A great actress has passed away. The agent of Anouk Aimée, heroine of the film “A Man and a Woman” alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant in 1966, announced to AFP the death of the actress born Françoise Dreyfus this Tuesday June 18, 2024 at her Parisian home. “With my daughter, Galaad, and my granddaughter, Mila, we are extremely sad to announce the departure of my mother Anouk Aimée. I was close to her when she died this morning, at her home in Paris.“, his daughter, Manuela Papatakis, had written a few minutes earlier on her Instagram account this Tuesday, June 18, 2024.
Icon of the New Wave
Beyond the cult “A Man and a Woman” by Claude Lelouch, whose role earned her the Golden Globe for best actress and an Oscar nomination, Anouk Aimée, icon of the New Wave, played in “Lola “, which revealed her in the cinema in the early 1960s, or even “La Dolce Vita” (1960).
Anouk Aimée has filmed under the direction of the greatest directors, like Claude Lelouch and Jacques Demy, of course, but also Agnès Varda, Frederico Fellini, Charlotte de Turckheim, Philippe de Broca, George Cukor and Robert Altman.
His stage name is that of his first role. In 1946, in “The House Under the Sea”, she played Anouk. Her name was offered to her by Jacques Prévert, whom she met in 1947 on the set of a film by Marcel Carné, “The Flower of Age”, where she played with Arletty, Serge Reggiani, Martine Carol , recalls “Le Monde”. Aimee, “because everyone loved him“, according to Prévert.
“Thanks to her, I became familiar with the light”
Since the announcement of the actress’ death, reactions have been pouring in on social networks. The César Academy posted images of the actress, who received an Honorary César in 2002 on the stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet during the 27th César Ceremony.
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