Portrait of Brigitte Fossey

Brigitte Fossey

Acting

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.

Born: June 15, 1946

Place of Birth: Tourcoing, Nord, France

Known For

Filmography

2023
The Neverending Party

as Self - Actress

2022
Mon Heroine

as Jeanne

2022
Revival

as Françoise

2022
The Way to Happiness

as Judith Askelevicz

2022
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

as Self - actress

2019
2018
Love in Vienna

as Monique

2018
Infidelity

as Mère de Marie

2018
Les Disparus de Valenciennes

as Christiane Tortois

2017
Banking District

as Blanche Grangier

2017
Don't Tell Her

as Violette

2016
Love In…

as Monique

2014
A Family Secret

as Hélène

2012
2011
Une femme nommée Marie

as Voice of Marie (voice)

2009
2008
Death on the Island

as Jeanne Borghese

2004
Grosse chaleur

as Marie-Sophie Merceron

2000
Passage interdit

as Mathilde Auger

1997
Un et un font six

as Laurence Poirier

1995
1993
The Castle of Olive Trees

as Estelle Laborie

1992
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel

as Elisabeth Halbritter

1992
A Vampire in Paradise

as Mrs. Belfond

1992
1991
Ferbac

as Martine

1991
1990
Dial Code Santa Claus

as Julie de Frémont

1990
Chillers

as Sylvia

1989
L'Été de la Révolution

as Marie-Antoinette

1989
L'Été de la Révolution

as Marie-Antoinette

1987
1985
L'Affaire Caillaux

as Henriette

1985
Vivement Truffaut

as Self / Geneviève (archive footage)

1985
1985
1984
1983
For Those I Loved

as Dina Gray

1983
Scarlet Fever

as Nicole

1983
The Bastard

as Foreman's wife

1983
Le Jeune Marié

as Viviane

1982
The Party 2

as Françoise Beretton

1982
Enigma

as Karen Reinhardt

1982
Imperative

as Yvonne

1982
1981
Croque la vie

as Catherine

1981
Chanel Solitaire

as Adrienne

1980
The Party

as Françoise Beretton

1980
A Bad Son

as Catherine

1979
Quintet

as Vivia, Essex's Wife

1978
The Glass Cell

as Lisa Braun

1978
Civil Wars in France

as Andrée Léo (segment "La semaine sanglante")

1977
The Goodbye Singing

as Marguerite

1977
The Man Who Loved Women

as Geneviève Bigey

1977
Blue Country

as Louise Morand

1976
Femmes Fatales

as Suzanne Dufour

1976
1975
The Brigade

as Katia

1975
Numéro un

as Self

1974
1974
1974
Going Places

as Woman on the train

1974
1973
'M' as in Mathieu

as Jeanne / Murielle

1972
Les Gens de Mogador

as Dominique Vernet (adulte)

1970
1968
Farewell, Friend

as Dominique "Waterloo" Austerlitz

1967
The Wanderer

as Yvonne de Galais

1957
The Happy Road

as Janine Duval

1952
Forbidden Games

as Paulette

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Second to Nun

as Sister Maria Claire