Brigitte Fossey
Acting
Born 1946-06-15
Tourcoing, Nord, France
104 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 César Award for Best Actress Award
César Award for Best Actress 1 nominated
- 1978 Best Actress Nominated Les Enfants du placard
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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.
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Acting
57 credits
Ciné regards
Sacrée soirée
Champs-Elysées
Vivement dimanche
Spécial cinéma
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Le Grand Échiquier
Cinema Paradiso
Numéro un
Samedi soir
Going Places
Chillers
Femmes Fatales
Forbidden Games
The Party
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Matin Bonheur
Farewell, Friend
The Castle of Olive Trees
The Party 2
Infidelity
Les Gens de Mogador
Banking District
Dial Code Santa Claus
Love in Vienna
Crime and Punishment
The Man Who Loved Women
Quintet
Enigma
Revival
Ferbac
The Brigade
Les Disparus de Valenciennes
L'Été de la Révolution
Au nom de tous les miens
L'Affaire Caillaux
Shipwrecked Children
For Those I Loved
A Family Secret
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
Les Grands Détectives
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
L'Enfant tombée du ciel
The Last Butterfly
Droit de Réponse
A Bad Son
Raphael or the Debauched One
Le Jeune Marié
Erica Minor
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
The Happy Road
Les Fausses Confidences
Chanel Solitaire
Mon Heroine
Un et un font six
Les Rois de la comédie
The Woman I'm Watching
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