Anouk Aimée, French actress, star of “La Dolce Vita” by Federico Fellini and “A Lady and a Man” by Claude Lelouch, died on the age of 92. “We stated goodbye to a world-famous icon,” wrote the French Minister of Tradition, Rachida Dati, on X.
French actress Anouk Aimée has died on the age of 92. She was born Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris in 1932. She made her display screen debut as a young person within the 1946 movie “La Maison sur la mer”. There she performed the position of Anouk and adopted her character’s title as her personal. The French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert additionally satisfied her to alter her title to Aimée, which suggests “beloved”, the BBC reminds.
Anouk Aimée ANDREAS ALTWEIN/PAP
She usually appeared in French and Italian movies. Her breakthrough position was Maddalena in Federico Fellini’s 1960 movie La Dolce Vita. Three years later, she additionally performed in Fellini’s movie “Eight and a Half”.
Anouk Aimée is useless
In flip, her position in Claude Lelouch’s 1966 movie “A Man and a Lady” earned her a Golden Globe and a Bafta Award for Finest Actress. She was additionally nominated for an Oscar for her position in Lelouch’s movie. It was the primary time an actress was nominated for an Oscar for a French-speaking efficiency. The statuette was then given to Elizabeth Taylor for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” directed by Mike Nichols.
Anouk Aimee on the set of Sidney Lumet’s “The Encounter”Rex Options/EastNews
In 2019, she walked the purple carpet on the Cannes Movie Competition on the event of the premiere of the sequel to Lelouch’s movie “A Man and a Lady”. Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant reprized their 80-year-old characters.
In 2002, Aimée obtained an honorary César – France’s nationwide movie award.
The actress additionally collaborated with administrators reminiscent of Jacques Demy, Marco Bellocchio, Jacques Becker and André Cayatte.
“We stated goodbye to an icon”
In line with a survey carried out in 1995 by Empire journal, she was thought-about one of many 100 sexiest stars within the historical past of cinema. Aimée has been married and divorced 4 instances. She spent the final many years of her life within the Montmartre district of Paris.
“We stated goodbye to a world-famous icon, an exquisite actress of French cinema who starred in movies by the best administrators, reminiscent of Demy, Lelouch and Fellini,” wrote the French Minister of Tradition, Rachida Dati, on X.
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