeper
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Boulevard des assassins (1982) — Mrs. Graveline
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Demoniac (1957) — Business card seller
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The Phantom Heart (1996) — The old lady
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Matrimonial Agency (1952) — (uncredited)
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Too Small My Friend (1971) — Mme Herbin
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My Wife Is Formidable (1951) — la femme de ménage
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Fantomas Against Fantomas (1949) — (uncredited)
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The Devil's Tricks (1966) — La mère de Ginette
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Red Sunset (2004) — Princesse Czerry
- Simone (1985) — La grand mère
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Bouvard et Pécuchet (1990) — Germaine
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Gloria (1977) — Estelle
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The Mad Dog (1966)
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Le Tour d'Écrou (1974) — Mme Grose
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The Cousins of Constance (1970) — Alice Guillou
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Man with the Transplanted Brain (1972)