Overview
- Her animal-welfare foundation and a spokesperson told media she died Sunday at her home in southern France.
- No official cause has been released, and a foundation representative told the Associated Press that no funeral arrangements were set.
- The Paris-born star’s breakthrough came with 1956’s And God Created Woman, and she retired from film in 1973 after more than 40 roles.
- She founded the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986 and devoted decades to animal protection; the group says it will continue her work.
- Her later years were marked by repeated convictions and fines for inciting racial hatred, even as tributes from public figures, including President Emmanuel Macron, praised her cultural impact.