Brigitte Bardot 1934 - 2025

Famous actress Brigitte Bardot also known as B.B. has left for the better world on 28 December at 91 years old at her La Madrague home in Saint-Tropez.  Born in Paris on 28 September 1934 Brigitte Bardot became a symbol of the Sweet Life Dolce Vita period which symbolized the fifties and the sixties.  Starting as an aspiring ballerina in her childhood at her birth place in Paris, she will debut her acting career in 1952 as she had a small part in the comedy film Crazy For Love which premiered on that same year.  She was noticed in that first film and will take part in 47 movies till her retirement in 1973, achieving international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman from 1956.  Bardot will also win a David di Donatello Best Foreign Actress Award in 1961 for her work in The Truth from 1960, and was also nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Foreign actress film Viva Maria! from 1965.  Bardot had also a musical career and released five albums from 1956 to 1968, and nine singles from 1962 to 1986.  After retiring from acting in 1973, Bardot became an animal rights activist and created the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. She was known for her strong outspokenness and speeches on animal defence; fined twice for public insults, and six times for inciting racial hatred and for her criticism on Muslims in France and residents of Réunion.  A symbol of the Dolce Vita period which characterized the Cote D'Azur in the South of France and the Liguria coast of Italy in the fifties and sixties, her life adventures made the luck for both St. Tropez; a sea side village which will become her home from 1958, and Riva which becomes the speed boat of choice of the European jet-set of the period.  Brigitte Bardot will own two Riva mahogany speed boats; a 1959 Super Florida hull No. 341 titled Nounorus which translates to Teddy Bear gifted by her former husband Roger Vadim, and then a second Florida from 1962.  She was also filmed and photographed on various other Riva classic boats of friends and spouses of the moment; Aquarama, Tritone, and Junior, and also christened the 1959 m/y Le Babette for film producer Raoul Levy.  Brigitte Bardot was married four times, and had one child.