Acting
Brigitte Fossey
EN, FR, IT, DE cinema · 78 credits
Born
15 June 1946 (age 80)
Birthplace
Tourcoing, Nord, France
Also known as Brigitte Florence Fossey
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
Second to Nun
as Sister Maria Claire
Sophie Marceau, à voix haute
as Self (archive footage)
The Neverending Party
as Self - Actress
Big Kids
Actor
The Way to Happiness
as Judith Askelevicz
Mon Heroine
as Jeanne
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
as Self - actress
Raining Cats and Dogs
as Angèle
Infidelity
as Mère de Marie
Les Disparus de Valenciennes
as Christiane Tortois
Don't Tell Her
as Violette
Innocent Love Stories under Occupation
as Self – Interviewee
Une femme nommée Marie
as Voice of Marie (voice)
Le Mystère Joséphine
as Rose Claire
Death on the Island
as Jeanne Borghese
Grosse chaleur
as Marie-Sophie Merceron
Passage interdit
as Mathilde Auger
The Woman I'm Watching
as Camille
Pour l'amour de Thomas
as Véronique
Una bambina di troppo
as Nicole
A Vampire in Paradise
as Mrs. Belfond
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
as Elisabeth Halbritter
Shipwrecked Children
as Hélène
Dial Code Santa Claus
as Julie de Frémont
L'Été de la Révolution
as Marie-Antoinette
Cinema Paradiso
as Elena Mendola (adult)
Vivement Truffaut
as Self / Geneviève (archive footage)
Un caso d'incoscienza
as Elisabeth
The Future of Emily
as Isabelle
A Strange Passion
as Elvire
Les Fausses Confidences
as Araminte
Le Jeune Marié
as Viviane
For Those I Loved
as Dina Gray
The Bastard
as Foreman's wife
Scarlet Fever
as Nicole
The Party 2
as Françoise Beretton
Enigma
as Karen Reinhardt
Imperative
as Yvonne
Croque la vie
as Catherine
Droit de Réponse
as Self
Chanel Solitaire
as Adrienne
The Triple Death of the Third Character
as The French woman
The Party
as Françoise Beretton
A Bad Son
as Catherine
Quintet
as Vivia, Essex's Wife
The Glass Cell
as Lisa Braun
Civil Wars in France
as Andrée Léo (segment "La semaine sanglante")
The Man Who Loved Women
as Geneviève Bigey
The Goodbye Singing
as Marguerite
Blue Country
as Louise Morand
The Good and the Bad
as Dominique
Femmes Fatales
as Suzanne Dufour
The Honey Flowers
as Sylvie
The Brigade
as Katia
Going Places
as Woman on the train
The Irony of Chance
as Ursula
Erica Minor
as Anne
The Man Who Died Twice
as Denise
'M' as in Mathieu
as Jeanne / Murielle
The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland
as Grande Alice
Raphael or the Debauched One
as Bernardine
Farewell, Friend
as Dominique "Waterloo" Austerlitz
The Wanderer
as Yvonne de Galais
The Happy Road
as Janine Duval
Forbidden Games
as Paulette