Brigitte Sy
Known For
Acting
Born
1956-01-26 in Paris, France
Biography
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France. She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women. She is of Sephardic Jewish descent. Source: Article "Brigitte Sy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Most Known For
Street Flow
as TD Professor
Nuts
as Mme Herschel, la psy
Black Spot
as Sabine Hennequin
L'Opéra
as Nadia Menour
Closed Circuit
as Michèle Solvy
Online Billie
as Brigitte
Têtard
as La mère de Ben
Le Joueur
Little Girl Blue
as Monique Lange (voice)
Regular Lovers
as la mère de François
Memoirs of a French Whore
Déluge
as Her mother
Quadras
as Sylvianne
Nice
as Fanny
Declaration of War
as Claudia Benaïm
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
as Aline
Cinématon XXVI
as N°250
All That Divides Us
as Ben's Mother
The Invisibles
as Béatrice, social services manager
Fear(s) of the Dark
as (voice)