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Brigitte Fossey

Highest Rated: 100% Forbidden Games (1952)

Lowest Rated: 27% Quintet (1979)

Birthday: Jun 15, 1946

Birthplace: Tourcoing, Nord, France

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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Highest rated movies

100% 92% Forbidden Games
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82% 85% The Man Who Loved Women
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71% 86% Going Places
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27% 37% Quintet
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Femmes Fatales
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64% The Party
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The Glass Cell
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78% Un Mauvais Fils
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Scarlet Fever
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Don't Tell Her
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Filmography

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No Score Yet No Score Yet My Heroine 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
No Score Yet 67% 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
No Score Yet 28% Enigma Karen Reinhardt (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 50% La boum 2 Françoise Beretton (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Croque la Vie Catherine (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 100% Chanel Solitaire Adrienne (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 64% The Party Françoise Beretton (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 78% Un Mauvais Fils Catherine Segal (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Bad Son Catherine (Character) - 1980
27% 37% Quintet Vivia, Essex's Wife (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Glass Cell Lisa Braun (Character) - 1978
82% 85% 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% 86% 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
No Score Yet 58% Honor Among Thieves Dominique `'Waterloo'` Austerlitz (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wanderer Yvonne de Galais (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 14% The Happy Road Janine Duval (Character) - 1957
100% 92% Forbidden Games Paulette (Character) $14.0K 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mais où et donc Ornicar Unknown (Character) -