Happy 80th Birthday Brigitte Bardot

This 1955 shot was taken at a time when her reputation in France as an actor and beauty was burgeoning. Photograph: Express/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot photographed at the time she was making the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot on set with actor Michel Roux, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot photographed at the time she was making the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

French actress Brigitte Bardot photographed at the time she was making the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

French actress Brigitte Bardot photographed at the time she was making the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot plays the guitar while on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958.Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot checks her hair and makeup on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot (holding a copy of LIFE magazine) looks at a photographic slide on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot photographed between takes on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot with co-star Antonio Vilar on the set of the film, La Femme et le Pantin, Spain, 1958. Loomis DeanTime & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Film director Roger Vadim had seen a photograph of Bardot when she was very young and waited until she had just turned 18 to marry her in December 1952 at the Church of Passy, France.Photograph: RDA/Getty Images

In 1953 Bardot appeared alongside Kirk Douglas in Un Acte D’amour (Act of Love). Here she is on the beach with him during the 6th International Cannes film festival. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex

In 1955, Bardot came to England to film Doctor at Sea and here is photographed in London before her fame made it impossible to wander unrecognised. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot in Doctor at Sea.Photograph: ITV/Rex

Bardot, pictured here on the set of La Lumière D’en Face (The Light Across the Street) in late 1955, appeared in several more rom-coms before her big breakthrough in 1956.Photograph: Sunset Boulevard

Brigitte Bardot watching Pablo Picasso at work in his studio in Vallauris during the 1956 International Cannes film festival.Photograph: RDA/Getty Images

Bardot’s films, this is a still from 1957’s La Parisienne, continued to ooze sex appeal which led to the coining of the phrase ‘Sex Kitten’ about her the following year. Photograph: Allstar

Now reporters and paparazzi covered her every move. Here Brigitte learns how to ride a horse for the film La femme et le pantin (A Woman Like Satan) in 1958. Photograph: Yves Manciet/Sipa/Rex

Later in 1958, she posed at the famous resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Photograph: Bettmann

Cover star Bardot on the set of the film Babette s’en va-t-en guerre (Babette Goes to War) in 1959. It was a big year for her. Photograph: Sipa/Rex

Photographer Sam Levin was instrumental in creating Bardot’s image and the so-called Towel Session in 1959 is one of her most famous shoots. Simone de Beauvoir wrote a famous essay that year entitled Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome. Photograph: Sam Levin/Cinetext/Allstar Collection

On 11 January 1960 Bardot gave birth to her only child, Nicolas. Here she is cuddling him in her Paris apartment. Photograph: AP

Bardot’s love of music led to her releasing several records in the 60s and 70s. Here she is playing guitar in Saint-Tropez. Photograph: Dalmas/Rex

But film was still her main creative outlet. Here she is on the set of Le Repos du Guerrier, directed by Roger Vadim, in Paris in February 1962. Photograph: Sygma/Corbis

Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli in Le Mepris (Contempt) directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963. Photograph: Nana Productions/REX

The ever popular Bardot during a visit to London in October 1963. Photograph: Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis

Bardot married Gunter Sachs in 1966, a marriage that lasted three years. Here she is in Saint-Tropez in August 1967 with Johnny Hallyday. Photograph: Jean-Pierre Bonnotte/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Terry O’Neill photographed the making of 1968’s Shalako on location in Spain. O’Neill considered this shot of Bardot as one of his best, as he explains here.Photograph: Terry O'Neill/Getty Images

Another shot by O’Neill on location filming the western Shalako. Sean Connery takes a picture of Bardot. This was the first time the stars had met.Photograph: Terry O'Neill/Getty Images

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Brigitte Bardot and her dog - Saint Tropez 1975

Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot 1967

Picture taken in St Tropez, southern France, June 7, 1973, shows French star Brigitte Bardot and her friend Laurent Verges having a drink in the Club 55 beach.Credit: AFP/Getty Images

A picture dated July 16, 1966, shows Brigitte Bardot flanked and her third husband Gunther Sachs, right, arriving at Las Vegas after their marriage. They divorced in 1969.Credit : AFP/Getty Images

French singer Sascha Distel is seen with Brigitte Bardot in this 1958 file photo taken at Antibes, southern France.Credit : AP Photo

Brigitte Bardot on May 6, 2004.She was one of the best-known sex symbols of the 1950s and '60s and gained international attention as the star of Roger Vadim's "And God Created Women." Married four times, Bardot was Vadim's wife when they made the movie.Credit: AP

Ex-film star and a prominent animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot on July 16, 2001 after a meeting with French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in Paris.Credit: Jack Guez

Brigitte Bardot, the 1960s sex symbol turned animal rights activist, poses during the 20th anniversary celebration of her wildlife foundation, Sept. 28, 2006, in Paris.Credit: Stephane De Sakutin /AFP/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot, the 1960s sex symbol turned animal rights activist, poses with her book during the 20th anniversary celebration of her wildlife foundation, Sept. 28, 2006, in Paris.Credit: Stephane De Sakutin /AFP/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot talks to the press Feb. 28, 2001, after arriving at the Bucharest airport in Romania. Bardot proposed to officials there a campaign to sterilize the city's stray dogs and, through her animal rights foundation. She has donated more than $140,000 to the sterilization effort.Credit : Kael Alford

French Actress Brigitte Bardot, left, flanked by her husband Gunter Sachs arrives in Tahiti on July 21, 1966. The two were married from 1966-69.Credit : Getty Images

French actress Brigitte Bardot and her friend Christian Kalt spending Eastertide in Saint-Tropez on April 4, 1972.Credit: Ralph Gatti /AFP/Getty Images

French actress Brigitte Bardot rehearsing a TV show for Christmas at the ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) studio in Paris on Dec. 3, 1967.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot inaugurates the exposition "100 photos of Brigitte Bradot" in Paris.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of "La verite" directed by G.H. Clouzot on Aug. 23, 1960.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

A photo taken in September 1952 shows Brigitte Bardot, aged 18 years old, and her sister Mijanou.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot with American comic actor Danhny Kaye at Joinville's studio on Jan. 17, 1959.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot with American comic actor Danhny Kaye at Joinville's studio on Jan. 17, 1959.Credit : Archive /AFP/Getty Images

A photo taken in the '50s shows French actress Brigitte Bardot.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot, with a seal baby, protests against seal-hunting in fecamp, northern France, on April 8, 1976.Credit: Archive /AFP/Getty Images

An undated file picture shows Brigitte Bardot posing with dogs on the beach in Cannes.Credit : AFP/Getty Images

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