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Brigitte Sy

Brigitte Sy

Actor · Born January 26, 1956 · Paris, France

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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.

Acted in 37

2020s

  1. 2026

    Another Day

    Catherine

    59
  2. 2025

    Reformed

    Jeannine · 8 episodes

  3. 2023

    Little Girl Blue

    Monique Lange (voice)

  4. 2021

    L'Opéra

    Nadia Menour · 16 episodes

    74
  5. 2020

    La rupture

    Josée

2010s

  1. 2019

    Online Billie

    Brigitte

  2. Street Flow

    TD Professor

    65

  3. Têtard

    La mère de Ben · 25 episodes

  4. The Invisibles

    Béatrice, social services manager

    67
  5. 2017

    All That Divides Us

    Ben's Mother

  6. Quadras

    Sylvianne · 8 episodes

  7. Black Spot

    Sabine Hennequin · 8 episodes

    72
  8. 2015

    Unexpected Love

    Hélène

  9. 2014

    Wild Life

    Geneviève

  10. 2013

    Closed Circuit

    Michèle Solvy

  11. Vandal

    Christine, la tante

  12. A Place on Earth

    Loraine Morin

  13. Nuts

    Mme Herschel, la psy

  14. 2011

    A Better Life

    La femme bénévole surendettement

  15. Declaration of War

    Claudia Benaïm

  16. The Last Screening

    The taxi driver

2000s

  1. 2009

    Nice

    Fanny

  2. 2008

    Rien dans les poches

    Agathe Manikowski

  3. Versailles

    Madame Herchel

  4. Choosing Love

    Isabelle

  5. 2007

    Fear(s) of the Dark

    (voice)

  6. 2006

    Déluge

    Her mother

  7. 2005

    Regular Lovers

    la mère de François

1990s

  1. 1998

    Melody for a Hustler

    Véronique

  2. 1997

    Crack 6T

    La principale du collège

  3. Genealogies of a Crime

    Jeanne

  4. 1991

    I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar

    Aline

1980s

  1. 1989

    Emergency Kisses

    Jeanne

  2. 1984

    Liberty at Night

    Micheline

  3. 1983

    Casting

    Woman of the cast

1970s

  1. 1979

    Memoirs of a French Whore

    Movie

  2. 1978

    Cinématon

    N°250

Wrote 4

2020s

  1. 2024

    Le bonheur est pour demain

    Writer

2010s

  1. 2016

    Ogres

    Writer

  2. 2015

    Astragal

    Writer

    57
  3. 2010

    Free Hands

    Scenario Writer

Directed 3

2020s

  1. 2024

    Le bonheur est pour demain

    Director

2010s

  1. 2015

    Astragal

    Director

    57
  2. 2010

    Free Hands

    Director

Appearances1

1980s

  1. 1989

    The Ministries of Art

    Self