Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy (26 April 1911 – 19 December 2004) was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. Tainsy began her career with theater plays and her first film debut was in 1945, followed by over 80 different cinema and TV works as co-star. She worked until the day of her death. She was born in Etterbeek, Belgium. Andrée Tainsy attended Brussels' Conservatory, where she trained to become a theater performer in the early 1930s. She moved to Paris and made her debut with the Georges Pitoëff theatrical company in Les Voyageurs Sans Bagage (1937). Her film debut was ready in 1939 however, as World War II started, she fled to South America, where she reconnected with other artists who had also left. Her first experience in front of was in Chile a movie camera and in 1945 her movie career began starring in Jacques...
Z
1969
Fantomas
1964
Love and Death
1975
Under the Sand
2001
Code Unknown
2000
Twice a Woman
1979
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
Le Prussien
1971
Kings & Queen
2004
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1959
Holiday for Henrietta
1952
End of Desire
1958
The Mad Dog
1966
Cop au Vin
1985
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965
A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
Gloria
1977
Solemn Communion
1977
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1972
Spoiled Children
1977
The Phantom Heart
1996
Love, etc.
1996
Matrimonial Agency
1952
Mission in Tangier
1949
Too Small My Friend
1971
The Strangler
1971
The Sinners
1949
Fantomas Against Fantomas
1949
Assassin's Check
1962
Julie de Carneilhan
1950
Mannequins of Paris
1956
Boulevard des assassins
1982
Demoniac
1957
Man with the Transplanted Brain
1972
Handsome Face
1972
Les Lumières du soir
1956
Bouvard et Pécuchet
1990