Brigitte Fossey
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Brigitte Fossey

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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.

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Films Featuring Brigitte Fossey

The Party

19806.6

The Party 2

19826.4

The Man Who Loved Women

19777.1

The Neverending Party

20236.0

Going Places

19746.7

Vivement Truffaut

19857.5

The Glass Cell

19786.9

Croque la vie

19813.5

Enigma

19825.6

The Good and the Bad

19765.6

Raphael or the Debauched One

19716.1

Farewell, Friend

19686.3

Forbidden Games

19527.8

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

19717.0

The Wanderer

19675.7

Les Rois de la comédie

20236.3

A Bad Son

19807.4

Femmes Fatales

19766.1

Quintet

19795.0

Dial Code Santa Claus

19906.0

Droit de Réponse

19818.3

Le Jeune Marié

19836.3

The Man Who Died Twice

19737.0

For Those I Loved

19837.0

Big Kids

20237.0

René Clément au cœur de la nouvelle vague

2013

Le Mystère Joséphine

2009

Un caso d'incoscienza

19858.0

The Way to Happiness

20225.9

The Last Butterfly

19915.8

Second to Nun

Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence

2014

The Happy Road

19576.1

A Vampire in Paradise

19925.5

Mon Heroine

20226.2

A Strange Passion

19844.9

Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel

19928.0

The Woman I'm Watching

19987.0

The Bastard

1983

Imperative

19826.2

The Future of Emily

19856.4

Scarlet Fever

19838.5

Les Fausses Confidences

19845.5

L'Été de la Révolution

1989

Une femme nommée Marie

2011

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable

20226.0

The Honey Flowers

19764.6

Closet Children

Closet Children

19775.8

Chanel Solitaire

19815.0

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

20228.7

Don't Tell Her

20175.5

The Goodbye Singing

19774.8

The Irony of Chance

19745.6

Grosse chaleur

20046.0

The Brigade

19759.0

Infidelity

20185.6

The Triple Death of the Third Character

19816.0

Les Disparus de Valenciennes

20186.4

Blue Country

19775.8

Civil Wars in France

197810.0

Shipwrecked Children

19924.4

Pour l'amour de Thomas

19958.0

Raining Cats and Dogs

20196.6

Death on the Island

2008

Mais où et donc Ornicar

19797.5

'M' as in Mathieu

19734.3

L'Enfant tombée du ciel

19958.0

Passage interdit

20007.0

François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay

20246.4

Innocent Love Stories under Occupation

2012

Romy Schneider, face à son destin

20238.0

Erica Minor

19744.9

The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland

1973

Una bambina di troppo

199510.0

Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables

2021

Parade nuptiale

Parade nuptiale

Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément

202210.0

Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français

20265.0

Cinema Paradiso

19888.4