Brigitte Fossey

Known for ActingBorn 1946-06-15 (age 79)Tourcoing, Nord, France

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.Read more

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Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément

Una bambina di troppo

Civil Wars in France

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

Spécial cinéma

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

L'Été de la Révolution

L'Affaire Caillaux

The Brigade

Les Grands Détectives

Scarlet Fever

Romy Schneider, face à son destin

Droit de Réponse

Pour l'amour de Thomas

L'Enfant tombée du ciel

Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel

Un caso d'incoscienza

Le Grand Échiquier

Les Gens de Mogador

Vivement Truffaut

Mais où et donc Ornicar

Forbidden Games

Numéro un

A Bad Son

Passage interdit

The Woman I'm Watching

Ferbac

The Man Who Loved Women

Au nom de tous les miens

Raining Cats and Dogs

For Those I Loved

The Neverending Party

The Man Who Died Twice

Crime and Punishment

The Glass Cell

The Castle of Olive Trees

François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay

Chillers

Les Disparus de Valenciennes

Champs-Elysées

Les Rois de la comédie

Mon Heroine

Going Places

The Party

The Future of Emily

The Party 2

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable

Revival