Biography: life and films
After Clément's film, Brigitte Fossey's next notable appearance was as Yvonne de Galais in Jean-Gabriel Albicocco's widely acclaimed Le Grand Meaulnes (1967). Then came some impressive supporting roles in Michel Deville's Raphaël ou le débauché (1970), Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses (1973), Claude Lelouch's Le Bon et les méchants (1976) and François Truffaut's L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977). She was nominated for the Best Actress César in 1978 for her work on Benoît Jacquot's Les Enfants du placard (1977). Claude Pinoteau then gave the actress one of her most memorable roles, as Sophie Marceau's mother in his hit rom-com La Boum (1980) and its sequel La Boum 2 (1982). She played alongside Patrick Dewaere in Claude Sautet's Un mauvais fils (1980) and Richard Berry in Bernard Stora's Le Jeune marié (1983).
In parallel with her work for film and television, Brigitte Fossey has also had a successful career in the theatre. Since the 1990s, she has devoted most of her time and energies to her stage work and has appeared in productions of Pierre Laville's Tempête sur le pays d'Égypte (1993-4) and Harold Pinter's plays The Collection and The Lover (2000). Since the early 1990s, Fossey has been virtually absent from the big screen, appearing more frequently on television, notably in the mini-series Le Château des oliviers (1993) and several made-for-TV movies. After an interval of twenty-five years, she returned to cinema with a small part in Solange Cicurel's Faut pas lui dire (2017).
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Filmography
Key: a = actor
La Corda d'acciaio (1953) [a]
The Happy Road (1957) [a]
Raphaël ou le débauché (1971) [a]
Mio (1972) [a]
Erica Minor (1974) [a]
L'Ironie du sort (1974) [a]
La Brigade (1975) [a]
Le Chant du départ (1975) [a]
Calmos (1976) [a]
La Semaine sanglante (1976) [a]
Le Bon et les méchants (1976) [a]
Le Pays bleu (1976) [a]
Les Fleurs du miel (1976) [a]
L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977) [a]
La Fille d'Amérique (1977) [a]
Les Enfants du placard (1977) [a]
Die gläserne Zelle (1978) [a]
Guerres civiles en France (1978) [a]
L'Affaire Suisse (1978) [a]
Le Mouton noir (1979) [a]
Mais où et donc Ornicar (1979) [a]
Quintet (1979) [a]
La Boum (1980) [a]
Chanel Solitaire (1981) [a]
Croque la vie (1981) [a]
Imperativ (1982) [a]
La Boum 2 (1982) [a]
La Triple muerte del tercer personaje (1982) [a]
Xueiv (1982) [a]
Au nom de tous les miens (1983) [a]
Enigma (1983) [a]
Le Bâtard (1983) [a]
Les Fausses confidences (1984) [a]
Un amour interdit (1984) [a]
Flügel und Fesseln (1985) [a]
3615 code Père Noël (1990) [a]
Poslední motyl (1991) [a]
Les Enfants du naufrageur (1992) [a]
Un vampire au paradis (1992) [a]
The very best of Italian cinema
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
