Brigitte Fossey

Partial filmography :. She has also appeared nude in Playboy. Awards :. During the time of the sex scandals involving then-President Bill Clinton, Gracen admitted that she had had a one-night affair with Clinton in 1983 when he was Governor of Arkansas. Brigitte Fossey has a daughter from her marriage to director Jean-François Adam whom she met while making his 1970 film M comme Mathieu. Elizabeth Gracen's best-known acting role has been as the character of the Immortal Amanda in the series Highlander and Highlander: The Raven. During the 1990s, she began performing almost exclusively in television productions. The couple divorced in 1994.

This first adult role led to a long and successful career in acting both on stage and in film, working with notable French directors such as Francois Truffaut and Bertrand Blier. Fluent in the English language, Fossey made several Hollywood motion pictures including in a 1979 role as the wife of Paul Newman in the Robert Altman directed film, Quintet. She had a minor acting career, and in 1989, while filming Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, she met actor Brendan Hughes, and they married soon after. As a young lady, she came across on screen with the same sweet innocence that had capitivated audiences as a six-year-old child in Forbidden Games. The marriage did not last long, but she retained her married name. In 1966, at age twenty, she was offered the female lead by director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco for his film Le Grand Meaulnes. She soon married and took the name of Elizabeth Gracen. While completing her education, Brigitte Fossey studied piano and dance but went on to work in Geneva, Switzerland as an interpreter/translator. Born Elizabeth Ward on April 3, 1960 in Booneville, Arkansas, USA, she won the titles of Miss Arkansas and Miss America in 1982.

She was just ten years old when filming finished and her parents decided to take her out of the film business so she could receive proper schooling and live a normal childhood. Elizabeth Gracen is an American actress known almost as much for her off-screen activities as for her movie and television roles. The film won numerous awards worldwide including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Fossey was hired by American actor/director Gene Kelly for his 1957 film, The Happy Road. "The Day the Women Got Even". Fossey's performance of an innocent child orphaned by World War II was widely praised by critics and audiences alike. "Maid in America". The daughter of a schoolteacher, she was only six years old when she was cast by director René Clément to star in his epic film, Forbidden Games. Alone in the Dark.

Brigitte Fossey, born June 15, 1946 in Tourcoing, Nord, France, is an actress. "The Hand Me Down Kid". Cinema Paradiso (1989). Nadine. Enigma (1983). Three for the Road (1987) .. Chanel Solitaire (1981). Pass the Ammo.

La Boum (1980). Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat. Quintet (1979). "The Death of the Incredible Hulk". The Glass Cell (1978). Marked for Death. Les Enfants du placard (Closet Children) (1977). "83 Hours 'Til Dawn".

Le Bon et les méchants (The Good Guys and the Bad Guys) (1976). Lisa. L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (The Man Who Loved Women) (1976). Lower Level. Calmos (1975). "Highlander". Les Valseuses (1973). "Sidney Sheldon's The Sands of Time".

Raphaël ou le débauché (1971). Final Mission. M comme Mathieu (1970). Discretion Assured. Le Grand Meaulnes (1966). The Expert. The Happy Road (1957). "Extreme".

La Corda d'acciaio (1953). Kounterfeit. Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) (1951). "Highlander: The Raven". 1978 : Nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Les Enfants du placard. 1977 : Nominated for a César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Le Bon et les méchants.