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 fore 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. She was the real thief The Cat, 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
1946	Antoine and Antoinette	a guest at the wedding	Jacques Becker
	Gates of the Night	uncredited	Marcel Carné
1949	Rendezvous in July	Thérèse	Jacques Becker
1951	Sous le ciel de Paris	Denise Lambert	Julien Duvivier
1955	To Catch a Thief	Danielle Foussard	Alfred Hitchcock
1959	Mon pote le gitan	Odette	François Gir
1970	Mauregard	Françoise de Mettray	Claude de Givray
1982	Mon Curé Chez les Nudistes	Charlotte, Antoine's wife	Robert Thomas
1998	The Man in the Iron Mask	Anne of Austria's lady-in-waiting	Randall Wallace

External links

• Brigitte Auber at the Internet Movie Database