Brigitte Sy

Personal Info

Birthday

January 26, 1956

(69 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

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.

Known For

Black Spot

L'Opéra

Têtard

Quadras

Street Flow

Unexpected Love

Genealogies of a Crime

Rien dans les poches

Filmography

2023
Little Girl Blue
as Monique Lange (voice)
2020
La rupture
as Josée
2019
Online Billie
as Brigitte
Street Flow
as TD Professor
The Invisibles
as Béatrice, social services manager
2017
All That Divides Us
as Ben's Mother
2015
Unexpected Love
as Hélène
2014
Wild Life
as Geneviève
2013
Closed Circuit
as Michèle Solvy
Vandal
as Christine, la tante
A Place On Earth
as Loraine Morin
Nuts
as Mme Herschel, la psy
2011
A Better Life
as La femme bénévole surendettement
Declaration of War
as Claudia Benaïm
Last Screening
as The taxi driver
2009
Nice
as Fanny
2008
Rien dans les poches
as Agathe Manikowski
Versailles
as Madame Herchel
Choosing Love
as Isabelle
2007
Fear(s) of the Dark
as (voice)
2006
Déluge
as Her mother
2005
Regular Lovers
as la mère de François
1998
Melody for a Hustler
as Véronique
1997
Crack 6T
as La principale du collège
Genealogies of a Crime
as Jeanne
1991
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
as Aline
1989
Emergency Kisses
as Jeanne
The Ministries of Art
as Self
1984
Liberty at Night
as Micheline
1983
Casting
as Woman of the cast
1982
Cinématon XXVI
as N°250
1978
Cinématon
as N°250