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Brigitte Bardot, the French actress who set the standard for a generation of female sex symbols in the 1960s and devoted her later life to animal rights, has died. She was 91.
The archetype of beauty to millions of men, Bardot spawned an era of curvy, pouting, insouciant actresses with her role as a self-assured small-town sexpot in “And God Created Woman” (1956). Throughout the 1970s, she was the model for “Marianne,” the female incarnation of the French Republic whose profile adorns stamps and coins.
But Bardot quit making movies at age 39, and she courted controversy with comments about marginalized members of society.
