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Brigitte Fossey
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…
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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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2026
Sophie Marceau, à voix haute
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Movie Self - actress
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2024
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
Movie Self
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2023
Romy Schneider, face à son destin
Movie Self
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2023
Big Kids
Movie
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2023
The Neverending Party
Movie Self - Actress
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2023
Les Rois de la comédie
Movie Self
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2022
Mon Heroine
Movie Jeanne
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2022
Revival
TV show Françoise
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2022
The Way to Happiness
Movie Judith Askelevicz
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2022
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
Movie Self - actress
- 2022
- 2022
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2021
Un monde, un regard
TV show
- 2021
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2019
Raining Cats and Dogs
Movie Angèle
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2018
Love in Vienna
TV show Monique
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2018
Infidelity
Movie Mère de Marie
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2018
Les Disparus de Valenciennes
Movie Christiane Tortois
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2017
Banking District
TV show Blanche Grangier
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2017
Don't Tell Her
Movie Violette
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2014
A Family Secret
TV show Hélène
- 2014
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2013
René Clément au cœur de la nouvelle vague
Movie Self
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2012
Innocent Love Stories under Occupation
Movie Self – Interviewee
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2011
Une femme nommée Marie
Movie Voice of Marie (voice)
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2009
Le Mystère Joséphine
Movie Rose Claire
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2008
Death on the Island
Movie Jeanne Borghese
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2004
Grosse chaleur
Movie Marie-Sophie Merceron
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2000
Passage interdit
Movie Mathilde Auger
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1998
The Woman I'm Watching
Movie Camille
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1998
Vivement dimanche
TV show Self
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1997
Un et un font six
TV show Laurence Poirier
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1995
Una bambina di troppo
Movie Nicole
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1995
L'Enfant tombée du ciel
Movie Nicole
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1995
Pour l'amour de Thomas
Movie Véronique
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1993
The Castle of Olive Trees
TV show Estelle Laborie
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1992
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
Movie Elisabeth Halbritter
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1992
A Vampire in Paradise
Movie Mrs. Belfond
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1992
Shipwrecked Children
Movie Hélène
