Brigitte Fossey
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7627 |
| Birthday | 1946-06-15 |
| Place of Birth | Tourcoing, Nord, France |
| Also Known As | Brigitte Florence Fossey, |
1980
The Party
6.594/1211
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
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1982
The Party 2
6.43/655
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1977
The Man Who Loved Women
7.136/209
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The Man Who Loved Women
2023
The Neverending Party
6.5/2
A look-back at popular French movie "La Boum" (The Party).
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1978
The Glass Cell
6.875/8
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1974
Going Places
6.669/490
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1985
Vivement Truffaut
7.5/2
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1981
Croque la vie
3.571/7
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1982
Enigma
5.619/42
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1971
Raphael or the Debauched One
6.022/23
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The Good and the Bad
5.595/37
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1968
Farewell, Friend
6.285/107
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1967
The Wanderer
5.708/12
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1971
Crime and Punishment
7/1
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1952
Forbidden Games
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6.3/3
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1980
A Bad Son
7.395/62
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1976
Femmes Fatales
6.126/139
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1979
Quintet
5.182/74
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Quintet
1990
Dial Code Santa Claus
5.979/117
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1981
Droit de Réponse
8.333/3
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Droit de Réponse
1983
Le Jeune Marié
6.333/3
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Le Jeune Marié
1973
The Man Who Died Twice
7/1
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1983
For Those I Loved
6.956/34
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2023
Big Kids
0/0
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2009
Le Mystère Joséphine
0/0
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2013
René Clément au cœur de la nouvelle vague
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1985
Un caso d'incoscienza
8/1
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2022
The Way to Happiness
5.9/5
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1991
The Last Butterfly
5.818/11
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Second to Nun
0/0
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2014
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
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1957
The Happy Road
6.125/8
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2022
Mon Heroine
6.2/51
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1992
A Vampire in Paradise
5.5/2
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1984
A Strange Passion
4.857/7
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1992
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
8/1
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1998
The Woman I'm Watching
7/1
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1983
The Bastard
0/0
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1982
Imperative
6.2/5
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1985
The Future of Emily
6.75/4
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1983
Scarlet Fever
8.5/2
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1984
Les Fausses Confidences
5.5/3
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L'Été de la Révolution
0/0
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Une femme nommée Marie
0/0
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2022
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
6/1
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The Honey Flowers
4.625/4
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The Honey Flowers
1977
Closet Children
5.8/5
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Closet Children
1981
Chanel Solitaire
5/9
The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.
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2022
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
9/8
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Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2017
Don't Tell Her
5.4/118
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Don't Tell Her
1977
The Goodbye Singing
4.8/5
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The Goodbye Singing
1974
The Irony of Chance
5.563/8
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise co...
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The Irony of Chance
2004
Grosse chaleur
6/1
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Grosse chaleur
1975
The Brigade
9/1
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2018
Infidelity
5.6/23
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Infidelity
1981
The Triple Death of the Third Character
6/5
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The Triple Death of the Third Character
2018
Les Disparus de Valenciennes
6.4/12
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Les Disparus de Valenciennes
2018
Love in Vienna
5.9/32
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Love in Vienna
1977
Blue Country
5.5/3
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Blue Country
1978
Civil Wars in France
10/1
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Civil Wars in France
1992
Shipwrecked Children
4.4/5
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Shipwrecked Children
1995
Pour l'amour de Thomas
8/1
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Pour l'amour de Thomas
2019
Raining Cats and Dogs
6.6/23
Two down-on-their-luck strangers become improbable companions in misfortune.
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Raining Cats and Dogs
2008
Death on the Island
0/0
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Death on the Island
1979
Mais où et donc Ornicar
7.5/2
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Mais où et donc Ornicar
1973
'M' as in Mathieu
4.333/6
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'M' as in Mathieu
1995
L'Enfant tombée du ciel
8/1
An Italian family welcomes a little girl fleeing the Sarajevo war.
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L'Enfant tombée du ciel
2000
Passage interdit
7/1
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2024
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
6.4/6
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2012
Innocent Love Stories under Occupation
0/0
Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of René Clément's 1952 film "Forbidden Games."
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2023
Romy Schneider, face à son destin
8/1
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1974
Erica Minor
4.875/4
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1973
The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland
0/0
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1995
Una bambina di troppo
10/1
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2021
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
0/0
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Parade nuptiale
0/0
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2022
Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément
10/1
An immersion into the diverse filmography of René Clément, a rare popular filmmaker also loved by critics, famous in particular for "Purple Noon".
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