Brigitte Fossey

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Brigitte Fossey (left) with René Clément and Georges Poujouly in 1953

Brigitte Fossey (born June 15, 1946 in Tourcoing ) is a French actress .

Life

Brigitte Fossey became famous at the age of six when she played one of the leading roles in the Oscar - winning anti - war drama Forbidden Games (1952). The film was made during her school holidays, and Fossey received exceptional critical acclaim for her portrayal of a war orphan. Since her parents wanted her to grow up under normal circumstances and receive a decent education, she was rarely in front of the camera in the years that followed. An exception was her appearance in Gene Kelly's musical film Straße des Glücks from 1956.

In the late 1960s, Fossey made an acting comeback as a young adult. She then worked mainly in auteur cinema, including for François Truffaut in The Man Who Loved Women (1977) and in Germany, among others, with Hans W. Geißendörfer in The Glass Cell (1978). The films The Good and the Bad (1976) and The Conspiratorial Children (1977) earned her nominations for the French César film award . In the early 1980s she played the mother of Sophie Marceau in the La Boum comedies on the side of Claude Brasseur . In the long version of Giuseppe Tornatore's film Cinema Paradiso (1988), Fossey played the role of the elder Elena. The scenes that were cut from the theatrical version are in Italian in the Directors Cut . Since the 1990s, Fossey has mainly been in front of the camera for French television films .

Brigitte Fossey was married to the filmmaker Jean-François Adam from 1966 until his suicide in 1980 . The actress Marie Adam emerged from the marriage.

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SURNAME Fossey, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Tourcoing , Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France