Actress Anouk Aimée, one of the most famous faces of 20th century French cinema, died Tuesday at her home in Paris at the age of 92, her agent and family announced.
The actress from “A Man and a Woman,” “Lola” and “La Dolce Vita” “left this morning,” agent Sébastien Perrolat of the TimeArt agency announced to AFP.
Manuela Papatakis, the daughter of Anouk Aimée and director Nico Papatakis, also announced her death.
“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”.
