The French actor Brigitte Bardot is dead. She was 91 years old. This is stated by the Brigitte Bardot Foundation Sunday, writes the AFP news agency.
Bardot got her international breakthrough at the age of 22 with the film "God created the woman", which was directed by her then-husband, Roger Vadim.
A long line followed films - including Louis Malle's "Private Life" and "Viva Maria!" and Godard's "I Loved You Yesterday".
Despite his international success, she put her acting career on the shelf at the age of 39. Self she has said that up until her exit she had a heavy alcohol addiction and that she needed to step away from the limelight.
Brigitte Bardot became one passionate animal welfare campaigner and fought for the animal welfare cause until his death old age.
Among other things, she threw herself into the case of the American environmental activist Paul Watson, who last year was arrested by Danish police in Greenland.
The Japanese authorities accused Watson of assaulting Japanese whalers in the Antarctic in 2010 and for hindering them in their work, when they were at sea to catch and kill whales.
Even Watson refused guilty, and Bardot contacted Denmark's Ministry of Justice, which was to take position on whether Watson could be extradited.
Watson ended up staying released and left Greenland.
Among Bardot's notable cases were her opposition to the use of fur and skin in the fashion industry, and she has especially fought against the killing of seals.
In addition to the animal welfare case has Brigitte Bardot distinguished herself with statements critical of immigration, which have cost her several sentences in her native France.
