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.
Movie Appearances
Versailles
as Madame Herchel
2008
Sang craché des lèvres belles
TBA
Fear(s) of the Dark
as (voice)
2007
Emergency Kisses
as Jeanne
1989
Declaration of War
as Claudia Benaïm
2011
Little Girl Blue
as Monique Lange (voice)
2023
Street Flow
as TD Professor
2019
A Better Life
as La femme bénévole surendettement
2011
The Last Screening
as The taxi driver
2011
La rupture
as Josée
2020
Melody for a Hustler
as Véronique
1998
Vandal
as Christine, la tante
2013
Nuts
as Mme Herschel, la psy
2013
Déluge
as Her mother
2006
Liberty at Night
as Micheline
1984
The Ministries of Art
as Self
1989
Casting
as Woman of the cast
1983
Unexpected Love
as Hélène
2015
A Place on Earth
as Loraine Morin
2013
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
as Aline
1991
