Brigitte Sy

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1956-01-26 (68 years old)

Place of Birth Paris, France

Brigitte Sy

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.

Known For

Actor

2023
Little Girl Blue

as Monique Lange (voice)

2021
L'Opéra

as Nadia Menour

2020
La rupture

as Josée

2019
Online Billie

as Brigitte

2019
Street Flow

as Professeur TD

2019
The Invisibles

as Béatrice, social services manager

2019
Têtard

as La mère de Ben

2017
All That Divides Us

as Ben's Mother

2017
Quadras

as Sylvianne

2017
Black Spot

as Sabine Hennequin

2015
Unexpected Love

as Hélène

2014
Wild Life

as Geneviève

2013
Closed Circuit

as Michèle Solvy

2013
Vandal

as Christine, la tante

2013
A Place On Earth

as Loraine Morin

2013
Nuts

as Mme Herschel, la psy

2011
A Better Life

as La femme bénévole surendettement

2011
Declaration of War

as Claudia Benaïm

2011
Last Screening

as The taxi driver

2009
Nice

as Fanny

2008
Rien dans les poches

as Agathe Manikowski

2008
Versailles

as Madame Herchel

2008
Choosing Love

as Isabelle

2007
2006
Déluge

as Her mother

2005
Regular Lovers

as la mère de François

1998
Melody for a Hustler

as Véronique

1997
Crack 6T

as La principale du collège

1989
1984
Liberty at Night

as Micheline

1982
Cinématon XXVI

as N°250

1978
Cinématon

as N°250

Writer

2016
Ogres

as Writer

2015
Astragal

as Writer

2010
Free Hands

as Scenario Writer

Director

2015
Astragal

as Director

2010
Free Hands

as Director