Iconic French film star Brigitte Bardot has died aged 91, just weeks after undergoing surgery and battling “sudden illness”.
Sayan Bose - The Sun
Brigitte Bardot has died aged 91 just weeks after undergoing surgery and battling “sudden illness”.
Tributes are pouring in for the iconic French film star who became an international sex symbol in the ‘60s.
Bardot was at her home in Saint-Tropez when she was suddenly rushed to a hospital in nearby Toulon.
It is understood that the actress was recovering from surgery undergone weeks earlier “as part of treatment for a serious illness”.
Rarely seen in her later years, Bardot was last photographed outside her home on September 29th last year - her 90th birthday.
Bruno Jacquelin, of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the protection of animals, today confirmed her death at her home in southern France.
Bardot was propelled into international stardom when she played a teen bride in the 1956 movie And God Created Woman.
Directed by her then-husband, Roger Vadim, it triggered a scandal with scenes of the long-legged beauty dancing on tables naked.
Bardot was one of the most famous figures in the Sexual Revolution of the post-war period.
A sensational French artist, she was long a symbol of glamour and desire.
Her image was forged in a cluster of cult films and pop duets – and she was known for portraying characters with hedonistic and tragic lifestyles.
In the British and US press, she was nicknamed the “sex kitten”.
She also sang and modelled in her youth, while she became an animal rights advocate in later life.
Bardot was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984.
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