Overview
- The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announced her death at 91 in a statement that did not specify the exact day or place.
- A foundation official later told the Associated Press she died Sunday at her home in southern France, with no cause given and no funeral details yet.
- Her health had deteriorated in recent months, with a minor surgery in October and another hospital admission in November.
- Bardot’s breakthrough came with Roger Vadim’s 1956 …And God Created Woman; she retired from films in 1973 after becoming a defining postwar cultural figure.
- She created her animal‑welfare foundation in 1986 and led high‑profile campaigns, while drawing criticism and legal sanctions over inflammatory anti‑immigrant comments and ties to Jean‑Marie and Marine Le Pen.