Published on June 18, 2024 at 12:10 p.m. / Modified on June 18, 2024 at 2:36 p.m.
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 ofA man and a woman, Lola And The good life “left this morning,” said agent Sébastien Perrolat, of the TimeArt agency. Manuela Papatakis, Anouk Aimée’s daughter, 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.
With Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Federico Fellini…
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 (The good life And Eight and a half), Marco Bellocchio, Jacques Becker or André Cayatte, who launched it in 1949 in Lovers of Verona. It had become rarer recently. But she made a moving return in 2019 to Cannes, to reform the legendary couple ofA man and a womanin a suite shot by Claude Lelouch, The most beautiful years of a life.
