Brigitte Auber
Brigitte Auber 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 and was known for roles in numerous French films of the 1950s, including Julien Duvivier's Romance Under the Sky of Paris. 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 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 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
