Brigitte Fossey

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.

Known For

Champs-Elysées

Spécial cinéma

Vivement dimanche

Sacrée soirée

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Numéro un

Le Grand Échiquier

Going Places

All Movies (78)

• Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français2026 · as Self - actress
• François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay2024 · as Self
• Romy Schneider, face à son destin2023 · as Self
• Big Kids2023
• The Neverending Party2023 · as Self - Actress
• Les Rois de la comédie2023 · as Self
• Mon Heroine2022 · as Jeanne
• The Way to Happiness2022 · as Judith Askelevicz
• Patrick Dewaere, My Hero2022 · as Self - actress
• Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable2022 · as Self
• Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément2022 · as Self
• Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables2021
• Raining Cats and Dogs2019 · as Angèle
• Infidelity2018 · as Mère de Marie
• Les Disparus de Valenciennes2018 · as Christiane Tortois
• Don't Tell Her2017 · as Violette
• Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence2014 · as Self
• René Clément au cœur de la nouvelle vague2013 · as Self
• Innocent Love Stories under Occupation2012 · as Self – Interviewee
• Une femme nommée Marie2011 · as Voice of Marie (voice)
• Le Mystère Joséphine2009 · as Rose Claire
• Death on the Island2008 · as Jeanne Borghese
• Grosse chaleur2004 · as Marie-Sophie Merceron
• Passage interdit2000 · as Mathilde Auger
• The Woman I'm Watching1998 · as Camille
• L'Enfant tombée du ciel1995 · as Nicole
• Una bambina di troppo1995 · as Nicole
• Pour l'amour de Thomas1995 · as Véronique
• Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel1992 · as Elisabeth Halbritter
• A Vampire in Paradise1992 · as Mrs. Belfond
• Shipwrecked Children1992 · as Hélène
• The Last Butterfly1991 · as Věra
• Dial Code Santa Claus1990 · as Julie de Frémont
• L'Été de la Révolution1989 · as Marie-Antoinette
• Vivement Truffaut1985 · as Self / Geneviève (archive footage)
• Un caso d'incoscienza1985 · as Elisabeth
• The Future of Emily1985 · as Isabelle
• A Strange Passion1984 · as Elvire
• Les Fausses Confidences1984 · as Araminte
• For Those I Loved1983 · as Dina Gray
• Scarlet Fever1983 · as Nicole
• The Bastard1983 · as Foreman's wife
• Le Jeune Marié1983 · as Viviane
• The Party 21982 · as Françoise Beretton
• Enigma1982 · as Karen Reinhardt
• Imperative1982 · as Yvonne
• Droit de Réponse1981 · as Self
• Croque la vie1981 · as Catherine
• Chanel Solitaire1981 · as Adrienne
• The Triple Death of the Third Character1981 · as The French woman
• The Party1980 · as Françoise Beretton
• A Bad Son1980 · as Catherine
• Mais où et donc Ornicar1979 · as Anne
• Quintet1979 · as Vivia, Essex's Wife
• The Glass Cell1978 · as Lisa Braun
• Civil Wars in France1978 · as Andrée Léo (segment "La semaine sanglante")
• The Goodbye Singing1977 · as Marguerite
• Closet Children1977 · as Juliette
• The Man Who Loved Women1977 · as Geneviève Bigey
• Blue Country1977 · as Louise Morand
• The Honey Flowers1976 · as Sylvie
• Femmes Fatales1976 · as Suzanne Dufour
• The Good and the Bad1976 · as Dominique
• The Brigade1975 · as Katia
• The Irony of Chance1974 · as Ursula
• Going Places1974 · as Woman on the train
• Erica Minor1974 · as Anne
• The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland1973 · as Grande Alice
• The Man Who Died Twice1973 · as Denise
• 'M' as in Mathieu1973 · as Jeanne / Murielle
• Raphael or the Debauched One1971 · as Bernardine
• Crime and Punishment1971 · as Sonia
• Farewell, Friend1968 · as Dominique "Waterloo" Austerlitz
• The Wanderer1967 · as Yvonne de Galais
• The Happy Road1957 · as Janine Duval
• Forbidden Games1952 · as Paulette
• Second to Nun— · as Sister Maria Claire
• Parade nuptiale—

All TV Shows (25)

• Revival2022 · as Françoise
• Un monde, un regard2021
• Love in Vienna2018 · as Monique
• Banking District2017 · as Blanche Grangier
• A Family Secret2014 · as Hélène
• Vivement dimanche1998 · as Self
• Un et un font six1997 · as Laurence Poirier
• The Castle of Olive Trees1993 · as Estelle Laborie
• Ferbac1991 · as Martine
• Chillers1990 · as Sylvia
• L'Été de la Révolution1989 · as Marie-Antoinette
• Sacrée soirée1987 · as Self
• Matin Bonheur1987 · as Self
• L'Affaire Caillaux1985 · as Henriette
• Au nom de tous les miens1985 · as Dina
• Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
• Les Grands Détectives1975 · as Julia
• Numéro un1975 · as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Les Gens de Mogador1972 · as Dominique Vernet (adulte)
• Le Grand Échiquier1972 · as Self
• Samedi soir1971 · as Self
• Les Cent Livres des Hommes1970 · as Clélia
• Les Cent Livres des Hommes1970 · as Grande Alice