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Brigitte Bardot Biography

originally Camille Javal

(1934–)

Related Works

Films
1952 Le Trou Normand (Crazy for Love)
1954 Act of Love

1955 Helen of Troy
1955 Doctor at Sea
1956 Et Dieu créa la femme (And God Created Woman)
1960 La Verité (The Truth)
1962 Vie Privée (A Very Private Affair)
1963 Le Mépris (Contempt)
1965 Viva Maria
1968 Shalako
Books
2003 A Cry in the Silence

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Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot was born Sept. 28, 1934, in Paris. She was discovered by Roger Vadim when she appeared on a magazine cover at 15. She married Vadim and made her film debut in 1952.

Vadim crafted her "sex kitten" image for his films And God Created Woman (1956) and The Night Heaven Fell (1958), which set box-office records and made her an international star.

She displayed her acting ability in such films as The Truth (1960), Contempt (1963), and Viva Maria! (1965). An animal rights activist, she established an animal welfare organization in 1987.

Two years after divorcing Vadim in 1957, Bardot married actor Jacques Charrier, by whom she had a son, her only child. The couple divorced in 1962. Bardot was married to Germany millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs in 1966, divorcing three years later. And 1992, she married to Bernard d'Ormale.