Anouk Aimée, the great French actress, known for her roles in legendary films such as Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman and Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, died today in Paris at the age of 92.
She had been Madeleinethe rich and elegant lady who accompanies the journalist Marcello Rubini played by Marcello Mastroianni in the film part of the night around Rome La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellinibut also Anne Gauthier protagonist of the intense love story with Jean-Louis played by Jean-Louis Trintignant in A Man and a Woman, directed in 1966 by Claude Lelouch and which earned her an Oscar nomination for best leading actress and a Golden Globe. The film had two sequels with the same protagonists, the last of which in 2019 with the title The Best Years of Our Lives, presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
Anouk Aimée, legendary French actress, star of over 50 films since the late 1940s, died today in Paris at the age of 92as announced by his agent to AFP.
Among his other most famous roles Anouk Aimée, born in Paris on 27 April 1932 with the name of Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, we remember Lola – Woman of life directed in 1961 by Jacques Demy, 8½ in 1963, again with Federico Fellini, The tragedy of a ridiculous man by Bernardo Bertolucci from 1981, Ready-to-wear by Robert Altman in 1984. Many great directors have wanted her in front of their cameras, from Marcel Carné, with whom she made her film debut in 1947, to Julien Duvivier, from Jacques Becker to Anatole Litvak, from Alberto Lattuada to Vittorio De Sica, from Sidney Lumet to George Cukor.
