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Brigitte Bardot.Credit : PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo

Brigitte Bardot, a French actress, model and singer, has died at age 91. The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announced the news in a statement shared with the French news agency AFP.

Bardot began her career in the 1950s and pioneered the iconic 1960s look (bouffant, winged liner and nude lip) that made her an iconic figure in the fashion and beauty world.

The star of classics such as And God Created Woman, Contempt and Love on a Pillow, Bardot became involved in controversies in her later years.

After her death, Bardot’s trendsetting fashion and beauty looks live on and are constantly referenced by pros and celebrities alike. Look back at some of her most enduring photographs.

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Brigitte Bardot on the Cannes Staircase

Brigitte Bardot wearing a ball gown and fur stole as she attends the Cannes Film Festival, April 20th 1953
Brigitte Bardot.Archive Photos/Getty Images

Brigitte Bardot wows while wearing a floor-length, voluminous ball gown and fur stole at Cannes Film Festival in April 1953.

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Brigitte Bardot Was a Beauty for the Ages

Studio portrait of actor and model Brigitte Bardot wearing a light blue off-the-shoulder dress
Brigitte Bardot.Hulton Archive/Getty Images

This 1960 portrait showcases the blonde bombshell’s best-known look – a messy pile of hair, dark cat-eye liner and a nude lip.

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Brigitte Bardot on Set

THE NIGHT HEAVEN FELL 1958 Columbia Films production with Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot.Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

The actress is captured while on the set of The Night Heaven Fell in 1958.

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Brigitte Bardot Films a Scene

LES AMOURS CELEBRES Agnes Bernauer 1961 DIRECTED BY MICHEL BOISROND
Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon.Collection Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo

Bardot stars in 1961’s Les Amours Celebres (Famous Love Affairs) alongside Alain Delon.

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When Brigitte Bardot Married Roger Vadim

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Brigitte Bardot.

Bardot is pictured smiling during her wedding to French director Roger Vadim on Dec. 12, 1952.

The two divorced in 1957 after Bardot fell in love with her And God Created Woman costar Jean-Louis Trintignant.

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Brigitte Bardot Becomes a Mom

Brigitte Bardot with her husband Jacques Charrier and newborn son Nicolas Jacques
Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier and their son, Nicolas.Keystone Press/Alamy Stock Photo

Bardot married artist Jacques Charrier in June 1959, and the two welcomed Bardot’s only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, on Jan. 11, 1960.

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Brigitte Bardot Poses with Jacques Charrier

Jacques Charrier and Brigitte Bardot on the set of Babette S'en Va-T-En Guerre ("Babette Goes to War")
Jacques Charrier and Brigitte Bardot.Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty

Charrier and Bardot pose on the set of Babette S’en Va-T-En Guerre (Babette Goes to War).

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Brigitte Bardot Toasts to the Ocassion

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Brigitte Bardot.Getty Images

Bardot could easily captivate a room and become the center of attention.

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Brigitte Bardot Knew How to Strike a Pose

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Brigitte Bardot.PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo

The actress plays coy with cameras while posing on top of a table.

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Brigitte Bardot Takes It to the Ground

Brigitte Bardot poses for photographers on a lawn in the garden of the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido of Venice, Italy,
Brigitte Bardot.AP Photo/Walter Attenni

Any place was a great place for an impromptu photoshoot for Bardot — especially the lawn in the garden of the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido of Venice.

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Brigitte Bardot in a Mod Mini

French film star Brigitte Bardot poses for photographers during her only formal press conference at the Plaza Hotel
Brigitte Bardot.Bettmann/Getty Images

During a 1965 press conference, the French film star posed for photographers at the Plaza Hotel in New York.

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Brigitte Bardot and Sean Connery

Scottish actor Sean Connery and French actress Brigitte Bardot meet for the first time in Deauville, 1968, before the filming of 'Shalako', directed by Edward Dmytryk.
Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.Terry O’Neill/Iconic Images

Sean Connery and Bardot met for the first time in Deauville, France, to film Shalako, and they immediately clicked.

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Brigitte Bardot Takes London

French actress Brigitte Bardot relaxes in the back of a limousine upon her arrival at London's Heathrow Airport.
Brigitte Bardot.Central Press/Getty Images

The fashion icon wears an edgy all-leather look as she arrives at London’s Heathrow Airport in 1968, when she was in town to attend the premiere of Shalako.

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Brigitte Bardot Marries Again

French actress Brigitte Bardot and her new husband, German industrialist Gunther Sachs, leave Los Angeles International Airport on a flight bound for Papeete, Tahiti,
Brigitte Bardot and Gunther Sachs.Bettmann/Getty Images

Bardot heads to Tahiti with her third husband, German industrialist Gunter Sachs. The two wed in 1966 and were divorced in 1969.

She would go on to marry Bernard d’Ormale, her last husband, in 1992.

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Brigitte Bardot Loves Animals

As a speaker's spout, the fabulous pout of glamorous Brigitte Bardot is eliciting faint response from a normally talkative bird here at Enchanted Valley, a resort near Rio
Brigitte Bardot.Bettmann/Getty Images

A known lover of animals, Bardot founded Foundation Brigitte Bardot (FBB), which “works for the protection of wild and domestic animals in France and internationally.”