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Brigitte Bardot Dies at 91, French Screen Icon and Animal-Welfare Campaigner

Her foundation’s announcement closes a public life that shifted from cinematic stardom to uncompromising advocacy for animals.

Brigitte Bardot posa para los fotógrafos en el césped del jardín del Hotel Excelsior en el Lido de Venecia, Italia, el 2 de septiembre de 1958. (AP/ Walter Attenni, Archivo)
La mítica intérprete murió en su residencia de La Madrague, en la Costa Azul. Francia despide a una figura clave del cine, la música y la cultura del siglo XX. (Foto: AFP)
FILE - French actress Brigitte Bardot poses with a huge sombrero she brought back from Mexico, as she arrives at Orly Airport in Paris, France, on May 27, 1965. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - French film actress Brigitte Bardot and her husband Gunter Sachs pose just before boarding a chartered airplane on their honeymoon in Las Vegas on July 14, 1966. (AP Photo/David F. Smith, File)

Overview

  • The Fondation Brigitte Bardot confirmed her death at 91, with AFP-cited reports placing it at La Madrague in Saint‑Tropez as AP relayed she died at her home in southern France, and no cause was provided.
  • Funeral or memorial plans have not been announced, according to a foundation spokesman quoted by The Associated Press.
  • Bardot’s recent health included repeated hospitalizations and an October 2025 surgery described by local media as for a serious illness, following a 2023 hospitalization for respiratory distress.
  • A defining figure of postwar European cinema, she broke through with And God Created Woman (1956) and later starred in La vérité (1960) and Le Mépris (1963) before retiring from film in 1973.
  • After leaving acting, she created the Fondation Brigitte Bardot in 1986 and led high-profile animal-welfare campaigns, drawing both admiration for her activism and criticism for later statements that resulted in legal convictions for incitement to hatred.