The actress and model's look in the 1950s and 1960s became one of the most iconic of all time, still referenced today by beauty and fashion pros and celebrities

Bardot made dozens of movies across her career with highlights including Christian-Jaque’s Babette Goes to War and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt. She won a David Di Donatello Award in 1961 for Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Truth and was BAFTA-nominated in 1967 for Viva Maria!

The late Brigitte Bardot provoked a wave of global outrage when she posed for photos in a bikini during the 1953 Cannes Film Festival—but in doing so, quietly revolutionized the way women dressed.

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you,” the late Brigitte Bardot once said. The star passed away in December 2025, but many moments of her life have been immortalised forever.

Actor, singer, sex symbol and style icon Brigitte Bardot, who retired from acting and became controversial for her right-wing politics in her later years, has died. She was 91. Bardot died Sunday at her home in southern France,

Film actress and style icon Brigitte Bardot has died at the age of 91. The news was announced by the star's charitable foundation in a tribute that reflected on how she had abandoned her glittering career 'to dedicate her life and energy to animal welfare and her foundation.'