{"id":205091,"date":"2025-12-28T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/205091\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:00:08","slug":"french-actress-brigitte-bardot-dies-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/205091\/","title":{"rendered":"French actress Brigitte Bardot dies aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBrigitte Bardot in 1963 film Contempt (Le M\u00e9pris)
\nPhoto: LES FILMS CONCORDIA \/ ROME PARIS\n<\/p>\n

French film legend Brigitte Bardot – a cinema icon of the 1950s and 60s who walked away from global stardom to become an animal rights protector – has died aged 91, her foundation said Sunday.<\/p>\n

Bardot had rarely been seen in public in recent months but was hospitalised in October and in November released a statement denying rumours that she had died. The foundation did not say when or where she died.<\/p>\n

“The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its founder and president, Madame Brigitte Bardot, a world-renowned actress and singer, who chose to abandon her prestigious career to dedicate her life and energy to animal welfare and her foundation,” it said in a statement sent to AFP.<\/p>\n

Bardot became a global star after appearing in And God created Woman in 1956, and went on to appear in about 50 more movies before giving up acting.<\/p>\n

She retired from film to settle permanently near the Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez where she devoted herself to fighting for animals.<\/p>\n

Her calling apparently came when she encountered a goat on the set of her final film The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot.<\/p>\n

To save it from being killed, she bought the animal and kept it in her hotel room.<\/p>\n

– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brigitte Bardot in 1963 film Contempt (Le M\u00e9pris) Photo: LES FILMS CONCORDIA \/ ROME PARIS French film legend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[48,430,47,156,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-205091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-podcasts","17":"tag-public-radio","18":"tag-radio-new-zealand","19":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}