Brigitte Sy
Acting
38
Acting Credits
3
Directed
Biography
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 libr...
Known For
Filmography
Reformed
2025
as Jeannine
Little Girl Blue
2023
as Monique Lange (voice)
L'Opéra
2021
as Nadia Menour
La rupture
2020
as Josée
Street Flow
2019
as TD Professor
Online Billie
2019
as Brigitte
The Invisibles
2019
as Béatrice, social services manager
Têtard
2019
as La mère de Ben
All That Divides Us
2017
as Ben's Mother
Quadras
2017
as Sylvianne
Black Spot
2017
as Sabine Hennequin
Unexpected Love
2015
as Hélène
Wild Life
2014
as Geneviève
Vandal
2013
as Christine, la tante
Nuts
2013
as Mme Herschel, la psy
A Place on Earth
2013
as Loraine Morin
Closed Circuit
2013
as Michèle Solvy
Declaration of War
2011
as Claudia Benaïm
A Better Life
2011
as La femme bénévole surendettement
The Last Screening
2011
as The taxi driver
Nice
2009
as Fanny
Versailles
2008
as Madame Herchel
Choosing Love
2008
as Isabelle
Rien dans les poches
2008
as Agathe Manikowski
Fear(s) of the Dark
2007
as (voice)
Déluge
2006
as Her mother
Regular Lovers
2005
as la mère de François
Melody for a Hustler
1998
as Véronique
Crack 6T
1997
as La principale du collège
Genealogies of a Crime
1997
as Jeanne
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
1991
as Aline
Emergency Kisses
1989
as Jeanne
The Ministries of Art
1989
as Self
Liberty at Night
1984
as Micheline
Casting
1983
as Woman of the cast
Cinématon XXVI
1982
as N°250
Memoirs of a French Whore
1979
Cinématon
1978
as N°250