Brigitte Fossey
After an impressive youthful debut in René Clément's "Forbidden Games," French actress Brigitte Fossey enjoyed a brief career as a child actor before leaving the business to lead a normal life, eventually returning again to work with such renowned directors as François Truffaut, Robert Altman, and Claude Lelouch. She was only five years old when cast as a child orphaned during World War II in the Academy Award-winning 1952 film "Forbidden Games." Her performance earned her a spot in Gene Kelly's comedy "The Happy Road," after which she withdrew from the business, studying piano, dance, and philosophy before working as an interpreter and translator in Geneva. Her return to cinema came in a leading role in the 1967 romance "The Wanderer," after which she worked regularly in stage, TV, and film productions. She earned a César nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Lelouch's "The Good and the Bad" and played one of the many conquests of the main character in Truffaut's "The Man Who Loved Women." In "Quintet," an unusual science fiction picture (and rare misfire) by Robert Altman, she played the wife of Paul Newman. Later appearances by Fossey have included French series and TV movies.
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Brigitte Fossey
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mon héroïne | Jeanne (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Way to Happiness | Judith Askelevicz (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love In Vienna | Monique (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Tell Her | Violette (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For Thomas' Sake | Véronique (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les Enfants du Naufrageur | Hélène (Character) | - | 1992 |
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The Last Butterfly | Vera (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For Those I Loved | Dina Gray (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scarlet Fever | Nicole Palazzi (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Boum II | Françoise Beretton (Character) | - | 1982 |
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Enigma | Karen Reinhardt (Character) | - | 1982 |
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La boum 2 | Françoise Beretton (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Croque la Vie | Catherine (Character) | - | 1982 |
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Chanel Solitaire | Adrienne (Character) | - | 1981 |
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The Party | Françoise Beretton (Character) | - | 1980 |
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Un Mauvais Fils | Catherine Segal (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Bad Son | Catherine (Character) | - | 1980 |
27% |
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Quintet | Vivia, Essex's Wife (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Glass Cell | Lisa Braun (Character) | - | 1978 |
82% |
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The Man Who Loved Women | Geneviève Bigey (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Blue Country | Louise Morand (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Closet Children | Juliette (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le Bon et les Mechants | Dominique (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Femmes Fatales | Suzanne Dufour (Character) | - | 1975 |
71% |
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Going Places | Woman in the train (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Getting It Up | Le femme du train (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Died Twice | Denise (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | M comme Mathieu | Unknown (Character) | - | 1973 |
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Honor Among Thieves | Dominique `'Waterloo'` Austerlitz (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wanderer | Yvonne de Galais (Character) | - | 1967 |
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The Happy Road | Janine Duval (Character) | - | 1957 |
100% |
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Forbidden Games | Paulette (Character) | $14.0K | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mais où et donc Ornicar | Unknown (Character) | - |