Brigitte Bardot, the French actor and singer, has died aged 91.
Bardot shot to fame with the 1956 film, And God Created Woman, written and directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim. She is known for her roles in Viva Maria (1965) and Contempt (1963) and her representation of sexual freedom and liberation in post-war cinema.
In the early 1970s she retired from acting aged 39, swapping the big screen for political activism, in particular fighting for animal rights.
She later vocally supported the far-right Front National in France and expressed racist views towards ethnic minorities, which she was convicted for.