MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
French nationality
Birth June 15, 1946 (Tourcoing – France)
BIOGRAPHY
The public discovered the golden hair and mischievous eyes of Brigitte Fossey in 1952. The little girl, born in Tourcoing in 1946 to teacher parents, was precocious: she learned to read and write at the age of 3 and made her first no actress at 5 and a half years old! After responding to a classified ad, she was chosen by René Clément to play little Paulette in Forbidden Games , alongside Georges Poujouly . The drama, whose plot takes place during the Second World War, won the Oscar for best foreign film and Brigitte Fossey won an Interpretation Prize at the Venice Festival.
After this founding experience (Brigitte Fossey considers René Clément as her ” childhood pygmalion “), she participated in two other films: A Mother’s Love , shot in Italy, and The Joyful Road , in which she starred. to Gene Kelly ! We will then have to wait 10 years before seeing her again on the poster for a new feature film. The young woman devoted herself to her studies, focusing on letters (hypokhâgne-khâgne), then as an interpreter in Geneva.
She returned to the forefront at the age of 21, when she received an offer from Jean-Gabriel Albicocco to star in an adaptation of Le Grand Meaulnes (1967). The following year, she starred alongside Alain Delon in Adieu l’ami , a detective film by Jean Herman . In 1970, she played in M comme Mathieu with Sami Frey and Bulle Ogier , a shoot on which she had a decisive meeting… The actress married the director of the film, Jean-François Adam , with whom she had a daughter Marie Adam , who became actress.
In 1974, she appeared in the cult film Les Valseuses by Bertrand Blier , a director she would reunite with two years later for Calmos . In 1975, 23 years after “Forbidden Games”, director Marc Pavaux organized the reunion of little Paulette and little Michel in the TV film Family Spirits . Brigitte Fossey and Georges Poujouly play a couple of ghosts! The same year, she toured for Claude Lelouch in The Good and the Bad with Jacques Dutronc , Marlène Jobert and Bruno Cremer .
She subsequently worked with other big names in the 7th Art, such asFrançois Truffaut ( The Man Who Loved Women , 1977), Benoît Jacquot ( Les Enfants du closet , 1977), Jean-Charles Tacchella (for the short film Le Pays bleu in 1976 and the feature film Croque la vie in 1981). She was nominated twice for the César for “The Good and the Bad” in 1977 (best supporting actress), and “Children in the Closet” in 1978 (best actress). Alongside her career in France, the actress multiplies her international filming experiences. She shot, among other things, under the direction of Robert Altman , the science fiction film Quintet , with Paul Newman , one of the actors she most admired in her childhood.
In the early 1980s, she played a drug addict for Claude Sautet in Un Mauvais fils . She declined several offers to prepare for this role, which crossed paths with Patrick Dewaere . The same year, she was Françoise Berreton in La Boum by Claude Pinoteau . She is the mother of a young girl in the middle of an adolescent crisis, a certain Sophie Marceau , whose first steps in the cinema are these. “La Boum” was a great success and a sequel was released in 1982, with the same main roles. Also in 1982, she was a member of the jury of the prestigious Berlin Festival. Until the beginning of the 90s, Brigitte Fossey was very present on the big screen. She plays for Jeannot Szwarc ( Enigma , 1982), Bernard Stora ( The Young Married , 1983) and Gabriel Aghion ( La Scarlatine , 1983). She also takes part in the filming of Cinema Paradiso , but we will have to wait until a “director’s cut” version is revealed to see her performance.
Brigitte Fossey then became a familiar face on the small screen. After a first notable experience in the 80s in the series Les Gens de Mogador , she is one of the emblematic faces of the summer saga Le Château des oliviers . She subsequently participated in several TV films such as “Un et un fait six”, from 1997 to 2000, or Le Mystère Joséphine in 2009. Brigitte Fossey also often goes on stage, for example under the direction of Patrice Leconte in “Grosse Chaleur ” (2004) or more recently to give readings (early 2012, the actress read letters from George Sand).
Author: Brigitte Baronnet
