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Brigitte Bardot, French Film Icon and Animal Welfare Champion, Dies at 91

Her foundation confirmed the death with no cause disclosed.

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)
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Former French pin-up actress Brigitte Bardot pictured in Paris September 13, 1995. Bardot is to attend an international congress on stray dogs February 6-8 in Bucharest./File Photo
Ex-film star Brigitte Bardot (C) is led, December 19 into Paris law court were she faces accusations if inciting racial hatred for writing in a newspaper that France was being invaded by Moslems. Bardot told the court that she was not racist but she stood by her writings./File Photo

Overview

  • The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announced her passing on December 28, and spokesman Bruno Jacquelin told the Associated Press she died at her home in southern France with no funeral plans yet set.
  • Bardot rose to global fame with 1956’s And God Created Woman, appeared in about 50 films, retired in 1973, and later served as a model for Marianne, a symbol of the French Republic.
  • She founded the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986 and devoted her later life to animal protection, building a prominent organisation that continues her work.
  • In later years she backed far-right figures and was repeatedly convicted by French courts for inciting racial hatred, complicating her public standing.
  • President Emmanuel Macron hailed her as a legend, as news followed recent hospitalisations and her denial of false death rumours earlier in the year.