French actress, singer, animal rights activist (1934–2025)
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She turned sex appeal into existential freedom, became the face France exported as confidently as cars, then walked away from cinema at 39 to fight for animals with the same uncompromising intensity that made her a scandal in the first place.
Born in Paris in 1934, Bardot trained as a ballerina before starting to act in 1952. And God Created Woman in 1957 made her an international sensation—Simone de Beauvoir called her "a locomotive of women's history" and the most liberated woman in France. She won a David di Donatello for The Truth in 1960, starred in Godard's Le Mépris in 1963, and earned a BAFTA nomination for Viva Maria! in 1965. Across 47 films and more than 60 songs, she became a symbol of the sexual revolution and a major pop culture figure. In 1973 she retired from entertainment entirely and founded the Brigitte Bardot Fo…
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All these animals are put in cages, never see the sun or grass, and they leave this hell only to go to the slaughter-house.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.
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