Brigitte Fossey
Date of birth: 1946-06-15
Place of birth: Tourcoing, Nord, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Brigitte Florence Fossey
Biography
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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The Party
1980-12-17
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the sa
The Party 2
1982-12-08
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of h
The Man Who Loved Women
1977-04-27
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas
The Neverending Party
2023-01-20
A look-back at popular French movie "La Boum" (The Party).
The Glass Cell
1978-04-06
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventur
Going Places
1974-03-20
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight,
Vivement Truffaut
1985-07-12
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly nam
Croque la vie
1981-11-18
Friendships and business do not mix, that's what we find with Theresa, Catherine and Alain, three lo
Enigma
1982-10-15
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In ord
Raphael or the Debauched One
1971-04-02
In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initia
The Good and the Bad
1976-01-19
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspir
Farewell, Friend
1968-08-14
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and
The Wanderer
1967-09-29
Rural France, the 1890s. Always in motion, Augustin wanders three times. First, as a youth, while a
Crime and Punishment
1971-01-20
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. Whe
Forbidden Games
1952-05-09
Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant
Les Rois de la comédie
2023-01-01
At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel wi
A Bad Son
1980-10-14
Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is a
Femmes Fatales
1976-02-11
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond.
Quintet
1979-02-09
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Q
Dial Code Santa Claus
1990-01-17
Thomas de Frémont, a precocious child obsessed with action films, sets himself up for a terrifying C
Droit de Réponse
1981-12-12
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Le Jeune Marié
1983-05-11
Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party.
The Man Who Died Twice
1973-04-13
A painter who surfaces after having disappeared for seven years finds himself contending with art fo
For Those I Loved
1983-10-12
Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.
Big Kids
2023-06-15
A café terrace. Couples of teenagers are sitting here and there. They discuss things in life, but cu
Le mystère Joséphine
2009-12-31
René Clément au cœur de la nouvelle vague
2013-01-01
Un caso d'incoscienza
1985-07-10
In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of
The Way to Happiness
2022-06-15
Saul escaped the coming Shoah as a child by being sent from Vienna to Brussels by a Kindertransport.
The Last Butterfly
1991-01-01
Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Te
Second to Nun
A second take in life, with nun of the regrets.
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
2014-08-01
The Happy Road
1957-06-20
Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents
Mon Heroine
2022-12-14
A young girl from Rouen dreams about directing movies with Julia Roberts. Overprotected by her mothe
A Vampire in Paradise
1992-08-19
Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely you
A Strange Passion
1984-11-21
French film based on the story Der Findling by german author Heinrich von Kleist.
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
1992-08-20
The Woman I'm Watching
1998-11-19
The unpredictable destiny of a woman abandoned by the man she loves. Who could have predicted that t
The Bastard
1983-06-15
The erratic life of Patrice who, after having murdered the pimp of his mother to avenge the death of
Imperative
1982-04-01
Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense o
The Future of Emily
1985-05-31
Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes
Scarlet Fever
1983-08-08
In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by wom
Les Fausses Confidences
1984-10-02
Araminte is a wealthy young widow. Over a matter of land, she is in conflict with Count Dorimont, wh
L'Été de la Révolution
1989-07-11
Part 1: In May 1789, in Versailles, a game tug of war takes place between conservative and more prog
Une femme nommée Marie
2011-08-13
August 2011 pageant performance staged by Robert Hossein depicting St. Bernadette's encounter with M
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
2022-01-01
"And God Created Woman", "Il Sorpasso", "A Man and a Woman", "The Conformist", "Amour"... the list o
The Honey Flowers
1976-04-06
On the hill in Saint-Cloud, in a broad street bordered by residences, a delivery man is going throug
Closet Children
1977-10-12
A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by
Chanel Solitaire
1981-10-16
The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and b
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2022-05-17
The actress Lola Dewaere recounts the film career and traumatic life of celebrated actor Patrick Dew
Don't Tell Her
2017-01-04
Laura, Eve, Anouch and Yaël are four cousins, very different and very endearing, who have one thing
The Goodbye Singing
1977-12-08
In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyo
The Irony of Chance
1974-04-30
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened
Grosse chaleur
2004-09-29
On vacation in the Luberon, a high ranking civil servant, in love with the good old fashioned thinki
The Brigade
1975-05-07
This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France
Infidelity
2018-10-05
Setting out on her own, 25-year-old Alice visits several apartments with the help of real estate age
The Triple Death of the Third Character
1981-06-05
After spending a long time in prison, a man is pursued by international agents who want to kill him.
Les Disparus de Valenciennes
2018-03-24
Love in Vienna
2018-12-14
Love blossoms when Melody is assigned to track down a reclusive pianist and covince him to play a cl
Blue Country
1977-02-23
Brigitte Fossey stars as a repressed young nurse who hopes that moving from the city to the country
Civil Wars in France
1978-03-15
Shipwrecked Children
1992-02-19
Eight children of a wrecker live together on a strange island, in a supernatural happiness. Until th
Pour l'amour de Thomas
1995-02-24
A young HIV-positive man returns to his birthplace in Québec and tries to live life as fully as poss
Raining Cats and Dogs
2019-10-25
Two down-on-their-luck strangers become improbable companions in misfortune.
Death on the Island
2008-10-06
Violette Castillon, a young Parisian lawyer, goes to the Île de Ré where a criminal named Stany clai
Mais où et donc Ornicar
1979-02-28
They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have lo
'M' as in Mathieu
1973-04-05
Mathieu is collected from the hospital by his wife, and dropped of at an apartment. His wife returns
L'Enfant tombée du ciel
1995-06-13
An Italian family welcomes a little girl fleeing the Sarajevo war.
Passage interdit
2000-01-03
Residents of an old building in a Parisian neighborhood are fighting against a plan to turn the plac
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
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At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgen
Innocent Love Stories under Occupation
2012-11-06
Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of René Clément's 1952 film "Fo
Romy Schneider, face à son destin
2023-11-24
Erica Minor
1974-03-20
Crossed portraits of three women each living in the aftermath of the events of May 1968.
The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland
1973-12-28
"This book is a descent into the soul of a child." On November 26th, 1865, Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's
Una bambina di troppo
1995-06-13
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
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