Overview
- The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announced her death in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse.
- The foundation said she died Sunday morning at La Madrague, her residence in Saint-Tropez, at age 91.
- Bardot became an international star after the 1956 film Et Dieu... créa la femme and appeared in roughly 50 movies.
- She retired from acting in the early 1970s to focus on animal welfare and built an influential advocacy foundation.
- In recent months she was seldom seen publicly, was hospitalized in October, and her foundation denied false death rumors in November.