Brigitte Fossey

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Brigitte Fossey, born June 15, 1946 (1946-06-15) (age 63) in Tourcoing, Nord, is a French actress.

Early years

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.¹ Fossey played the role of an innocent child orphaned by World War II. The film won numerous awards world-wide 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. ² While completing her education, Fossey studied piano and dance and then went on to work in Geneva, Switzerland as an interpreter/translator.³

Career

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. During the 1990s, she began performing almost exclusively in television productions.

Personal life

Brigitte Fossey has a daughter from her marriage to director Jean-François Adam, whom she met while making his 1970 film M comme Mathieu.

Awards and recognition

• 1977: Nominated for a César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Le Bon et les méchants
• 1978: Nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Les Enfants du placard

Selected filmography

• Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) (1951)
• La Corda d'acciaio (1953)
• The Happy Road (1957)
• Le Grand Meaulnes (1966)
• M comme Mathieu (1970)
• Raphaël ou le débauché (1971)
• Les Valseuses (1973)
• Calmos (1975)
• L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (The Man Who Loved Women) (1976)
• Le Bon et les méchants (The Good Guys and the Bad Guys) (1976)
• Les Enfants du placard (Closet Children) (1977)
• The Glass Cell (1978)
• Quintet (1979)
• La Boum (1980)
• Chanel Solitaire (1981)
• Enigma (1983)
• Cinema Paradiso (1988)

References

External links

• Brigitte Fossey at the Internet Movie Database

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