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Brigitte Fossey

Brigitte Fossey

Actor · Born 1946-06-15 · Tourcoing, Nord, France

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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 Rob…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Cinema Paradiso (1988) — Elena Mendola (adult)
  2. The Party (1980) — Françoise Beretton
  3. The Party 2 (1982) — Françoise Beretton
  4. Going Places (1974) — Woman on the train
  5. Forbidden Games (1952) — Paulette
  6. The Man Who Loved Women (1977) — Geneviève Bigey
  7. Femmes Fatales (1976) — Suzanne Dufour
  8. Don't Tell Her (2017) — Violette
  9. Dial Code Santa Claus (1990) — Julie de Frémont
  10. Farewell, Friend (1968) — Dominique "Waterloo" Austerlitz
  11. Quintet (1979) — Vivia, Essex's Wife
  12. A Bad Son (1980) — Catherine
  13. Mon Heroine (2022) — Jeanne
  14. Enigma (1982) — Karen Reinhardt
  15. The Good and the Bad (1976) — Dominique
  16. For Those I Loved (1983) — Dina Gray
  17. Raphael or the Debauched One (1971) — Bernardine
  18. Infidelity (2018) — Mère de Marie
  19. Raining Cats and Dogs (2019) — Angèle
  20. Banking District (2017) — Blanche Grangier
  21. The Wanderer (1967) — Yvonne de Galais
  22. Les Disparus de Valenciennes (2018) — Christiane Tortois
  23. The Last Butterfly (1991) — Věra
  24. Chanel Solitaire (1981) — Adrienne
  25. The Glass Cell (1978) — Lisa Braun
  26. The Happy Road (1957) — Janine Duval
  27. Patrick Dewaere, My Hero (2022) — Self - actress
  28. The Irony of Chance (1974) — Ursula
  29. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
  30. Vivement dimanche (1998) — Self
  31. Croque la vie (1981) — Catherine
  32. A Strange Passion (1984) — Elvire
  33. 'M' as in Mathieu (1973) — Jeanne / Murielle
  34. François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay (2024) — Self
  35. Chillers (1990) — Sylvia
  36. The Way to Happiness (2022) — Judith Askelevicz
  37. Imperative (1982) — Yvonne
  38. The Future of Emily (1985) — Isabelle
  39. Closet Children (1977) — Juliette
  40. The Goodbye Singing (1977) — Marguerite