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{{Short description|French actress and singer (born 1934)}}
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| birthname = Brigitte Ann-Marie Bardot. Wrong: birth name is Camille Javal.
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|caption = Bardot in a publicity photo for '']'' (1962)
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|birth_name = Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot
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| height = 5' 7" (1.70 m)
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| spouse = ] (1952-1957) <br> Jacques Charrier (1959-1962) <br> ] (1966-1969) <br> Bernard d' Ormale (1992-)
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|years_active = 1952–1973 (entertainer)<br>1973–present (activist)
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|partner = {{Interlanguage link multi|Jean Blaise (actor)|fr|Jean Blaise (acteur)|lt=Jean Blaise}} (1975–1979)<br>{{Interlanguage link multi|Allain Bougrain-Dubourg|fr}} (1980–1985)
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'''Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot''' ({{IPAc-en|b|r|ɪ|ˌ|ʒ|iː|t|_|b|ɑːr|ˈ|d|əʊ|audio=EN-AU ck1 Brigitte Bardot.ogg}} {{respell|brizh|EET|_|bar|DOH}}; {{IPA|fr|bʁiʒit baʁdo|lang|LL-Q150 (fra)-Exilexi-Brigitte Bardot.wav}}; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials '''B.B.''',<ref name="institut-francais">{{cite web |url=https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/festivals-series/and-bardot-became-bb/ |publisher=] |title=And Bardot Became BB |access-date=13 January 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808114518/https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/festivals-series/and-bardot-became-bb/ |archive-date=8 August 2018}}</ref>{{sfn|Probst|2012|p=7}} is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Famous for portraying characters with ] lifestyles, she is one of the best known symbols of the ]. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major pop culture icon.{{sfnm|Cherry|2016|1p=134|Vincendeau|1992|2p=73–76}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/elizabeth-taylor-what-becomes-legend-most/ | title=Elizabeth Taylor: What Becomes a Legend Most |date= 30 March 2011|last=Wypijewski| first=Joann |magazine =]}}</ref> She has acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the ] in 1985.


Born and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina during her childhood. She started her acting career in 1952 and achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in '']'' (1956), catching the attention of many French intellectuals and earning her the nickname "]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-03-16-8601200310-story.html | title=St. Tropez: What Hath Brigitte Bardot Wrought? |date= 16 March 1986|last=Handley| first=John |newspaper=]}}</ref> She was the subject of philosopher ]'s 1959 essay ''The Lolita Syndrome'', which described her as a "locomotive of women's history" and built upon ] themes to declare her the most liberated woman of France. She won a 1961 ] ] for her work in '']'' (1960)''.'' Bardot later starred in ]'s film '']'' (1963). For her role in ]'s film '']'' (1965), she was nominated for the ]. French President ] called Bardot "the French export as important as ] cars".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Poirier |first=Agnès |date=21 September 2009 |title=Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/22/brigitte-bardot-french-cinema |access-date=17 June 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
'''Brigitte Bardot''' (born '''Brigitte Ann-Marie Bardot''' -- wrong, born Camille Javal, I believe -- on ], ]) is a ] ], ], ], ], ], and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s ].


After retiring from acting in 1973, Bardot became an ] activist and created the ]. She is known for her strong personality, outspokenness, and speeches on animal defense; she has been fined twice for public insults. She has also been a controversial political figure, as of November 2021 having been fined six times<ref name="vanityfair.com">{{cite web | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/11/brigitte-bardot-fined-for-inciting-racial-hatred | title=Brigitte Bardot is Handed Her Sixth Fine for "Inciting Racial Hatred" | website=] | date=5 November 2021 }}</ref> for ] when she criticised ] and ] and called residents of ] "savages".<ref>{{cite web | title = Brigitte Bardot at 80: still outrageous, outspoken and controversial | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/20/brigitte-bardot-at-80-still-outrageous-outspoken | newspaper = The Guardian | date = 20 September 2014 }}</ref> She is married to Bernard d'Ormale, a former adviser to ], a far-right French politician. Bardot is a member of the ] of the ] and has received several awards and accolades from ] and ]. In 2011, '']'' ranked her second on the "50 Most Beautiful Women In Film".
In the 1970s after her retirement from the ], Bardot established herself as an ] activist, which she continues today. During the 1990s she was outspoken about her political views on such issues as ], ], ], and ]. She is well-known for her support of ideas common to French far-right politician ].


==Biography== ==Early life==
Bardot was born on 28 September 1934 in the ] to Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie Mucel (1912–1978).{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=15}} Bardot's father, who originated from ], was an engineer and the proprietor of several industrial factories in Paris.<ref name="Lorrain">{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224142/http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/actualite/2010/05/23/brigitte-bardot-j-en-ai-les-larmes-aux-yeux |url=http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/actualite/2010/05/23/brigitte-bardot-j-en-ai-les-larmes-aux-yeux |title=Brigitte Bardot: 'J'en ai les larmes aux yeux' |work=] |language=fr |date=23 May 2010 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=6}} Her mother was the daughter of an insurance company director.{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=12}} She grew up in a conservative ] family, as had her father.{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=11}}<ref name="Observer_outrageous">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/20/brigitte-bardot-at-80-still-outrageous-outspoken |title=Brigitte Bardot at 80: still outrageous, outspoken and controversial |first=Agnès |last=Poirier |work=] |date=20 September 2014 |access-date=21 March 2019}}</ref> She suffered from ] as a child, which resulted in ] of her left eye.{{sfn|Lelièvre|2012|p=18}} She has one younger sister, ].{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=45}}
Bardot born in ] to Anne-Marie "Toty" Mucel and Charles "Pilou" Bardot, an industrialist. Both parents were fervently religious and conservative, instilling in Brigitte their ] ideals.


Bardot's childhood was prosperous; she lived in her family's seven-bedroom apartment in the luxurious ].<ref name="Observer_outrageous"/>{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10}} However, she recalled feeling resentful in her early years.{{sfnm|Bardot|1996|1p=45|Singer|2006|2p=10–14}} Her father demanded that she follow strict behavioural standards, including good table manners, and wear appropriate clothes.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10–12}} Her mother was highly selective in choosing companions for her, so Bardot had very few childhood friends.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10–11}} Bardot cited a personal traumatic incident when she and her sister broke her parents' favourite vase while they were playing in the house; her father whipped the sisters 20 times and subsequently treated them like "strangers", demanding that they address their parents by the formal pronoun "]", used in French when speaking to unfamiliar or higher-status persons outside the immediate family.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=11–12}} The incident led to Bardot decisively resenting her parents and to her future rebellious lifestyle.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=12}}
At an early age her mother encouraged her interest in ] and ]; she had modeled for popular magazine ] by the time she was 15 years old.<ref>http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/830:112/1/Brigitte_Bardot.htm</ref>


During World War II, when ] by ], Bardot spent more time at home due to increasingly strict civilian surveillance.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10}} She became engrossed in dancing to records, which her mother saw as a potential for a ballet career.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10}} Bardot was admitted at the age of seven to the private school ].{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=11}} She went to school three days a week, which gave her ample time to take dance lessons at a local studio under her mother's arrangements.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10–11}} In 1949, Bardot was accepted at the ]. She attended ballet classes held by Russian choreographer ] for three years.{{sfn|Caron|2009|p=62}} She also studied at the Institut de la Tour, a private Catholic high school near her home.<ref>{{cite news |first=Caroline |last=Pigozzi |title=Bardot s'en va toujours en guerre... pour les animaux |newspaper=] |issue=January 2018 |pages=76–83}}</ref>
===Career===
In 1952, she appeared on screen for the first time in '']''. That same year, at age 18, she married director ], with whom she had been romantically involved for several years. At one point she attempted ] when her parents refused allowing her to marry Vadim. They married when she turned 18, and divorced five years later.


], the director of the magazines '']'' and '']'', hired Bardot in 1949 as a "junior" fashion model.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=67}} On 8 March 1950, 15-year-old Bardot appeared on the cover of ''Elle'', which brought her an acting offer for the film ''Les Lauriers sont coupés'' from director ].{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=19}} Her parents opposed her becoming an actress, but her grandfather was supportive, saying that "If this little girl is to become a whore, cinema will not be the cause."{{efn-ua|Original quote: "''Si cette petite doit devenir putain ou pas, ce ne sera pas le cinéma qui en sera la cause''."{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=68–69}}}} At the audition, Bardot met ], who later notified her that she did not get the role.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=69}} They subsequently fell in love.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=70}} Her parents fiercely opposed their relationship; her father announced to her one evening that she would continue her education in England and that he had bought her a train ticket for the following day.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=72}} Bardot reacted by putting her head into an oven with open fire; her parents stopped her and ultimately accepted the relationship, on condition that she marry Vadim at the age of 18.{{sfnm|Bardot|1996|1p=73|Singer|2006|2p=22}}
Although the ] was then in its ascendancy, her personal rise was remarkable; she has been one of the few ]an actresses to receive mass media attention in the ]. She and ] were the icons of female sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, and whenever she made public appearances in the United States the media hordes covered her every move.


==Career==
Her films of the early and mid 1950s were lightweight romantic dramas, some of them historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. She played ]s in three English-language films, the British comedy '']'' (1955), '']'' (1954), in which she was understudy for the title role but only appears as Helen's handmaid, and '']'' (1954) with Kirk Douglas. Her French-language films were dubbed for international release. "She is every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris," said the film-critic Ivon Addams in 1955.
===Beginnings: 1952–1955===
Bardot appeared on the cover of ''Elle'' again in 1952, which landed her an offer for a small part in the comedy film '']'' the same year, directed by ] and starring ].{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=81}} She was paid 200,000 ] (about 575 1952 US dollars<ref name=convert>{{cite web | title=Historical Currency Converter|first=Rodney|last=Edvinsson| website=Historicalstatistics.org| url=https://www.historicalstatistics.org/Currencyconverter.html}}</ref>) for the small role portraying a cousin of the main character.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=81}} Bardot had her second film role in '']'' (1952), directed by ].{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=84}} She also had roles in the 1953 films '']'' and '']''.


Bardot had a small role in a ]-financed film being shot in Paris in 1953, '']'', starring ]. She received media attention when she attended the ] in April 1953.<ref name="twolives"/>
Vadim was not content with this light fare. The ] of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in '']'' (1956) with ]. The film, about an amoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a big international success. She may have had an affair with her co-star Trintignant, but this was more likely a pre-release publicity gimmick. The film is often wrongly described as her first film (it was her seventeenth) and to have launched her overnight, but it did help move her towards the cinematic mainstream.


]'' in 1954]]
However, it also ruled out a transition to ], where she was thought too risqué to handle. The ] era was still in full swing, and even ] in ''The French Line'' (1953) had been thought to be going too far by showing her midriff. Erotica like Bardot's ''Cette sacrée gamine'' (''That Crazy Kid'', 1955) was considered acceptable at the box office so long as it was clearly labelled "European." Bardot's limited English and strong accent, while beguiling to the ears of men, did not suit rapid-fire Hollywood scripts. In any event, staying in Europe benefited her image when the 1960s began to swing and Hollywood slipped into the background for a while, and Bardot was voted honorary sex-goddess of the decade.
Bardot had a leading role in 1954 in an Italian melodrama, '']'' and in a French adventure film, '']''. She had a good part as a flirtatious student in the 1955 '']'', opposite ], for director ].


Bardot played her first sizeable English-language role in 1955 in '']'', as the love interest for ]. The film was the third-most-popular movie in Britain that year.<ref>"'The Dam Busters'." Times 29 December 1955: 12. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.</ref>
She divorced Vadim in 1957, and married actor ] in 1959, by whom in 1960 she had her only child, ]. She and her son are currently estranged; She once referred to him as "a tumour". Her marriage was preyed on by the ], and there were clashes over the direction of Bardot's career. Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining to most of the world a glamour model.
]'' (''Contempt'').]]
''Vie privée'' (1960), directed by ] has more than an element of autobiography in it. The scene in which, returning to her flat, Bardot's character is harangued in the lift by a middle-aged cleaning-lady calling her a tramp and a tart was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century.


Bardot had a small role in '']'' (1955) for director ], supporting ] and ]. The part was bigger in '']'' (1956) for director ]. She had another in the Hollywood film, '']'', playing Helen's handmaiden.
Soon after, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of ] and is now known to have attempted suicide on numerous occasions:


For the Italian movie ] (1956) brunette Bardot was asked by the director to appear as a blonde. She dyed her hair rather than wear a wig; she was so pleased with the results that she decided to retain the color.<ref name="Servat. Page 76">Servat. Page 76.</ref>
<blockquote>
"I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below."
</blockquote>


=== Rise to stardom: 1956–1962 ===
On her 26th birthday she attempted her most publicly known suicide attempt, swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills and slitting her wrists.
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]'', March 1959]]
Bardot then appeared in four movies that made her a star. First up was a musical, '']'' (1956), where Bardot played a troublesome school girl. Directed by ], it was co-written by Roger Vadim and was a great success, going on to become the 12th most popular film of the year in France.<ref> at Box Office Story</ref> It was followed by a comedy, '']'' (1956), also written by Vadim. This was succeeded by '']'' (1956) with ].


Finally, there was the melodrama '']'' (1956). The movie was Vadim's debut as director, with Bardot starring opposite ] and ]. The film, about an immoral teenager in an otherwise respectable small-town setting, was an even larger success, not just in France but also around the world, listed among the ten most popular films in Great Britain in 1957.<ref>Most Popular Film of the Year. ''The Times (London, England)'', Thursday, 12 December 1957; pg. 3; Issue 54022.</ref> In the United States the film was the highest-grossing foreign film ever released, earning $4&nbsp;million, which author Peter Lev describes as "an astonishing amount for a foreign film at that time."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lev|first1=Peter|title=The Euro-American Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TG9ZAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|isbn=978-0-292-76378-4|page=13|publisher=]}}</ref> It turned Bardot into an international star.<ref name="twolives"/> From at least 1956,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55474324|title=Mam'selle Kitten New box-office beauty|date=5 December 1956|work=Australian Women's Weekly|access-date=5 March 2019|pages=32|via=]}}</ref> she was hailed as the "]".<ref name="theguardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2014/sep/20/brigitte-bardot-her-life-and-times-so-far-in-pictures|work=The Guardian|title=Brigitte Bardot: her life and times so far – in pictures|access-date=13 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="time">{{cite web|url=https://time.com/3649602/life-with-brigitte-bardot-rare-and-classic-photos-of-the-original-sex-kitten/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231042624/http://time.com/3649602/life-with-brigitte-bardot-rare-and-classic-photos-of-the-original-sex-kitten/|url-status=live|archive-date=31 December 2014|publisher=]|title=Brigitte Bardot: Rare and Classic Photos of the Original 'Sex Kitten' |access-date=13 January 2017}}</ref><ref>The earliest use cited in the ] (accessed 26 November 2011) is in the ], 2 June 1958.</ref> The film scandalized the United States and some theater managers were even arrested just for screening it.<ref name=guardot>{{cite news|last=Poirier|first=Agnès|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/22/brigitte-bardot-french-cinema|title=Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot|work=The Guardian|date=22 September 2009|access-date=28 December 2020}}</ref>
Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in glossy star-vehicles like '']'' (1969), dabbled in ], and played the role of glamour model and icon. She starred in ]'s film '']'', in which her real name Camille Javal was used as her character name. In 1965 she appeared as herself in the ] production '']'' (1965) starring ].
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Paul O'Neil of '']'' (June 1958) in describing Bardot's international popularity, writes:
<blockquote>In gaining her present eminence, Brigitte Bardot has had certain advantages beyond those she was born with. Like the European sports car, she has arrived on the American scene at a time when the American public is ready, even hungry, for something racier and more realistic than the familiar domestic product.<ref>{{cite web|last1=O'Neil|first1=Paul |title=Critics To The Contrary, B. B.'S Appeal Is Not Limited To Her Body |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1MEAAAAMBAJ|year=1958|page=57}}</ref><br></blockquote>


During her early career, professional photographer Sam Lévin's photos contributed to the image of Bardot's sensuality. British photographer ] made images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s that have become representative of her public persona.
Her other husbands were German millionaire playboy ] (1966-1969), and French right-wing politician, Bernard d'Ormale (1992-present). She has also had reputed relationships with many men, including singers ] and ]. In the late 1950s, she shared an exchange she considered "croiser de deux sillages" with actor and ] author ], then an actor in France for a ] film with ]. Gilmore told '']'', "I felt a beautiful warmth with Bardot but found it difficult to discuss things to any depth whatsoever."


Bardot followed ''And God Created Woman'' up with '']'' (1957), a comedy co-starring ] for director Boisrond. She was reunited with Vadim in another melodrama '']'' (1958), and played a criminal who seduced ] in '']'' (1958). The latter was the 13th most seen movie of the year in France.<ref name="box">{{cite web|url=http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-brigitte-bardot-c22691591/19&usg=ALkJrhhIEncp1KXspugND8vN3RRD5RUhgA |title=Box office information for Love is My Profession|website=Box office story}}</ref> In 1958, Bardot became the highest-paid actress in the country of France.<ref name="Bricard2020">{{cite web |url=https://www.linternaute.com/cinema/star-cinema/2517851-mariages-sante-les-secrets-de-brigitte-bardot/2517857-un-sex-symbol |title=La naissance d'un sex symbol |trans-title=The birth of a sex symbol |last=Bricard |first=Manon |date=12 October 2020 |website=] |language=fr|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204205720/https://www.linternaute.com/cinema/star-cinema/2517851-mariages-sante-les-secrets-de-brigitte-bardot/2517857-un-sex-symbol |archive-date=4 December 2021 }}</ref>
She is recognised for popularising ] swimwear in early films such as ''Manina'' (''Woman without a Veil'', 1952) and in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots. She even sported an early version of the ] from time to time. Though this was not considered extraordinary in France, it was considered nearly scandalous in the US. The fashions of the 1960s looked effortlessly right and spontaneous on her, and she joined ] and ] in becoming a subject for ] paintings.
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'']'' (1959) for director ] was popular, but '']'' (1959), a comedy set in World War II, was a huge hit, the fourth biggest movie of the year in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-brigitte-bardot-c22691591/21|title=1959 French box office|website=Box Office Story|access-date=28 August 2016}}</ref> Also widely seen was '']'' (1959) from Boisrond.


Bardot's next film was courtroom drama '']'' (1960), from ]. It was a highly publicised production, which resulted in Bardot having an affair and attempting suicide. The film was Bardot's biggest commercial success in France, the third biggest hit of the year, and was nominated for the ] for Best Foreign Film.<ref> at Box Office Story</ref> Bardot was awarded a ] Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in the film.<ref name="Roberts2015">{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=Paul G |date=2015 |chapter=Brigitte Bardot |title=Style icons Vol 3 − Bombshells |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MN3BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT56 |location=Sydney |publisher=Fashion Industry Broadcast |page=56 |isbn= 978-1-6277-6189-5}}</ref>
In 1970, the sculptor ] used Bardot as the model for a bust of ], the French national emblem.


She made a comedy with Vadim, '']'' (1961), and had a role in the all-star anthology, '']'' (1962).
===Activism===
In 1973, just before her fortieth birthday, Bardot announced her retirement. After appearing in more than fifty motion pictures, and recording several music albums, most notably with ], she chose to use her fame to promote ].


Bardot starred alongside ] in a film inspired by her life in '']'' (''Vie privée'', 1962), directed by ]. More popular than that was her role in '']'' (1962).
In 1986, she established the ]. She raised three million French ]s to fund the foundation by ]ing off ] and many personal belongings. Today, she is one of the world's most influential animal rights activists and a major opponent of the consumption of ].


=== International films and singing career: 1962–1968 ===
Considered a militant for animal protection, she condemned ] during a visit to that country. She sought to discuss the issue with ], though her request for a meeting was denied.<ref>http://www.fondationbrigittebardot.fr/site/fbb_a.php?IdPere=&Id=314</ref>
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In the mid-1960s, Bardot made films that seemed to be more aimed at the international market. She starred in ]'s film '']'' (1963), produced by ] and starring ]. The following year she co-starred with ] in the comedy '']'' (1964).


'']'' (1965), Bardot's first Hollywood film, was a comedy starring ] as an academic whose son develops a crush on Bardot. Bardot's appearance was relatively brief in the film, and the movie was not a big success.
===Politics===
] caught by paparazzi in Italy during the filming of '']'' in 1963]]
She is also one of the most celebrated supporters of ]'s ideas, the leader of the right-wing ] political party. Her husband ] with whom she is married since 1992 is a former adviser of the Front National. With the publication of her 2003 book, ''A Scream in the Silence'', the reclusive Bardot has come under considerable fire for ], and ] comments. In May 2003, The ] announced that it would sue Bardot for her published views. Another organisation, The "]" (]), announced that it was considering similar legal proceedings.
More successful was the Western buddy comedy '']'' (1965) for director Louis Malle, appearing opposite ]. It was a big hit in France and worldwide, although it did not break through in the United States as much as had been hoped.<ref name="tino">Tino Balio, ''United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 281.</ref>


After a cameo in Godard's '']'' (1966), she had her first outright flop for some years, '']'' (1968), a French–English co-production. She had a small role in the all-star '']'' (1968), acting opposite ], then tried a Hollywood film again: '']'' (1968), a Western starring ], which was another box-office disappointment.<ref name="variety">"ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", ''Variety'', 31 May 1973 p. 3.</ref>
Bardot, in a letter to a French ] magazine, wrote in her defense, "Apart from my husband &mdash; who maybe will cross over one day as well &mdash; I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants".{{Fact|date=February 2007}}


She participated in several musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with ], Bob Zagury and ], including "Harley Davidson"; "Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît"; "Bubble gum"; "Contact"; "Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi"; "L'Appareil À Sous"; "La Madrague"; "On Déménage"; "Sidonie"; "Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?"; "Le Soleil De Ma Vie" (a cover of ]'s "]"); and "]". Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wish; the following year, he rerecorded a version with British-born model and actress ] that became a massive hit all over Europe. The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a download hit in 2006 when ] made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6058742.stm|title=Bardot revived as download star|date=17 October 2006|work=BBC News|access-date=3 August 2010}}</ref>
On ], ] Bardot was convicted by a French court of "inciting racial hatred" and fined 5,000 €, which was the fourth such conviction/fine she has faced from French courts. Bardot's previous comments that led to convictions included ones encouraging civilian massacres in ].{{Fact|date=February 2007}} The courts cited passages where Bardot referred to the "]ization of France" and the "underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam",<ref>http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/05/1610376.php</ref> her descriptions of ], the largest in Europe. In the book she also referred to homosexuals as "fairground freaks" and she condemns the presence of women in government.
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=== Final films: 1969–1973 ===
==Quotation==
From 1969 to 1972, Bardot was the official face of ], who had previously up until then been anonymous, to represent the liberty of France.<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 February 2019 |title=Bardot, Deneuve, Casta... Elles ont incarné Marianne avant (peut-être) Simone Veil |url=https://www.sudouest.fr/culture/people/bardot-deneuve-casta-elles-ont-incarne-marianne-avant-peut-etre-simone-veil-2820468.php |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=SudOuest.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=18 July 2018 |title=Ces femmes qui ont prêté leurs traits à Marianne |url=https://www.rtl.fr/culture/medias-people/diaporama-marceau-bardot-casta-elles-ont-prete-leurs-traits-a-marianne-7794150612 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.rtl.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
*"She is the princess of pout, the countess of come hither. Brigitte Bardot exuded a carefree, naïve sexuality that brought a whole new audience to French films." '']'' magazine.


''Her next film, ]'' (1969), was a flop, although the screwball comedy '']'' (1970) performed better. Her last few films were mostly comedies: '']'' (1970), '']'' (1971) (with ]). '']'' (1971) was more popular, helped by Bardot co-starring with ].
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* On the French national TV channel ], interview by Marc-Olivier Fogiel in 2003, Brigitte Bardot states firmly that paperless people transform churches "into real human pigsties" during their protest.
She made one more movie working with Vadim, '']'' (1973), playing the title role. Vadim said the film marked "Underneath what people call 'the Bardot myth' was something interesting, even though she was never considered the most professional actress in the world. For years, since she has been growing older, and the Bardot myth has become just a souvenir... I was curious in her as a woman and I had to get to the end of something with her, to get out of her and express many things I felt were in her. Brigitte always gave the impression of sexual freedom – she is a completely open and free person, without any aggression. So I gave her the part of a man – that amused me".<ref name="vadim">{{cite news|title=ROGER VADIM|author=Wilson, Timothy|work=The Guardian|location=London (UK)|date=7 April 1973|page=9}}</ref>


"If ''Don Juan'' is not my last movie it will be my next to last", said Bardot during filming.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brigitte Bardot: No longer a sex symbol|author=Morgan, Gwen|work=Chicago Tribune|date=4 March 1973|page=d3}}</ref> She kept her word and made only one more film, '']'' (1973).
* Interviewed in the French daily newspaper '']'' (April 26, 1996), she says "And now my country, France, my homeland, my fatherland is again invaded, with the blessing of our successive governments, by overpopulated foreigners, mostly Muslims, to which we provide an oath of allegiance. Years passing by, we assist to a blossom of ]s everywhere in France, though our churches become silent, lacking of priests." Bardot was condemned in 2004 for similar statements in her book ''Un cri dans le silence''.


In 1973, Bardot announced she was retiring from acting as "a way to get out elegantly".<ref name="The Modesto Bee-7 June 1973">{{cite news|title=Brigitte Bardot Gives Up Films at Age of 39|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d-EpAAAAIBAJ&pg=3388%2C1836097|agency=UPI|newspaper=The Modesto Bee|location=Modesto, California|date=7 June 1973|page=A-8|access-date=17 August 2010}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* In her book ''Un cri dans le silence'' (''A cry in the silence''), she affirms that unemployed people are "cheeky lazy fuckers".


==Animal rights activism==
* Bardot regularly publishes articles in ''Présent'', a French extremist right-winged daily newspaper.
Bardot met ] in 1977, the same year he founded the ], during an operation to condemn the "massacre" of ] and ].<ref name="DeBreteuil221024">{{cite news |last=De Breteuil |first=Paul |date=22 October 2024 |title=Brigitte Bardot appelle à la mobilisation pour la libération de l'activiste écologiste Paul Watson |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot calls for rallying for the release of environmental activist Paul Watson |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/brigitte-bardot-appelle-a-la-mobilisation-pour-la-liberation-de-l-activiste-ecologiste-paul-watson-20241022 |url-status=live |language=fr |newspaper=] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241111141052/https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/brigitte-bardot-appelle-a-la-mobilisation-pour-la-liberation-de-l-activiste-ecologiste-paul-watson-20241022 |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref> In support of animal protection, Bardot went to the ] after being invited by Watson.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cavallaro |first=Régine |date=1 January 2009 |title=Paul Watson, pirate au grand coeur |trans-title=Paul Watson, pirate with a big heart |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/voyage/article/2009/01/01/paul-watson_1339264_3546.html |url-status=live |language=fr |newspaper=] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241111152751/https://www.lemonde.fr/voyage/article/2009/01/01/paul-watson_1339264_3546.html |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref> Bardot posed lying down next to the seal pups; the photos were seen worldwide. Bardot and Watson remained friends.<ref>{{cite news |last=Marie |first=Juliette |date=23 July 2024 |title=Arrestation de Paul Watson: ce qu'il faut savoir sur le fondateur de Sea Shepherd en 6 dates clés |trans-title=Arrest of Paul Watson: what you need to know about the founder of Sea Shepherd in 6 key dates |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/environnement/protection-oceans/arrestation-de-paul-watson-ce-quil-faut-savoir-sur-le-fondateur-de-sea-shepherd-en-6-dates-cles-79dcca4e-48d4-11ef-ae43-8601f2d4302d |url-status=live |language=fr |newspaper=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723190627/https://www.ouest-france.fr/environnement/protection-oceans/arrestation-de-paul-watson-ce-quil-faut-savoir-sur-le-fondateur-de-sea-shepherd-en-6-dates-cles-79dcca4e-48d4-11ef-ae43-8601f2d4302d |archive-date=23 July 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref>


After appearing in more than 40 motion pictures and recording several music albums, Bardot used her fame to promote ].
==Filmography==
In 1986, she established the ] for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.<ref name=foundationhistory>{{cite web|url=http://www.fondationbrigittebardot.fr/site/fbb_a.php?IdPere=129&Id=129 |title=Brigitte Bardot foundation for the welfare and protection of animals |work=fondationbrigittebardot.fr |access-date=21 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525101027/http://www.fondationbrigittebardot.fr/site/fbb_a.php?IdPere=129&Id=129 |archive-date=25 May 2011 }}</ref> She became a vegetarian<ref name="follain (2006)">Follain, John (9 April 2006) , ''] Online: Life & Style''. Retrieved 2 April 2009.</ref> and raised three million francs (about 430,000 1986 US dollars<ref name=convert/>) to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and personal belongings.<ref name=foundationhistory/>
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===1950s===


Bardot has been a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of ].<ref name="Borg2017">{{cite news |last=Borg |first=Bertrand |date=30 June 2017 |title='Stop eating horses', Brigitte Bardot tells Maltese |url=https://timesofmalta.com/article/stop-eating-horses-brigitte-bardot-tells-maltese.652026 |url-status=live |newspaper=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241111161450/https://timesofmalta.com/article/stop-eating-horses-brigitte-bardot-tells-maltese.652026 |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=22 July 1984 |title=Brigitte Bardot saves doomed horse |url=https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1984/07/22/Brigitte-Bardot-saves-doomed-horse/1152459316800/ |url-status=live |work=] |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20241111161121/https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1984/07/22/Brigitte-Bardot-saves-doomed-horse/1152459316800/ |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024 }}</ref>
*''The Long Teeth'' (2005)
*''Crazy for Love'' (1952)
*''His Father's Portrait'' (1953)
*''Act of Love'' (1953)
*''Betrayed (film)|Betrayed'' (1954)
*''Un-Royal Affairs in Versailles'' (1954)
*''The Light Across the Street'' (1955)
*''School for Love'' (1955)
*''Caroline and the Rebels'' (1955)
*''Doctor at Sea'' (1955)
*''The Grand Maneuver'' (1955)
*''Nero's Mistress'' (1956)
*''Her Bridal Night'' (''The Bride is Too Beautiful'') (1956)
*'']'' (1956)
*''Naughty Girl'' (1956)
*''Plucking the Daisy'' (1956)
*'']'' (1956)
*''La Parisienne'' (1957)
*''The Night That Heaven Fell'' (1958)
*''Love Is My Profession'' (1958)
*''The Woman and the Puppet'' (1959)
*''Babette Goes to War'' (1959)
*'']'' (1959)
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In 1989, while looking after her neighbour, Jean-Pierre Manivet's donkey, the mare displayed excessive interest in Bardot's older donkey and she subsequently had the neighbour's donkey castrated due to concerns the mating would prove fatal for her mare. The neighbour then sued Bardot, and Bardot later won, with the court ordering Manivet to pay 20,000 francs for creating a "false scandal".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/8 |title=Photoicon Online Features: Andy Martin: Brigitte Bardot |publisher=Photoicon.com |access-date=13 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328070910/http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/8/ |archive-date=28 March 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrpophistory.com/popculturefiles/askmrpophistory_q359.htm |title=Mr Pop History |publisher=Mr Pop History |access-date=13 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121122440/http://www.mrpophistory.com/popculturefiles/askmrpophistory_q359.htm |archive-date=21 January 2010 }}</ref>
===1960s-70s===

*''The Testament of Orpheus'' (1960)
Bardot urged French television viewers to boycott horse meat and was soon the target of death threats in January 1994. Not backing off from the threats, she sent a letter to the ], ], calling on him to ban the sale of horse meat.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brozan |first=Nadine |date=29 January 1994 |title=Chronicle |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/29/style/chronicle-024490.html |url-status=live |newspaper=] |page=20 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241111163200/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/29/style/chronicle-024490.html |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
*''It Happened All Night'' (1960) (Cameo)

*''The Truth'' (1960)
Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President ], published in French magazine '']'', in which she accused the Chinese of "torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make ]s".
*'']'' (1961)

*'[Famous Love Affairs'' (1961)
]
*'']'' (1961)
She donated more than US$140,000 over two years in 2001 for a mass ] and adoption program for ], estimated to number 300,000.<ref name="bbc2">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1196712.stm |title=Bardot 'saves' Bucharest's dogs|work=BBC News|date=2 March 2001|access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref>
*''Lykke og krone'' (1962) (documentary)

*''Love on a Pillow'' (1962)
In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to Queen ], appealing for the sovereign to halt the ] in the ]. In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a "macabre spectacle" that "is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands ... This is not a hunt but a mass slaughter ... an outmoded tradition that has no acceptable justification in today's world".<ref>, AFP, 19 August 2010.</ref>
*'']'' (1963)

*''Paparazzi'' (1964) (short subject)
On 22 April 2011, ] ] officially included ] in the country's cultural heritage. Bardot wrote him a highly critical letter of protest.<ref name=tel>Victoria Ward, Devorah Lauter (4 January 2013). , telegraph.co.uk; accessed 4 August 2015.</ref> On 25 May 2011, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV ''Gojira'', as ] in appreciation of her support.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-110525-1.html |title=Sea Shepherd Conservation Society |publisher=Seashepherd.org |date=25 May 2011 |access-date=25 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703225105/http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-110525-1.html |archive-date=3 July 2011 }}</ref>
*''Bardot and Godard'' (1964) (short subject)

*''Agent 38-24-36'' (1964)
From 2013, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, in collaboration with Kagyupa International Monlam Trust of India, operated an annual ] camp. Bardot committed to the cause of animal welfare in ] over several years.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219090050/http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=34486 |date=19 February 2015 }}, phayul.com; accessed 4 August 2015.</ref>
*''Forbidden Temptations'' (1965) (documentary)

*''Marie Soleil'' (1965) (Cameo)
On 23 July 2015, Bardot condemned Australian politician ]'s plan to eradicate 2 million cats to save endangered species such as the ] and ].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-22/brigitte-bardot-condemns-greg-hunt-for-feral-cut-cull-plan/6640846|title=Bardot condemns Australia's plan to cull 2 million feral cats|date=22 July 2015|work=ABC News|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref>
*'']'' (1965)

*'']'' (1965)
At the age of 90, Bardot appealed to free Watson, who had been detained in ] since 21 July 2024, when Japan requested his ]. Through a request expressed in mid-October 2024 by her lawyers and Sea Shepherd France, Bardot asked ] ] to grant Watson ]. Bardot asked Macron to show "a little bit of courage". During that month, she initiated a demonstration in support of Watson in front of the ].<ref name="DeBreteuil221024"/> Bardot also wrote a letter to ] ], asking her to "not choose the camp of the oceans gravediggers".<ref>{{cite news |date=11 August 2024 |title=Manifestations en France contre l'extradition du militant écologiste Paul Watson au Japon |trans-title=Protests in France against the extradition of environmental activist Paul Watson to Japan |url=https://www.liberation.fr/international/europe/manifestations-en-france-contre-lextradition-du-militant-ecologiste-paul-watson-au-japon-20240811_WAW6DVAAQNEKPDYI7H5XTSPOTU/ |url-status=live |language=fr |newspaper=] |agency=] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241111154455/https://www.liberation.fr/international/europe/manifestations-en-france-contre-lextradition-du-militant-ecologiste-paul-watson-au-japon-20240811_WAW6DVAAQNEKPDYI7H5XTSPOTU/ |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref>
*''Masculine, Feminine: In 15 Acts'' (1966)

*''Two Weeks in September'' (1967)
==Personal life==
*'']'' (1968)
===Marriages and relationships===
*'']'' (1968)
Bardot has been married four times, with her current marriage lasting far longer than the previous three combined. By her own count, she has had a total of 17 romantic relationships.<ref>{{cite news |last=Némard |first=Perrine |date=19 November 2020 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot talks about her many conquests: 'I was the one who chose' |url=https://tendances.orange.fr/culture-pop/people/article-brigitte-bardot-evoque-ses-nombreuses-conquetes-c-est-moi-qui-choisissais-CNT000001v1xpX.html |url-status=dead|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165625/https://tendances.orange.fr/culture-pop/people/article-brigitte-bardot-evoque-ses-nombreuses-conquetes-c-est-moi-qui-choisissais-CNT000001v1xpX.html |archive-date=28 November 2021|via=] }}</ref> Bardot would characteristically leave for another relationship when "the present was getting lukewarm"; she said, "I have always looked for passion. That's why I was often unfaithful. And when the passion was coming to an end, I was packing my suitcase".<ref>{{cite news |last=Arlin |first=Marc|orig-date=modified 8 June 2023|date=1 February 2018 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot: unfaithful, she reveals the reason for her multiple adulteries |url=https://www.programme-tv.net/news/cinema/200157-brigitte-bardot-infidele-elle-devoile-la-raison-de-ses-multiples-adulteres/ |url-status=live|language=fr |work=Télé-Loisirs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165618/https://www.programme-tv.net/news/cinema/200157-brigitte-bardot-infidele-elle-devoile-la-raison-de-ses-multiples-adulteres/ |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>
*''The Bear and the Doll'' (1969)

*''Les Femmes'' (1969)
On 20 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director ].<ref>{{cite news |first=Éric |last=Neuhoff |title=Brigitte Bardot et Roger Vadim&nbsp;– Le loup et la biche|work=]|date=12 August 2013|language=fr|page=18}}</ref> They separated in 1956 after she became involved with '']'' co-star ], divorcing the next year.<ref name="twolives">{{cite book|author=Robinson, Jeffrey|title=Bardot&nbsp;— Two Lives|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=London|edition=First British|year=1994|id=ASIN: B000KK1LBM|author-link=Jeffrey Robinson}}</ref> Trintignant at the time was married to actress ]. Bardot and Vadim had no children together, but remained in touch for the rest of his life and even collaborated on later projects. Bardot and Trintignant lived together for about two years, spanning the period before and after Bardot's divorce from Vadim, but they never married. Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant's frequent absence due to military service and Bardot's affair with musician ].<ref name="InitialsBB">{{harvnb|Bardot|1996}}</ref>
*''The Vixen'' (1969)
] in 1963]]
*''The Novices'' (1970)
After her separation from Vadim, Bardot acquired a historic property dating from the 16th century, called Le Castelet, in ]. The fourteen-bedroom villa, surrounded by lush gardens, olive trees, and ]s, consisted of several buildings.<ref name="Castelet-sale">{{cite news |author=R.P. |date=7 July 2020 |title=La sublime villa cannoise de Brigitte Bardot est à vendre (photos) |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot's sublime Cannes villa is for sale |url=https://parismatch.be/actualites/people/413295/la-sublime-villa-cannoise-de-brigitte-bardot-est-a-vendre-photos |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233329/https://parismatch.be/actualites/people/413295/la-sublime-villa-cannoise-de-brigitte-bardot-est-a-vendre-photos |archive-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>
*''Rum Runners'' (1971)

*''The Legend of Frenchie King'' (1971)
In 1958, she bought a second property called La Madrague, located in ].<ref name="Castelet-sale"/> In early 1958, her breakup with Trintignant was followed in quick order by a reported nervous breakdown in Italy, according to newspaper reports. A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was also noted but was denied by her public relations manager.<ref name="latimesblog">{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/files/1958_0209_cover.jpg|title=Brigitte Bardot in Italy After Breakdown|date=9 February 1958|access-date=21 August 2010|work=The Los Angeles Times}}</ref> She recovered within weeks, began a relationship with actor ], and became pregnant well before they married on 18 June 1959. Bardot's only child, son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was born on 11 January 1960.<ref name="InitialsBB"/> Bardot had an affair with ] in the early 1960s.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-apr-11-la-et-classic-hollywood-20110411-story.html/ |title= A Ford Fiesta}}</ref> After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and had little contact with his biological mother until his adulthood.<ref name="InitialsBB"/> ] was mentioned as the reason for her divorce from Charrier. Bardot was enamoured of Frey, but he quickly left her.<ref name="FD2018">{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=2 April 2018 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot: She settles her accounts! |url=https://www.francedimanche.fr/actualites/brigitte-bardot-elle-regle-ses-comptes |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165620/https://www.francedimanche.fr/actualites/brigitte-bardot-elle-regle-ses-comptes |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>
*'']'' (1972) (documentary)
*''Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman'' (1973)
From 1963 to 1965, she lived with musician Bob Zagury.<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=Brigitte Bardot: A Biography|author=Singer, B.|date=2006|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated Publishers|isbn=9780786484263|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3e5vfj0ybGYC|access-date=13 January 2017}}</ref>
*''The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot'' (1973)
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Bardot's third marriage was to German millionaire playboy ], lasting from 14 July 1966 to 7 October 1969, though they had separated the previous year.<ref name="InitialsBB"/><ref name="twolives"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8503379/Gunter-Sachs.html|location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph|title=Gunter Sachs|date=9 May 2011|access-date=28 December 2020}}</ref> While filming '']'', she rejected ]'s advances; she said, "It didn't last long because I wasn't a James Bond girl! I have never succumbed to his charm!"<ref>{{cite news |last=Tizio |first=Alexandra |date=1 November 2020 |title=Flashback ... |trans-title=Flashback: when Brigitte Bardot refused the advances of Sean Connery |url=https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/flashback-quand-brigitte-bardot-refusait-les-avances-de-sean-connery_457416 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233327/https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/flashback-quand-brigitte-bardot-refusait-les-avances-de-sean-connery_457416 |archive-date=27 November 2021}}</ref> In 1968, she began dating Patrick Gilles, who co-starred with her in '']'' (1970); but she ended their relationship in spring 1971.<ref name="google2"/>

Over the next few years, Bardot dated bartender/ski instructor Christian Kalt, nightclub owner Luigi "Gigi" Rizzi, singer-songwriter ], writer ], actor ], and Laurent Vergez, her co-star in '']''.<ref name="google2"/><ref name="google3">{{cite book|title=Latin Lover: The Passionate South|author=Malossi, G.|date=1996|publisher=Charta|isbn=9788881580491|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIHr5w38ac8C|access-date=13 January 2017}}</ref>

In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in '']'' magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday. In 1975, she entered a relationship with artist Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures. Brozek was also an occasional actor; his stage name is {{Interlanguage link multi|Jean Blaise (actor)|fr|Jean Blaise (acteur)|lt=Jean Blaise}}.<ref>. June 1975, '']''</ref> The couple lived together for four years, separating in December 1979.<ref name="people.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086210,00.html|work=People|title=Swept Away by Her Sadness|date=24 October 1983|first=Peter|last=Carlson|access-date=13 January 2017|archive-date=29 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629193057/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086210,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

From 1980 to 1985, Bardot had a live-in relationship with French TV producer {{Interlanguage link multi|Allain Bougrain-Dubourg|fr}}.<ref name="people.com"/> On 27 September 1983, the eve of her 49th birthday, Bardot took an overdose of sleeping pills or tranquilizers with red wine, then wandered out to the beach, where she was later pulled from the surf.<ref name="people.com"/> She had to be rushed to the hospital, where her life was saved after a ] was used to evacuate the pills from her body.<ref name="people.com"/> Bardot was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984.{{efn-ua|Bardot admits to two abortions in her memoir and is the first openly postabortive celebrity to go public with a breast cancer diagnosis, followed by ] and ].{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=302}} Scientific research studies have not found a causal relationship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/medical-treatments/abortion-and-breast-cancer-risk.html|title=Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk|publisher=American Cancer Society}}</ref>}} She refused to undergo ] treatment and decided only to do ]. She recovered in 1986.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not ststed--> |date=n.d. |title=Les célébrités touchées par le cancer du sein |trans-title=Celebrities affected by breast cancer |url=https://photo.gala.fr/les-celebrites-touchees-par-le-cancer-du-sein-12298 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128214942/https://photo.gala.fr/les-celebrites-touchees-par-le-cancer-du-sein-12298 |archive-date=28 November 2021 |access-date=28 November 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Madelmond |first=Marine |date=17 January 2018 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot: why she refused chemotherapy during her breast cancer? |url=https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/brigitte-bardot-pourquoi-elle-a-refuse-la-chimiotherapie-lors-de-son-cancer-du-sein_411516 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=Gala |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128214942/https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/brigitte-bardot-pourquoi-elle-a-refuse-la-chimiotherapie-lors-de-son-cancer-du-sein_411516 |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

Bardot's fourth and current husband is Bernard d'Ormale; they have been married since 16 August 1992.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Goodman|first=Mark|date=30 November 1992|title=A Bardot Mystery|url=https://people.com/archive/a-bardot-mystery-vol-38-no-22/|magazine=People|access-date=12 August 2020}}</ref> In 2018, in an interview accorded to '']'', she denied rumors of relationships with ], ], and ].<ref name="FD2018"/>

===Politics and legal issues===
Bardot expressed support for President ] in the 1960s.<ref name="InitialsBB"/><ref name="nytimes"/>

In her 1999 book ''Le Carré de Pluton'' (''Pluto's Square''), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ] of sheep during the Muslim festival of ]. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled "Open Letter to My Lost France", she writes that "my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims". For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs (about 4,200 US dollars in 2000<ref name=convert/>) in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in '']'' and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.<ref name="bbc1">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/793390.stm|title=Bardot fined for racist remarks|work=BBC News|date=16 June 2000|access-date=13 March 2010|location=London}}</ref><ref name="bbc3">{{cite news|title=Bardot racism conviction upheld|date=11 May 2001|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1324707.stm|access-date=17 January 2008|work=BBC News|location=London}}</ref><ref name="bbc4">{{cite news|title=Bardot anti-Muslim comments draw fire|date=14 May 2003|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3027955.stm|access-date=17 January 2008|work=BBC News|location=London}}</ref>

In her 2003 book, ''Un cri dans le silence'' (''A Scream in the Silence''), she contrasted her close gay friends with homosexuals who "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through," and said some contemporary homosexuals behave like "fairground freaks".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/15/france.davidhearst|title=Anti-gay, anti-Islam Bardot to be sued|last1=Webster|first1=Paul|last2=Hearst|first2=David|date=5 May 2003|work=]|access-date=3 October 2009}}</ref> In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: "Apart from my husband—who maybe will cross over one day as well—I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants."<ref name="Indep">{{cite news|first=David|last=Usborne|title=Brigitte a Political Animal|date=24 March 2006|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060324/ai_n16163852/pg_2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424031103/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060324/ai_n16163852/pg_2|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 April 2008|access-date=9 January 2008|newspaper=]}}</ref><ref name="race fine">{{cite news|title=Bardot fine for stoking race hate|date=3 June 2008|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7434193.stm|access-date=3 June 2008|work=BBC News|location=London, UK}}</ref>

In her book, she criticised ], immigration, ] and ]. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes, and praised previous generations which, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.<ref name="race hate">{{cite news|title=Bardot fined for 'race hate' book|date=10 June 2004|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3794513.stm|access-date=3 June 2008|work=BBC News}}</ref> On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000.<ref name="indybay">{{cite web|last=Larent|first=Shermy|url=http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/05/1610376.php|title=Brigitte Bardot unleashes colourful diatribe against Muslims and modern France|publisher=Indybay|date=12 May 2003|access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character."<ref name="bbc5">{{cite news|title=Bardot denies 'race hate' charge|date=7 May 2003|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3692965.stm|access-date=17 January 2008|work=BBC News}}</ref> In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in regard to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to ] when he was ]. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ] by slitting their throats without ] them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was "fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits". The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 June 2008 |title=Ex-film star Bardot gets fifth racism conviction |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bardot-idUSL0321238520080603 |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref> The prosecutor stated she was weary of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.<ref name="race fine"/>

During the ], Bardot branded ] vice-presidential candidate ] as "stupid" and a "disgrace to women". She criticized the former Alaskan governor for her stance on ] and ]. She was further offended by Palin's support for ] and by her lack of consideration in protecting ]s.<ref> ''The Telegraph'', 8 October 2008.</ref>

On 13 August 2010, Bardot criticised American filmmaker ] for his plan to produce a biographical film about her. She told him, "Wait until I'm dead before you make a movie about my life!" otherwise "sparks will fly".<ref name="spy210115">{{cite web|url=http://www.showbizspy.com/article/210115/brigitte-bardot-wait-until-im-dead-before-you-make-a-movie-about-my-life.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202114526/http://www.showbizspy.com/article/210115/brigitte-bardot-wait-until-im-dead-before-you-make-a-movie-about-my-life.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 February 2013|title=Brigitte Bardot: 'Wait Until I'M Dead Before You Make Biopic'|work=Showbiz Spy|date=14 August 2010|access-date=21 August 2010}}</ref>

In 2014, Bardot wrote an open letter demanding the ban in France of Jewish ritual slaughter ]. In response, the ] released a statement saying "Bardot has once again shown her clear insensitivity for minority groups with the substance and style of her letter...She may well be concerned for the welfare of animals but her longstanding support for the far-right and for discrimination against minorities in France shows a constant disdain for human rights instead."<ref>{{cite web |title=EJC outraged at Brigitte Bardot's demand for French government to ban Shechita |url=https://eurojewcong.org/ejc-in-action/statements/ejc-outraged-at-brigitte-bardots-demand-for-french-government-to-ban-shechita/ |website=Official Site of the European Jewish Congress |access-date=28 February 2022 |date=9 September 2014}}</ref>

In 2015, Bardot threatened to sue a Saint-Tropez boutique for selling items featuring her face.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brigitte Bardot declares war on commercial 'abuse' of her image|date=9 June 2015|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11662800/Brigitte-Bardot-declares-war-on-commercial-abuse-of-her-image.html|first=Henry|last=Samuel|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> In 2018, she expressed support for the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lepoint.fr/people/brigitte-bardot-demande-une-prime-de-noel-pour-les-gilets-jaunes-03-12-2018-2276098_2116.php|title=Brigitte Bardot demande " une prime de Noël " pour les Gilets jaunes|work=Le Point|date=3 December 2018|access-date=9 December 2020|first=Marc|last=Fourny|language=fr}}</ref>

On 19 March 2019, Bardot issued an open letter to ] prefect {{Interlanguage link|Amaury de Saint-Quentin|fr}} in which she accused inhabitants of the Indian Ocean island of ] and referred to them as "] who have kept the genes of savages". In her letter relating to animal abuse and sent through her foundation, she mentioned the "beheadings of goats and billy goats" during festivals, and associated these practices with "reminiscences of ] from past centuries". The public prosecutor filed a lawsuit the following day.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=20 March 2019 |title=La justice ... |trans-title=Justice being seized after offensive remarks by Brigitte Bardot against Reunionese |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/03/20/la-justice-saisie-apres-des-propos-injurieux-de-brigitte-bardot-a-l-encontre-des-reunionnais_5438843_3224.html |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |agency=], ] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129210943/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/03/20/la-justice-saisie-apres-des-propos-injurieux-de-brigitte-bardot-a-l-encontre-des-reunionnais_5438843_3224.html |archive-date=29 November 2021}}</ref>

In June 2021, 86-year-old Bardot was fined €5,000 by the ] court for public insults against ] and their national president {{Interlanguage link|Willy Schraen|fr}}. She had published a post at the end of 2019 on her foundation's website, calling hunters "sub-men" and "drunkards" and carriers of "genes of cruel barbarism inherited from our primitive ancestors", and insulting Schraen. At the time of the ], she had not removed the comments from the website.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mesureur |first=Claire |date=29 June 2021 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot convicted for public insult against Willy Schraen, the president of the hunters |url=https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/brigitte-bardot-condamnee-pour-injure-publique-a-l-encontre-de-wiily-schraen-le-president-des-1624974791 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233329/https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/brigitte-bardot-condamnee-pour-injure-publique-a-l-encontre-de-wiily-schraen-le-president-des-1624974791 |archive-date=27 November 2021}}</ref> Following her letter sent to the prefect of Réunion in 2019, she was convicted on 4 November 2021 by a French court for public insults and fined €20,000, the largest of her fines to date.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=4 November 2021 |title=France ... |trans-title=France: Brigitte Bardot is fined 20,000 euros for insulting the Reunionese |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/03/20/la-justice-saisie-apres-des-propos-injurieux-de-brigitte-bardot-a-l-encontre-des-reunionnais_5438843_3224.html|url-status=live|language=fr |newspaper=Le Monde |agency=AFP, Reuters|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129210945/https://www.rtbf.be/info/medias/detail_france-brigitte-bardot-ecope-de-20-000-euros-d-amende-pour-des-injures-envers-les-reunionnais?id=10872925 |archive-date=29 November 2021}}</ref>

Bardot's husband Bernard d'Ormale is a former adviser to ], former leader of the far-right party National Front (which became ]), the main far-right party in France.<ref name="twolives"/><ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|last=Riding|first=Alan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/30/garden/drinking-champagne-with-brigitte-bardot-and-god-created-an-animal-lover.html|title=Drinking champagne with: Brigitte Bardot; And God Created An Animal Lover|date=30 March 1994|access-date=28 December 2020|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Bardot expressed support for ], leader of the National Front (National Rally), calling her "the ] of the 21st century".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11051530/Brigitte-Bardot-calls-Marine-Le-Pen-modern-Joan-of-Arc.html|title=Brigitte Bardot calls Marine Le Pen 'modern Joan of Arc|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 August 2014|first=David|last=Chazan|access-date=28 December 2018}}</ref> She endorsed Le Pen in the ] and ]s.<ref>{{cite news|last=Willsher|first=Kim|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/13/brigitte-bardot-celebrity-crushed-me|title=Brigitte Bardot: celebrity crushed me|work=The Guardian|date=13 September 2012|access-date=28 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.inquisitr.com/4200541/brigitte-bardot-supports-underdog-marine-le-pen-in-french-presidential-election-says-macron-has-cold-eyes/|title=Brigitte Bardot Supports Underdog Marine Le Pen in French Presidential Election, Says Macron Has Cold Eyes|work=Inquisitr|first=Monika|last=Zoltany|date=7 May 2017|access-date=28 December 2018}}</ref>

Bardot has been convicted of inciting racial hatred multiple times, having received six separate fines for the offense as of November 2021.<ref name="vanityfair.com"/>

==Legacy==
{{quote box|quote= You know, the one thing that was so great in those days was that a woman named Brigitte Bardot came along with '']''. Over here, we were fighting censorship in the 1950s and 1960s, when you couldn't even show you had a bust. We had to cover everything, and when Bardot's movie was released in an ] in Los Angeles, my God, people were lining up all the way down Wilshire Boulevard to see it. I also stood in line, and I thought, "Why can't I do that?"<ref>{{cite web|title=Mamie Van Doren: "Talking about Marilyn Monroe is strange. To me, she's a person; to most people, she's an idea" |url=https://filmtalk.org/2017/07/28/mamie-van-doren-talking-about-marilyn-monroe-is-strange-to-me-shes-a-person-to-most-people-shes-an-idea/|year=2017}}</ref><br> – ], 2000|width=25%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
'']'' named Bardot "one of the most iconic faces, models, and actors of the 1950s and 1960s". She has been called a "style icon" and a "muse for ], ], and ]".<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=1 December 2016 |title=Brigitte Bardot: the style icon − in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2016/dec/01/brigitte-bardot-the-style-icon-in-pictures |url-status=live |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101083849/https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2016/dec/01/brigitte-bardot-the-style-icon-in-pictures |archive-date=1 November 2020 |access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref>

In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide-open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style, which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers, although it is also used for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the ] in her early films such as '']'' (1952) (released in France as ''Manina, la fille sans voiles''). The following year she was also photographed in a bikini on every beach in southern France during the ].<ref>{{cite news|title=Bikinis: a brief history|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/10160619/Bikinis-a-brief-history.html?frame=2609664|newspaper=Telegraph|access-date=20 August 2013}}</ref> She gained additional attention when she filmed '']'' (1956) with ] (released in France as ''Et Dieu Créa La Femme''). In it Bardot portrays an immoral teenager cavorting in a bikini who seduces men in a respectable small-town setting. The film was an international success.<ref name="twolives"/> Bardot's image was linked to the shoemaker ], who created a pair of ballerinas for her in 1956.<ref name="Grazia-bio">{{cite news |author=<!--mot stated--> |date=n.d. |title=Brigitte Bardot |url=https://www.grazia.fr/encyclopedie/icone/brigitte-bardot |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204205722/https://www.grazia.fr/encyclopedie/icone/brigitte-bardot |archive-date=4 December 2021 |access-date=4 December 2021 }}</ref> The bikini was in the 1950s relatively well accepted in France but was still considered risqué in the United States. As late as 1959, Anne Cole, one of the United States' largest swimsuit designers, said, "It's nothing more than a G-string. It's at the razor's edge of decency."<ref name=WOJSI>{{cite magazine|first=William Oscar|last=Johnson|archive-date=20 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020050948/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068171/3/index.htm |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068171/3/index.htm|title=In The Swim|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=7 February 1989|access-date=18 August 2013}}</ref>

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She also brought into fashion the {{lang|fr|]}} ({{literal translation|sauerkraut}}) hairstyle (a sort of ]) and ] clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.<ref name=femstyle>{{cite web|url=http://www.femminastyle.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=9|title=Style Icon: Brigitte Bardot|publisher=Femminastyle.com|access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> French philosopher ] described Bardot as "a locomotive of women's history".<ref name="Borg2017"/>

Isabella Biedenharn of '']'' wrote that Bardot "has inspired thousands (millions?) of women to tease their hair or try out winged eyeliner over the past few decades". A well-known evocative pose describes an iconic modelling portrait shot around 1960 where Bardot is dressed only in a pair of black ], cross-legged over her front and cross-armed over her breasts; known as the "Bardot Pose".<ref>{{cite news |last=Biedenharn |first=Isabella |date=4 November 2014 |title=The 20 Best Legs Throughout History |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/g42/best-legs-throughout-history-1/?slide=18 |url-status=live|work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210657/https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/g42/best-legs-throughout-history-1/?slide=18 |archive-date=22 November 2021}} Slide 18</ref> This pose has been emulated numerous times by models and celebrities such as ],<ref>{{cite book |last=Sweeney |first=Kathleen |date=2008 |title=Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlYpFAi1QsMC&pg=PA55 |location=Atlanta |publisher=] |page=55 |isbn=978-0-820-48197-5}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date= |title=Ces stars qui ont posé pour Playboy |trans-title=These stars who posed for Playboy |url=https://photo.gala.fr/ces-stars-qui-ont-pose-pour-playboy-13091 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |location=Paris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210659/https://photo.gala.fr/ces-stars-qui-ont-pose-pour-playboy-13091 |archive-date=22 November 2021 |access-date=22 November 2021 }}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite news |author=Sabrina B. |date=28 April 2011 |title=Gisele Bündchen topless joue les Brigitte Bardot... |trans-title=Gisele Bündchen topless plays Brigitte Bardot... |url=https://www.purepeople.com/article/gisele-bundchen-topless-joue-les-brigitte-bardot_a78781/1 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210656/https://www.purepeople.com/article/gisele-bundchen-topless-joue-les-brigitte-bardot_a78781/1 |archive-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> and ].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=3 December 2010 |title=Rihanna on GQ magazine |url=https://www.fashionhasit.com/2010/12/rihanna-on-gq-magazine.html |url-status=live |work=] |location=UK |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122161848/https://www.fashionhasit.com/2010/12/rihanna-on-gq-magazine.html |archive-date=22 January 2021 |access-date=22 November 2021 |via=Fashion Has It}}</ref> In the late 1960s, Bardot's silhouette was used as a model for designing and modelling the statue's bust of ], a symbol of the French Republic.<ref name="Bricard2020"/>

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has been credited with popularizing the city of ] and the town of ] in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury. The place where she stayed in Búzios is today a small hotel, Pousada do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon.<ref>{{cite web|title=TOemBUZIOS.com |url=http://www.toembuzios.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130108111621/http://www.toembuzios.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 January 2013 |website=toembuzios.com |language=pt |access-date=27 December 2012 }}</ref> The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buziosonline.com.br/indexe.htm|title=BúziosOnline.com|publisher=BúziosOnline.com|access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref>

Bardot was idolized by the young ] and ].<ref name="MilesPage69">{{cite book|author=Miles, Barry|title=Many Years from Now|publisher=Vintage–Random House|year=1998|isbn=978-0-7493-8658-0|author-link=Barry Miles|title-link=Many Years From Now}} pg. 69.</ref><ref name="Spitzp171">{{cite book|author=Spitz, Bob|title=The Beatles: The Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesbiography00spit|url-access=registration| publisher=Little, Brown and Company (New York)| year=2005|isbn=978-1-84513-160-9|author-link=Bob Spitz}} pg. 171.</ref> They made plans to shoot a film featuring ] and Bardot, similar to '']'', but the plans were never fulfilled.<ref name="twolives"/> Lennon's first wife ] lightened her hair colour to more closely resemble Bardot, while ] made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife ], as Cynthia wrote later in ''A Twist of Lennon''. Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the ], introduced by Beatles press agent ]; a nervous Lennon took ] before arriving, and neither star impressed the other. Lennon recalled in a memoir: "I was on acid, and she was on her way out."<ref name="LennonPage24">{{cite book|author=Lennon, John|title=Skywriting by Word of Mouth|publisher=Harper Collins|year=1986|isbn=978-0-06-015656-5|author-link=John Lennon|title-link=Skywriting by Word of Mouth}} pg. 24.</ref> According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician ] dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. He also mentioned her by name in "]", which appeared on his second album, '']''. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot's influence and legacy opened in ] on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926164352/http://www.connexionfrance.com/expatriate-news-article.php?art=375 |date=26 September 2009 }}, connexionfrance.com, September 2009; accessed 4 August 2015.</ref>

Bardot was the subject of eight ] paintings in 1974.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sischy |first=Ingrid |author-link=Ingrid Sischy |date=4 October 2011 |title=The Bardot Variations |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11/bardot-spotlight-201111 |url-status=live |magazine=] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110230740/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11/bardot-spotlight-201111 |archive-date=10 November 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>

The Australian pop group ] was named after her.

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] adopted the Bardot "] look" on the cover of her album '']'', released in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |date=24 October 2003 |title=Kylie uses sexy Bardot look for new album |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-10-24/kylie-uses-sexy-bardot-look-for-new-album/1498442 |url-status=live |work=] |agency=] |location=Paris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241111180754/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-10-24/kylie-uses-sexy-bardot-look-for-new-album/1498442 |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref>

Women who emulated and were inspired by Bardot include ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], Minogue, ], ], ], ], ], and ]. Bardot said: "None have my personality." ] embodied Bardot in the 2010 French drama film '']'' by ].{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=26–27}}

In 2011, '']''{{'}}s list of "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film" ranked her number two.<ref>{{cite news |last=Spencer |first=Kathleen |date=2011 |title=L.A Times Magazine Names Their 50 Most Beautiful Women In Film |url=https://www.momtastic.com/home/125894-la-times-magazine-names-their-50-most-beautiful-women-in-film/ |url-status=live|work=Momtastic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165620/https://www.momtastic.com/home/125894-la-times-magazine-names-their-50-most-beautiful-women-in-film/ |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

A portrait of Bardot by Warhol, commissioned by Sachs in 1974, was sold at ] in London on 22 and 23 May 2012. The painting, estimated at {{Currency|4|GBP}}&nbsp;million, was part of Sachs' art collection put on sale a year after his death.<ref>{{cite news |last=Singh |first=Anita |date=13 March 2013 |title=Gunter Sachs Collection at Sotheby's: sale reveals playboy's enduring passion for Brigitte Bardot |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9139300/Gunter-Sachs-Collection-at-Sothebys-sale-reveals-playboys-enduring-passion-for-Brigitte-Bardot.html |url-status=live |newspaper=] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110232605/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9139300/Gunter-Sachs-Collection-at-Sothebys-sale-reveals-playboys-enduring-passion-for-Brigitte-Bardot.html |archive-date=10 November 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>

She inspired ], who had "Bardot-esque" hair in the 2013 British brand ] campaign.<ref>{{cite news |last=Milligan |first=Lauren |date=28 October 2013 |title=Nicole Kidman Talks Becoming Bardot |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nicole-kidman-for-jimmy-choo-shoes-film-bardot |url-status=live |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725013016/https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nicole-kidman-for-jimmy-choo-shoes-film-bardot |archive-date=25 July 2020 |access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref>

In 2015, Bardot was ranked number six in "The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women of All Time", according to a survey carried out by ]'s beauty company in the UK involving 2,000 women.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=6 January 2015 |title=The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women Of ALL Time |url=https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/top-10-most-beautiful-iconic-women-of-all-time/brigitte-bardot/ |work=] |access-date=20 August 2023 |archive-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820173159/https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/top-10-most-beautiful-iconic-women-of-all-time/brigitte-bardot/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2020, '']'' named Bardot number one of "The most beautiful French actresses of all time".<ref>{{cite news |last=Garrigues |first=Manon |date=4 June 2020 |title=The most beautiful French actresses of all time |url=https://www.vogue.fr/fashion-culture/fashion-exhibitions/diaporama/the-most-beautiful-french-actresses-of-all-time-brigitte-bardot-lea-seydoux-isabelle-adjani/51990 |url-status=live|work=] |others=Translated by Stephanie Green |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210656/https://www.vogue.fr/fashion-culture/fashion-exhibitions/diaporama/the-most-beautiful-french-actresses-of-all-time-brigitte-bardot-lea-seydoux-isabelle-adjani/51990 |archive-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> In a retrospective retracing women throughout the history of cinema, she was listed among "the most accomplished, talented and beautiful actresses of all time" by '']''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Josh |date=4 August 2020 |title=From Marilyn to Margot: the most accomplished, talented and beautiful actresses of all time |url=https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/movie-goddesses |url-status=live|work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165619/https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/movie-goddesses |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

The French drama television series '']'' was broadcast on ] in 2023. It stars Julia de Nunez and is about Bardot's career from her first casting at age 15 and until the filming of ''La Vérité'' ten years later.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18710758.html |title=Bardot : découvrez la première photo de Julia de Nunez en Brigitte Bardot et le casting cinq étoiles de la série de France 2 |work=] |date=13 June 2022 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> In 2023, she was mentioned in ]'s song "]" from her album '']'',<ref>{{cite news |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |date=14 September 2023 |title=Every Olivia Rodrigo Song, Ranked |url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/olivia-rodrigo-every-song-ranked-49906/lacy-49914/ |url-status=live |magazine=] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110221424/https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/olivia-rodrigo-every-song-ranked-49906/lacy-49914/ |archive-date=10 November 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> and ]'s "]" from her album '']''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cills |first=Hazel |date=25 July 2024 |title=What is it about Chappell Roan? |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13100/why-chappell-roan-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-our-anxious-music-industry |url-status=live |work=] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240806171351/https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13100/why-chappell-roan-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-our-anxious-music-industry |archive-date=6 August 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{{Main|Brigitte Bardot filmography}}


==Discography== ==Discography==
===Compilation=== ===Studio albums===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="2"
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Original title
! scope="col" | Translation
! scope="col" | Songwriters(s)
! scope="col" | Label
! scope="col" | Main tracks
|-
| 1956
|'']''<br><small>(music from ]'s motion picture)</small>
|"''And God Created Woman''"
| ]
| Versailles
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|-
|1963
|'']''
|
| ]<br>]<br>Jean-Max Rivière<br>Fernand Bonifay<br>]<br>Gérard Bourgeois
|rowspan=2|]
|"L'appareil à sous"<br>"Invitango"<br>"Les amis de la musique"<br>"La Madrague"<br>"El Cuchipe"
|-
|1964
|'']''
|
| ]<br>Jean-Michel Rivat<br>Jean-Max Rivière<br>Fernand Bonifay<br>Gérard Bourgeois
|"Moi je joue"<br>"Une histoire de plage"<br>"]"<br>"Je danse donc je suis"<br>"Ciel de lit"
|-
|rowspan=2|1968
|'']''<br><small>(with ])</small>
|
| ]<br>]<br>]<br>Jean-Max Rivière
| ]
|"Bonnie and Clyde"<br>"Bubble Gum"<br>"Comic Strip"
|-
|''Show''
|
| ]<br>]<br>Jean-Max Rivière
| ]
|"Harley Davidson"<br>"Ay Que Viva La Sangria"<br>"Contact"
|-
|}


===Other notable singles===
* Best Of BB (1998, Philips/Mercury) 1963-1973
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="2"
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Original Title
! scope="col" | Translation
! scope="col" | Songwriters(s)
! scope="col" | Label
|-
| 1962
|"Sidonie"<br><small>(music from ]'s the motion picture ''Vie Privée'')</small>
|
| Fiorenzo Capri<br>]<br>Jean-Max Rivière
| ]
|-
|1965
|"Viva Maria!"<br><small>(music from ]'s eponymous motion picture)<br>(with ])</small>
|
| Jean-Claude Carrière<br>]
|]
|-
|1966
|"Le soleil"
|"''The Sun''"
| Jean-Max Rivière<br>Gérard Bourgeois
| ]
|-
|1969
|"La fille de paille"
|"''The Straw Girl''"
| Franck Gérald<br>]
| ]
|-
|rowspan=2|1970
|"Tu veux ou tu veux pas"<br><small>"(Nem Vem Que Nao Tem)"</small>
|"''Do You Want or Not''"
| Pierre Cour<br>]
|rowspan=4|]
|-
|"Nue au soleil"
|"''Naked Under the Sun''"
| Jean Fredenucci<br>Jean Schmidtt
|-
|rowspan=2|1972
|"Tu es venu mon amour" / "Vous Ma Lady"<br><small>(with Laurent Vergez)</small>
|"''You Came My Love''" / "''You My Lady''"
| ]<br>]<br>]
|-
|"Boulevard du rhum"<br><small>(with ])<br>(music from ]'s motion picture)</small>
|"''Boulevard of Rhum''"
| François De Roubaix<br>Jean-Paul-Egide Martini
|-
|1973
|"Soleil de ma vie"<br><small>(with ])</small>
|"''Sun of My Life''"
| ]<br>]
| ]
|-
|1982
|"Toutes les bêtes sont à aimer"
|"''All Animals Must Be Loved''"
| Jean-Max Rivière
| ]
|-
|1986
|"]"<br><small>(with ])<br>(released and shelved in 1968)</small>
|"''I Love You... Me Neither''"
| ]
| ]
|-
|}


===Box Set=== ==Books==
Bardot has also written five books:
* ''Noonoah: Le petit phoque blanc'' (Grasset, 1978)
* ''Initiales B.B.'' (autobiography, Grasset & Fasquelle, 1996)
* ''Le Carré de Pluton'' (Grasset & Fasquelle, 1999)
* ''Un Cri Dans Le Silence'' (Editions Du Rocher, 2003)
* ''Pourquoi?'' (Editions Du Rocher, 2006)


==Accolades==
* Initiales B.B. (1993, 3CDs, Philips/Mercury) 1962-1973/1982
===Awards and nominations===
*12th '']'' (French cinema victories) (1957): Best Actress, win, as Juliette Hardy in ''And God Created Woman''.{{sfn|Choulant|2019|p=65}}
*11th ]s (1958): Best Actress, nomination, as Juliette Hardy in ''And God Created Woman''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Sophie |date=28 September 2020 |title=The 10 Chicest Moments in Brigitte Bardot's Career |url=https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/style-brigitte-bardot-marilyn-monroe-french-fashion |url-status=live |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507162804/https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/style-brigitte-bardot-marilyn-monroe-french-fashion |archive-date=7 May 2021 |access-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>
*14th ''Victoires du cinéma français'' (1959): Best Actress, win, as Yvette Maudet in ''In Case of Adversity''.{{sfn|Choulant|2019|p=93}}
*Brussels European Awards (1960): Best Actress, win, as Dominique Marceau in ''The Truth''.{{sfn|Choulant|2019|p=103}}
*5th ] (1961): ], win, as Dominique Marceau in ''The Truth''.<ref name="Roberts2015"/>
*12th '']'' (Crystal stars) by the French Cinema Academy (1966): Best Actress, win, as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley in ''Viva Maria!''.{{sfn|Choulant|2019|p=156}}
*18th Bambi Awards (1967): Bambi Award of Popularity, win.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elkesommeronline.com/en/Bambi_Awards_1967.pdf |title=Bambi Awards 1967 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=21 January 1967|website=] |language=de|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204205723/http://www.elkesommeronline.com/en/Bambi_Awards_1967.pdf |archive-date=4 December 2021 }}</ref>
*] (1967): ], nomination, as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley in ''Viva Maria!''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1967/film |title=BAFTA: Film in 1967 |author=<!--Not stated-->|website=]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233337/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1967/film |archive-date=27 November 2021 }}</ref>

===Honours===
*1980: Medal of the City of ].<ref name="SSCS-bio">{{cite web |url=https://seashepherd.org/media-and-arts-advisory-board/ |title=Media and Art Advisory Board |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=] |access-date=4 December 2021 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204205720/https://seashepherd.org/media-and-arts-advisory-board/ |archive-date=4 December 2021 }}</ref>
*1985: ].{{efn-ua|Although it was awarded to her, Bardot refused to attend, as did ] and ].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=10 April 2012 |title=Légion d'Honneur: quelles célébrités l'ont refusée? |trans-title=Legion of Honor: which celebrities have refused it? |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2012/04/10/1327009-legion-d-honneur-quelles-celebrites-l-ont-refusee.html |url-status=live |language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233327/https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2012/04/10/1327009-legion-d-honneur-quelles-celebrites-l-ont-refusee.html |archive-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/04/11/Brigitte-Bardot-accepts-the-French-Legion-of-Honor-medal/3702482043600/ |title=Brigitte Bardot accepts the French Legion of Honor medal |publisher=] |first=William |last=C. Trott |date=11 April 1985}}</ref> Medal of the City of ].<ref name="SSCS-bio"/>
*1989: ] in humanitarian merit.<ref name="SSCS-bio"/>
*1992: Induction into the ]'s ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Töpfer |first=Klaus |author-link=Klaus Töpfer |date=n.d. |title=UNEP − The Global 500 Roll of Honour for Environmental Achievement |chapter=1992 Global 500 Laureates |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/6307687/unep-unep-c-c-khao-yai-resort |publisher=Yumpu |page=63}}</ref> Creation in ] of the Brigitte Bardot International Award as part of the ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Robinson |others=Translated by Jean-paul Mourlon |date=2014 |title=Bardot, deux vies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6LLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA252 |location=New York |language=fr |publisher=L'Archipel |page=252 |isbn=978-2-809-81562-7}}</ref>
*1994: ].{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=303}}
*1995: Medal of the City of ].{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=255}}
*1996: Medal of the City of ].<ref name="SSCS-bio"/>
*1997: ]'s ] Ecology Award. Medal of the City of ].<ref name="SSCS-bio"/>
*1999: ] ] was named after her.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=17062 |title=Discovered at Anderson Mesa on 1999-04-10 by Loneos. (17062) Bardot − 1999 GR8|website=] |access-date=5 December 2021 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528100924/https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=17062 |archive-date=28 May 2021 }} Site frequently updated with position information of the Mian Belt object.</ref>
*2001: ] Humanitarian Award.<ref name="Grazia-bio"/>
*2008: Spanish Altarriba foundation Award.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=3 May 2008 |title=La Fundación Altarriba ... |url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/374960/0/altarriba/maltrato/premio/ |url-status=live |language=es |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008120541/https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/374960/0/altarriba/maltrato/premio/ |archive-date=8 October 2012 |access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref>
*2017: A statue of {{convert|700|kg|lb}} and {{convert|2.5|m|ft}} high was erected in her honour in central Saint-Tropez.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=29 September 2017 |title=Saint-Tropez ... |trans-title=Saint-Tropez: A statue of Brigitte Bardot installed in front of the gendarmerie |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/nice/2141715-20170929-saint-tropez-brigitte-bardot-installe-face-gendarmerie |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |agency=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205184404/https://www.20minutes.fr/nice/2141715-20170929-saint-tropez-brigitte-bardot-installe-face-gendarmerie |archive-date=5 December 2021 |trans-quote=The bronze is inspired by a watercolor by the Italian master of erotic cartoon comic, ]. }}</ref>
*2019: GAIA Lifetime Achievement Award from the Belgian association for the defence of animal rights.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=14 October 2019 |title=Brigitte... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot awarded by GAIA |url=https://www.7sur7.be/people/brigitte-bardot-recompensee-par-gaia~a1cc23c5/

|url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233327/https://www.7sur7.be/people/brigitte-bardot-recompensee-par-gaia~a1cc23c5/ |archive-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>

*2021: Her effigy in Saint-Tropez was dressed in 1400 ] of 23.75 ] each.<ref>{{cite news |last=Peté |first=Rodolphe |date=27 June 2021 |title=Désormais ... |trans-title=Now covered with thousands of gold leaves, the statue of Brigitte Bardot unveiled in Saint-Tropez |url=https://www.nicematin.com/vie-locale/desormais-recouverte-de-milliers-de-feuilles-dor-la-statue-de-brigitte-bardot-devoilee-a-saint-tropez-697967 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205184413/https://www.nicematin.com/vie-locale/desormais-recouverte-de-milliers-de-feuilles-dor-la-statue-de-brigitte-bardot-devoilee-a-saint-tropez-697967 |archive-date=5 December 2021}}</ref>

==See also==
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==Notes==
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==References== ==References==
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'''Other sources'''
==Literature==
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* Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) ''Brigitte Bardot. Filme 1953-1961. Anfänge des Mythos B.B.'' (Hildesheim 1982) ISBN 3-88842-109-8.
*{{cite book|first=Brigitte|last=Bardot|year=1996|title=Initiales B.B. : Mémoires|publisher=Éditions Grasset|language=fr|isbn=978-2-246526018}}
*{{cite book|first=Yves|last=Bigot|year=2014|title=Brigitte Bardot. La femme la plus belle et la plus scandaleuse au monde|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sb5eAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA0|language=fr|publisher=Don Quichotte|isbn=978-2-359490145}}
*{{cite book|first=Leslie|last=Caron|title=Thank Heaven|publisher=Viking Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0670021345|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thankheavenmemoi00caro_0}}
*{{cite book|title=Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States|first=Elizabeth|last=Cherry|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-1-317156154}}
*{{cite book |last=Choulant |first=Dominique |date=2019 |title=Brigitte Bardot pour toujours |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot forever |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F8ObDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA0 |location=Paris |publisher=Éditions Lanore |language=fr |isbn=978-2-8515-7903-4}}
*{{cite book|first=Marie-Dominique|last=Lelièvre|title=Brigitte Bardot&nbsp;– Plein la vue|language=fr|publisher=Groupe Flammarion|year=2012|isbn=978-2-08-124624-9}}
*{{cite book|title=Das Sexsymbol der 1950-er Jahre|first=Ernst|last=Probst|publisher=GRIN Publishing|language=de|year=2012|isbn=978-3-656186212}}
*{{cite book|first=Barnett|last=Singer|title=Brigitte Bardot : A Biography|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2006|isbn=978-0786425150}}
*{{cite journal|title=The old and the new: Brigitte Bardot in 1950s France|first=Ginette|last=Vincendeau|journal=]|volume=15|issue=1|pages=73–96|date=March 1992|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|jstor=43151735|doi=10.3366/para.1992.0004}}
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==Further reading==
==External links== <!-- please, no linkspam -->
* Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) ''Brigitte Bardot. Filme 1953–1961. Anfänge des Mythos B.B.'' (Hildesheim 1982) {{ISBN|3-88842-109-8}}.
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*{{cite book | last= Servat | first = Henry-Jean |title=Brigitte Bardot&nbsp;– My Life in Fashion | location=Paris | publisher=Flammation S.A. | date=2016 | type = Hardback | isbn=978-2--08-0202697}}
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French actress and singer (born 1934) For the ship named after her, see MV Brigitte Bardot.

Brigitte Bardot
Bardot in a publicity photo for A Very Private Affair (1962)
BornBrigitte Anne-Marie Bardot
(1934-09-28) 28 September 1934 (age 90)
Paris, France
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
  • animal rights activist
Years active1952–1973 (entertainer)
1973–present (activist)
Works
Political partyNational Rally
Other political
affiliations
Union for the New Republic (1958–1967)
Spouses
Roger Vadim ​ ​(m. 1952; div. 1957)
Jacques Charrier ​ ​(m. 1959; div. 1962)
Gunter Sachs ​ ​(m. 1966; div. 1969)
Bernard d'Ormale ​(m. 1992)
Partner(s)Jean Blaise [fr] (1975–1979)
Allain Bougrain-Dubourg [fr] (1980–1985)
Children1
RelativesMijanou Bardot (sister)
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Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (/brɪˌʒiːt bɑːrˈdoʊ/ brizh-EET bar-DOH; French: [bʁiʒit baʁdo] ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Famous for portraying characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she is one of the best known symbols of the sexual revolution. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major pop culture icon. She has acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985.

Born and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina during her childhood. She started her acting career in 1952 and achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman (1956), catching the attention of many French intellectuals and earning her the nickname "sex kitten". She was the subject of philosopher 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 most liberated woman of France. She won a 1961 David di Donatello Best Foreign Actress Award for her work in The Truth (1960). Bardot later starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (1963). For her role in Louis Malle's film Viva Maria! (1965), she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress. French President Charles de Gaulle called Bardot "the French export as important as Renault cars".

After retiring from acting in 1973, Bardot became an animal rights activist and created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. She is known for her strong personality, outspokenness, and speeches on animal defense; she has been fined twice for public insults. She has also been a controversial political figure, as of November 2021 having been fined six times for inciting racial hatred when she criticised immigration and Islam in France and called residents of Réunion "savages". She is married to Bernard d'Ormale, a former adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, a far-right French politician. Bardot is a member of the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme and has received several awards and accolades from UNESCO and PETA. In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine ranked her second on the "50 Most Beautiful Women In Film".

Early life

Bardot was born on 28 September 1934 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris to Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie Mucel (1912–1978). Bardot's father, who originated from Ligny-en-Barrois, was an engineer and the proprietor of several industrial factories in Paris. Her mother was the daughter of an insurance company director. She grew up in a conservative Catholic family, as had her father. She suffered from amblyopia as a child, which resulted in decreased vision of her left eye. She has one younger sister, Mijanou Bardot.

Bardot's childhood was prosperous; she lived in her family's seven-bedroom apartment in the luxurious 16th arrondissement. However, she recalled feeling resentful in her early years. Her father demanded that she follow strict behavioural standards, including good table manners, and wear appropriate clothes. Her mother was highly selective in choosing companions for her, so Bardot had very few childhood friends. Bardot cited a personal traumatic incident when she and her sister broke her parents' favourite vase while they were playing in the house; her father whipped the sisters 20 times and subsequently treated them like "strangers", demanding that they address their parents by the formal pronoun "vous", used in French when speaking to unfamiliar or higher-status persons outside the immediate family. The incident led to Bardot decisively resenting her parents and to her future rebellious lifestyle.

During World War II, when Paris was occupied by Nazi Germany, Bardot spent more time at home due to increasingly strict civilian surveillance. She became engrossed in dancing to records, which her mother saw as a potential for a ballet career. Bardot was admitted at the age of seven to the private school Cours Hattemer. She went to school three days a week, which gave her ample time to take dance lessons at a local studio under her mother's arrangements. In 1949, Bardot was accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris. She attended ballet classes held by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev for three years. She also studied at the Institut de la Tour, a private Catholic high school near her home.

Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, the director of the magazines Elle and Le Jardin des Modes, hired Bardot in 1949 as a "junior" fashion model. On 8 March 1950, 15-year-old Bardot appeared on the cover of Elle, which brought her an acting offer for the film Les Lauriers sont coupés from director Marc Allégret. Her parents opposed her becoming an actress, but her grandfather was supportive, saying that "If this little girl is to become a whore, cinema will not be the cause." At the audition, Bardot met Roger Vadim, who later notified her that she did not get the role. They subsequently fell in love. Her parents fiercely opposed their relationship; her father announced to her one evening that she would continue her education in England and that he had bought her a train ticket for the following day. Bardot reacted by putting her head into an oven with open fire; her parents stopped her and ultimately accepted the relationship, on condition that she marry Vadim at the age of 18.

Career

Beginnings: 1952–1955

Bardot appeared on the cover of Elle again in 1952, which landed her an offer for a small part in the comedy film Crazy for Love the same year, directed by Jean Boyer and starring Bourvil. She was paid 200,000 francs (about 575 1952 US dollars) for the small role portraying a cousin of the main character. Bardot had her second film role in Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1952), directed by Willy Rozier. She also had roles in the 1953 films The Long Teeth and His Father's Portrait.

Bardot had a small role in a Hollywood-financed film being shot in Paris in 1953, Act of Love, starring Kirk Douglas. She received media attention when she attended the Cannes Film Festival in April 1953.

Bardot in a scene of Concert of Intrigue in 1954

Bardot had a leading role in 1954 in an Italian melodrama, Concert of Intrigue and in a French adventure film, Caroline and the Rebels. She had a good part as a flirtatious student in the 1955 School for Love, opposite Jean Marais, for director Marc Allégret.

Bardot played her first sizeable English-language role in 1955 in Doctor at Sea, as the love interest for Dirk Bogarde. The film was the third-most-popular movie in Britain that year.

Bardot had a small role in The Grand Maneuver (1955) for director René Clair, supporting Gérard Philipe and Michelle Morgan. The part was bigger in The Light Across the Street (1956) for director Georges Lacombe. She had another in the Hollywood film, Helen of Troy, playing Helen's handmaiden.

For the Italian movie Mio figlio Nerone (1956) brunette Bardot was asked by the director to appear as a blonde. She dyed her hair rather than wear a wig; she was so pleased with the results that she decided to retain the color.

Rise to stardom: 1956–1962

Bardot posing for a crowd of photographers during the 1958 Venice Film Festival
Bardot featured on the cover of Screenland, March 1959

Bardot then appeared in four movies that made her a star. First up was a musical, Naughty Girl (1956), where Bardot played a troublesome school girl. Directed by Michel Boisrond, it was co-written by Roger Vadim and was a great success, going on to become the 12th most popular film of the year in France. It was followed by a comedy, Plucking the Daisy (1956), also written by Vadim. This was succeeded by The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) with Louis Jourdan.

Finally, there was the melodrama And God Created Woman (1956). The movie was Vadim's debut as director, with Bardot starring opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant and Curt Jurgens. The film, about an immoral teenager in an otherwise respectable small-town setting, was an even larger success, not just in France but also around the world, listed among the ten most popular films in Great Britain in 1957. In the United States the film was the highest-grossing foreign film ever released, earning $4 million, which author Peter Lev describes as "an astonishing amount for a foreign film at that time." It turned Bardot into an international star. From at least 1956, she was hailed as the "sex kitten". The film scandalized the United States and some theater managers were even arrested just for screening it.

U.S newspaper clipping, 9 February 1958

Paul O'Neil of Life (June 1958) in describing Bardot's international popularity, writes:

In gaining her present eminence, Brigitte Bardot has had certain advantages beyond those she was born with. Like the European sports car, she has arrived on the American scene at a time when the American public is ready, even hungry, for something racier and more realistic than the familiar domestic product.

During her early career, professional photographer Sam Lévin's photos contributed to the image of Bardot's sensuality. British photographer Cornel Lucas made images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s that have become representative of her public persona.

Bardot followed And God Created Woman up with La Parisienne (1957), a comedy co-starring Charles Boyer for director Boisrond. She was reunited with Vadim in another melodrama The Night Heaven Fell (1958), and played a criminal who seduced Jean Gabin in In Case of Adversity (1958). The latter was the 13th most seen movie of the year in France. In 1958, Bardot became the highest-paid actress in the country of France.

Bardot in 1961

The Female (1959) for director Julien Duvivier was popular, but Babette Goes to War (1959), a comedy set in World War II, was a huge hit, the fourth biggest movie of the year in France. Also widely seen was Come Dance with Me (1959) from Boisrond.

Bardot's next film was courtroom drama The Truth (1960), from Henri-Georges Clouzot. It was a highly publicised production, which resulted in Bardot having an affair and attempting suicide. The film was Bardot's biggest commercial success in France, the third biggest hit of the year, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in the film.

She made a comedy with Vadim, Please, Not Now! (1961), and had a role in the all-star anthology, Famous Love Affairs (1962).

Bardot starred alongside Marcello Mastroianni in a film inspired by her life in A Very Private Affair (Vie privée, 1962), directed by Louis Malle. More popular than that was her role in Love on a Pillow (1962).

International films and singing career: 1962–1968

Bardot visiting Brazil in 1964

In the mid-1960s, Bardot made films that seemed to be more aimed at the international market. She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (1963), produced by Joseph E. Levine and starring Jack Palance. The following year she co-starred with Anthony Perkins in the comedy Une ravissante idiote (1964).

Dear Brigitte (1965), Bardot's first Hollywood film, was a comedy starring James Stewart as an academic whose son develops a crush on Bardot. Bardot's appearance was relatively brief in the film, and the movie was not a big success.

Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli caught by paparazzi in Italy during the filming of Contempt in 1963

More successful was the Western buddy comedy Viva Maria! (1965) for director Louis Malle, appearing opposite Jeanne Moreau. It was a big hit in France and worldwide, although it did not break through in the United States as much as had been hoped.

After a cameo in Godard's Masculin Féminin (1966), she had her first outright flop for some years, Two Weeks in September (1968), a French–English co-production. She had a small role in the all-star Spirits of the Dead (1968), acting opposite Alain Delon, then tried a Hollywood film again: Shalako (1968), a Western starring Sean Connery, which was another box-office disappointment.

She participated in several musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including "Harley Davidson"; "Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît"; "Bubble gum"; "Contact"; "Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi"; "L'Appareil À Sous"; "La Madrague"; "On Déménage"; "Sidonie"; "Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?"; "Le Soleil De Ma Vie" (a cover of Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"); and "Je t'aime... moi non-plus". Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wish; the following year, he rerecorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin that became a massive hit all over Europe. The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a download hit in 2006 when Universal Music made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.

Bardot in 1968

Final films: 1969–1973

From 1969 to 1972, Bardot was the official face of Marianne, who had previously up until then been anonymous, to represent the liberty of France.

Her next film, Les Femmes (1969), was a flop, although the screwball comedy The Bear and the Doll (1970) performed better. Her last few films were mostly comedies: Les Novices (1970), Boulevard du Rhum (1971) (with Lino Ventura). The Legend of Frenchie King (1971) was more popular, helped by Bardot co-starring with Claudia Cardinale.

Bardot in Rome in 1969

She made one more movie working with Vadim, Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973), playing the title role. Vadim said the film marked "Underneath what people call 'the Bardot myth' was something interesting, even though she was never considered the most professional actress in the world. For years, since she has been growing older, and the Bardot myth has become just a souvenir... I was curious in her as a woman and I had to get to the end of something with her, to get out of her and express many things I felt were in her. Brigitte always gave the impression of sexual freedom – she is a completely open and free person, without any aggression. So I gave her the part of a man – that amused me".

"If Don Juan is not my last movie it will be my next to last", said Bardot during filming. She kept her word and made only one more film, The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973).

In 1973, Bardot announced she was retiring from acting as "a way to get out elegantly".

Animal rights activism

Bardot met Paul Watson in 1977, the same year he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, during an operation to condemn the "massacre" of seal pups and seal hunting on the Canadian ice floe. In support of animal protection, Bardot went to the ice floe after being invited by Watson. Bardot posed lying down next to the seal pups; the photos were seen worldwide. Bardot and Watson remained friends.

After appearing in more than 40 motion pictures and recording several music albums, Bardot used her fame to promote animal rights. In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She became a vegetarian and raised three million francs (about 430,000 1986 US dollars) to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and personal belongings.

Bardot has been a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat.

In 1989, while looking after her neighbour, Jean-Pierre Manivet's donkey, the mare displayed excessive interest in Bardot's older donkey and she subsequently had the neighbour's donkey castrated due to concerns the mating would prove fatal for her mare. The neighbour then sued Bardot, and Bardot later won, with the court ordering Manivet to pay 20,000 francs for creating a "false scandal".

Bardot urged French television viewers to boycott horse meat and was soon the target of death threats in January 1994. Not backing off from the threats, she sent a letter to the French Minister of Agriculture, Jean Puech, calling on him to ban the sale of horse meat.

Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of "torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs".

Bardot in 2002

She donated more than US$140,000 over two years in 2001 for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest's stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000.

In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, appealing for the sovereign to halt the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands. In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a "macabre spectacle" that "is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands ... This is not a hunt but a mass slaughter ... an outmoded tradition that has no acceptable justification in today's world".

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially included bullfighting in the country's cultural heritage. Bardot wrote him a highly critical letter of protest. On 25 May 2011, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.

From 2013, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, in collaboration with Kagyupa International Monlam Trust of India, operated an annual veterinary care camp. Bardot committed to the cause of animal welfare in Bodhgaya over several years.

On 23 July 2015, Bardot condemned Australian politician Greg Hunt's plan to eradicate 2 million cats to save endangered species such as the Warru and night parrot.

At the age of 90, Bardot appealed to free Watson, who had been detained in Greenland since 21 July 2024, when Japan requested his extradition. Through a request expressed in mid-October 2024 by her lawyers and Sea Shepherd France, Bardot asked French President Emmanuel Macron to grant Watson political asylum. Bardot asked Macron to show "a little bit of courage". During that month, she initiated a demonstration in support of Watson in front of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris. Bardot also wrote a letter to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, asking her to "not choose the camp of the oceans gravediggers".

Personal life

Marriages and relationships

Bardot has been married four times, with her current marriage lasting far longer than the previous three combined. By her own count, she has had a total of 17 romantic relationships. Bardot would characteristically leave for another relationship when "the present was getting lukewarm"; she said, "I have always looked for passion. That's why I was often unfaithful. And when the passion was coming to an end, I was packing my suitcase".

On 20 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director Roger Vadim. They separated in 1956 after she became involved with And God Created Woman co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant, divorcing the next year. Trintignant at the time was married to actress Stéphane Audran. Bardot and Vadim had no children together, but remained in touch for the rest of his life and even collaborated on later projects. Bardot and Trintignant lived together for about two years, spanning the period before and after Bardot's divorce from Vadim, but they never married. Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant's frequent absence due to military service and Bardot's affair with musician Gilbert Bécaud.

Bardot and Sami Frey in Saint-Tropez in 1963

After her separation from Vadim, Bardot acquired a historic property dating from the 16th century, called Le Castelet, in Cannes. The fourteen-bedroom villa, surrounded by lush gardens, olive trees, and vineyards, consisted of several buildings.

In 1958, she bought a second property called La Madrague, located in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer. In early 1958, her breakup with Trintignant was followed in quick order by a reported nervous breakdown in Italy, according to newspaper reports. A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was also noted but was denied by her public relations manager. She recovered within weeks, began a relationship with actor Jacques Charrier, and became pregnant well before they married on 18 June 1959. Bardot's only child, son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was born on 11 January 1960. Bardot had an affair with Glenn Ford in the early 1960s. After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and had little contact with his biological mother until his adulthood. Sami Frey was mentioned as the reason for her divorce from Charrier. Bardot was enamoured of Frey, but he quickly left her.

From 1963 to 1965, she lived with musician Bob Zagury.

Bardot with French singer Sacha Distel in 1958

Bardot's third marriage was to German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, lasting from 14 July 1966 to 7 October 1969, though they had separated the previous year. While filming Shalako, she rejected Sean Connery's advances; she said, "It didn't last long because I wasn't a James Bond girl! I have never succumbed to his charm!" In 1968, she began dating Patrick Gilles, who co-starred with her in The Bear and the Doll (1970); but she ended their relationship in spring 1971.

Over the next few years, Bardot dated bartender/ski instructor Christian Kalt, nightclub owner Luigi "Gigi" Rizzi, singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, writer John Gilmore, actor Warren Beatty, and Laurent Vergez, her co-star in Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman.

In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday. In 1975, she entered a relationship with artist Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures. Brozek was also an occasional actor; his stage name is Jean Blaise [fr]. The couple lived together for four years, separating in December 1979.

From 1980 to 1985, Bardot had a live-in relationship with French TV producer Allain Bougrain-Dubourg [fr]. On 27 September 1983, the eve of her 49th birthday, Bardot took an overdose of sleeping pills or tranquilizers with red wine, then wandered out to the beach, where she was later pulled from the surf. She had to be rushed to the hospital, where her life was saved after a stomach pump was used to evacuate the pills from her body. Bardot was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984. She refused to undergo chemotherapy treatment and decided only to do radiation therapy. She recovered in 1986.

Bardot's fourth and current husband is Bernard d'Ormale; they have been married since 16 August 1992. In 2018, in an interview accorded to Le Journal du Dimanche, she denied rumors of relationships with Johnny Hallyday, Jimi Hendrix, and Mick Jagger.

Politics and legal issues

Bardot expressed support for President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.

In her 1999 book Le Carré de Pluton (Pluto's Square), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled "Open Letter to My Lost France", she writes that "my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims". For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs (about 4,200 US dollars in 2000) in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in Le Figaro and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (A Scream in the Silence), she contrasted her close gay friends with homosexuals who "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through," and said some contemporary homosexuals behave like "fairground freaks". In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: "Apart from my husband—who maybe will cross over one day as well—I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants."

In her book, she criticised racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and Islam. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes, and praised previous generations which, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders. On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000. Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character." In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in regard to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was "fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits". The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000. The prosecutor stated she was weary of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, Bardot branded Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as "stupid" and a "disgrace to women". She criticized the former Alaskan governor for her stance on global warming and gun control. She was further offended by Palin's support for Arctic oil exploration and by her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.

On 13 August 2010, Bardot criticised American filmmaker Kyle Newman for his plan to produce a biographical film about her. She told him, "Wait until I'm dead before you make a movie about my life!" otherwise "sparks will fly".

In 2014, Bardot wrote an open letter demanding the ban in France of Jewish ritual slaughter shechita. In response, the European Jewish Congress released a statement saying "Bardot has once again shown her clear insensitivity for minority groups with the substance and style of her letter...She may well be concerned for the welfare of animals but her longstanding support for the far-right and for discrimination against minorities in France shows a constant disdain for human rights instead."

In 2015, Bardot threatened to sue a Saint-Tropez boutique for selling items featuring her face. In 2018, she expressed support for the Yellow vests protests.

On 19 March 2019, Bardot issued an open letter to Réunion prefect Amaury de Saint-Quentin [fr] in which she accused inhabitants of the Indian Ocean island of animal cruelty and referred to them as "autochthones who have kept the genes of savages". In her letter relating to animal abuse and sent through her foundation, she mentioned the "beheadings of goats and billy goats" during festivals, and associated these practices with "reminiscences of cannibalism from past centuries". The public prosecutor filed a lawsuit the following day.

In June 2021, 86-year-old Bardot was fined €5,000 by the Arras court for public insults against hunters and their national president Willy Schraen [fr]. She had published a post at the end of 2019 on her foundation's website, calling hunters "sub-men" and "drunkards" and carriers of "genes of cruel barbarism inherited from our primitive ancestors", and insulting Schraen. At the time of the hearing, she had not removed the comments from the website. Following her letter sent to the prefect of Réunion in 2019, she was convicted on 4 November 2021 by a French court for public insults and fined €20,000, the largest of her fines to date.

Bardot's husband Bernard d'Ormale is a former adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far-right party National Front (which became National Rally), the main far-right party in France. Bardot expressed support for Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front (National Rally), calling her "the Joan of Arc of the 21st century". She endorsed Le Pen in the 2012 and 2017 French presidential elections.

Bardot has been convicted of inciting racial hatred multiple times, having received six separate fines for the offense as of November 2021.

Legacy

You know, the one thing that was so great in those days was that a woman named Brigitte Bardot came along with Et Dieu... créa la femme. Over here, we were fighting censorship in the 1950s and 1960s, when you couldn't even show you had a bust. We had to cover everything, and when Bardot's movie was released in an art house in Los Angeles, my God, people were lining up all the way down Wilshire Boulevard to see it. I also stood in line, and I thought, "Why can't I do that?"
Mamie Van Doren, 2000

The Guardian named Bardot "one of the most iconic faces, models, and actors of the 1950s and 1960s". She has been called a "style icon" and a "muse for Dior, Balmain, and Pierre Cardin".

In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide-open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style, which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers, although it is also used for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the bikini in her early films such as Manina (1952) (released in France as Manina, la fille sans voiles). The following year she was also photographed in a bikini on every beach in southern France during the Cannes Film Festival. She gained additional attention when she filmed ...And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant (released in France as Et Dieu Créa La Femme). In it Bardot portrays an immoral teenager cavorting in a bikini who seduces men in a respectable small-town setting. The film was an international success. Bardot's image was linked to the shoemaker Repetto, who created a pair of ballerinas for her in 1956. The bikini was in the 1950s relatively well accepted in France but was still considered risqué in the United States. As late as 1959, Anne Cole, one of the United States' largest swimsuit designers, said, "It's nothing more than a G-string. It's at the razor's edge of decency."

Bardot in Spoleto, Italy (1961)

She also brought into fashion the choucroute (lit. 'sauerkraut') hairstyle (a sort of beehive hair style) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier. French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir described Bardot as "a locomotive of women's history".

Isabella Biedenharn of Elle wrote that Bardot "has inspired thousands (millions?) of women to tease their hair or try out winged eyeliner over the past few decades". A well-known evocative pose describes an iconic modelling portrait shot around 1960 where Bardot is dressed only in a pair of black pantyhose, cross-legged over her front and cross-armed over her breasts; known as the "Bardot Pose". This pose has been emulated numerous times by models and celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Elle Macpherson, Gisele Bündchen, and Rihanna. In the late 1960s, Bardot's silhouette was used as a model for designing and modelling the statue's bust of Marianne, a symbol of the French Republic.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury. The place where she stayed in Búzios is today a small hotel, Pousada do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon. The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta.

Bardot was idolized by the young John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They made plans to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, similar to A Hard Day's Night, but the plans were never fulfilled. Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair colour to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon. Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the May Fair Hotel, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other. Lennon recalled in a memoir: "I was on acid, and she was on her way out." According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. He also mentioned her by name in "I Shall Be Free", which appeared on his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot's influence and legacy opened in Boulogne-Billancourt on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.

Bardot was the subject of eight Andy Warhol paintings in 1974.

The Australian pop group Bardot was named after her.

Brigitte Bardot statue in Búzios, Brazil

Kylie Minogue adopted the Bardot "sex kitten look" on the cover of her album Body Language, released in 2003.

Women who emulated and were inspired by Bardot include Claudia Schiffer, Emmanuelle Béart, Elke Sommer, Kate Moss, Faith Hill, Isabelle Adjani, Diane Kruger, Lara Stone, Minogue, Amy Winehouse, Georgia May Jagger, Zahia Dehar, Scarlett Johansson, Louise Bourgoin, and Paris Hilton. Bardot said: "None have my personality." Laetitia Casta embodied Bardot in the 2010 French drama film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life by Joann Sfar.

In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine's list of "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film" ranked her number two.

A portrait of Bardot by Warhol, commissioned by Sachs in 1974, was sold at Sotheby's in London on 22 and 23 May 2012. The painting, estimated at £4 million, was part of Sachs' art collection put on sale a year after his death.

She inspired Nicole Kidman, who had "Bardot-esque" hair in the 2013 British brand Jimmy Choo campaign.

In 2015, Bardot was ranked number six in "The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women of All Time", according to a survey carried out by Amway's beauty company in the UK involving 2,000 women.

In 2020, Vogue named Bardot number one of "The most beautiful French actresses of all time". In a retrospective retracing women throughout the history of cinema, she was listed among "the most accomplished, talented and beautiful actresses of all time" by Glamour.

The French drama television series Bardot was broadcast on France 2 in 2023. It stars Julia de Nunez and is about Bardot's career from her first casting at age 15 and until the filming of La Vérité ten years later. In 2023, she was mentioned in Olivia Rodrigo's song "Lacy" from her album Guts, and Chappell Roan's "Red Wine Supernova" from her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.

Filmography

Main article: Brigitte Bardot filmography

Discography

Studio albums

Year Original title Translation Songwriters(s) Label Main tracks
1956 Et dieu... créa la femme
(music from Roger Vadim's motion picture)
"And God Created Woman" Paul Misraki Versailles
1963 Brigitte Bardot Sings Serge Gainsbourg
Claude Bolling
Jean-Max Rivière
Fernand Bonifay
Spencer Williams
Gérard Bourgeois
Philips "L'appareil à sous"
"Invitango"
"Les amis de la musique"
"La Madrague"
"El Cuchipe"
1964 B.B. André Popp
Jean-Michel Rivat
Jean-Max Rivière
Fernand Bonifay
Gérard Bourgeois
"Moi je joue"
"Une histoire de plage"
"Maria Ninguém"
"Je danse donc je suis"
"Ciel de lit"
1968 Bonnie and Clyde
(with Serge Gainsbourg)
Serge Gainsbourg
Alain Goraguer
Spencer Williams
Jean-Max Rivière
Fontana "Bonnie and Clyde"
"Bubble Gum"
"Comic Strip"
Show Serge Gainsbourg
Francis Lai
Jean-Max Rivière
AZ "Harley Davidson"
"Ay Que Viva La Sangria"
"Contact"

Other notable singles

Year Original Title Translation Songwriters(s) Label
1962 "Sidonie"
(music from Louis Malle's the motion picture Vie Privée)
Fiorenzo Capri
Charles Cros
Jean-Max Rivière
Barclay
1965 "Viva Maria!"
(music from Louis Malle's eponymous motion picture)
(with Jeanne Moreau)
Jean-Claude Carrière
Georges Delerue
Philips
1966 "Le soleil" "The Sun" Jean-Max Rivière
Gérard Bourgeois
AZ
1969 "La fille de paille" "The Straw Girl" Franck Gérald
Gérard Lenorman
Philips
1970 "Tu veux ou tu veux pas"
"(Nem Vem Que Nao Tem)"
"Do You Want or Not" Pierre Cour
Carlos Imperial
Barclay
"Nue au soleil" "Naked Under the Sun" Jean Fredenucci
Jean Schmidtt
1972 "Tu es venu mon amour" / "Vous Ma Lady"
(with Laurent Vergez)
"You Came My Love" / "You My Lady" Hugues Aufray
Eddy Marnay
Eddie Barclay
"Boulevard du rhum"
(with Guy Marchand)
(music from Robert Enrico's motion picture)
"Boulevard of Rhum" François De Roubaix
Jean-Paul-Egide Martini
1973 "Soleil de ma vie"
(with Sacha Distel)
"Sun of My Life" Stevie Wonder
Jean Broussolle
Pathé
1982 "Toutes les bêtes sont à aimer" "All Animals Must Be Loved" Jean-Max Rivière Polydor
1986 "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
(with Serge Gainsbourg)
(released and shelved in 1968)
"I Love You... Me Neither" Serge Gainsbourg Philips

Books

Bardot has also written five books:

  • Noonoah: Le petit phoque blanc (Grasset, 1978)
  • Initiales B.B. (autobiography, Grasset & Fasquelle, 1996)
  • Le Carré de Pluton (Grasset & Fasquelle, 1999)
  • Un Cri Dans Le Silence (Editions Du Rocher, 2003)
  • Pourquoi? (Editions Du Rocher, 2006)

Accolades

Awards and nominations

  • 12th Victoires du cinéma français (French cinema victories) (1957): Best Actress, win, as Juliette Hardy in And God Created Woman.
  • 11th Bambi Awards (1958): Best Actress, nomination, as Juliette Hardy in And God Created Woman.
  • 14th Victoires du cinéma français (1959): Best Actress, win, as Yvette Maudet in In Case of Adversity.
  • Brussels European Awards (1960): Best Actress, win, as Dominique Marceau in The Truth.
  • 5th David di Donatello Awards (1961): Best Foreign Actress, win, as Dominique Marceau in The Truth.
  • 12th Étoiles de cristal (Crystal stars) by the French Cinema Academy (1966): Best Actress, win, as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley in Viva Maria!.
  • 18th Bambi Awards (1967): Bambi Award of Popularity, win.
  • 20th BAFTA Awards (1967): BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, nomination, as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley in Viva Maria!.

Honours

  • 2021: Her effigy in Saint-Tropez was dressed in 1400 gold leaves of 23.75 carats each.

See also

Notes

  1. Original quote: "Si cette petite doit devenir putain ou pas, ce ne sera pas le cinéma qui en sera la cause."
  2. Bardot admits to two abortions in her memoir and is the first openly postabortive celebrity to go public with a breast cancer diagnosis, followed by Gloria Steinem and Sondra Locke. Scientific research studies have not found a causal relationship.
  3. Although it was awarded to her, Bardot refused to attend, as did Catherine Deneuve and Claudia Cardinale.

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Further reading

  • Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) Brigitte Bardot. Filme 1953–1961. Anfänge des Mythos B.B. (Hildesheim 1982) ISBN 3-88842-109-8.
  • Servat, Henry-Jean (2016). Brigitte Bardot – My Life in Fashion (Hardback). Paris: Flammation S.A. ISBN 978-2--08-0202697.

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