Brigitte Auber (; born Marie-Claire Cahen de Labzac , 27 April 1925) is a French actress who has worked on stage, film and television in Europe.

Career

Auber was born in Paris on 27 April 1925. She began her film career with the leading role in Jacques Becker's ''

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'' (1949) and was known for roles in French films of the 1950s, including Julien Duvivier's romance ''

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'' (1951). Auber played the role of Danielle Foussard opposite

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and

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in Alfred Hitchcock's ''

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'', released in 1955. In 1957 she was in a relationship with Alain Delon for a few months; they lived together in Paris. On the occasion of the 1957

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, she went with him to the French Riviera. In Cannes, Delon became friends with Jean-Claude Brialy and came into contact with the film industry, meeting his future agent George Beaume there, and was spotted by

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responsible for recruiting new talents on behalf of David O. Selznick.Bernard Violet, Les Mystères Delon, Flammarion, 2000 Nearly a decade and a half later, Auber played the part of the elder Françoise in

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s miniseries ''

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'' (1969). The young Françoise was played by another French Hitchcock actress,

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from '' Topaz''. She also had a supporting role in '' The Man in the Iron Mask'', the 1998 film adaptation of the novel '' The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later'' by Alexandre Dumas. Leonardo DiCaprio played

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and his twin, the

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, while Auber played the

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's attendant.

Selected filmography

References

External links

* 1925 births Living people 20th-century French actresses Actresses from Paris French film actresses French television actresses Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 {{france-screen-actor-stub