FILE - French actress Brigitte Bardot poses with a huge sombrero she brought back from Mexico, as she arrives at Orly Airport in Paris, France, on May 27, 1965. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - French screen stars from left, Andre Bourvil, Brigitte Bardot, Danielle Darrieux and Francois Perier pose for a photo with their French motion picture award statuettes, in Paris France, Dec. 3, 1963. (AP Photo/Jacques Marqueton, File)
FILE - French film actress Brigitte Bardot and her husband Gunter Sachs pose just before boarding a chartered airplane on their honeymoon in Las Vegas on July 14, 1966. (AP Photo/David F. Smith, File)
FILE - French actress Brigitte Bardot poses for photographers on a lawn in the garden of the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido of Venice, Italy, Sept. 2, 1958. (AP Photo/Walter Attenni, File)
FILE - French actress Brigitte Bardot with actor Jack Palance during filming of the movie "Le Mepris" aka "Contempt", by Jean-Luc Godard, in Rome, Italy, May 1963. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - Brigitte Bardot and Patrick Gilles arrive for the premier of the film "Bullitt" in Paris, March 28, 1969. ( AP Photo/ Jean Jacques Levy, File)
FILE - French Actress Brigitte Bardot with a dog in the Gennevilliers, Paris, while supporting the French animal protection society operation, Feb. 10, 1982. (AP Photo/Duclos, File)
FILE - Former French film star and animal right activist Brigitte Bardot acknowledges applause prior to a press conference, Sept. 28, 2006 in Paris. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
FILE - Martial, a 7-month old seal pup, poses with French movie star Brigitte Bardot on a beach near Cayeux, northern France, Tuesday, March 27, 1990 shortly before making its way back to the sea. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, File)
FILE - French actress Brigitte Bardot, center is surrounded by animal rights protestors during a demonstration against transporting live animals in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 20, 1995. (AP Photo/Jacques Collet, File)
FILE - French film legend and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot looks on prior to a march of various animal rights associations on March 24, 2007 in Paris. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file)
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5:31 AM on Sunday, December 28, 2025
By The Associated Press
Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist, has died. She was 91.
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