Brigitte Auber
Brigitte Auber (born 27 April 1928, Paris, France) is a French actress who has worked extensively on stage, film and TV in Europe.
Career
Auber started out with the leading role in Jacques Becker's Rendezvous in July (1949) and was known for major roles followed in numerous French films of the 1950s, including Julien Duvivier's Romance Sous le ciel de 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.
In 1969 she played the part of elder Françoise in Claude de Givrays miniseries Mauregard while the young Françoise has been played by another French Hitchcock-actress, Claude Jade from Topaz.
She also had a supporting role in 1998's film adaptation of The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later 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 | Sous le ciel de 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 |