Brigitte Bardot

Bardot was born on 28 September 1934 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris to Louis Bardot (1896–1975) and Anne-Marie Mucel (1912–1978).{{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.{{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}}{{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 family, as had her father.{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=11}}{{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}} 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.{{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 "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 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.{{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}}

Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, the director of the magazines 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}}

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 and starring Bourvil.{{sfn|Bardot|1996|p=81}} She was paid 200,000 francs (about 575 1952 US dollars{{cite web | title=Historical Currency Converter|first=Rodney|last=Edvinsson| website=Historicalstatistics.org| url=https://www.historicalstatistics.org/Currencyconverter.html}}) 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-financed film being shot in Paris in 1953, Act of Love, starring Kirk Douglas. She received media attention when she attended the Cannes Film Festival in April 1953.

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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 as the love interest for Dirk Bogarde. The film was the third most popular movie in Britain that year."'The Dam Busters'." Times [London, England] 29 December 1955: 12. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012.

Bardot had a small role in The Grand Maneuver (1955) for director René Clair, supporting Gérard Philipe and Michelle Morgan. Her part was bigger in The Light Across the Street (1956) for director Georges Lacombe. She had another in the Hollywood film Helen of Troy, playing Helen's handmaiden.

For the Italian movie Mio figlio Nerone (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.Servat. Page 76.

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Bardot then appeared in four movies that made her a star. First up was a musical, 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.[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 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). 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.Most Popular Film of the Year. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 12 December 1957; pg. 3; Issue 54022. In the United States the film was the highest-grossing foreign film ever released, earning $4 million, which author Peter Lev describes as "an astonishing amount for a foreign film at that time."{{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}} It turned Bardot into an international star. From at least 1956,{{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}} she was hailed as the "sex kitten".{{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}}{{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|publisher=Time|title=Brigitte Bardot: Rare and Classic Photos of the Original 'Sex Kitten' |date=April 2013 |access-date=13 January 2017}}The earliest use cited in the OED Online (accessed 26 November 2011) is in the Daily Sketch, 2 June 1958. The film scandalized the United States and some theater managers were even arrested just for screening it.{{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}}

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Paul O'Neil of Life (June 1958) in describing Bardot's international popularity, writes:

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.{{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}}

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 (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.{{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}} In 1958, Bardot became the highest-paid actress in the country of France.{{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 }}

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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.{{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}} Also widely seen was Come Dance with Me (1959) from Boisrond.

Bardot's next film was courtroom drama 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 Foreign Film.[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 Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in the film.{{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}}

She 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).

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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 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.

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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.Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 281.

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. 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 (1968), a Western starring Sean Connery, which was another box-office disappointment."ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", Variety, 31 May 1973 p. 3.

She 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.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6058742.stm|title=Bardot revived as download star|date=17 October 2006|work=BBC News|access-date=3 August 2010}}

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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.{{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}}{{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}}

Her 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.

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She 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".{{cite news|title=ROGER VADIM|author=Wilson, Timothy|work=The Guardian|location=London (UK)|date=7 April 1973|page=9}}

"If Don Juan is not my last movie it will be my next to last", said Bardot during filming.{{cite news|title=Brigitte Bardot: No longer a sex symbol|author=Morgan, Gwen|work=Chicago Tribune|date=4 March 1973|page=d3}} 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".{{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 }}

Bardot met Paul Watson in 1977, the same year he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, during an operation to condemn the massacre of seal pups and seal hunting on the Canadian ice floe.{{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}} In support of animal protection, Bardot went to the ice floe after being invited by Watson.{{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}} Bardot posed lying down next to the seal pups; the photos were seen worldwide. Bardot and Watson remained friends.{{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}}

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 Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.{{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 }} She became a vegetarianFollain, 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. and raised three million francs (about 430,000 1986 US dollars) to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and personal belongings.

Bardot has been a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat.{{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}}{{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 }}

In 1989, while looking after her neighbour, Jean-Pierre Manivet's donkey, the mare displayed excessive interest in Bardot's older donkey 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".{{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 }}{{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 }}

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 French Minister of Agriculture, Jean Puech, calling on him to ban the sale of horse meat.{{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}}

Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of "torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs".

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She donated more than US$140,000 over two years in 2001 for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest's stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000.{{cite news|url=http://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}}

In August 2010, Bardot addressed a letter to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, appealing for the sovereign to halt the 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".[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.

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.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. On 25 May 2011, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.{{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 }}

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.[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.

On 23 July 2015, Bardot condemned Australian politician Greg Hunt's plan to eradicate 2 million cats to save endangered species such as the Warru and night parrot.{{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}}

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 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. Bardot also wrote a letter to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, asking her to "not choose the camp of the oceans gravediggers".{{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}}

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.{{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. }} 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".{{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}}

On 20 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot married director Roger Vadim.{{cite news |first=Éric |last=Neuhoff |title=Brigitte Bardot et Roger Vadim – Le loup et la biche|work=Le Figaro|date=12 August 2013|language=fr|page=18}} They separated in 1956 after she became involved with And God Created Woman co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant, divorcing the next year.{{cite book|author=Robinson, Jeffrey|title=Bardot — Two Lives|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=London|edition=First British|year=1994|id=ASIN: B000KK1LBM|author-link=Jeffrey Robinson}} 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.{{harvnb|Bardot|1996}}

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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 vineyards, consisted of several buildings.{{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|language=fr |work=Paris Match |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}}

In 1958, she bought a second property called La Madrague, located in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer. In early 1958, her breakup with 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.{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/files/1958_0209_cover.jpg|title=Brigitte Bardot in Italy After Breakdown|date=9 February 1958|access-date=21 August 2010|work=The Los Angeles Times}} She recovered within weeks, began a relationship with actor Jacques Charrier, and became pregnant well before they married on 18 June 1959. Bardot's only child, son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, was born on 11 January 1960. Bardot had an affair with Glenn Ford in the early 1960s.{{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}} After she and Charrier divorced in 1962, Nicolas was raised in the Charrier family and had little contact with his biological mother until his adulthood. Sami Frey was mentioned as the reason for her divorce from Charrier. Bardot was enamoured of Frey, but he quickly left her.{{cite news |author= |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}}

From 1963 to 1965, she lived with musician Bob Zagury.{{cite book|title=Brigitte Bardot: A Biography|author=Singer, B.|date=2006|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated Publishers|isbn=9780786484263|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3e5vfj0ybGYC|access-date=13 January 2017}}

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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.{{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}} While filming 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!"{{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|language=fr |work=Gala |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}} 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.

Over the next few years, Bardot dated bartender/ski instructor Christian Kalt, nightclub owner Luigi "Gigi" Rizzi, singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, writer John Gilmore, actor Warren Beatty, and Laurent Vergez, her co-star in Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman.{{cite book|title=Latin Lover: The Passionate South|author=Malossi, G.|date=1996|publisher=Charta|isbn=9788881580491|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIHr5w38ac8C|access-date=13 January 2017}}

In 1974, Bardot appeared in a nude photo shoot in Playboy magazine, which celebrated her 40th birthday. 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 multi|Jean Blaise (actor)|fr|Jean Blaise (acteur)|lt=Jean Blaise}}.[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 The couple lived together for four years, separating in December 1979.{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086210,00.html|work=People|title=Swept Away by Her Sadness|date=24 October 1983|first=Peter|last=Carlson|access-date=13 January 2017|archive-date=29 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629193057/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086210,00.html|url-status=dead}}

From 1980 to 1985, Bardot had a live-in relationship with French TV producer {{Interlanguage link multi|Allain Bougrain-Dubourg|fr}}. 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. 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. 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.{{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}}}} She refused to undergo chemotherapy treatment and decided only to do radiation therapy. She recovered in 1986.{{cite news |author= |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|language=fr |work=Gala |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 }}{{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|language=fr |work=Gala |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}}

Bardot's fourth and current husband is Bernard d'Ormale; they have been married since 16 August 1992.{{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}} In 2018, in an interview accorded to Le Journal du Dimanche, she denied rumors of relationships with Johnny Hallyday, Jimi Hendrix, and Mick Jagger.

Bardot expressed support for President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.

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 is 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) 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.{{cite news|url=http://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}}{{cite news|title=Bardot racism conviction upheld|date=11 May 2001|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1324707.stm|access-date=17 January 2008|work=BBC News|location=London}}{{cite news|title=Bardot anti-Muslim comments draw fire|date=14 May 2003|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3027955.stm|access-date=17 January 2008|work=BBC News|location=London}}

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (A Scream in the Silence), she 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."{{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}} 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."{{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}}{{cite news|title=Bardot fine for stoking race hate|date=3 June 2008|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7434193.stm|access-date=3 June 2008|work=BBC News|location=London, UK}}

In her book, she criticised racial mixing, immigration, 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.{{cite news|title=Bardot fined for 'race hate' book|date=10 June 2004|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3794513.stm|access-date=3 June 2008|work=BBC News}} On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000.{{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}} Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character."{{cite news|title=Bardot denies 'race hate' charge|date=7 May 2003|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3692965.stm|access-date=17 January 2008|work=BBC News}} 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 ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without 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.{{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}} The prosecutor stated she was weary of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, Bardot branded 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 Arctic oil exploration and by her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.[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.

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."{{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}}

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."{{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}}

In 2015, Bardot threatened to sue a Saint-Tropez boutique for selling items featuring her face.{{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}} In 2018, she expressed support for the Yellow vests protests.{{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}}

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.” {{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 }}

On 19 March 2019, Bardot issued an open letter to Réunion prefect {{Interlanguage link|Amaury de Saint-Quentin|fr}} in which she accused inhabitants of the Indian Ocean island of animal cruelty and referred to them as "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 cannibalism from past centuries". The public prosecutor filed a lawsuit the following day.{{cite news |author= |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=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}}

In June 2021, 86-year-old Bardot was fined €5,000 by the Arras court for public insults against 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, she had not removed the comments from the website.{{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}} 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.{{cite news |author= |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}}

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), the main far-right party in France.{{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}} Bardot expressed support for Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front (National Rally), calling her "the Joan of Arc of the 21st century".{{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}} She endorsed Le Pen in the 2012 and 2017 French presidential elections.{{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}}{{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}}

Bardot has been convicted of inciting racial hatred multiple times, having received six separate fines for the offense as of November 2021.

{{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 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 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?"{{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}}
– 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, and Pierre Cardin".{{cite news |author= |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}}

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 (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.{{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}} She gained additional attention when she filmed ...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. Bardot's image was linked to the shoemaker Repetto, who created a pair of ballerinas for her in 1956.{{cite news |author= |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 }} 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."{{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}}

File:Brigitte Bardot in Spoleto, Italy, 1961.jpg

She also brought into fashion the {{lang|fr|choucroute}} ({{literal translation|sauerkraut}}) hairstyle (similar to the beehive hair style) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.{{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}} French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir described Bardot as "a locomotive of women's history".

Isabella Biedenharn of 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".{{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 |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 This pose has been emulated numerous times by models and celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan,{{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 |page=55 |isbn=978-0-820-48197-5}} Elle Macpherson,{{cite news |author= |date= |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 |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 }} Gisele Bündchen,{{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}} and Rihanna.{{cite news |author= |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}} 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.

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.{{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 }} The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta.{{cite web|url=http://www.buziosonline.com.br/indexe.htm|title=BúziosOnline.com|publisher=BúziosOnline.com|access-date=13 March 2010}}

Bardot was idolized by the young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.{{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.{{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. They made plans to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, similar to A Hard Day's Night, but the plans were never fulfilled. 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 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."{{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. 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.[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.

Bardot was the subject of eight Andy Warhol paintings in 1974.{{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 |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}}

The Australian pop group Bardot was named after her.

File:Statue of Brigitte Bardot in Rio de Janeiro.jpg, Brazil]]

Kylie Minogue adopted the Bardot "sex kitten look" on the cover of her album Body Language, released in 2003.{{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}}

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, Minogue, 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.{{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}}

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}} million, was part of Sachs' art collection put on sale a year after his death.{{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 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}}

She inspired Nicole Kidman, who had "Bardot-esque" hair in the 2013 British brand Jimmy Choo campaign.{{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 |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}}

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.{{cite news |author= |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 |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 }}

In 2020, Vogue named Bardot number one of "The most beautiful French actresses of all time".{{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 |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}} 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.{{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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165619/https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/movie-goddesses |archive-date=28 November 2021}}

The French drama television 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.{{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}} In 2023, she was mentioned in Olivia Rodrigo's song "Lacy" from her album Guts,{{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}} and Chappell Roan's "Red Wine Supernova" from her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.{{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}}

{{Main|Brigitte Bardot filmography}}

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)

• 12th 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 Awards (1958): Best Actress, nomination, as Juliette Hardy in And God Created Woman.{{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}}
• 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 Awards (1961): Best Foreign Actress, win, as Dominique Marceau in The Truth.
• 12th 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.elkesommeronline.com/en/Bambi_Awards_1967.pdf |title=Bambi Awards 1967 |author= |date=21 January 1967|website=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 }}
• 20th BAFTA Awards (1967): BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, nomination, as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley in Viva Maria!.{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1967/film |title=BAFTA: Film in 1967 |author=|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 }}

• 1980: Medal of the City of Trieste.{{cite web |url=https://seashepherd.org/media-and-arts-advisory-board/ |title=Media and Art Advisory Board |author= |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 }}
• 1985: Legion of Honour.{{efn-ua|Although it was awarded to her, Bardot refused to attend, as did Catherine Deneuve and Claudia Cardinale.{{cite news |author= |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}}}}{{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}} Medal of the City of Lille.
• 1989: Peace Prize in humanitarian merit.
• 1992: Induction into the United Nations Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour.{{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}} Creation in Hollywood of the Brigitte Bardot International Award as part of the Genesis Awards.{{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}}
• 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.
• 1997: Greece's UNESCO Ecology Award. Medal of the City of Athens.
• 1999: Asteroid 17062 Bardot was named after her.{{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.
• 2001: PETA Humanitarian Award.
• 2008: Spanish Altarriba foundation Award.{{cite news |author= |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}}
• 2017: A statue of {{convert|700|kg|lb}} and {{convert|2.5|m|ft}} high was erected in her honour in central Saint-Tropez.{{cite news |author= |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 |agency=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. }}
• 2019: GAIA Lifetime Achievement Award from the Belgian association for the defence of animal rights.{{cite news |author= |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/

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• 2021: Her effigy in Saint-Tropez was dressed in 1400 gold leaves of 23.75 carats each.{{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}}

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