Overview
- The Brigitte Bardot Foundation confirmed her death Sunday, with spokesperson Bruno Jacquelin telling the Associated Press she died at her home in southern France.
- No cause of death has been provided and no funeral plans have been announced; she had been hospitalized last month.
- President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on X, calling Bardot a legend who embodied a life of freedom.
- Catapulted to fame by And God Created Woman in 1956, she made about 50 films before retiring in 1973 to champion animal welfare and establish the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986.
- In later years she backed far‑right figures and was convicted multiple times by French courts for inciting racial hatred, including over remarks targeting Muslims and residents of Réunion.