Brigitte Sy
Actor
Biography
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France.
She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women.
She is of Sephardic Jewish descent.
Source: Article "Brigitte Sy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
As Director
Filmography
The Invisibles
as Béatrice, social services manager 2019
Street Flow
as TD Professor 2019
All That Divides Us
as Ben's Mother 2017
Declaration of War
as Claudia Benaïm 2011
A Better Life
as La femme bénévole surendettement 2011
Fear(s) of the Dark
as (voice) 2007
Wild Life
as Geneviève 2014
Crack 6T
as La principale du collège 1997
Little Girl Blue
as Monique Lange (voice) 2023
Regular Lovers
as la mère de François 2005
A Place On Earth
as Loraine Morin 2013
Genealogies of a Crime
as Jeanne 1997
Memoirs of a French Whore
1979
Versailles
as Madame Herchel 2008
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
as Aline 1991
The Last Screening
as The taxi driver 2011
Vandal
as Christine, la tante 2013