Brigitte Sy
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Black Spot
Sabine Hennequin
2017
Film
Street Flow
TD Professor
2019
Series
L'Opéra
Nadia Menour
2021
Film
The Invisibles
Béatrice, social services manager
2019
Film
Genealogies of a Crime
Jeanne
1997
Series
Têtard
La mère de Ben
2019
Film
Declaration of War
Claudia Benaïm
2011
Film
All That Divides Us
Ben's Mother
2017
Film
Memoirs of a French Whore
1979
Film
Crack 6T
La principale du collège
1997
Series
Reformed
Jeannine
2025
Film
Fear(s) of the Dark
(voice)
2007
Film
Little Girl Blue
Monique Lange (voice)
2023
Le Joueur
Series
Quadras
Sylvianne
2017
Film
Online Billie
Brigitte
2019
Film
A Better Life
La femme bénévole surendettement
2011
Film
Closed Circuit
Michèle Solvy
2013
Film
Cinématon
N°250
1978
Film
Nice
Fanny
2009
Film
Nuts
Mme Herschel, la psy
2013
Film
Melody for a Hustler
Véronique
1998
Film
Wild Life
Geneviève
2014
Film
Rien dans les poches
Agathe Manikowski
2008
Film
Regular Lovers
la mère de François
2005
Film
Versailles
Madame Herchel
2008
Film
Déluge
Her mother
2006
Cinématon XXVI
N°250
1982
Film
Vandal
Christine, la tante
2013
Film
A Place on Earth
Loraine Morin
2013
Film
Emergency Kisses
Jeanne
1989
Film
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Aline
1991
Film
Choosing Love
Isabelle
2008
Film
Liberty at Night
Micheline
1984
Film
The Last Screening
The taxi driver
2011
Film
Casting
Woman of the cast
1983
Film
La rupture
Josée
2020
Film
The Ministries of Art
Self
1989
Film
Unexpected Love
Hélène
2015
Sang craché des lèvres belles
Béatrice