Full Name=Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot; Profession=French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist who became one of the defining international film stars and sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s; Nationality=French; Born=28 September 1934; Birthplace=Paris, France; Generation=Silent Generation; Chinese Zodiac=Wood Dog; Zodiac Sign=Libra; Age in 2026=92 (would have been 92 years old on 28 September 2026, having died in 2025 at age 91); Marital Status=Married four times (to director Roger Vadim, actor Jacques Charrier, industrialist Günther Sachs, and politician Bernard d’Ormale, with whom she remained married until her death); Children: One son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier (born 1960), with second husband Jacques Charrier; Description=Bardot rose from a bourgeois Parisian upbringing and early ballet training to worldwide fame after her breakthrough performance in Roger Vadim’s film “Et Dieu… créa la femme” (“And God Created Woman”) in 1956, where her sensual screen presence, modern liberated femininity, and naturalistic acting style helped transform postwar European cinema and popular culture, turning her initials “B.B.” into a global brand and fashion reference, inspiring trends from the bikini and tousled blonde hair to a new archetype of independent, sexually self-aware women; over a prolific career spanning dozens of films, hit recordings, and modeling campaigns, she worked with major directors of French and European cinema, became closely associated with Saint-Tropez and the French Riviera lifestyle, and was widely regarded as France’s biggest female movie star of her era, yet she frequently expressed discomfort with fame and objectification, eventually retiring from acting in 1973 at the height of her popularity; in the decades after her retirement she devoted herself almost entirely to animal welfare, founding the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986 and campaigning passionately—often controversially—for animal rights, speaking out on issues such as the fur trade, bullfighting, seal hunts, and the slaughter of horses and marine mammals, while continuing to influence fashion, photography, and feminist debates through her enduring cultural image; despite occasional public controversy over her outspoken political and social comments, Bardot remains a central figure in film history, celebrity culture, and animal-rights activism, representing a complex legacy that combines groundbreaking cinematic stardom, iconic beauty and style, and uncompromising advocacy on behalf of animals; Cause of Death=Cancer (died 28 December 2025 at her home “La Madrague” in Saint-Tropez, France, aged 91).