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{{Short description|French actress and singer (born 1934)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Brigitte Bardot
| image              = Brigitte Bardot - 1962.jpg
| caption            = Bardot in a publicity photo for ''[[A Very Private Affair]]'' (1962)
| birth_name         = Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1934|9|28|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = Paris, [[French Third Republic]]
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actress|singer|animal rights activist}}
| party              = [[National Rally]]
| otherparty         = [[Union for the New Republic]] (1958–1967)
| works              = {{hlist|[[Brigitte Bardot filmography|Filmography]]|[[Brigitte Bardot#Discography|discography]]}}
| years_active       = 1952–1973 (entertainer)<br>1973–present (activist)
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage| [[Roger Vadim]] |1952|1957|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage| [[Jacques Charrier]] |1959|1962|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage| [[Gunter Sachs]] |1966|1969|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage| Bernard d'Ormale|1992}}
}}
| children           = 1
| relatives          = [[Mijanou Bardot]] (sister)
| signature          = Brigitte Bardot Signature.svg
}}

'''Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|r|ɪ|dʒ|ɪ|t|_|b|ɑːr|ˈ|d|əʊ|audio=EN-AU ck1 Brigitte Bardot.ogg}} {{respell|BRIJ|it|_|bar|DOH}}; {{IPA|fr|bʁiʒit baʁdo|lang|LL-Q150 (fra)-Exilexi-Brigitte Bardot.wav}}; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials '''B.B.''',<ref name="institut-francais">{{cite web |url=https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/festivals-series/and-bardot-became-bb/ |publisher=[[Institut français du Royaume-Uni]] |title=And Bardot Became BB |access-date=13 January 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808114518/https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/whats-on/festivals-series/and-bardot-became-bb/ |archive-date=8 August 2018}}</ref>{{sfn|Probst|2012|p=7}} is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Famous for portraying characters with [[Hedonism|hedonistic]] lives, she is one of the best known symbols of the [[sexual revolution]]. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major pop culture icon.{{sfnm|Cherry|2016|1p=134|Vincendeau|1992|2p=73–76}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/elizabeth-taylor-what-becomes-legend-most/ | title=Elizabeth Taylor: What Becomes a Legend Most |date= 30 March 2011|last=Wypijewski| first=Joann |magazine =[[The Nation]]}}</ref> She has acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the [[Legion of Honour]] in 1985.

Born and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina during her childhood. She started her acting career in 1952 and achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in ''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|And God Created Woman]]'' (1956), catching the attention of many French intellectuals and earning her the nickname "[[sex kitten]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-03-16-8601200310-story.html | title=St. Tropez: What Hath Brigitte Bardot Wrought? |date= 16 March 1986|last=Handley| first=John |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref> She was the subject of philosopher [[Simone de Beauvoir]]'s 1959 essay ''The Lolita Syndrome'', which described her as a "locomotive of women's history" and built upon [[existentialist]] themes to declare her the most liberated woman of France. She won a 1961 [[David di Donatello]] [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress|Best Foreign Actress Award]] for her work in ''[[La Vérité (film)|The Truth]]'' (1960)''.'' Bardot later starred in [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s film ''[[Contempt (film)|Le Mépris]]'' (1963). For her role in [[Louis Malle]]'s film ''[[Viva Maria!]]'' (1965), she was nominated for the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress]]. French President [[Charles de Gaulle]] called Bardot "the French export as important as [[Renault]] cars".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Poirier |first=Agnès |date=21 September 2009 |title=Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/22/brigitte-bardot-french-cinema |access-date=17 June 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

After retiring from acting in 1973, Bardot became an [[animal rights]] activist and created the [[Fondation Brigitte Bardot|Brigitte Bardot Foundation]]. She is known for her strong personality, outspokenness, and speeches on animal defense; she has been fined twice for public insults. She has also been a controversial political figure, as of November 2021 having been fined six times for [[Incitement to ethnic or racial hatred|inciting racial hatred]],<ref name="vanityfair.com">{{cite web |date=5 November 2021 |title=Brigitte Bardot is Handed Her Sixth Fine for 'Inciting Racial Hatred' |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/11/brigitte-bardot-fined-for-inciting-racial-hatred |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]}}</ref> when she criticised [[Immigration to France|immigration]] and [[Islam in France]] and called residents of [[Réunion]] "savages".<ref>{{cite web | title = Brigitte Bardot at 80: still outrageous, outspoken and controversial | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/20/brigitte-bardot-at-80-still-outrageous-outspoken | newspaper = The Guardian | date = 20 September 2014 }}</ref> She is married to Bernard d'Ormale, a former adviser to [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]], a [[French far-right]] politician. Bardot is a member of the [[Global 500 Roll of Honour]] of the [[United Nations Environment Programme]] and has received several awards and accolades from [[UNESCO]] and [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|PETA]]. In 2011, ''[[Los Angeles Times Magazine]]'' ranked her second on the "50 Most Beautiful Women In Film".

==Early life==
[[File:BrigitteBardot-StudioHarcourt-1954.png|thumb|290x290px|Bardot at 19 in 1954 by [[Studio Harcourt]]]]
Bardot was born in the [[15th arrondissement of Paris]] in the [[French Third Republic]] to Louis Bardot and Anne-Marie Mucel.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=15}} Bardot's father, who originated from [[Ligny-en-Barrois]], was an engineer and the proprietor of several industrial factories in Paris.<ref name="Lorrain">{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224142/http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/actualite/2010/05/23/brigitte-bardot-j-en-ai-les-larmes-aux-yeux |url=http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/actualite/2010/05/23/brigitte-bardot-j-en-ai-les-larmes-aux-yeux |title=Brigitte Bardot: 'J'en ai les larmes aux yeux' |work=[[Le Républicain Lorrain]] |language=fr |date=23 May 2010 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=6}} Her mother was the daughter of an insurance company director.{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=12}} She grew up in a conservative [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] family, as had her father.{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=11}}<ref name="Observer_outrageous">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/20/brigitte-bardot-at-80-still-outrageous-outspoken |title=Brigitte Bardot at 80: still outrageous, outspoken and controversial |first=Agnès |last=Poirier |work=[[The Observer]] |date=20 September 2014 |access-date=21 March 2019}}</ref> She suffered from [[amblyopia]] as a child, which resulted in [[decreased vision]] of her left eye.{{sfn|Lelièvre|2012|p=18}} She has one younger sister, [[Mijanou Bardot]].{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=45}}

Bardot's childhood was prosperous; she lived in her family's seven-bedroom apartment in the luxurious [[16th arrondissement of Paris|16th arrondissement]];<ref name="Observer_outrageous"/>{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10}} however, she recalled feeling resentful in her early years.{{sfnm|Bardot|1996|1p=45|Singer|2006|2p=10–14}} Her father demanded that she follow strict behavioural standards, including good table manners, and wear appropriate clothes.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10–12}} Her mother was highly selective in choosing companions for her, so Bardot had very few childhood friends.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10–11}} Bardot cited a personal traumatic incident when she and her sister broke her parents' favourite vase while they were playing in the house; her father whipped the sisters 20 times and subsequently treated them like "strangers", demanding that they address their parents by the formal pronoun "[[wikt:vous#French|vous]]", used in French when speaking to unfamiliar or higher-status persons outside the immediate family.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=11–12}} The incident led to Bardot decisively resenting her parents and to her future rebellious lifestyle.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=12}}

During World War II, when [[Paris in World War II|Paris was occupied]] by [[Nazi Germany]], Bardot spent more time at home due to increasingly strict civilian surveillance.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10}} She became engrossed in dancing to records, which her mother saw as a potential for a ballet career.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10}} Bardot was admitted at the age of seven to the private school [[Cours Hattemer]].{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=11}} She went to school three days a week, which gave her ample time to take dance lessons at a local studio under her mother's arrangements.{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=10–11}} In 1949, Bardot was accepted at the [[Conservatoire de Paris]]. She attended ballet classes held by Russian choreographer [[Boris Knyazev]] for three years.{{sfn|Caron|2009|p=62}} She also studied at the Institut de la Tour, a private Catholic high school near her home.<ref>{{cite news |first=Caroline |last=Pigozzi |title=Bardot s'en va toujours en guerre... pour les animaux |newspaper=[[Paris Match]] |issue=January 2018 |pages=76–83}}</ref>

[[Hélène Gordon-Lazareff]], the director of the magazines ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' and ''[[Le Jardin des Modes]]'', hired Bardot in 1949 as a "junior" fashion model.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=67}} On 8 March 1950, 15-year-old Bardot appeared on the cover of ''Elle'', which brought her an acting offer for the film ''Les Lauriers sont coupés'' from director [[Marc Allégret]].{{sfn|Singer|2006|p=19}} Her parents opposed her becoming an actress, but her grandfather was supportive, saying that "If this little girl is to become a whore, cinema will not be the cause."{{efn-ua|Original quote: "''Si cette petite doit devenir putain ou pas, ce ne sera pas le cinéma qui en sera la cause''."{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=68–69}}}} At the audition, Bardot met [[Roger Vadim]], who later notified her that she did not get the role.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=69}} They subsequently fell in love.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=70}} Her parents fiercely opposed their relationship; her father announced to her one evening that she would continue her education in England and that he had bought her a train ticket for the following day.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=72}} Bardot reacted by putting her head into an oven with open fire; her parents stopped her and ultimately accepted the relationship, on condition that she marry Vadim at the age of 18.{{sfnm|Bardot|1996|1p=73|Singer|2006|2p=22}}

==Career==
===Beginnings: 1952–1955===
[[File:Tradita - Brigitte Bardot.png|thumb|upright=0.9|left|Bardot in a scene of ''[[Concert of Intrigue]]'' in 1954]]
Bardot appeared on the cover of ''Elle'' again in 1952, which landed her an offer for a small part in the comedy film ''[[Crazy for Love]]'' the same year, directed by [[Jean Boyer (director)|Jean Boyer]] and starring [[Bourvil]].{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=81}} She was paid 200,000 [[French franc|francs]] (about 575 1952 US dollars<ref name=convert>{{cite web | title=Historical Currency Converter|first=Rodney|last=Edvinsson| website=Historicalstatistics.org| url=https://www.historicalstatistics.org/Currencyconverter.html}}</ref>) for the small role portraying a cousin of the main character.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=81}} Bardot had her second film role in ''[[Manina, the Girl in the Bikini]]'' (1952), directed by [[Willy Rozier]].{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=84}} She also had roles in the 1953 films, ''[[The Long Teeth]]'' and ''[[His Father's Portrait]]''. Bardot had a small role in a [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]-financed film being shot in Paris in 1953, ''[[Act of Love (1953 film)|Act of Love]]'', starring [[Kirk Douglas]]. She received media attention when she attended the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in April 1953.<ref name="twolives" />

Bardot had a leading role in 1954 in an Italian melodrama, ''[[Concert of Intrigue]]'', and in a French adventure film, ''[[Caroline and the Rebels]]''. She had a good part as a flirtatious student in 1955's ''[[School for Love]]'', opposite [[Jean Marais]], for director [[Marc Allégret]]. Bardot played her first sizeable English-language role in 1955 in ''[[Doctor at Sea (film)|Doctor at Sea]]'' as the love interest for [[Dirk Bogarde]]. The film was the third most popular movie in Britain that year.<ref>"'The Dam Busters'." Times [London, England] 29 December 1955: 12. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.</ref> Bardot had a small role in ''[[The Grand Maneuver]]'' (1955) for director [[René Clair]], supporting [[Gérard Philipe]] and [[Michèle Morgan]]. Her part was bigger in ''[[The Light Across the Street]]'' (1956) for director [[Georges Lacombe (director)|Georges Lacombe]]. She had another in the Hollywood film ''[[Helen of Troy (film)|Helen of Troy]]'', playing Helen's handmaiden. For the Italian movie ''[[Nero's Weekend]]'' (1956), brunette Bardot was asked by the director to appear as a blonde. She dyed her hair rather than wear a wig; she was so pleased with the results that she decided to retain the color.<ref name="Servat. Page 76">Servat. Page 76.</ref>

=== Rise to stardom: 1956–1962 ===
[[File:Brigitte Bardot - The Sacramento Union (1958).png|thumb|upright=.7|U.S newspaper clipping, 9 February 1958]]
[[File:Brigitte_Bardot_Venice_1958.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|Bardot posing for a crowd of photographers during the 1958 [[Venice Film Festival]]]]
Bardot then appeared in four movies that made her a star. First up was a musical, ''[[Naughty Girl (film)|Naughty Girl]]'' (1956), where Bardot played a troublesome school girl. Directed by [[Michel Boisrond]], it was co-written by Roger Vadim and was a great success, going on to become the 12th most popular film of the year in France.<ref>[http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/france-1956-c22750159&usg=ALkJrhhiLGcr7S1Wd-3bM_0zuo9qMV9r9A Box office figures in France for 1956] at Box Office Story</ref> It was followed by a comedy, ''[[Plucking the Daisy]]'' (1956), also written by Vadim. This was succeeded by ''[[The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful]]'' (1956) with [[Louis Jourdan]]. Finally, there was the melodrama ''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|And God Created Woman]]'' (1956). The movie was Vadim's debut as director, with Bardot starring opposite [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]] and [[Curt Jurgens]]. The film, about an immoral teenager in an otherwise respectable small-town setting, was an even larger success, not just in France but also around the world, listed among the ten most popular films in Great Britain in 1957.<ref>Most Popular Film of the Year. ''The Times (London, England)'', Thursday, 12 December 1957; pg. 3; Issue 54022.</ref>

[[File:Brigitte Bardot - Screenland (March 1959).png|thumb|left|upright=.7|Bardot featured on the cover of ''[[Screenland]]'', March 1959]]
In the United States, the film was the highest-grossing foreign film ever released, earning $4&nbsp;million, which author Peter Lev describes as "an astonishing amount for a foreign film at that time".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lev|first1=Peter|title=The Euro-American Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TG9ZAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|isbn=978-0-292-76378-4|page=13|publisher=[[University of Texas Press]]}}</ref> It turned Bardot into an international star.<ref name="twolives"/> From at least 1956,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55474324|title=Mam'selle Kitten New box-office beauty|date=5 December 1956|work=Australian Women's Weekly|access-date=5 March 2019|pages=32|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> she was hailed as the "[[sex kitten]]".<ref name="theguardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2014/sep/20/brigitte-bardot-her-life-and-times-so-far-in-pictures|work=The Guardian|title=Brigitte Bardot: her life and times so far – in pictures|access-date=13 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="time">{{cite web|url=https://time.com/3649602/life-with-brigitte-bardot-rare-and-classic-photos-of-the-original-sex-kitten/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231042624/http://time.com/3649602/life-with-brigitte-bardot-rare-and-classic-photos-of-the-original-sex-kitten/|url-status=live|archive-date=31 December 2014|work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|title=Brigitte Bardot: Rare and Classic Photos of the Original 'Sex Kitten' |date=April 2013 |access-date=13 January 2017}}</ref><ref>The earliest use cited in the [[Oxford English Dictionary#Electronic versions|OED Online]] (accessed 26 November 2011) is in the [[Daily Sketch]], 2 June 1958.</ref> The film scandalized the United States and some theater managers were even arrested just for screening it.<ref name=guardot>{{cite news|last=Poirier|first=Agnès|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/22/brigitte-bardot-french-cinema|title=Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot|work=The Guardian|date=22 September 2009|access-date=28 December 2020}}</ref> Paul O'Neil of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' (June 1958) in describing Bardot's international popularity, writes:
<blockquote>In gaining her present eminence, Brigitte Bardot has had certain advantages beyond those she was born with. Like the European sports car, she has arrived on the American scene at a time when the American public is ready, even hungry, for something racier and more realistic than the familiar domestic product.<ref>{{cite web|last1=O'Neil|first1=Paul |title=Critics To The Contrary, B. B.'S Appeal Is Not Limited To Her Body |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1MEAAAAMBAJ|year=1958|page=57}}</ref><br></blockquote>

During her early career, professional photographer Sam Lévin's photos contributed to the image of Bardot's sensuality. British photographer [[Cornel Lucas]] made images of Bardot in the 1950s and 1960s that have become representative of her public persona. Bardot followed ''And God Created Woman'' up with ''[[La Parisienne (film)|La Parisienne]]'' (1957), a comedy co-starring [[Charles Boyer]] for director Boisrond. She was reunited with Vadim in another melodrama ''[[The Night Heaven Fell]]'' (1958), and played a criminal who seduced [[Jean Gabin]] in ''[[In Case of Adversity]]'' (1958). The latter was the 13th most seen movie of the year in France.<ref name="box">{{cite web|url=http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-brigitte-bardot-c22691591/19&usg=ALkJrhhIEncp1KXspugND8vN3RRD5RUhgA |title=Box office information for Love is My Profession|website=Box office story}}</ref> In 1958, Bardot became the highest-paid actress in the country of France.<ref name="Bricard2020">{{cite web |url=https://www.linternaute.com/cinema/star-cinema/2517851-mariages-sante-les-secrets-de-brigitte-bardot/2517857-un-sex-symbol |title=La naissance d'un sex symbol |trans-title=The birth of a sex symbol |last=Bricard |first=Manon |date=12 October 2020 |website=[[L'Internaute]] |language=fr|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204205720/https://www.linternaute.com/cinema/star-cinema/2517851-mariages-sante-les-secrets-de-brigitte-bardot/2517857-un-sex-symbol |archive-date=4 December 2021 }}</ref>

[[File:Brigitte Bardot 1961.jpg|thumb|upright=.7|Bardot in 1961]]
''[[The Female (1959 film)|The Female]]'' (1959) for director [[Julien Duvivier]] was popular, but ''[[Babette Goes to War]]'' (1959), a comedy set in World War II, was a huge hit, the fourth biggest movie of the year in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-brigitte-bardot-c22691591/21|title=1959 French box office|website=Box Office Story|access-date=28 August 2016}}</ref> Also widely seen was ''[[Come Dance with Me (1959 film)|Come Dance with Me]]'' (1959) from Boisrond. Bardot's next film was courtroom drama ''[[La Vérité (film)|The Truth]]'' (1960), from [[Henri-Georges Clouzot]]. It was a highly publicised production, which resulted in Bardot having an affair and attempting suicide. The film was Bardot's biggest commercial success in France, the third biggest hit of the year, and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Academy Award]] for Best Foreign Film.<ref>[http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-brigitte-bardot-c22691591/23&usg=ALkJrhjiMrG7lbxo6Wu3IvVZsDYW_JPJvA Box office information for film] at Box Office Story</ref> Bardot was awarded a [[David di Donatello]] Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in the film.<ref name="Roberts2015">{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=Paul G |date=2015 |chapter=Brigitte Bardot |title=Style icons Vol 3 − Bombshells |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MN3BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT56 |location=Sydney |publisher=Fashion Industry Broadcast |page=56 |isbn= 978-1-6277-6189-5}}</ref>

[[File:Mepris-Italie-1963.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Brigitte Bardot and [[Michel Piccoli]] caught by paparazzi in Italy during the filming of ''[[Contempt (film)|Contempt]]'' in 1963]]

=== International films and singing career: 1962–1968 ===
[[File:Brigitte_Bardot_em_visita_ao_Brasil,_1964.tif|thumb|left|upright=0.8|Bardot visiting Brazil in 1964]]
Bardot made a comedy with Vadim, ''[[Please, Not Now!]]'' (1961), and had a role in the all-star anthology, ''[[Famous Love Affairs]]'' (1962). Bardot starred alongside [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in a film inspired by her life in ''[[A Very Private Affair]]'' (''Vie privée'', 1962), directed by [[Louis Malle]]. More popular than that was her role in ''[[Love on a Pillow]]'' (1962). In the mid-1960s, Bardot made films that seemed to be more aimed at the international market. She starred in [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s film ''[[Contempt (film)|Le Mépris]]'' (1963), produced by [[Joseph E. Levine]] and starring [[Jack Palance]]. The following year she co-starred with [[Anthony Perkins]] in the comedy ''[[Une ravissante idiote]]'' (1964). ''[[Dear Brigitte]]'' (1965), Bardot's first Hollywood film, was a comedy starring [[James Stewart]] as an academic whose son develops a crush on Bardot. Bardot's appearance was relatively brief in the film, and the movie was not a big success. More successful was the Western buddy comedy ''[[Viva Maria!]]'' (1965) for director Louis Malle, appearing opposite [[Jeanne Moreau]]. It was a big hit in France and worldwide, although it did not break through in the United States as much as had been hoped.<ref name="tino">Tino Balio, ''United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 281.</ref>

After a cameo in Godard's ''[[Masculin Féminin]]'' (1966), she had her first outright flop for some years, ''[[Two Weeks in September]]'' (1968), a French–English co-production.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|date=11 August 2025|access-date=11 August 2025|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-film-studios-the-rank-organisation-1965-to-1967/|title=Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation, 1965 to 1967}}</ref> She had a small role in the all-star ''[[Spirits of the Dead]]'' (1968), acting opposite [[Alain Delon]], then tried a Hollywood film again: ''[[Shalako (film)|Shalako]]'' (1968), a Western starring [[Sean Connery]], which was another box-office disappointment.<ref name="variety">"ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", ''Variety'', 31 May 1973 p. 3.</ref>

[[File:Brigitte Bardot.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Bardot in 1968]]
Bardot participated in several musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with [[Serge Gainsbourg]], Bob Zagury and [[Sacha Distel]], including "Harley Davidson"; "Je Me Donne À Qui Me Plaît"; "Bubble gum"; "Contact"; "Je Reviendrai Toujours Vers Toi"; "L'Appareil À Sous"; "La Madrague"; "On Déménage"; "Sidonie"; "Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?"; "Le Soleil De Ma Vie" (a cover of [[Stevie Wonder]]'s "[[You Are the Sunshine of My Life]]"); and "[[Je t'aime... moi non plus]]". Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wish; the following year, he rerecorded a version with British-born model and actress [[Jane Birkin]] that became a massive hit all over Europe. The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a download hit in 2006 when [[Universal Music]] made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6058742.stm|title=Bardot revived as download star|date=17 October 2006|work=BBC News|access-date=3 August 2010}}</ref>

=== Final films: 1969–1973 ===
[[File:Brigitte Bardot in Rome, April 1969.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|Bardot in Rome in 1969]]
From 1969 to 1972, Bardot was the official face of [[Marianne]], who had previously up until then been anonymous, to represent the liberty of France.<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 February 2019 |title=Bardot, Deneuve, Casta... Elles ont incarné Marianne avant (peut-être) Simone Veil |url=https://www.sudouest.fr/culture/people/bardot-deneuve-casta-elles-ont-incarne-marianne-avant-peut-etre-simone-veil-2820468.php |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=SudOuest.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=18 July 2018 |title=Ces femmes qui ont prêté leurs traits à Marianne |url=https://www.rtl.fr/culture/medias-people/diaporama-marceau-bardot-casta-elles-ont-prete-leurs-traits-a-marianne-7794150612 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=www.rtl.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

Bardot's next film ''[[Les Femmes]]'' (1969) was a flop, although the screwball comedy ''[[The Bear and the Doll]]'' (1970) performed better. Her last few films were mostly comedies: ''[[Les Novices]]'' (1970), ''[[Boulevard du Rhum]]'' (1971) (with [[Lino Ventura]]). ''[[The Legend of Frenchie King]]'' (1971) was more popular, helped by Bardot co-starring with [[Claudia Cardinale]]. Bardot made one more movie working with Vadim, ''[[Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman]]'' (1973), playing the title role. Vadim said the film marked "Underneath what people call 'the Bardot myth' was something interesting, even though she was never considered the most professional actress in the world. For years, since she has been growing older, and the Bardot myth has become just a souvenir... I was curious in her as a woman and I had to get to the end of something with her, to get out of her and express many things I felt were in her. Brigitte always gave the impression of sexual freedom – she is a completely open and free person, without any aggression. So I gave her the part of a man – that amused me".<ref name="vadim">{{cite news|title=ROGER VADIM|author=Wilson, Timothy|work=The Guardian|location=London (UK)|date=7 April 1973|page=9}}</ref>

During the filming, Bardot said: "If ''Don Juan'' is not my last movie it will be my next to last."<ref>{{cite news|title=Brigitte Bardot: No longer a sex symbol|author=Morgan, Gwen|work=Chicago Tribune|date=4 March 1973|page=d3}}</ref> She kept her word and made only one more film, ''[[The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot]]'' (1973). In 1973, Bardot announced she was retiring from acting as "a way to get out elegantly".<ref name="The Modesto Bee-7 June 1973">{{cite news|title=Brigitte Bardot Gives Up Films at Age of 39|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d-EpAAAAIBAJ&pg=3388%2C1836097|agency=UPI|newspaper=The Modesto Bee|location=Modesto, California|date=7 June 1973|page=A-8|access-date=17 August 2010}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}

==Animal rights activism==
Bardot met [[Paul Watson]] in 1977, the same year he founded the [[Sea Shepherd Conservation Society]], during an operation to condemn the massacre of [[Pinniped#Birth and parenting|seal pups]] and [[seal hunting in Canada|seal hunting on the Canadian ice floe]].<ref name="DeBreteuil221024">{{cite news |last=De Breteuil |first=Paul |date=22 October 2024 |title=Brigitte Bardot appelle à la mobilisation pour la libération de l'activiste écologiste Paul Watson |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot calls for rallying for the release of environmental activist Paul Watson |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/brigitte-bardot-appelle-a-la-mobilisation-pour-la-liberation-de-l-activiste-ecologiste-paul-watson-20241022 |url-status=live |language=fr |newspaper=[[Le Figaro]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241111141052/https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/brigitte-bardot-appelle-a-la-mobilisation-pour-la-liberation-de-l-activiste-ecologiste-paul-watson-20241022 |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref> In support of animal protection, Bardot went to the [[ice floe]] after being invited by Watson.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cavallaro |first=Régine |date=1 January 2009 |title=Paul Watson, pirate au grand coeur |trans-title=Paul Watson, pirate with a big heart |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/voyage/article/2009/01/01/paul-watson_1339264_3546.html |url-status=live |language=fr |newspaper=[[Le Monde]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241111152751/https://www.lemonde.fr/voyage/article/2009/01/01/paul-watson_1339264_3546.html |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref> Bardot posed lying down next to the seal pups; the photos were seen worldwide. Bardot and Watson remained friends.<ref>{{cite news |last=Marie |first=Juliette |date=23 July 2024 |title=Arrestation de Paul Watson: ce qu'il faut savoir sur le fondateur de Sea Shepherd en 6 dates clés |trans-title=Arrest of Paul Watson: what you need to know about the founder of Sea Shepherd in 6 key dates |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/environnement/protection-oceans/arrestation-de-paul-watson-ce-quil-faut-savoir-sur-le-fondateur-de-sea-shepherd-en-6-dates-cles-79dcca4e-48d4-11ef-ae43-8601f2d4302d |url-status=live |language=fr |newspaper=[[Ouest-France]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723190627/https://www.ouest-france.fr/environnement/protection-oceans/arrestation-de-paul-watson-ce-quil-faut-savoir-sur-le-fondateur-de-sea-shepherd-en-6-dates-cles-79dcca4e-48d4-11ef-ae43-8601f2d4302d |archive-date=23 July 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref>

After appearing in more than 40 motion pictures and recording several music albums, Bardot used her fame to promote [[animal rights]]. In 1986, she established the [[Fondation Brigitte Bardot|Brigitte Bardot Foundation]] for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.<ref name=foundationhistory>{{cite web|url=http://www.fondationbrigittebardot.fr/site/fbb_a.php?IdPere=129&Id=129 |title=Brigitte Bardot foundation for the welfare and protection of animals |work=fondationbrigittebardot.fr |access-date=21 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525101027/http://www.fondationbrigittebardot.fr/site/fbb_a.php?IdPere=129&Id=129 |archive-date=25 May 2011 }}</ref> She became a vegetarian<ref name="follain (2006)">Follain, John (9 April 2006) [https://web.archive.org/web/20111126042547/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1072649.ece Brigitte Bardot profile], ''[[The Times]] Online: Life & Style''. Retrieved 2 April 2009.</ref> and raised three million francs (about 430,000 1986 US dollars<ref name=convert/>) to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and personal belongings.<ref name=foundationhistory/>

[[File:BrigitteBardot.jpg|thumb|Bardot in 2002]]
Bardot has been a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of [[horse meat]].<ref name="Borg2017">{{cite news |last=Borg |first=Bertrand |date=30 June 2017 |title='Stop eating horses', Brigitte Bardot tells Maltese |url=https://timesofmalta.com/article/stop-eating-horses-brigitte-bardot-tells-maltese.652026 |url-status=live |newspaper=[[Times of Malta]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241111161450/https://timesofmalta.com/article/stop-eating-horses-brigitte-bardot-tells-maltese.652026 |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=22 July 1984 |title=Brigitte Bardot saves doomed horse |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/07/22/Brigitte-Bardot-saves-doomed-horse/1152459316800/ |url-status=live |work=[[United Press International]] |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20241111161121/https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1984/07/22/Brigitte-Bardot-saves-doomed-horse/1152459316800/ |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024 }}</ref> In 1989, while looking after her neighbour Jean-Pierre Manivet's donkey, it displayed excessive interest in Bardot's older donkey mare, and she subsequently had the neighbour's donkey castrated due to concerns the mating would prove fatal for her mare. The neighbour then sued Bardot, and Bardot later won, with the court ordering Manivet to pay 20,000 francs for creating a "false scandal".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/8 |title=Photoicon Online Features: Andy Martin: Brigitte Bardot |publisher=Photoicon.com |access-date=13 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328070910/http://www.photoicon.com/online_features/8/ |archive-date=28 March 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrpophistory.com/popculturefiles/askmrpophistory_q359.htm |title=Mr Pop History |publisher=Mr Pop History |access-date=13 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121122440/http://www.mrpophistory.com/popculturefiles/askmrpophistory_q359.htm |archive-date=21 January 2010 }}</ref> Bardot urged French television viewers to boycott horse meat and was soon the target of death threats in January 1994. Not backing off from the threats, she sent a letter to the [[Ministry of Agriculture (France)|French Minister of Agriculture]], [[Jean Puech]], calling on him to ban the sale of horse meat.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brozan |first=Nadine |date=29 January 1994 |title=Chronicle |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/29/style/chronicle-024490.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=20 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241111163200/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/29/style/chronicle-024490.html |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024 |url-access=limited}}</ref> Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President [[Jiang Zemin]], published in French magazine ''[[VSD (French magazine)|VSD]]'', in which she accused the Chinese of "torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make [[aphrodisiac]]s". She donated more than US$140,000 over two years in 2001 for a mass [[animal sterilization|sterilization]] and adoption program for [[Street dogs in Bucharest|Bucharest's stray dogs]], estimated to number 300,000.<ref name="bbc2">{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1196712.stm |title=Bardot 'saves' Bucharest's dogs|work=BBC News|date=2 March 2001|access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref>

In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to Queen [[Margrethe II of Denmark]], appealing for the sovereign to halt the [[Whaling in the Faroe Islands|killing of dolphins]] in the [[Faroe Islands]]. In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a "macabre spectacle" that "is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands ... This is not a hunt but a mass slaughter ... an outmoded tradition that has no acceptable justification in today's world".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822192921/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hp3_Cignx_N58PNXB4Qirma6ofdQ Brigitte Bardot pleads to Denmark in dolphin 'slaughter'], AFP, 19 August 2010.</ref> On 22 April 2011, French culture minister [[Frédéric Mitterrand]] officially included [[bullfighting]] in the country's cultural heritage. Bardot wrote him a highly critical letter of protest.<ref name="tel">Victoria Ward, Devorah Lauter (4 January 2013). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9781537/Brigitte-Bardots-sick-elephants-add-to-circus-over-French-wealth-tax-protests.html "Brigitte Bardot's sick elephants add to circus over French wealth tax protests"], telegraph.co.uk; accessed 4 August 2015.</ref> On 25 May 2011, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV ''Gojira'', as [[MV Brigitte Bardot|MV ''Brigitte Bardot'']] in appreciation of her support.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-110525-1.html |title=Sea Shepherd Conservation Society |publisher=Seashepherd.org |date=25 May 2011 |access-date=25 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703225105/http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-110525-1.html |archive-date=3 July 2011 }}</ref>

From 2013, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, in collaboration with Kagyupa International Monlam Trust of India, operated an annual [[veterinary care]] camp. Bardot committed to the cause of animal welfare in [[Bodhgaya]] over several years.<ref>[http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=34486 Bardot commits to animal welfare in Bodhgaya] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219090050/http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=34486 |date=19 February 2015 }}, phayul.com; accessed 4 August 2015.</ref> On 23 July 2015, Bardot condemned Australian politician [[Greg Hunt]]'s plan to eradicate 2 million cats to save endangered species such as the [[Black-flanked rock-wallaby|Warru]] and [[night parrot]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-22/brigitte-bardot-condemns-greg-hunt-for-feral-cut-cull-plan/6640846|title=Bardot condemns Australia's plan to cull 2 million feral cats|date=22 July 2015|work=ABC News|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> At the age of 90, Bardot appealed to free Watson, who had been detained in [[Greenland]] since 21 July 2024, when Japan requested his [[extradition]]. Through a request expressed in mid-October 2024 by her lawyers and Sea Shepherd France, Bardot asked French President [[Emmanuel Macron]] to grant Watson [[Right of asylum|political asylum]]. Bardot asked Macron to show "a little bit of courage". During that month, she initiated a demonstration in support of Watson in front of the [[Hôtel de Ville, Paris]].<ref name="DeBreteuil221024" /> Bardot also wrote a letter to Danish Prime Minister [[Mette Frederiksen]], asking her to "not choose the camp of the oceans gravediggers".<ref>{{cite news |date=11 August 2024 |title=Manifestations en France contre l'extradition du militant écologiste Paul Watson au Japon |trans-title=Protests in France against the extradition of environmental activist Paul Watson to Japan |url=https://www.liberation.fr/international/europe/manifestations-en-france-contre-lextradition-du-militant-ecologiste-paul-watson-au-japon-20240811_WAW6DVAAQNEKPDYI7H5XTSPOTU/ |url-status=live |language=fr  |newspaper=[[Libération]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241111154455/https://www.liberation.fr/international/europe/manifestations-en-france-contre-lextradition-du-militant-ecologiste-paul-watson-au-japon-20240811_WAW6DVAAQNEKPDYI7H5XTSPOTU/ |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref>

==Personal life==

=== Relationships and family ===
Bardot has been married four times, with her current marriage lasting far longer than the previous three combined. By her own count, she has had a total of 17 romantic relationships.<ref>{{cite news |last=Némard |first=Perrine |date=19 November 2020 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot talks about her many conquests: 'I was the one who chose' |url=https://tendances.orange.fr/culture-pop/people/article-brigitte-bardot-evoque-ses-nombreuses-conquetes-c-est-moi-qui-choisissais-CNT000001v1xpX.html |url-status=dead|language=fr |work=[[Paris Match]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165625/https://tendances.orange.fr/culture-pop/people/article-brigitte-bardot-evoque-ses-nombreuses-conquetes-c-est-moi-qui-choisissais-CNT000001v1xpX.html |archive-date=28 November 2021|via=[[Orange S.A.]] }}</ref> Bardot would characteristically leave for another relationship when "the present was getting lukewarm"; she said, "I have always looked for passion. That's why I was often unfaithful. And when the passion was coming to an end, I was packing my suitcase."<ref>{{cite news |last=Arlin |first=Marc|orig-date=modified 8 June 2023|date=1 February 2018 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot: unfaithful, she reveals the reason for her multiple adulteries |url=https://www.programme-tv.net/news/cinema/200157-brigitte-bardot-infidele-elle-devoile-la-raison-de-ses-multiples-adulteres/ |url-status=live|language=fr |work=Télé-Loisirs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165618/https://www.programme-tv.net/news/cinema/200157-brigitte-bardot-infidele-elle-devoile-la-raison-de-ses-multiples-adulteres/ |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

==== Roger Vadim ====
On 20 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director [[Roger Vadim]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Éric |last=Neuhoff |title=Brigitte Bardot et Roger Vadim&nbsp;– Le loup et la biche|work=[[Le Figaro]]|date=12 August 2013|language=fr|page=18}}</ref> They separated in 1956 after she became involved with ''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|And God Created Woman]]'' co-star [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]], divorcing the next year.<ref name="twolives">{{cite book|author=Robinson, Jeffrey|title=Bardot&nbsp;— Two Lives|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=London|edition=First British|year=1994|id=ASIN: B000KK1LBM|author-link=Jeffrey Robinson}}</ref> Trintignant at the time was married to actress [[Stéphane Audran]]. Bardot and Vadim had no children together, but remained in touch for the rest of his life and even collaborated on later projects. Bardot and Trintignant lived together for about two years, spanning the period before and after Bardot's divorce from Vadim, but they never married. Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant's frequent absence due to military service and Bardot's affair with musician [[Gilbert Bécaud]].<ref name="InitialsBB">{{harvnb|Bardot|1996}}</ref>

==== Jacques Charrier ====
[[File:Brigitte Bardot - Sami Frey - Saint-Tropez - 1963.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Bardot and Sami Frey in [[Saint-Tropez]] in 1963]]
After recovering from an overdose in 1958, Bardot began a relationship with actor [[Jacques Charrier]]. They married on 18 June 1959. Bardot had an affair with [[Glenn Ford]] in the early 1960s,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-apr-11-la-et-classic-hollywood-20110411-story.html |title=A Ford fiesta |date=11 April 2011 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> and Bardot and Charrier divorced in 1962.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Sanwari |first=Ahad |date=2024-09-28 |title=Brigitte Bardot's complicated love life at 90: from her Hollywood affairs to her four marriages |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/brides/720716/brigitte-bardot-complicated-love-life-hollywood-romances-marriages/ |access-date=2025-08-01 |website=[[HELLO!]] |language=en}}</ref> [[Sami Frey]] was mentioned as the reason for her divorce from Charrier. Bardot was enamoured of Frey, but he quickly left her.<ref name="FD2018">{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=2 April 2018 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot: She settles her accounts! |url=https://www.francedimanche.fr/actualites/brigitte-bardot-elle-regle-ses-comptes |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[France Dimanche]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165620/https://www.francedimanche.fr/actualites/brigitte-bardot-elle-regle-ses-comptes |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

===== Son =====
Bardot became pregnant before she and Charrier married.<ref name="InitialsBB" /> Bardot was extremely dismayed—she had previously stated "I am not a mother, nor do I want to be one"<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Brigitte Bardot bereut verletzende Aussagen über ihren Sohn |url=https://www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/family/familien-geschichten/brigitte-bardot-bereut-verletzende-aussagen-uber-ihren-sohn-612806 |access-date=2025-08-01 |website=Schweizer Illustrierte |language=de-CH}}</ref>—and sought an abortion; however, abortion was illegal at that time in France.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=She called her child a tumor and refused to breastfeed: What happened to Brigitte Bardot's son? |url=https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/en/svoeto-dete-go-narekuvala-tumor-i-odbivala-da-go-doi-shto-se-sluchilo-so-sinot-na-brizhit-bardo/ |access-date=2025-08-01 |website=slobodenpecat.mk}}</ref> In her book ''Initiales B. B: Mémoires'', she recalled: "I looked at my flat, slender belly in the mirror like a dear friend upon whom I was about to close a coffin lid."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Tremaine |first=Julie |date=2023-07-20 |title=Brigitte Bardot's Dating History: From Roger Vadim to Bernard d'Ormale |url=https://people.com/brigitte-bardot-complete-dating-history-7495140 |access-date=2025-08-01 |website=[[Peoplemag|People]] |language=en}}</ref> Numerous times, she punched herself in the stomach and asked her doctor for [[morphine]] in an attempt to abort the baby.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Lichfield |first=John |date=1997-03-07 |title=Bardot in the doghouse for wishing her son was a puppy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/bardot-in-the-doghouse-for-wishing-her-son-was-a-puppy-1271393.html |access-date=2025-08-01 |website=[[The Independent]]}}</ref>

During the final months of pregnancy, photographers surrounded her house, vying for photos of Bardot pregnant.<ref name=":2" /> Nicolas-Jacques Charrier was born on 11 January 1960, only seven months after their wedding.<ref name=":0" /> He would be Bardot's only child. She had been so wary of the press she decided to give birth at home.<ref name=":2" /> Following his birth, Bardot became depressed and attempted suicide.<ref name=":1" /> She later wrote that her son was a "cancerous tumor" and that she would have "preferred to give birth to a little dog".<ref name=":4" /> She also added, "I'm not made to be a mother. I'm not adult enough — I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child."<ref name=":3" /> She refused to breastfeed Nicolas and whenever she held him, he sensed her agitation and began to cry.<ref name=":2" />

After she and Charrier divorced, the latter gained sole custody of Nicolas.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=2025-01-18 |title=Nicolas-Jacques Charrier : l'enfant du scandale devenu père de famille discret |url=https://www.marieclaire.fr/nicolas-jacques-charrier,1486707.asp |access-date=2025-08-02 |website=[[Marie Claire]] |language=fr}}</ref> When Nicolas was 12, he asked Bardot if he could stay with her, but she turned him away in favor of party guests. Nicolas was hurt and did not speak to her afterwards. In her memoirs, Bardot wrote that she loved Nicolas "the most in the world", but Nicolas wanted nothing to do with her.<ref name=":2" /> When he married Norwegian model Anne-Line Bjerkan in 1984, Bardot was not invited to the wedding.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Cardinal |first=Léa |date=2025-01-11 |title=Brigitte Bardot : à quoi ressemble la vie de son fils, Nicolas Charrier, aujourd'hui ? |url=https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/brigitte-bardot-a-quoi-ressemble-la-vie-de-son-fils-nicolas-charrier-aujourd-hui-20250111 |access-date=2025-08-02 |website=Gala |language=fr}}</ref> Bardot became a grandmother when the two had daughters in 1985 and 1990. She tried to make peace with him on multiple occasions, but to no avail.<ref name=":2" /> In 1997, Charrier and Nicolas sued her and her publisher, Grasset, for the hurtful remarks she had made in her memoir. She was ordered to pay Charrier £17,000 and Nicolas £11,000.<ref name=":4" /> In 2018, she stated that she and Nicolas, now a grandfather himself,<ref name=":2" /> were on good terms, speaking regularly and visiting each other once a year.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />

==== Gunter Sachs ====
Bardot's third marriage was to German millionaire playboy [[Gunter Sachs]], lasting from 14 July 1966 to 7 October 1969, though they had separated the previous year.<ref name="InitialsBB" /><ref name="twolives" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8503379/Gunter-Sachs.html|location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph|title=Gunter Sachs|date=9 May 2011|access-date=28 December 2020}}</ref> 

==== Bernard d'Ormale ====
Bardot's fourth and current husband is Bernard d'Ormale; they have been married since 16 August 1992.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Goodman|first=Mark|date=30 November 1992|title=A Bardot Mystery|url=https://people.com/archive/a-bardot-mystery-vol-38-no-22/|magazine=People|access-date=12 August 2020}}</ref>

==== Other relationships ====
[[File:Brigitte Bardot and Sacha Distel in Italy 1958.jpg|thumb|left|Bardot with French singer Sacha Distel in 1958]]
From 1963 to 1965, she lived with musician Bob Zagury.<ref name="google2">{{cite book |author=Singer, B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3e5vfj0ybGYC |title=Brigitte Bardot: A Biography |date=2006 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated Publishers |isbn=9780786484263 |access-date=13 January 2017}}</ref> While filming ''[[Shalako (film)|Shalako]]'', she rejected [[Sean Connery]]'s advances; she said, "It didn't last long because I wasn't a James Bond girl! I have never succumbed to his charm!"<ref>{{cite news |last=Tizio |first=Alexandra |date=1 November 2020 |title=Flashback ... |trans-title=Flashback: when Brigitte Bardot refused the advances of Sean Connery |url=https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/flashback-quand-brigitte-bardot-refusait-les-avances-de-sean-connery_457416 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233327/https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/flashback-quand-brigitte-bardot-refusait-les-avances-de-sean-connery_457416 |archive-date=27 November 2021 |work=[[Gala (magazine)|Gala]] |language=fr}}</ref> In 1967, while married to Sachs, she had a relationship with singer-songwriter [[Serge Gainsbourg]]; they recorded two songs together: "[[Je t'aime... moi non plus]]", which was not released until 1986, and "[[Bonnie and Clyde (Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot song)|Bonnie and Clyde]]".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gorman |first1=Francine |title=Serge Gainsbourg's 20 most scandalous moments |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/feb/28/serge-gainsbourg-20-scandalous-moments |work=The Guardian |date=28 February 2011}}</ref> In 1968, she began dating Patrick Gilles, who co-starred with her in ''[[The Bear and the Doll]]'' (1970); but she ended their relationship in spring 1971.<ref name="google2" />

Over the next few years, Bardot dated bartender/ski instructor Christian Kalt, nightclub owner Luigi "Gigi" Rizzi writer [[John Gilmore (writer)|John Gilmore]], actor [[Warren Beatty]], and Laurent Vergez, her co-star in ''[[Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman]]''.<ref name="google2" /><ref name="google3">{{cite book |author=Malossi, G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIHr5w38ac8C |title=Latin Lover: The Passionate South |date=1996 |publisher=Charta |isbn=9788881580491 |access-date=13 January 2017}}</ref> In 1975, she entered a relationship with artist Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures. Brozek was also an occasional actor; his stage name is {{Interlanguage link|Jean Blaise (actor)|fr|Jean Blaise (acteur)|lt=Jean Blaise}}.<ref>[https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/brigitte-bardot-and-sculptor-miroslav-brozek-at-la-madrague-news-photo/542253562 Brigitte Bardot and sculptor Miroslav Brozek at La Madrague in St.-Tropez]. June 1975, ''[[Getty Images]]''</ref> The couple lived together for four years, separating in December 1979.<ref name="people.com">{{cite web |last=Carlson |first=Peter |date=24 October 1983 |title=Swept Away by Her Sadness |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086210,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629193057/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086210,00.html |archive-date=29 June 2016 |access-date=13 January 2017 |work=People}}</ref> From 1980 to 1985, Bardot had a live-in relationship with French TV producer {{Interlanguage link|Allain Bougrain-Dubourg|fr}}.<ref name="people.com" /> In 2018, in an interview accorded to ''[[Le Journal du Dimanche]]'', she denied rumors of relationships with [[Johnny Hallyday]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], and [[Mick Jagger]].<ref name="FD2018" />

=== Wealth ===
[[Yahoo]] estimates Bardot's current net worth to be around $65 million.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brigitte Bardot – News, Photos, Videos, Movies or Albums {{!}} Yahoo |url=https://uk.yahoo.com/topics/brigitte-bardot/ |access-date=2025-08-02 |website=uk.yahoo.com |language=en-GB}}</ref> She was estimated to have made about $4 million from her 1997 memoir ''Initials B.B.''<ref name=":4" /> After her separation from Vadim, Bardot acquired a historic property dating from the 16th century, called Le Castelet, in [[Cannes]]. The fourteen-bedroom villa, surrounded by lush gardens, olive trees, and [[vineyard]]s, consisted of several buildings. She listed it for sale in 2020, for €6 million.<ref name="Castelet-sale">{{cite news |author=R.P. |date=7 July 2020 |title=La sublime villa cannoise de Brigitte Bardot est à vendre (photos) |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot's sublime Cannes villa is for sale [photos] |url=https://parismatch.be/actualites/people/413295/la-sublime-villa-cannoise-de-brigitte-bardot-est-a-vendre-photos |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233329/https://parismatch.be/actualites/people/413295/la-sublime-villa-cannoise-de-brigitte-bardot-est-a-vendre-photos |archive-date=27 November 2021 |work=[[Paris Match]] |language=fr}}</ref> In 1958, she bought a second property called La Madrague, located in [[Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer]].<ref name="Castelet-sale" /> As of 2024, she was still living there.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blake |first=Kristin |date=2024-11-04 |title=Brigitte Bardot-Inspired Guide to Saint Tropez |url=https://frenchsidetravel.com/blog/brigitte-bardot-inspired-guide-saint-tropez/ |access-date=2025-08-02 |website=French Side Travel |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Health ===
In early 1958, her breakup with [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]] was followed in quick order by a reported nervous breakdown in Italy, according to newspaper reports. A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was also noted but was denied by her public relations manager.<ref name="latimesblog">{{cite news |date=9 February 1958 |title=Brigitte Bardot in Italy After Breakdown |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/files/1958_0209_cover.jpg |access-date=21 August 2010 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> She recovered within several weeks.<ref name="InitialsBB" /> On 27 September 1983, the eve of her 49th birthday, Bardot took an overdose of sleeping pills or tranquilizers with red wine, then wandered out to the beach, where she was later pulled from the surf.<ref name="people.com" /> She had to be rushed to the hospital, where her life was saved after a [[stomach pump]] was used to evacuate the pills from her body.<ref name="people.com" /> Bardot was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984.{{efn-ua|Bardot admits to two abortions in her memoir and is the first openly postabortive celebrity to go public with a breast cancer diagnosis, followed by [[Gloria Steinem]] and [[Sondra Locke]].{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=302}} Scientific research studies have not found a causal relationship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/medical-treatments/abortion-and-breast-cancer-risk.html|title=Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk|publisher=American Cancer Society}}</ref>}} She refused to undergo [[chemotherapy]] treatment and decided only to do [[radiation therapy]]. She recovered in 1986.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not ststed--> |date=n.d. |title=Les célébrités touchées par le cancer du sein |trans-title=Celebrities affected by breast cancer |url=https://photo.gala.fr/les-celebrites-touchees-par-le-cancer-du-sein-12298 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128214942/https://photo.gala.fr/les-celebrites-touchees-par-le-cancer-du-sein-12298 |archive-date=28 November 2021 |access-date=28 November 2021 |work=[[Gala (magazine)|Gala]] |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Madelmond |first=Marine |date=17 January 2018 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot: why she refused chemotherapy during her breast cancer? |url=https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/brigitte-bardot-pourquoi-elle-a-refuse-la-chimiotherapie-lors-de-son-cancer-du-sein_411516 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128214942/https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/brigitte-bardot-pourquoi-elle-a-refuse-la-chimiotherapie-lors-de-son-cancer-du-sein_411516 |archive-date=28 November 2021 |work=Gala |language=fr}}</ref> On 16 October 2025, it was reported that Bardot had been admitted into the Saint-Jean Hospital in [[Toulon]] three weeks prior to have surgery for a "serious illness". The surgery was successful, and Bardot was reported to be recovering at her home in Saint-Tropez.<ref>{{cite news |last=Roussel |first=Amandine |url=https://www.nicematin.com/culture/brigitte-bardot-hospitalisee-a-toulon-10652805 |title=État préoccupant, « intervention dans le cadre d'une maladie grave: Brigitte Bardot hospitalisée à Toulon |work=[[Nice-Matin]] |language=French |date=16 October 2025 |access-date=17 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251016151614/https://www.nicematin.com/culture/brigitte-bardot-hospitalisee-a-toulon-10652805 |archive-date=16 October 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/french-movie-star-brigitte-bardot-hospitalized-newspaper-reports-2025-10-17/ |title=French movie star Brigitte Bardot recovering after brief hospital stay |work=Reuters |date=17 October 2025 |access-date=17 October 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251017165144/https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/french-movie-star-brigitte-bardot-hospitalized-newspaper-reports-2025-10-17/ |archive-date=17 October 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Ferri |first=Alessia |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/brigitte-bardot-is-in-a-worrying-state-after-a-3-week-hospital-stay |title=Brigitte Bardot Is in a "Worrying State" After a 3-Week Hospital Stay |website=Vanity Fair |date=17 October 2025 |access-date=17 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251017163302/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/brigitte-bardot-is-in-a-worrying-state-after-a-3-week-hospital-stay |archive-date=17 October 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Politics and legal issues===
Bardot expressed support for President [[Charles de Gaulle]] in the 1960s.<ref name="InitialsBB"/><ref name="nytimes"/> In 1997, Bardot and her publisher, [[Éditions Grasset]], were ordered to pay 28,000 pounds because of "hurtful remarks" about her son and former husband [[Jacques Charrier]] contained in her autobiography. Her son and ex–husband had originally sued for more than 1 million pounds in damages.<ref name=":4" /> In her 1999 book ''Le Carré de Pluton'' (''Pluto's Square''), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the [[ritual slaughter]] of sheep during the Muslim festival of [[Eid al-Adha]]. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled "Open Letter to My Lost France", she writes that "my country, France, my homeland, my land" was "again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims". For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs (about 4,200 US dollars in 2000<ref name="convert" />) in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in ''[[Le Figaro]]'' and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.<ref name="bbc1">{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/793390.stm|title=Bardot fined for racist remarks|work=BBC News|date=16 June 2000|access-date=13 March 2010|location=London}}</ref><ref name="bbc3">{{cite news|title=Bardot racism conviction upheld|date=11 May 2001|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1324707.stm|access-date=17 January 2008|work=BBC News|location=London}}</ref><ref name="bbc4">{{cite news|title=Bardot anti-Muslim comments draw fire|date=14 May 2003|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3027955.stm|access-date=17 January 2008|work=BBC News|location=London}}</ref>

In her 2003 book, ''Un cri dans le silence'' (''A Scream in the Silence''), Bardot contrasted her close gay friends with homosexuals who "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through", and said some contemporary homosexuals behave like "fairground freaks".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/15/france.davidhearst|title=Anti-gay, anti-Islam Bardot to be sued|last1=Webster|first1=Paul|last2=Hearst|first2=David|date=5 May 2003|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=3 October 2009}}</ref> In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: "Apart from my husband—who maybe will cross over one day as well—I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants."<ref name="Indep">{{cite news|first=David|last=Usborne|title=Brigitte a Political Animal|date=24 March 2006|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060324/ai_n16163852/pg_2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424031103/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060324/ai_n16163852/pg_2|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 April 2008|access-date=9 January 2008|newspaper=[[The Independent]]}}</ref><ref name="race fine">{{cite news|title=Bardot fine for stoking race hate|date=3 June 2008|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7434193.stm|access-date=3 June 2008|work=BBC News|location=London, UK}}</ref>

In her book, Bardot criticised [[racial mixing]], immigration, [[Women in government|the role of women in politics]], and [[Islam]]. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes, and praised previous generations which, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.<ref name="race hate">{{cite news|title=Bardot fined for 'race hate' book|date=10 June 2004|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3794513.stm|access-date=3 June 2008|work=BBC News}}</ref> On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000.<ref name="indybay">{{cite web|last=Larent|first=Shermy|url=http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/05/1610376.php|title=Brigitte Bardot unleashes colourful diatribe against Muslims and modern France|publisher=Indybay|date=12 May 2003|access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character."<ref name="bbc5">{{cite news|title=Bardot denies 'race hate' charge|date=7 May 2003|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3692965.stm|access-date=17 January 2008|work=BBC News}}</ref> In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in regard to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] when he was [[Interior Minister of France]]. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France [[Dhabihah|ritually slaughtering sheep]] by slitting their throats without [[Anesthesia|anesthetizing]] them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was "fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits". The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 June 2008 |title=Ex-film star Bardot gets fifth racism conviction |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bardot-idUSL0321238520080603 |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref> The prosecutor stated she was weary of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.<ref name="race fine"/>

During the [[2008 United States presidential election]], Bardot branded [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] vice-presidential candidate [[Sarah Palin]] as "stupid" and a "disgrace to women". She criticized the former Alaskan governor for her stance on [[global warming]] and [[gun control]]. She was further offended by Palin's support for [[Petroleum exploration in the Arctic|Arctic oil exploration]] and by her lack of consideration in protecting [[polar bear]]s.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091124000423/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/3158058/Brigitte-Bardot-calls-Sarah-Palin-a-disgrace-to-women.html "Brigitte Bardot calls Sarah Palin a 'disgrace to women'"] ''The Telegraph.'' 8 October 2008.</ref> On 13 August 2010, Bardot criticised American filmmaker [[Kyle Newman]] for his plan to produce a biographical film about her. She told him, "Wait until I'm dead before you make a movie about my life!" otherwise "sparks will fly".<ref name="spy210115">{{cite web|url=http://www.showbizspy.com/article/210115/brigitte-bardot-wait-until-im-dead-before-you-make-a-movie-about-my-life.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202114526/http://www.showbizspy.com/article/210115/brigitte-bardot-wait-until-im-dead-before-you-make-a-movie-about-my-life.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 February 2013|title=Brigitte Bardot: 'Wait Until I'M Dead Before You Make Biopic'|work=Showbiz Spy|date=14 August 2010|access-date=21 August 2010}}</ref> In 2014, Bardot wrote an open letter demanding the ban in France of Jewish ritual slaughter [[shechita]]. In response, the [[European Jewish Congress]] released a statement saying "Bardot has once again shown her clear insensitivity for minority groups with the substance and style of her letter...She may well be concerned for the welfare of animals but her longstanding support for the far-right and for discrimination against minorities in France shows a constant disdain for human rights instead."<ref>{{cite web |title=EJC outraged at Brigitte Bardot's demand for French government to ban Shechita |url=https://eurojewcong.org/ejc-in-action/statements/ejc-outraged-at-brigitte-bardots-demand-for-french-government-to-ban-shechita/ |website=Official Site of the European Jewish Congress |access-date=28 February 2022 |date=9 September 2014}}</ref> In 2015, Bardot threatened to sue a Saint-Tropez boutique for selling items featuring her face.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brigitte Bardot declares war on commercial 'abuse' of her image|date=9 June 2015|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11662800/Brigitte-Bardot-declares-war-on-commercial-abuse-of-her-image.html|first=Henry|last=Samuel|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> In 2018, she expressed support for the [[Yellow vests protests]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lepoint.fr/people/brigitte-bardot-demande-une-prime-de-noel-pour-les-gilets-jaunes-03-12-2018-2276098_2116.php|title=Brigitte Bardot demande " une prime de Noël " pour les Gilets jaunes|work=Le Point|date=3 December 2018|access-date=9 December 2020|first=Marc|last=Fourny|language=fr}}</ref>

In January 2018, Bardot called all the actresses claiming to have been victims of sexual harassments "hypocrites" and "ridiculous" in an interview with Paris Match : "Many actresses flirt with producers to get a role. Then when they tell the story afterwards, they say they have been harassed ... in actual fact, rather than benefit them, it only harms them." <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/18/brigitte-bardot-metoo-sexual-harassment-protestors-hypocritical-and-ridiculous | title=Brigitte Bardot: Sexual harassment protesters are 'hypocritical' and 'ridiculous' | work=The Guardian | date=18 January 2018 | last1=Pulver | first1=Andrew }}</ref> On 19 March 2019, Bardot issued an open letter to [[Réunion]] prefect [[Amaury de Saint-Quentin]] in which she accused inhabitants of the Indian Ocean island of [[cruelty to animals|animal cruelty]] and referred to them as "[[Indigenous peoples|autochthones]] who have kept the genes of savages". In her letter relating to animal abuse and sent through her foundation, she mentioned the "beheadings of goats and billy goats" during festivals, and associated these practices with "reminiscences of [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]] from past centuries". The public prosecutor filed a lawsuit the following day.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=20 March 2019 |title=La justice ... |trans-title=Justice being seized after offensive remarks by Brigitte Bardot against Reunionese |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/03/20/la-justice-saisie-apres-des-propos-injurieux-de-brigitte-bardot-a-l-encontre-des-reunionnais_5438843_3224.html |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[Le Monde]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse|AFP]], [[Reuters]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129210943/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/03/20/la-justice-saisie-apres-des-propos-injurieux-de-brigitte-bardot-a-l-encontre-des-reunionnais_5438843_3224.html |archive-date=29 November 2021}}</ref>

In June 2021, 86-year-old Bardot was fined €5,000 by the [[Arras]] court for public insults against [[Hunting|hunters]] and their national president {{Interlanguage link|Willy Schraen|fr}}. She had published a post at the end of 2019 on her foundation's website, calling hunters "sub-men" and "drunkards" and carriers of "genes of cruel barbarism inherited from our primitive ancestors", and insulting Schraen. At the time of the [[Hearing (law)|hearing]], she had not removed the comments from the website.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mesureur |first=Claire |date=29 June 2021 |title=Brigitte ... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot convicted for public insult against Willy Schraen, the president of the hunters |url=https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/brigitte-bardot-condamnee-pour-injure-publique-a-l-encontre-de-wiily-schraen-le-president-des-1624974791 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[France Bleu]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233329/https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/brigitte-bardot-condamnee-pour-injure-publique-a-l-encontre-de-wiily-schraen-le-president-des-1624974791 |archive-date=27 November 2021}}</ref> Following her letter sent to the prefect of Réunion in 2019, she was convicted on 4 November 2021 by a French court for public insults and fined €20,000, the largest of her fines to date.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=4 November 2021 |title=France ... |trans-title=France: Brigitte Bardot is fined 20,000 euros for insulting the Reunionese |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/03/20/la-justice-saisie-apres-des-propos-injurieux-de-brigitte-bardot-a-l-encontre-des-reunionnais_5438843_3224.html|url-status=live|language=fr |newspaper=Le Monde |agency=AFP, Reuters|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129210945/https://www.rtbf.be/info/medias/detail_france-brigitte-bardot-ecope-de-20-000-euros-d-amende-pour-des-injures-envers-les-reunionnais?id=10872925 |archive-date=29 November 2021}}</ref> Bardot's husband Bernard d'Ormale is a former adviser to [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]], former leader of the far-right party National Front (which became [[National Rally (France)|National Rally]]), the main far-right party in France.<ref name="twolives" /><ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|last=Riding|first=Alan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/30/garden/drinking-champagne-with-brigitte-bardot-and-god-created-an-animal-lover.html|title=Drinking champagne with: Brigitte Bardot; And God Created An Animal Lover|date=30 March 1994|access-date=28 December 2020|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Bardot expressed support for [[Marine Le Pen]], leader of the National Front (National Rally), calling her "the [[Joan of Arc]] of the 21st century".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11051530/Brigitte-Bardot-calls-Marine-Le-Pen-modern-Joan-of-Arc.html|title=Brigitte Bardot calls Marine Le Pen 'modern Joan of Arc|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 August 2014|first=David|last=Chazan|access-date=28 December 2018}}</ref> She endorsed Le Pen in the [[2012 French presidential election|2012]] and [[2017 French presidential election]]s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Willsher |first=Kim |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/13/brigitte-bardot-celebrity-crushed-me |title=Brigitte Bardot: celebrity crushed me |work=The Guardian |date=13 September 2012 |access-date=28 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.inquisitr.com/4200541/brigitte-bardot-supports-underdog-marine-le-pen-in-french-presidential-election-says-macron-has-cold-eyes/|title=Brigitte Bardot Supports Underdog Marine Le Pen in French Presidential Election, Says Macron Has Cold Eyes|work=Inquisitr|first=Monika|last=Zoltany|date=7 May 2017|access-date=28 December 2018}}</ref> Bardot has been convicted of inciting racial hatred multiple times, having received six separate fines for the offense as of November 2021.<ref name="vanityfair.com" />

==Legacy==
{{quote box|quote= You know, the one thing that was so great in those days was that a woman named Brigitte Bardot came along with ''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|Et Dieu... créa la femme]]''. Over here, we were fighting censorship in the 1950s and 1960s, when you couldn't even show you had a bust. We had to cover everything, and when Bardot's movie was released in an [[Art film|art house]] in Los Angeles, my God, people were lining up all the way down Wilshire Boulevard to see it. I also stood in line, and I thought, "Why can't I do that?"<ref>{{cite web|title=Mamie Van Doren: "Talking about Marilyn Monroe is strange. To me, she's a person; to most people, she's an idea" |url=https://filmtalk.org/2017/07/28/mamie-van-doren-talking-about-marilyn-monroe-is-strange-to-me-shes-a-person-to-most-people-shes-an-idea/|year=2017}}</ref><br> – [[Mamie Van Doren]], 2000|width=25%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
''[[The Guardian]]'' named Bardot "one of the most iconic faces, models, and actors of the 1950s and 1960s". She has been called a "style icon" and a "muse for [[Dior]], [[Balmain (fashion house)|Balmain]], and [[Pierre Cardin]]".<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=1 December 2016 |title=Brigitte Bardot: the style icon − in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2016/dec/01/brigitte-bardot-the-style-icon-in-pictures |url-status=live |work=[[The Guardian]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101083849/https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2016/dec/01/brigitte-bardot-the-style-icon-in-pictures |archive-date=1 November 2020 |access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide-open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style, which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers, although it is also used for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the [[bikini]] in her early films such as ''[[Manina, the Girl in the Bikini|Manina]]'' (1952) (released in France as ''Manina, la fille sans voiles''). The following year she was also photographed in a bikini on every beach in southern France during the [[Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Bikinis: a brief history|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/10160619/Bikinis-a-brief-history.html?frame=2609664|newspaper=Telegraph|access-date=20 August 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Brigitte Bardot in Spoleto, Italy, 1961.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Bardot in Spoleto, Italy (1961)]]
Bardot gained additional attention when she filmed ''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|...And God Created Woman]]'' (1956) with [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]] (released in France as ''Et Dieu Créa La Femme''). In it Bardot portrays an immoral teenager cavorting in a bikini who seduces men in a respectable small-town setting. The film was an international success.<ref name="twolives"/> Bardot's image was linked to the shoemaker [[Repetto]], who created a pair of ballerinas for her in 1956.<ref name="Grazia-bio">{{cite news |author=<!--mot stated--> |date=n.d. |title=Brigitte Bardot |url=https://www.grazia.fr/encyclopedie/icone/brigitte-bardot |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[Grazia]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204205722/https://www.grazia.fr/encyclopedie/icone/brigitte-bardot |archive-date=4 December 2021 |access-date=4 December 2021 }}</ref> The bikini was in the 1950s relatively well accepted in France but was still considered risqué in the United States. As late as 1959, Anne Cole, one of the United States' largest swimsuit designers, said, "It's nothing more than a G-string. It's at the razor's edge of decency."<ref name=WOJSI>{{cite magazine|first=William Oscar|last=Johnson|archive-date=20 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020050948/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068171/3/index.htm |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068171/3/index.htm|title=In The Swim|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=7 February 1989|access-date=18 August 2013}}</ref> She also brought into fashion the {{lang|fr|[[choucroute]]}} ({{literal translation|sauerkraut}}) hairstyle (similar to the [[beehive (hairstyle)|beehive hair style]]) and [[gingham]] clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.<ref name=femstyle>{{cite web|url=http://www.femminastyle.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=9|title=Style Icon: Brigitte Bardot|publisher=Femminastyle.com|access-date=13 March 2010|archive-date=9 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409191617/http://www.femminastyle.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=9|url-status=dead}}</ref> French philosopher [[Simone de Beauvoir]] described Bardot as "a locomotive of women's history".<ref name="Borg2017"/>

Isabella Biedenharn of ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' wrote that Bardot "has inspired thousands (millions?) of women to tease their hair or try out winged eyeliner over the past few decades". A well-known evocative pose describes an iconic modelling portrait shot around 1960 where Bardot is dressed only in a pair of black [[pantyhose]], cross-legged over her front and cross-armed over her breasts; known as the "Bardot Pose".<ref>{{cite news |last=Biedenharn |first=Isabella |date=4 November 2014 |title=The 20 Best Legs Throughout History |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/g42/best-legs-throughout-history-1/?slide=18 |url-status=live|work=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210657/https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/g42/best-legs-throughout-history-1/?slide=18 |archive-date=22 November 2021}} Slide 18</ref> This pose has been emulated numerous times by models and celebrities such as [[Lindsay Lohan]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Sweeney |first=Kathleen |date=2008 |title=Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlYpFAi1QsMC&pg=PA55 |location=Atlanta |publisher=[[Peter Lang (publisher)|Peter Lang]] |page=55 |isbn=978-0-820-48197-5}}</ref> [[Elle Macpherson]],<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |title=Ces stars qui ont posé pour Playboy |trans-title=These stars who posed for Playboy |url=https://photo.gala.fr/ces-stars-qui-ont-pose-pour-playboy-13091 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[Gala (magazine)|Gala]] |location=Paris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210659/https://photo.gala.fr/ces-stars-qui-ont-pose-pour-playboy-13091 |archive-date=22 November 2021 |access-date=22 November 2021 }}</ref> [[Gisele Bündchen]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Sabrina B. |date=28 April 2011 |title=Gisele Bündchen topless joue les Brigitte Bardot... |trans-title=Gisele Bündchen topless plays Brigitte Bardot... |url=https://www.purepeople.com/article/gisele-bundchen-topless-joue-les-brigitte-bardot_a78781/1 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[Puremédias]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210656/https://www.purepeople.com/article/gisele-bundchen-topless-joue-les-brigitte-bardot_a78781/1 |archive-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> and [[Rihanna]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=3 December 2010 |title=Rihanna on GQ magazine |url=https://www.fashionhasit.com/2010/12/rihanna-on-gq-magazine.html |url-status=live |work=[[GQ]] |location=UK |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122161848/https://www.fashionhasit.com/2010/12/rihanna-on-gq-magazine.html |archive-date=22 January 2021 |access-date=22 November 2021 |via=Fashion Has It}}</ref> In the late 1960s, Bardot's silhouette was used as a model for designing and modelling the statue's bust of [[Marianne]], a symbol of the French Republic.<ref name="Bricard2020"/> In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has been credited with popularizing the city of [[St. Tropez]] and the town of [[Armação dos Búzios]] in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury. The place where she stayed in Búzios is today a small hotel, Pousada do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon.<ref>{{cite web|title=TOemBUZIOS.com |url=http://www.toembuzios.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130108111621/http://www.toembuzios.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=8 January 2013 |website=toembuzios.com |language=pt |access-date=27 December 2012 }}</ref> The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buziosonline.com.br/indexe.htm|title=BúziosOnline.com|publisher=BúziosOnline.com|access-date=13 March 2010|archive-date=27 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527093017/http://www.buziosonline.com.br/indexe.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Bardot was idolized by the young [[John Lennon]] and [[Paul McCartney]].<ref name="MilesPage69">{{cite book|author=Miles, Barry|title=Many Years from Now|publisher=Vintage–Random House|year=1998|isbn=978-0-7493-8658-0|author-link=Barry Miles|title-link=Many Years From Now}} pg. 69.</ref><ref name="Spitzp171">{{cite book|author=Spitz, Bob|title=The Beatles: The Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesbiography00spit|url-access=registration| publisher=Little, Brown and Company (New York)| year=2005|isbn=978-1-84513-160-9|author-link=Bob Spitz}} pg. 171.</ref> They made plans to shoot a film featuring [[The Beatles]] and Bardot, similar to ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'', but the plans were never fulfilled.<ref name="twolives"/> Lennon's first wife [[Cynthia Powell]] lightened her hair colour to more closely resemble Bardot, while [[George Harrison]] made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife [[Pattie Boyd]], as Cynthia wrote later in ''A Twist of Lennon''. Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the [[May Fair Hotel]], introduced by Beatles press agent [[Derek Taylor]]; a nervous Lennon took [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]] before arriving, and neither star impressed the other. Lennon recalled in a memoir: "I was on acid, and she was on her way out."<ref name="LennonPage24">{{cite book|author=Lennon, John|title=Skywriting by Word of Mouth|publisher=Harper Collins|year=1986|isbn=978-0-06-015656-5|author-link=John Lennon|title-link=Skywriting by Word of Mouth}} pg. 24.</ref> According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician [[Bob Dylan]] dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. He also mentioned her by name in "[[I Shall Be Free]]", which appeared on his second album, ''[[The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]''. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot's influence and legacy opened in [[Boulogne-Billancourt]] on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.<ref>[http://www.connexionfrance.com/expatriate-news-article.php?art=375 Brigitte Bardot at 75: the exhibition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926164352/http://www.connexionfrance.com/expatriate-news-article.php?art=375 |date=26 September 2009 }}, connexionfrance.com, September 2009; accessed 4 August 2015.</ref>

[[File:Statue of Brigitte Bardot in Rio de Janeiro.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|''Brigitte Bardot'' statue in [[Armação dos Búzios|Búzios]], Brazil]]
Bardot was the subject of eight [[Andy Warhol]] paintings in 1974.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sischy |first=Ingrid |author-link=Ingrid Sischy |date=4 October 2011 |title=The Bardot Variations |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11/bardot-spotlight-201111 |url-status=live |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110230740/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11/bardot-spotlight-201111 |archive-date=10 November 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> The Australian pop group [[Bardot (Australian band)|Bardot]] was named after her. [[Kylie Minogue]] adopted the Bardot "[[sex kitten]] look" on the cover of her album ''[[Body Language (Kylie Minogue album)|Body Language]]'', released in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |date=24 October 2003 |title=Kylie uses sexy Bardot look for new album |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-10-24/kylie-uses-sexy-bardot-look-for-new-album/1498442 |url-status=live |work=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |location=Paris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241111180754/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-10-24/kylie-uses-sexy-bardot-look-for-new-album/1498442 |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref> In addition to Minogue, women who emulated and were inspired by Bardot include [[Claudia Schiffer]], [[Emmanuelle Béart]], [[Elke Sommer]], [[Kate Moss]], [[Faith Hill]], [[Isabelle Adjani]], [[Diane Kruger]], [[Lara Stone]], [[Amy Winehouse]], [[Georgia May Jagger]], [[Zahia Dehar]], [[Scarlett Johansson]], [[Louise Bourgoin]], and [[Paris Hilton]]. Bardot said: "None have my personality." [[Laetitia Casta]] embodied Bardot in the 2010 French drama film ''[[Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life]]'' by [[Joann Sfar]].{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=26–27}} In 2011, ''[[Los Angeles Times Magazine]]''{{'}}s list of "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film" ranked her number two.<ref>{{cite news |last=Spencer |first=Kathleen |date=2011 |title=L.A Times Magazine Names Their 50 Most Beautiful Women In Film |url=https://www.momtastic.com/home/125894-la-times-magazine-names-their-50-most-beautiful-women-in-film/ |url-status=live|work=Momtastic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165620/https://www.momtastic.com/home/125894-la-times-magazine-names-their-50-most-beautiful-women-in-film/ |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

A portrait of Bardot by Warhol, commissioned by Sachs in 1974, was sold at [[Sotheby's]] in London on 22 and 23 May 2012. The painting, estimated at {{Currency|4|GBP}}&nbsp;million, was part of Sachs' art collection put on sale a year after his death.<ref>{{cite news |last=Singh |first=Anita |date=13 March 2013 |title=Gunter Sachs Collection at Sotheby's: sale reveals playboy's enduring passion for Brigitte Bardot |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9139300/Gunter-Sachs-Collection-at-Sothebys-sale-reveals-playboys-enduring-passion-for-Brigitte-Bardot.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110232605/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9139300/Gunter-Sachs-Collection-at-Sothebys-sale-reveals-playboys-enduring-passion-for-Brigitte-Bardot.html |archive-date=10 November 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> She inspired [[Nicole Kidman]], who had "Bardot-esque" hair in the 2013 British brand [[Jimmy Choo (fashion house)|Jimmy Choo]] campaign.<ref>{{cite news |last=Milligan |first=Lauren |date=28 October 2013 |title=Nicole Kidman Talks Becoming Bardot |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nicole-kidman-for-jimmy-choo-shoes-film-bardot |url-status=live |work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725013016/https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nicole-kidman-for-jimmy-choo-shoes-film-bardot |archive-date=25 July 2020 |access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> In 2015, Bardot was ranked number six in "The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women of All Time" according to a survey carried out by [[Amway]]'s beauty company in the UK involving 2,000 women.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=6 January 2015 |title=The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women Of ALL Time |url=https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/top-10-most-beautiful-iconic-women-of-all-time/brigitte-bardot/ |work=[[Heart (radio network)|Heart]] |access-date=20 August 2023 |archive-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820173159/https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/top-10-most-beautiful-iconic-women-of-all-time/brigitte-bardot/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> American alternative rock band [[Brigitte Calls Me Baby]] was named after her, inspired by pen-pal correspondence between frontman Wes Leavins and Bardot.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-02 |title=Brigitte Calls Me Baby: 'Sure, being famous sounds nice, but how do you achieve permanence?' |url=https://diymag.com/interview/brigitte-calls-me-baby-the-future-is-our-way-out |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=DIY |language=en}}</ref> In 2020, ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' named Bardot number one of "The most beautiful French actresses of all time".<ref>{{cite news |last=Garrigues |first=Manon |date=4 June 2020 |title=The most beautiful French actresses of all time |url=https://www.vogue.fr/fashion-culture/fashion-exhibitions/diaporama/the-most-beautiful-french-actresses-of-all-time-brigitte-bardot-lea-seydoux-isabelle-adjani/51990 |url-status=live|work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |others=Translated by Stephanie Green |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210656/https://www.vogue.fr/fashion-culture/fashion-exhibitions/diaporama/the-most-beautiful-french-actresses-of-all-time-brigitte-bardot-lea-seydoux-isabelle-adjani/51990 |archive-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> In a retrospective retracing women throughout the history of cinema, she was listed among "the most accomplished, talented and beautiful actresses of all time" by ''[[Glamour (magazine)|Glamour]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Josh |date=4 August 2020 |title=From Marilyn to Margot: the most accomplished, talented and beautiful actresses of all time |url=https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/movie-goddesses |url-status=live|work=[[Glamour (magazine)|Glamour]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165619/https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/movie-goddesses |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

The French drama television series ''[[Bardot (TV series)|Bardot]]'' was broadcast on [[France 2]] in 2023. It stars Julia de Nunez and is about Bardot's career from her first casting at age 15 and until the filming of ''La Vérité'' ten years later.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18710758.html |title=Bardot : découvrez la première photo de Julia de Nunez en Brigitte Bardot et le casting cinq étoiles de la série de France 2 |work=[[AlloCiné]] |date=13 June 2022 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> In 2023, she was mentioned in [[Olivia Rodrigo]]'s song "[[Lacy (song)|Lacy]]" from her album ''[[Guts (Olivia Rodrigo album)|Guts]]'',<ref>{{cite news |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |date=14 September 2023 |title=Every Olivia Rodrigo Song, Ranked |url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/olivia-rodrigo-every-song-ranked-49906/lacy-49914/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone Australia]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110221424/https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/olivia-rodrigo-every-song-ranked-49906/lacy-49914/ |archive-date=10 November 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> and [[Chappell Roan]]'s "[[Red Wine Supernova]]" from her album ''[[The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cills |first=Hazel |date=25 July 2024 |title=What is it about Chappell Roan? |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13100/why-chappell-roan-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-our-anxious-music-industry |url-status=live |work=[[NPR]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240806171351/https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13100/why-chappell-roan-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-our-anxious-music-industry |archive-date=6 August 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> On May 12, 2025, the 90–year–old Bardot was interviewed at her house in [[Saint-Tropez]] for 47 minutes. The interview was broadcast on the French network [[BFMTV]] and was her first television appearance in eleven years. During the interview she discussed her acting career, songs, love of nature, life memories, and her good health, again expressing her commitment to animal rights. She also said, "Feminism isn't my thing. I like guys", regarding her criticism of feminism and feminist organizations that she has called "excessive or ideological", and expressed her views on the legal problems of [[Nicolas Bedos]] and [[Gérard Depardieu]] saying, "Those who have talent and put their hands on a girl's buttocks are relegated to the bottomless pit. We could at least let them continue to live. They can no longer live."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fraiji |first1=Maïssane|date=May 2025 |title='I like guys': Brigitte Bardot, 90, speaks out on feminism |url=https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/i-like-guys-brigitte-bardot-90-speaks-out-on-feminism/ar-AA1EGcVE |publisher=[[MSN]] |access-date=22 June 2025}}</ref> She also revealed that she does not use a mobile phone or computer.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kourak |first1=Radouan|date=May 12, 2025 |title=Brigitte Bardot makes her big TV comeback after a ten-year absence |url=https://entrevue.fr/en/brigitte-bardot-fait-son-grand-retour-televise-apres-dix-ans-dabsence/ |website=Entrevue.fr |access-date=22 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Video: Brigitte Bardot's first interview in 11 years: "I'll tell you everything, but on one condition" |url=https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/en/video-prvo-intervju-na-brizhit-bardo-po-11-godini-kje-kazham-se-no-pod-eden-uslov/ |date=May 2025 |website=[[Sloboden Pečat]] <!-- Free Press --> |access-date=22 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bremner |first1=Charles|date=May 12, 2025 |title=Brigitte Bardot defends 'talented people who grab a girl's bottom' |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/brigitte-bardot-first-interview-11-years-nxdwc7tlc |website=[[The Sunday Times]] |access-date=22 June 2025}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{{Main|Brigitte Bardot filmography}}

==Discography==
===Studio albums===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="2"
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Original title
! scope="col" | Translation
! scope="col" | Songwriters(s)
! scope="col" | Label
! scope="col" | Main tracks
|-
| 1956
|''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|Et dieu... créa la femme]]''<br><small>(music from [[Roger Vadim]]'s motion picture)</small>
|"''And God Created Woman''"
| [[Paul Misraki]]
| Versailles
|
|-
|1963
|''[[Brigitte Bardot Sings]]''
|
| [[Serge Gainsbourg]]<br>[[Claude Bolling]]<br>Jean-Max Rivière<br>Fernand Bonifay<br>[[Spencer Williams]]<br>Gérard Bourgeois
|rowspan=2|[[Philips Records|Philips]]
|"L'appareil à sous"<br>"Invitango"<br>"Les amis de la musique"<br>"La Madrague"<br>"El Cuchipe"
|-
|1964
|''[[B.B. (Brigitte Bardot album)|B.B.]]''
|
| [[André Popp]]<br>Jean-Michel Rivat<br>Jean-Max Rivière<br>Fernand Bonifay<br>Gérard Bourgeois
|"Moi je joue"<br>"Une histoire de plage"<br>"[[Maria Ninguém]]"<br>"Je danse donc je suis"<br>"Ciel de lit"
|-
|rowspan=2|1968
|''[[Bonnie and Clyde (Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot album)|Bonnie and Clyde]]''<br><small>(with [[Serge Gainsbourg]])</small>
|
| [[Serge Gainsbourg]]<br>[[Alain Goraguer]]<br>[[Spencer Williams]]<br>Jean-Max Rivière
| [[Fontana Records|Fontana]]
|"Bonnie and Clyde"<br>"Bubble Gum"<br>"Comic Strip"
|-
|''[[Show (Brigitte Bardot album)|Show]]''
|
| [[Serge Gainsbourg]]<br>[[Francis Lai]]<br>Jean-Max Rivière
| [[Universal Records|AZ]]
|"Harley Davidson"<br>"Ay Que Viva La Sangria"<br>"Contact"
|-
|}

===Other notable singles===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="2"
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Original Title
! scope="col" | Translation
! scope="col" | Songwriters(s)
! scope="col" | Label
|-
| 1962
|"Sidonie"<br><small>(music from [[Louis Malle]]'s the motion picture ''Vie Privée'')</small>
|
| Fiorenzo Capri<br>[[Charles Cros]]<br>Jean-Max Rivière
| [[Barclay Records|Barclay]]
|-
|1965
|"Viva Maria!"<br><small>(music from [[Louis Malle]]'s eponymous motion picture)<br>(with [[Jeanne Moreau]])</small>
|
| Jean-Claude Carrière<br>[[Georges Delerue]]
|[[Philips Records|Philips]]
|-
|1966
|"Le soleil"
|"''The Sun''"
| Jean-Max Rivière<br>Gérard Bourgeois
| [[Universal Records|AZ]]
|-
|1969
|"La fille de paille"
|"''The Straw Girl''"
| Franck Gérald<br>[[Gérard Lenorman]]
| [[Philips Records|Philips]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1970
|"Tu veux ou tu veux pas"<br><small>"(Nem Vem Que Nao Tem)"</small>
|"''Do You Want or Not''"
| Pierre Cour<br>[[Carlos Eduardo Imperial|Carlos Imperial]]
|rowspan=4|[[Barclay Records|Barclay]]
|-
|"Nue au soleil"
|"''Naked Under the Sun''"
| Jean Fredenucci<br>Jean Schmidtt
|-
|rowspan=2|1972
|"Tu es venu mon amour" / "Vous Ma Lady"<br><small>(with Laurent Vergez)</small>
|"''You Came My Love''" / "''You My Lady''"
| [[Hugues Aufray]]<br>[[Eddy Marnay]]<br>[[Eddie Barclay]]
|-
|"Boulevard du rhum"<br><small>(with [[Guy Marchand]])<br>(music from [[Robert Enrico]]'s motion picture)</small>
|"''Boulevard of Rhum''"
| François De Roubaix<br>Jean-Paul-Egide Martini
|-
|1973
|"Soleil de ma vie"<br><small>(with [[Sacha Distel]])</small>
|"''Sun of My Life''"
| [[Stevie Wonder]]<br>[[Les Compagnons de la chanson|Jean Broussolle]]
| [[Pathé Records|Pathé]]
|-
|1982
|"Toutes les bêtes sont à aimer"
|"''All Animals Must Be Loved''"
| Jean-Max Rivière
| [[Polydor Records|Polydor]]
|-
|1986
|"[[Je t'aime... moi non plus]]"<br><small>(with [[Serge Gainsbourg]])<br>(released and shelved in 1968)</small>
|"''I Love You... Me Neither''"
| [[Serge Gainsbourg]]
| [[Philips Records|Philips]]
|-
|}

==Books==
Bardot has also written five books:
* ''Noonoah: Le petit phoque blanc'' (Grasset, 1978)
* ''Initiales B.B.'' (autobiography, Grasset & Fasquelle, 1996)
* ''Le Carré de Pluton'' (Grasset & Fasquelle, 1999)
* ''Un Cri Dans Le Silence'' (Editions Du Rocher, 2003)
* ''Pourquoi?'' (Editions Du Rocher, 2006)

==Accolades==
===Awards and nominations===
*12th ''[[:fr:Victoires du cinéma français|Victoires du cinéma français]]'' (French cinema victories) (1957): Best Actress, win, as Juliette Hardy in ''And God Created Woman''.{{sfn|Choulant|2019|p=65}}
*11th [[Bambi Award]]s (1958): Best Actress, nomination, as Juliette Hardy in ''And God Created Woman''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Sophie |date=28 September 2020 |title=The 10 Chicest Moments in Brigitte Bardot's Career |url=https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/style-brigitte-bardot-marilyn-monroe-french-fashion |url-status=live |work=[[L'Officiel]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507162804/https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/style-brigitte-bardot-marilyn-monroe-french-fashion |archive-date=7 May 2021 |access-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>
*14th ''Victoires du cinéma français'' (1959): Best Actress, win, as Yvette Maudet in ''In Case of Adversity''.{{sfn|Choulant|2019|p=93}}
*Brussels European Awards (1960): Best Actress, win, as Dominique Marceau in ''The Truth''.{{sfn|Choulant|2019|p=103}}
*5th [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]] (1961): [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress|Best Foreign Actress]], win, as Dominique Marceau in ''The Truth''.<ref name="Roberts2015"/>
*12th ''[[:fr:Étoiles de cristal|Étoiles de cristal]]'' (Crystal stars) by the French Cinema Academy (1966): Best Actress, win, as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley in ''Viva Maria!''.{{sfn|Choulant|2019|p=156}}
*18th Bambi Awards (1967): Bambi Award of Popularity, win.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elkesommeronline.com/en/Bambi_Awards_1967.pdf |title=Bambi Awards 1967 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=21 January 1967|website=[[Elke Sommer|Elke Sommer Online]] |language=de|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204205723/http://www.elkesommeronline.com/en/Bambi_Awards_1967.pdf |archive-date=4 December 2021 }}</ref> 
*[[20th British Academy Film Awards|20th BAFTA Awards]] (1967): [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role#Best Foreign Actress (1952–1967)|BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress]], nomination, as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley in ''Viva Maria!''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1967/film |title=BAFTA: Film in 1967 |author=<!--Not stated-->|website=[[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233337/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1967/film |archive-date=27 November 2021 }}</ref>

===Honours===
*1980: Medal of the City of [[Trieste]].<ref name="SSCS-bio">{{cite web |url=https://seashepherd.org/media-and-arts-advisory-board/ |title=Media and Art Advisory Board |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=[[Sea Shepherd Conservation Society]] |access-date=4 December 2021 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204205720/https://seashepherd.org/media-and-arts-advisory-board/ |archive-date=4 December 2021 }}</ref>
*1985: [[Legion of Honour]].{{efn-ua|Although it was awarded to her, Bardot refused to attend, as did [[Catherine Deneuve]] and [[Claudia Cardinale]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=10 April 2012 |title=Légion d'Honneur: quelles célébrités l'ont refusée? |trans-title=Legion of Honor: which celebrities have refused it? |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2012/04/10/1327009-legion-d-honneur-quelles-celebrites-l-ont-refusee.html |url-status=live |language=fr |work=[[La Dépêche du Midi]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233327/https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2012/04/10/1327009-legion-d-honneur-quelles-celebrites-l-ont-refusee.html |archive-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/04/11/Brigitte-Bardot-accepts-the-French-Legion-of-Honor-medal/3702482043600/ |title=Brigitte Bardot accepts the French Legion of Honor medal |publisher=[[United Press International]] |first=William |last=C. Trott |date=11 April 1985}}</ref> Medal of the City of [[Lille]].<ref name="SSCS-bio"/>
*1989: [[List of peace prizes|Peace Prize]] in humanitarian merit.<ref name="SSCS-bio"/>
*1992: Induction into the [[United Nations Environment Programme]]'s [[Global 500 Roll of Honour]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Töpfer |first=Klaus |author-link=Klaus Töpfer |date=n.d. |title=UNEP − The Global 500 Roll of Honour for Environmental Achievement |chapter=1992 Global 500 Laureates |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/6307687/unep-unep-c-c-khao-yai-resort |publisher=Yumpu |page=63}}</ref> Creation in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] of the Brigitte Bardot International Award as part of the [[Genesis Awards]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Jeffrey  |author-link=Jeffrey Robinson  |others=Translated by Jean-paul Mourlon |date=2014 |title=Bardot, deux vies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6LLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA252 |location=New York |language=fr |publisher=L'Archipel |page=252 |isbn=978-2-809-81562-7}}</ref>
*1994: [[Medal of the City of Paris]].{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=303}} 
*1995: Medal of the City of [[Saint-Tropez]].{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=255}} 
*1996: Medal of the City of [[La Baule-Escoublac|La Baule]].<ref name="SSCS-bio"/>
*1997: [[Greece]]'s [[UNESCO#Prizes|UNESCO]] Ecology Award. Medal of the City of [[Athens]].<ref name="SSCS-bio"/>
*1999: [[Asteroid]] [[Meanings of minor planet names: 17001–18000#062|17062 Bardot]] was named after her.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=17062 |title=Discovered at Anderson Mesa on 1999-04-10 by Loneos. (17062) Bardot − 1999 GR8|website=[[Minor Planet Center]] |access-date=5 December 2021 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528100924/https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=17062 |archive-date=28 May 2021 }} Site frequently updated with position information of the Mian Belt object.</ref>
*2001: [[People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|PETA]] Humanitarian Award.<ref name="Grazia-bio"/>
*2008: Spanish Altarriba foundation Award.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=3 May 2008 |title=La Fundación Altarriba ... |url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/374960/0/altarriba/maltrato/premio/ |url-status=live |language=es |work=[[20 minutos]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008120541/https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/374960/0/altarriba/maltrato/premio/ |archive-date=8 October 2012 |access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref>
*2017: A statue of {{convert|700|kg|lb}} and {{convert|2.5|m|ft}} high was erected in her honour in central Saint-Tropez.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=29 September 2017 |title=Saint-Tropez ... |trans-title=Saint-Tropez: A statue of Brigitte Bardot installed in front of the gendarmerie |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/nice/2141715-20170929-saint-tropez-brigitte-bardot-installe-face-gendarmerie |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[20 minutes (France)|20 minutes]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse|AFP]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205184404/https://www.20minutes.fr/nice/2141715-20170929-saint-tropez-brigitte-bardot-installe-face-gendarmerie |archive-date=5 December 2021 |trans-quote=The bronze is inspired by a watercolor by the Italian master of erotic cartoon comic, [[Milo Manara]]. }}</ref>
*2019: GAIA Lifetime Achievement Award from the Belgian association for the defence of animal rights.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=14 October 2019 |title=Brigitte... |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot awarded by GAIA |url=https://www.7sur7.be/people/brigitte-bardot-recompensee-par-gaia~a1cc23c5/

|url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[DPG Media]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127233327/https://www.7sur7.be/people/brigitte-bardot-recompensee-par-gaia~a1cc23c5/ |archive-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>

*2021: Her effigy in Saint-Tropez was dressed in 1400 [[Gold leaf|gold leaves]] of 23.75 [[Fineness#Karat|carats]] each.<ref>{{cite news |last=Peté |first=Rodolphe |date=27 June 2021 |title=Désormais ... |trans-title=Now covered with thousands of gold leaves, the statue of Brigitte Bardot unveiled in Saint-Tropez |url=https://www.nicematin.com/vie-locale/desormais-recouverte-de-milliers-de-feuilles-dor-la-statue-de-brigitte-bardot-devoilee-a-saint-tropez-697967 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[Nice-Matin]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205184413/https://www.nicematin.com/vie-locale/desormais-recouverte-de-milliers-de-feuilles-dor-la-statue-de-brigitte-bardot-devoilee-a-saint-tropez-697967 |archive-date=5 December 2021}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Brigitte Bardot (song)]]
* [[List of animal rights advocates]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist-ua}}

==References==
{{Reflist|24em}}

'''Other sources'''
{{Refbegin|30em}}
*{{cite book|first=Brigitte|last=Bardot|year=1996|title=Initiales B.B. : Mémoires|publisher=Éditions Grasset|language=fr|isbn=978-2-246526018}}
*{{cite book|first=Yves|last=Bigot|year=2014|title=Brigitte Bardot. La femme la plus belle et la plus scandaleuse au monde|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sb5eAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA0|language=fr|publisher=Don Quichotte|isbn=978-2-359490145}}
*{{cite book|first=Leslie|last=Caron|title=Thank Heaven|publisher=Viking Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0670021345|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thankheavenmemoi00caro_0}}
*{{cite book|title=Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States|first=Elizabeth|last=Cherry|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-1-317156154}}
*{{cite book |last=Choulant |first=Dominique |date=2019 |title=Brigitte Bardot pour toujours |trans-title=Brigitte Bardot forever |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F8ObDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA0 |location=Paris |publisher=Éditions Lanore |language=fr |isbn=978-2-8515-7903-4}}
*{{cite book|first=Marie-Dominique|last=Lelièvre|title=Brigitte Bardot&nbsp;– Plein la vue|language=fr|publisher=Groupe Flammarion|year=2012|isbn=978-2-08-124624-9}}
*{{cite book|title=Das Sexsymbol der 1950-er Jahre|first=Ernst|last=Probst|publisher=GRIN Publishing|language=de|year=2012|isbn=978-3-656186212}}
*{{cite book|first=Barnett|last=Singer|title=Brigitte Bardot : A Biography|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2006|isbn=978-0786425150}}
*{{cite journal|title=The old and the new: Brigitte Bardot in 1950s France|first=Ginette|last=Vincendeau|journal=[[Paragraph (journal)|Paragraph]]|volume=15|issue=1|pages=73–96|date=March 1992|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|jstor=43151735|doi=10.3366/para.1992.0004}}
{{Refend}}

==Further reading==
* Brigitte Tast, Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) ''Brigitte Bardot. Filme 1953–1961. Anfänge des Mythos B.B.'' (Hildesheim 1982) {{ISBN|3-88842-109-8}}.
*{{cite book | last= Servat | first = Henry-Jean |title=Brigitte Bardot&nbsp;– My Life in Fashion | location=Paris | publisher=Flammation S.A. | date=2016 | type = Hardback | isbn=978-2--08-0202697}}

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