Overview
- Foundation spokesman Bruno Jacquelin confirmed to the Associated Press that she died at her home in southern France.
- Reports in recent weeks noted she was hospitalized in October and underwent a minor procedure late in 2025.
- Bardot vaulted to international fame with 1956’s And God Created Woman, shaped postwar fashion and culture, and later served as a model for Marianne, the French national symbol.
- She retired from film in the early 1970s, created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986, and pursued high-profile animal welfare campaigns credited with helping push Europe to ban seal-product imports.
- Her later comments on immigration and Islam brought multiple French court convictions for inciting racial hatred, even as President Emmanuel Macron lauded her cinematic legacy and lifelong advocacy in a tribute.