Brigitte Auber was born in 1928 in Paris.   She has an impressive list of credits on film and television in her native country.   She has only one major international film to her credit, “Th Catch A Thief” with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.   She had a major role in this movie and it is puzzling that she did not make more British or U.S. films.

Auber began her film career with the leading role in Jacques Becker‘s Rendezvous in July (1949) and was known for roles in numerous French films of the 1950s, including Julien Duvivier‘s Romance Under the Sky of 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. 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 (1969) 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 The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later(1988) 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.