Brigitte Fossey
Born: 1946-06-15 in Tourcoing, Nord, France
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2026
- Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français as Self - actress
2024
2023
- Big Kids
- The Neverending Party as Self - Actress
- Les Rois de la comédie as Self
- Romy Schneider, face à son destin as Self
2022
- Revival as Françoise
- Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément as Self
- Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable as Self
- Patrick Dewaere, My Hero as Self - actress
- Mon Heroine as Jeanne
- The Way to Happiness as Judith Askelevicz
2019
- Raining Cats and Dogs as Angèle
2018
- Love in Vienna as Monique
- Infidelity as Mère de Marie
- Les Disparus de Valenciennes as Christiane Tortois
2017
- Banking District as Blanche Grangier
- Don't Tell Her as Violette
2014
- A Family Secret as Hélène
- Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence as Self
2013
2012
- Innocent Love Stories under Occupation as Self – Interviewee
2011
- Une femme nommée Marie as Voice of Marie (voice)
2009
- Le Mystère Joséphine as Rose Claire
2008
- Death on the Island as Jeanne Borghese
2004
- Grosse chaleur as Marie-Sophie Merceron
2000
- Passage interdit as Mathilde Auger
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- The Woman I'm Watching as Camille
1997
- Un et un font six as Laurence Poirier
1995
- Una bambina di troppo as Nicole
- L'Enfant tombée du ciel as Nicole
- Pour l'amour de Thomas as Véronique
1993
- The Castle of Olive Trees as Estelle Laborie
1992
- Shipwrecked Children as Hélène
- Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel as Elisabeth Halbritter
- A Vampire in Paradise as Mrs. Belfond
1991
- The Last Butterfly as Věra
- Ferbac as Martine
1990
- Chillers as Sylvia
- Dial Code Santa Claus as Julie de Frémont
1989
- L'Été de la Révolution as Marie-Antoinette
- L'Été de la Révolution as Marie-Antoinette
1988
- Cinema Paradiso as Elena Mendola (adult)
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self
- Matin Bonheur as Self
1985
- Au nom de tous les miens as Dina
- L'Affaire Caillaux as Henriette
- Vivement Truffaut as Self / Geneviève (archive footage)
- The Future of Emily as Isabelle
- Un caso d'incoscienza as Elisabeth
1984
- Les Fausses Confidences as Araminte
- A Strange Passion as Elvire
1983
- For Those I Loved as Dina Gray
- Le Jeune Marié as Viviane
- The Bastard as Foreman's wife
- Scarlet Fever as Nicole
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- The Party 2 as Françoise Beretton
- Enigma as Karen Reinhardt
- Imperative as Yvonne
1981
- Chanel Solitaire as Adrienne
- Droit de Réponse as Self
- Croque la vie as Catherine
- The Triple Death of the Third Character as The French woman
1979
- Quintet as Vivia, Essex's Wife
- Mais où et donc Ornicar as Anne
1978
- Ciné regards as Self
- The Glass Cell as Lisa Braun
- Civil Wars in France as Andrée Léo (segment "La semaine sanglante")
1977
- The Man Who Loved Women as Geneviève Bigey
- The Goodbye Singing as Marguerite
- Blue Country as Louise Morand
- Closet Children as Juliette
1976
- Femmes Fatales as Suzanne Dufour
- The Good and the Bad as Dominique
- The Honey Flowers as Sylvie
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- Les Grands Détectives as Julia
- The Brigade as Katia
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Going Places as Woman on the train
- Erica Minor as Anne
- The Irony of Chance as Ursula
1973
- The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland as Grande Alice
- 'M' as in Mathieu as Jeanne / Murielle
- The Man Who Died Twice as Denise
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Les Gens de Mogador as Dominique Vernet (adulte)
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
- Raphael or the Debauched One as Bernardine
- Crime and Punishment as Sonia
1970
- Les Cent Livres des Hommes as Clélia
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