Star director Federico Fellini as soon as known as her “the very best actress on the planet,” whereas Austrian actor OW Fischer mentioned: “Mademoiselle Aimée is a miracle.” Now the diva with the cat eyes has died in Paris on the age of 92, as her agent confirmed to the dpa.
The actress, born Nicole Dreyfus on April 27, 1932, lives as much as her title Aimée – the beloved. She was one of many few worldwide stars who have been appreciated by professionals, critics and audiences alike. How did she get her pseudonym? The French poet Jacques Prevert, whom she met in her first movies, advised that she name herself what he noticed her as, a well-liked and much-loved actress. And Anouk goes once more to her first main function in “The Home Underneath the Sea.” “I internalized this title in a short time and that is why I assumed it was a memorable pseudonym,” mentioned the Frenchwoman, who was born in Paris.
Greater than 50 movies in over 50 years
In simply over 50 years, the daughter of an performing couple has made greater than 50 movies, largely love tales, wherein she performed shy, enigmatic and reserved girls along with her Mona Lisa face and longing look. It was a love movie that elevated Aimée’s fame to legendary proportions: “A Man and a Girl”. A bittersweet love story by director Claude Lelouche, which obtained the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Competition in 1966. The movie obtained two equally profitable sequels in 1986 and 2019.
The actress, who first appeared in entrance of the digital camera on the age of 13, made a reputation for herself along with her second movie look within the fashionable Romeo and Juliet adaptation “Les amants de Verone” (The Lovers of Verona) simply 4 years later. After that, administrators from Munich, Rome, Paris, London and Hollywood fought over the putting magnificence.
The greats with whom she labored embody the Italians Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica, Marco Bellocchio, the French Marcel Carne, Claude Lelouch, Julien Duvivier and the Individuals Sidney Lumet and Robert Altman. Her filmography consists of classics corresponding to Fellini’s cult movie “La Dolce Vita” and later “Eight and a Half” alongside Marcello Mastroianni. And Aimée was beloved nicely into outdated age: in 2002 she was awarded an honorary César, the French movie prize, for her life’s work.
