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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Movies (78)
Sophie Marceau, à voix haute
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026 · Self - actress
Romy Schneider, face à son destin
2023 · Self
Big Kids
2023
The Neverending Party
2023 · Self - Actress
Les Rois de la comédie
2023 · Self
Mon Heroine
2022 · Jeanne
The Way to Happiness
2022 · Judith Askelevicz
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2022 · Self - actress
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mysterious and Elusive
2022 · Self
Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément
2022 · Self
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
2021
Raining Cats and Dogs
2019 · Angèle
Infidelity
2018 · Mère de Marie
Les Disparus de Valenciennes
2018 · Christiane Tortois
Don't Tell Her
2017 · Violette
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
2014 · Self
René Clément au cœur de la nouvelle vague
2013 · Self
Innocent Love Stories under Occupation
2012 · Self – Interviewee
Une femme nommée Marie
2011 · Voice of Marie (voice)
Le Mystère Joséphine
2009 · Rose Claire
Death on the Island
2008 · Jeanne Borghese
Grosse chaleur
2004 · Marie-Sophie Merceron
Passage interdit
2000 · Mathilde Auger
The Woman I'm Watching
1998 · Camille
Una bambina di troppo
1995 · Nicole
Pour l'amour de Thomas
1995 · Véronique
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
1992 · Elisabeth Halbritter
A Vampire in Paradise
1992 · Mrs. Belfond
Shipwrecked Children
1992 · Hélène
The Last Butterfly
1991 · Věra
Dial Code Santa Claus
1990 · Julie de Frémont
L'Été de la Révolution
1989 · Marie-Antoinette
Cinema Paradiso
1988 · Elena Mendola (adult)
Vivement Truffaut
1985 · Self / Geneviève (archive footage)
Un caso d'incoscienza
1985 · Elisabeth
The Future of Emily
1985 · Isabelle
A Strange Passion
1984 · Elvire
Les Fausses Confidences
1984 · Araminte
For Those I Loved
1983 · Dina Gray
Scarlet Fever
1983 · Nicole
The Bastard
1983 · Foreman's wife
Le Jeune Marié
1983 · Viviane
The Party 2
1982 · Françoise Beretton
Enigma
1982 · Karen Reinhardt
Imperative
1982 · Yvonne
Droit de Réponse
1981 · Self
Croque la vie
1981 · Catherine
Chanel Solitaire
1981 · Adrienne
The Triple Death of the Third Character
1981 · The French woman
The Party
1980 · Françoise Beretton
A Bad Son
1980 · Catherine
Mais où et donc Ornicar
1979 · Anne
Quintet
1979 · Vivia, Essex's Wife
The Glass Cell
1978 · Lisa Braun
Civil Wars in France
1978 · Andrée Léo (segment "La semaine sanglante")
The Goodbye Singing
1977 · Marguerite
Closet Children
1977 · Juliette
The Man Who Loved Women
1977 · Geneviève Bigey
Blue Country
1977 · Louise Morand
The Honey Flowers
1976 · Sylvie
Femmes Fatales
1976 · Suzanne Dufour
The Good and the Bad
1976 · Dominique
The Brigade
1975 · Katia
The Irony of Chance
1974 · Ursula
Going Places
1974 · Woman on the train
Erica Minor
1974 · Anne
The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland
1973 · Grande Alice
The Man Who Died Twice
1973 · Denise
'M' as in Mathieu
1973 · Jeanne / Murielle
Raphael or the Debauched One
1971 · Bernardine
Crime and Punishment
1971 · Sonia
Farewell, Friend
1968 · Dominique "Waterloo" Austerlitz
The Wanderer
1967 · Yvonne de Galais
The Happy Road
1957 · Janine Duval
Forbidden Games
1952 · Paulette
Second to Nun
· Sister Maria Claire
Parade nuptiale
TV shows (25)
Revival
2022 · Françoise
Un monde, un regard
2021
Love in Vienna
2018 · Monique
Banking District
2017 · Blanche Grangier
A Family Secret
2014 · Hélène
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
Un et un font six
1997 · Laurence Poirier
The Castle of Olive Trees
1993 · Estelle Laborie
Ferbac
1991 · Martine
Chillers
1990 · Sylvia
L'Été de la Révolution
1989 · Marie-Antoinette
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
Matin Bonheur
1987 · Self
L'Affaire Caillaux
1985 · Henriette
Au nom de tous les miens
1985 · Dina
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Ciné regards
1978 · Self
Les Grands Détectives
1975 · Julia
Numéro un
1975 · Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Les Gens de Mogador
1972 · Dominique Vernet (adulte)
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Samedi soir
1971 · Self
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970 · Clélia, Grande Alice