Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 15, 1946
Place of Birth
Tourcoing, Nord, France
Credits
104 titles
Brigitte Fossey
Biography
Brigitte Florence Fossey (born 15 June 1946) is a French actress. The daughter of a schoolteacher, Fossey was five years old when she was cast by director René Clément to star in his film, Forbidden Games. Fossey played the role of an innocent child orphaned by World War II. The film won numerous awards worldwide, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Fossey was hired by American actor/director Gene Kelly for his 1957 film, The Happy Road. When Fossey was ten years old her parents took her out of the film business so she could receive proper schooling. While completing her education, Fossey studied piano and dance and then went on to work in Geneva, Switzerland as an interpreter/translator. In 1967, at age twenty, after studying acting at Yves Furet "Studio d'Entrainement de l'Acteur" in Paris, Fossey was offered the female lead by director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco for his film Le Grand Meaulnes. As an adult Fossey acted both on stage and in film, working with French directors such as François Truffaut and Bertrand Blier. Fluent in English, Fossey has appeared in several Hollywood motion pictures, including a 1979 role as the wife of Paul Newman in the Robert Altman-directed film, Quintet. In 1982, she was a member of the jury at the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival. During the 1990s, she began performing in television productions. Brigitte Fossey has a daughter from her marriage to director Jean-François Adam, whom she met while making his 1970 film M comme Mathieu. Source: Article "Brigitte Fossey" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Filmography
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Self - actress
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
Self
Romy Schneider, face à son destin
Self
Big Kids
The Neverending Party
Self - Actress
Les Rois de la comédie
Self
Mon Heroine
Jeanne
Revival
Françoise
The Way to Happiness
Judith Askelevicz
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
Self - actress
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
Self
Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément
Self
Un monde, un regard
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
Raining Cats and Dogs
Angèle
Love in Vienna
Monique
Infidelity
Mère de Marie
Les Disparus de Valenciennes
Christiane Tortois
Banking District
Blanche Grangier
Don't Tell Her
Violette
A Family Secret
Hélène
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
Self
René Clément au cœur de la nouvelle vague
Self
Innocent Love Stories under Occupation
Self – Interviewee
Une femme nommée Marie
Voice of Marie (voice)
Le Mystère Joséphine
Rose Claire
Death on the Island
Jeanne Borghese
Grosse chaleur
Marie-Sophie Merceron
Passage interdit
Mathilde Auger
The Woman I'm Watching
Camille
Vivement dimanche
Self
Un et un font six
Laurence Poirier
Una bambina di troppo
Nicole
L'Enfant tombée du ciel
Nicole
Pour l'amour de Thomas
Véronique
The Castle of Olive Trees
Estelle Laborie
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
Elisabeth Halbritter
A Vampire in Paradise
Mrs. Belfond
Shipwrecked Children
Hélène
Ferbac
Martine
The Last Butterfly
Věra
Dial Code Santa Claus
Julie de Frémont
Chillers
Sylvia
L'Été de la Révolution
Marie-Antoinette
L'Été de la Révolution
Marie-Antoinette
Cinema Paradiso
Elena Mendola (adult)
Sacrée soirée
Self
Matin Bonheur
Self
L'Affaire Caillaux
Henriette
Vivement Truffaut
Self / Geneviève (archive footage)