Brigitte Auber
Brigitte Auber (born 27 April 1928) 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 elder Françoise in Claude de Givrays miniseries Mauregard (1969) while the young Françoise has been played by another French Hitchcock-actress, Claude Jade from Topaz. She also had a supporting role in 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 |
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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 |
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