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, both in 1948. Tainsy's career as an actress and comedian went on until the very end of her life. She worked until the day of her death. She appeared in a small role in Arnaud Desplechin's Rois et Reine on 22 December 2004, just three days after she died. Her cinema endeavors comprised works with several directors like Bertrand Tavernier, Woody Allen, Claude Chabrol, François Ozon and Arnaud Desplechin. On 19 December 2004, after attending a presentation of a play by Pierre Desproges, she suffered a heart attack at her Parisian apartment. She was buried at Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Source: Article "Andrée Tainsy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2004Kings & Queen — La grand-mère
• 2004Red Sunset — Princesse Czerry
• 2001Under the Sand — Suzanne
• 2000Code Unknown — Mrs. Becker
• 2000The Blind — The Old Woman
• 1996Love, etc. — Mireille
• 1996The Phantom Heart — The old lady
• 1990Bouvard et Pécuchet — Germaine
• 1985Cop au Vin — Marthe
• 1985Simone — La grand mère
• 1982Boulevard des assassins — Mrs. Graveline
• 1980Ali in Wonderland
• 1980Mathieu Gaston Peluche — Propriétaire du cheval
• 1979Twice a Woman
• 1978Adieu voyages lents — La mère
• 1977A. Constant — Jeanne
• 1977Gloria — Estelle
• 1977Solemn Communion — Charlotte Fourcignie
• 1977Spoiled Children — Madame Descombes
• Henry James Stories — Mme Grose
• Les Charmes de l'été — Gabrielle
• 1975Let Joy Reign Supreme — Nun
• 1975Love and Death — Woman (uncredited)
• 1974Le Tour d'Écrou — Mme Grose
• 1974The Watchmaker of St. Paul — Madeleine Fourmet
• 1973A Slightly Pregnant Man — Clarisse de Saint-Clair
• 1972Faustine and the Beautiful Summer — The Grandmother
• 1972Handsome Face
• 1972La Mare au diable — Mère Maurice
• 1972Le Sagouin — 'Fraulein'
• 1972Man with the Transplanted Brain
• 1971Le Prussien — Yvonne
• 1971The Strangler — Jeanne
• 1971Too Small My Friend — Mme Herbin
• Les Cent Livres des Hommes — Une femme du peuple
• The Cousins of Constance — Alice Guillou
• 1969Z — Nick's Mother
• 1967Hedda Gabler — Julie Tesman
• 1966The Devil's Tricks — La mère de Ginette
• 1966The Mad Dog
• 1965How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning — Germaine, la gouvernante de Léon (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
• 1964Diary of a Chambermaid — La paysanne
• 1964Fantomas — Habilleuse
• 1962Assassin's Check — La marchande de journaux
• 1959Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case — Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)
• 1958End of Desire — Ludivine - la servante
• 1957Demoniac — Business card seller
• 1956Les Lumières du soir — Job seeker
• 1956Mannequins of Paris
• 1953Stain on the Snow — (uncredited)
• 1952Holiday for Henrietta — (uncredited)
• 1952Matrimonial Agency — (uncredited)
• 1951My Wife Is Formidable — la femme de ménage
• 1950Julie de Carneilhan — Madame Sabrier
• 1950No More Vacation for the Good Lord
• 1949Fantomas Against Fantomas — (uncredited)
• 1949Mission in Tangier — Cabaret sweeper
• 1949The Sinners — Kitchen girl

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Discorama — Self