She suffered from amblyopia as a child, which resulted in decreased vision of her left eye. She grew up in a conservative Catholic family, as had her father. Her mother was the daughter of an insurance company director. Bardot's father, originated from Ligny-en-Barrois, was an engineer and the proprietor of several industrial factories in Paris. 2.3 International films and singing career: 1962–1968īardot was born on 28 September 1934 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, to Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie Mucel (1912–1978).Los Angeles Times Magazine ranked her second on the "50 Most Beautiful Women In Film". Bardot is a member of the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme and has received awards from UNESCO and PETA. She is married to Bernard d'Ormale, a former adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, a French far-right politician. She has also been a controversial political figure, having been fined five times for inciting racial hatred when she criticised immigration and Islam in France. Bardot is known for her strong personality, outspokenness, and speeches on animal defence she has been fined twice for public insults. After retiring, she became an animal rights activist and created the Fondation Brigitte Bardot. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985. She had acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. For her role in Louis Malle's film Viva Maria! (1965) she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.īardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. Bardot later starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (1963). She won a 1961 David di Donatello Best Foreign Actress Award for her work in The Truth. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome, which described her as a "locomotive of women's history" and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France. She achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman (1956), and also caught the attention of French intellectuals. īorn and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major popular culture icon. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s. Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( / b r ɪ ˌ ʒ iː t b ɑːr ˈ d oʊ/ ( listen) brizh- EET bar- DOH French: ( listen) born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a former French actress, singer and model.
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