Brigitte Sy
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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Acting
Movie
The Invisibles
as Béatrice, social services manager
2019
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Street Flow
as TD Professor
2019
Movie
All That Divides Us
as Ben's Mother
2017
Movie
Declaration of War
as Claudia Benaïm
2011
TV
Black Spot
as Sabine Hennequin
2017
Movie
A Better Life
as La femme bénévole surendettement
2011
Movie
Fear(s) of the Dark
as (voice)
2007
Movie
Little Girl Blue
as Monique Lange (voice)
2023
Movie
Wild Life
as Geneviève
2014
Movie
Crack 6T
as La principale du collège
1997
Movie
Regular Lovers
as la mère de François
2005
Movie
A Place on Earth
as Loraine Morin
2013
Movie
Genealogies of a Crime
as Jeanne
1997
Movie
Memoirs of a French Whore
1979
Movie
Versailles
as Madame Herchel
2008
Movie
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
as Aline
1991
Movie
The Last Screening
as The taxi driver
2011
Movie
Emergency Kisses
as Jeanne
1989
Movie
Vandal
as Christine, la tante
2013
Movie
Liberty at Night
as Micheline
1984
Movie
Melody for a Hustler
as Véronique
1998
TV
L'Opéra
as Nadia Menour
2021
Movie
Nuts
as Mme Herschel, la psy
2013
Movie
Choosing Love
as Isabelle
2008
