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Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, often referred to by her initials B.B., was a French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist. She became one of the best-known symbols of the sexual revolution and gained international fame for portraying characters associated with hedonistic lifestyles. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remained a major pop culture icon. She appeared in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985.
entertainment · French actress and activist (1934–2025) · singer · autobiographer · film actor · animal rights advocate · recording artist · dancer · fashion model · writer · public figure · actor · also Brigitte Bardot, Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, BB, Brigitte Anne Marie Bardot, B.B., Bardot
Born 28 September 1934 · Died 28 December 2025 · Q36268
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“Apart from my husband—who maybe will cross over one day as well—I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants.”
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“not choose the camp of the oceans”
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“If Don Juan is not my last movie it will be my next to last.”
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parade.com: 1969 No. 1 Duet, Originally Written for Brigitte Bardot, Was Banned in Several Countries
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La Vanguardia: De Brigitte Bardot a Capucine: así fotografió Georges Dambier la democratización de la moda
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BBC: Brigitte Bardot's coat to be auctioned to raise money for animals
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Yahoo: Unique Brigitte Bardot velvet coat to be auctioned
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Glide Magazine: Surfing The Tube: Jack Coyne Catches Up With Questlove Before Inaugural Roots Picnic London; Daniel Lanois Shops For Brian Eno, Biggie, Brigitte Bardot & More
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revistavanityfair.es: Carolina de Mónaco, Brigitte Bardot, Naomi Campbell… las fotos de verano que construyeron el mito de Saint-Tropez
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Vogue: 18 Iconic Photographs of Brigitte Bardot at the Beach
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The Guardian: James Van Der Beek and Brigitte Bardot among stars snubbed from Oscars in memoriam tribute
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The Guardian: Brigitte Bardot tribute at the César awards greeted with boos
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The Guardian: Brigitte Bardot laid to rest in funeral ceremony broadcast across Saint-Tropez
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NBC News: Saint-Tropez bids adieu to Brigitte Bardot with a funeral and public homage
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The Guardian: Sex object, animal rights activist, racist: the paradox that was Brigitte Bardot
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The Guardian: Letter: Brigitte Bardot obituary
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Yahoo: Brigitte Bardot’s Sizzling On-Screen Chemistry With Iconic Co-Star Comes Alive in Never-Before-Seen Photos
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Variety: Chappell Roan Backtracks on Brigitte Bardot Praise After Discovering Far-Right Views: ‘Holy S—, I Did Not Know… Very Disappointing to Learn’
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UPI: Brigitte Bardot defined the modern woman and defied social norms
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The Guardian: Brigitte Bardot’s image complicated by her controversial politics
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The Guardian: Brigitte Bardot, French screen legend, dies aged 91
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The Guardian: Off-the-shoulder tops and a signature hair-do: Brigitte Bardot’s style legacy
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The Guardian: French icon Brigitte Bardot dies aged 91 – video report
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The Guardian: Brigitte Bardot obituary
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Men's Journal: Brigitte Bardot’s Lifelong Crusade Evident in Final Social Media Post
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Died 2025-12-28.
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On 16 October 2025, it was reported that Bardot had been admitted to the Saint-Jean Hospital in Toulon three weeks earlier for surgery for a "serious illness".
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Published video “Les nouveaux produits merchandising de Brigitte Bardot sont disponibles !”.
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Published video “Brigitte Bardot - Ne me laisse pas l'aimer (Audio Officiel)”.
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Released ep “C’est rigolo”.
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Published video “Brigitte Bardot - Moi je joue (Audio Officiel)”.
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Published video “Brigitte Bardot - La madrague (Audio Officiel)”.
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Published video “Brigitte Bardot - Un jour comme un autre (Audio Officiel)”.
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Released album “BB”.
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20232 items
Released ep “I Am Woman : Brigitte Bardot”.
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Was mentioned in Olivia Rodrigo's song "Lacy" from her album Guts, and Chappell Roan's "Red Wine Supernova" from her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
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Released album “Best of Brigitte Bardot”.
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Released album “The Greatest of Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan & Brigitte Bardot”.
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Released album “Ten Songs for you”.
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Vogue named Bardot number one of "The most beautiful French actresses of all time"
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Released album “La Belle et le Blues”.
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Was convicted on 4 November 2021 by a French court for public insults and fined €20,000 (equivalent to €23,000 in 2023), the largest of her fines
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Stated that she and Nicolas, by then a grandfather himself, were on good terms, speaking regularly and visiting each other once a year
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In an interview accorded to Le Journal du Dimanche, she denied rumors of relationships with Johnny Hallyday, Jimi Hendrix, and Mick Jagger
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Expressed support for the yellow vests protests
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20162 items
Released album “La Madrague”.
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Released album “Best Hits”.
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Bardot was ranked number six in "The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women of All Time" according to a survey carried out by Amway's beauty company in the UK involving 2,000 women
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Bardot threatened to sue a Saint-Tropez boutique for selling items featuring her face
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20143 items
Released album “Rose d’eau”.
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Released album “Lost Loves”.
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Bardot wrote an open letter demanding the ban in France of Jewish ritual slaughter shechita
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Released album “Été d’amour”.
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Los Angeles Times Magazine's list of "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film" ranked her number two
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Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred regarding a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was minister of the interior
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Released album “Les 50 plus belles chansons”.
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Released album “Anthologie”.
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Released album “The Best of Bardot”.
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Released album “Nue au soleil”.
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20033 items
Awarded Prix des intellectuels indépendants (2003).
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Released album “Tendres années 60”.
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Released album “Master Serie, Volume 1 & 2”.
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For a mass neutering and adoption program for Bucharest's stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000
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19993 items
Released album “Brigitte Bardot, Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Brigitte Bardot, Vol. 1”.
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“s Republic of China President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the PRC of”
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Bardot and her publisher, Éditions Grasset, were ordered to pay £28,000 because of "hurtful remarks" in her autobiography about her former husband Jacques Charrier and their son who had originally sued for more than £1 m
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For the original publication of this open letter in Le Figaro, fined €2,785 (equivalent to €5,000 in 2023) in 1998 for making similar remarks, and fined €4,500 in June 2000 (equivalent to €7,000 in 2023)
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Charrier and Nicolas sued her and her publisher, Grasset, for the hurtful remarks she had made in her memoir
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Awarded Paul Léautaud Prize (1996).
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Released album “Best of BB”.
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19951 item
Released album “The Early Years”.
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Released album “L’Appareil à sous”.
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Released album “Initiales B.B.”.
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19891 item
While looking after her neighbor Jean-Pierre Manivet's donkey, it displayed excessive interest in Bardot's older donkey mare, and she subsequently had the neighbor's donkey castrated due to concerns the mating would prov
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19863 items
Established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the welfare and protection of animals
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And became a download hit in 2006 when Universal Music made its back catalog available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download
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Released album “Brigitte Bardot”.
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19843 items
In 1984, Bardot was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Bardot was not invited to the wedding
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Bardot was diagnosed with breast cancer
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19831 item
According to contemporary press reports, on 28 September 1983, her 49th birthday, Bardot ingested a quantity of sleeping tablets or tranquilizers with red wine at her St.
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19771 item
The same year he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, during an operation to condemn the massacre of seal pups and seal hunting on the Canadian ice floe
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19751 item
Entered a relationship with artist Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures
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Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday
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Was sold at Sotheby's in London on 22 and 23 May 2012
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Bardot became an animal rights activist and created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation
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Bardot announced she was retiring from acting as "a way to get out elegantly"
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Released ep “Tu veux ou tu veux pas”.
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19687 items
Released album “Special Bardot”.
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Released ep “Brigitte Bardot”.
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Released album “Brigitte Bardot Show”.
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Released album “Bonnie and Clyde”.
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Released ep “Bonnie and Clyde”.
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At the May Fair Hotel, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor; a nervous Lennon took Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) before arriving, and neither star impressed the other
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Began dating Patrick Gilles, who co-starred with her in The Bear and the Doll (1970); but she ended their relationship in 1971
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While married to Sachs, she had a relationship with singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg; they recorded two songs together: "Je t'aime
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19662 items
Released ep “Le Soleil”.
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Released ep “Bande originale du film « Viva Maria ! »”.
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19651 item
Released ep “Bubble Gum”.
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Released ep “Moi je joue”.
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Released ep “Une histoire de plage”.
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Released album “B.B.”.
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Released ep “Ça pourrait changer”.
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With her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury
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Released ep “Invitango”.
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Released album “Brigitte”.
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Released ep “L’Appareil à sous”.
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Released ep “Bande originale du film « Vie privée »”.
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Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress (1961).
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And they had a much-publicized relationship until 1959
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Bardot became the highest-paid actress in the country of France
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Bought a second property called La Madrague, located in Saint-Tropez, for 24 million francs, where she lived until her death in 2025
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Bardot began a relationship with actor Jacques Charrier, whom she married in Louveciennes, on 18 June 1959
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After she became involved with And God Created Woman co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant, and they divorced the following year
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“the French export as important as Renault cars”
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In Doctor at Sea as the love interest of Dirk Bogarde
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In an Italian melodrama, Concert of Intrigue, and in a French adventure film, Caroline and the Rebels
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And achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman (1956), catching the attention of many French intellectuals and earning her the nickname "sex kitten"
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And 1952, which both brought acting roles, the first, released in 1952, a small part in the comedy film Crazy for Love, directed by Jean Boyer and starring Bourvil
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Bardot was accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris
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Born 1934-09-28.
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In the 15th arrondissement of Paris to Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie Mucel (1912–1978)
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Awarded Bambi Award.
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Won Order of the Golden Ark.
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Studied at Conservatoire de Paris.
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Studied at Cours Hattemer.
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