Brigitte Auber

Brigitte Auber (real name: Marie-Claire Cahen de Labzac, born 27 April 1925) is a French actress who has worked on stage, film and TV in Europe. She was born in Paris, France.

Career

Auber began her film career with the leading role in Jacques Becker's Rendezvous in July (1949) and was known for roles in numerous French films of the 1950s, including Julien Duvivier's romance Under the Sky of Paris (1951). Auber's best-known role, and one of her few English-speaking parts, was opposite Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, released in 1955. Auber plays the role of Danielle Foussard. Nearly a decade and a half later, she played the part of the elder Françoise in Claude de Givrays miniseries Mauregard (1969) while the young Françoise was played by another French Hitchcock actress, Claude Jade from Topaz. She also had a supporting role in the film adaptation of The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1988) from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Leonardo DiCaprio played Louis XIV of France and the Man in the Iron Mask, while Auber played the Queen mother's attendant.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1946	Antoine and Antoinette	a guest at the wedding	Jacques Becker
	Gates of the Night		Marcel Carné	Uncredited
1948	Les amoureux sont seuls au monde	Christine	Henri Decoin
1949	Rendezvous in July	Thérèse Richard	Jacques Becker
1950	Vendetta en Camargue	Huguette	Jean Devaivre
1951	Under the Sky of Paris	Denise Lambert	Julien Duvivier
	Victor	Marianne	Claude Heymann
1952	L'Amour toujours l'amour	Anita	Maurice de Canonge
1953	Women of Paris	Gisèle	Jean Boyer
1955	To Catch a Thief	Danielle Foussard	Alfred Hitchcock
	Les Aristocrates	Daisy de Maubrun	Denys de La Patellière
1956	Ce soir les jupons volent	Blanche	Dimitri Kirsanoff
	Lorsque l'enfant paraît	Annie Fouquet	Michel Boisrond
1959	Mon pote le gitan	Odette	François Gir
1970	Le Cœur fou	Cécile Menessier	Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
	Mauregard	Françoise de Mettray	Claude de Givray
1982	Mon Curé Chez les Nudistes	Charlotte, Antoine's wife	Robert Thomas
1997	Le Déménagement	Blanche & Rose Colomb	Olivier Doran
1998	The Man in the Iron Mask	Anne of Austria's lady-in-waiting	Randall Wallace

External links

• Brigitte Auber at IMDb