Bardot is considered the blonde “bombshell” who revolutionized cinema in the 1950s, a French Marilyn Monroe who became a cultural icon.
LIMA, Peru – Actress Brigitte Bardot, icon of French cinema, died this Sunday at the age of 91 at her residence in La Madrague, located in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera.
The EFE agency confirmed the death of the artist, considered “the blonde bombshell” who revolutionized cinema in the 1950s, a French Marilyn Monroe who became a central figure in European culture of the last century.
During his time on the big screen, he starred in numerous productions such as And God created woman (1956), The truth (1960) and The contempt (1963).
After the death of Alain Delon in 2024, Brigitte Bardot had been one of the legends of the seventh art still alive in France. Her death on December 28 puts an end to an era of classic cinema in which she was positioned as an erotic symbol and broke canons in terms of female representation.
Although her career as an actress spanned a couple of decades, her role as a singer was also very successful and lasted even longer, popularizing songs like J’ai t’aime… moi, non plusoriginally recorded in 1967, or The Madrague.
His prolific artistic work he bequeaths nearly fifty films and more than 60 songs. After the release of his last film in 1973, he left the film industry to focus on activism. In 1986 she created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the protection of animals.
Bardot, who for much of her life stood out for a turbulent private world, marked by constant harassment by the paparazzi, during her last years she lived in the south of France, in La Madrague and also in a second residence nestled in the countryside, La Garrigue, surrounded by animals, “peace and nature”, as she longed for.
“Now I live like a peasant with my sheep, my goats, my pigs, my donkey and my pony, all my dogs, my cats,” Bardot told news channel BFMTV in May.
