Brigitte Auber

This article is about the actress. For the fiction writer, see Brigitte Aubert.

Brigitte Auber (French pronunciation: [bʁiʒit obɛʁ]; born Marie-Claire Cahen de Labzac^[1] [maʁi klɛʁ kaʔɛn də labzak], 27 April 1925) is a French actress who has worked on stage, film and television in Europe.

Brigitte Auber
Born	Marie-Claire Cahen de Labzac (1925-04-27) 27 April 1925 (age 100) Paris, France
Occupation	Actress

Career

Marie-Claire Cahen de Labzac was born in Paris on 27 April 1925.^[2] She began her film career with the leading role in Jacques Becker's Rendezvous in July (1949), and was known for roles in French films of the 1950s, including Julien Duvivier's romance Under the Sky of Paris (1951). Auber played the role of Danielle Foussard opposite Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, released in 1955.

For a few months in 1957 she was in a relationship with Alain Delon; they lived together in Paris. On the occasion of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, 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 Henry Willson responsible for recruiting new talents on behalf of David O. Selznick.^[3]

Nearly a decade and a half later, Auber played the part of the elder Françoise in Claude de Givrays miniseries Mauregard (1969). The young Françoise was played by another French Hitchcock actress, Claude Jade 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 Louis XIV and his twin, 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 in 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