Brigitte Fossey

Brigitte Fossey is one of those rare actors who essentially started at the top — her performance as little Paulette in René Clément's Forbidden Games (1952) is genuinely heartbreaking, and she was what, five or six years old? The film won the Academy Honorary Award and the Venice Golden Lion, and she carries the whole emotional weight of it with this instinctive, unaffected quality that trained adult actors spend careers trying to fake. What I find most impressive is that she didn't disappear after that childhood splash — she came back as an adult and built a serious second career on both screen and stage in France, proving the debut wasn't a fluke. She's the kind of actress who makes you feel like cinema can actually capture something true about being human.

Name (English)

Brigitte Fossey

Name (Japanese)

ブリジット・フォッセー

Reading

ぶりじっと・ふぉっせー

Born

June 15, 1946 (age 80)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

Origin

Tourcoing, Nord, France

Height

2 cm

Occupation

film actor / stage actor / actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Nord
• film actor
• stage actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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