Anouk Aimée died Tuesday at her Parisian home at the age of 92, her agent announcedAFP. The actress from “A Man and a Woman,” “Lola” and “La Dolce Vita” “left this morning,” said agent Sébastien Perrolat of the TimeArt agency.
Manuela Papatakis, Anouk Aimée’s daughter, also announced her death, saying her “immense sadness” on her Instagram account. “With my daughter, Galaad, and my granddaughter, Mila, we have the immense sadness to announce the departure of my mother Anouk Aimée. I was close to her when she died this morning, at her home in Paris,” she wrote on her Instagram account.
Born Françoise Dreyfus on April 27, 1932 in Paris, Anouk Aimée achieved international notoriety by sharing the screen with Jean-Louis Trintignant in the legendary “A Man and a Woman” by Claude Lelouch, Palme d’Or in 1966. The role earned her the Golden Globe for Best Actress and an Oscar nomination.
Anouk Aimée will have filmed with the greatest of Franco-Italian cinema: Jacques Demy (“Lola”), Federico Fellini (“La Dolce vita” and “Huit et demi”), Marco Bellocchio, Jacques Becker or André Cayatte, who launched it in 1949 in “The Lovers of Verona”.
It had become rarer recently. But she made a moving return in 2019 to Cannes, to reform the legendary couple of “A Man and a Woman”, in a sequel shot by Claude Lelouch, “The Most Beautiful Years of a Life”.
