Brigitte Sy
Biography
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France.
She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women.
She is of Sephardic Jewish descent.
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Filmography
Little Girl Blue
2023
as Monique Lange (voice)
La rupture
2020
as Josée
Online Billie
2019
as Brigitte
Street Flow
2019
as TD Professor
The Invisibles
2019
as Béatrice, social services manager
All That Divides Us
2017
as Ben's Mother
Unexpected Love
2015
as Hélène
Wild Life
2014
as Geneviève
Closed Circuit
2013
as Michèle Solvy
Vandal
2013
as Christine, la tante
A Place on Earth
2013
as Loraine Morin
Nuts
2013
as Mme Herschel, la psy
A Better Life
2011
as La femme bénévole surendettement
Declaration of War
2011
as Claudia Benaïm
The Last Screening
2011
as The taxi driver
Nice
2009
as Fanny
Rien dans les poches
2008
as Agathe Manikowski
Versailles
2008
as Madame Herchel
Choosing Love
2008
as Isabelle
Fear(s) of the Dark
2007
as (voice)
Déluge
2006
as Her mother
Regular Lovers
2005
as la mère de François
Melody for a Hustler
1998
as Véronique
Crack 6T
1997
as La principale du collège