Anouk Aimée
Anouk Aimée (* 27. April 1932 as Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris ) is a French film actress .
Life
Aimée is the daughter of the actor couple Geneviève Sorya and Henri Dreyfus . She made her film debut at the age of 13. The main role in the love drama The Lovers of Verona alongside the established stars Serge Reggiani and Pierre Brasseur made her famous. In the following years she was cast as a “young beauty” in the adventure film The Golden Salamander (1950) and as a prostitute in the Simenon film adaptation The Man Who Did n't Know Himself . In 1957 she played alongside the then superstar Gérard Philipe in Montparnasse 19 .
Her collaboration with Federico Fellini in La Dolce Vita brought Anouk Aimée great success. She played the role of the melancholy and enigmatic woman so convincingly that Fellini also hired her for the film Eight and Half (1962). After that she was repeatedly seen as a character actress in smaller Italian productions.
In 1966 Aimée was back in front of the camera in France. In Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman she played the script girl Anne Gauthier, who falls in love with the also widowed racing driver ( Jean-Louis Trintignant ) after the death of her husband . Film connoisseurs described this film as one of the most beautiful love stories in cinema. She was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal and received the Golden Globe and the British Academy Film Award for best actress.
After their fourth marriage, she disappeared from the screen for six years before being seen again in Lelouch's A Touch of Tenderness . In 1980, together with Michel Piccoli , she received the actor's award at the Cannes Film Festival for the role of a pair of siblings in Marco Bellocchio's The Leap into Void . Six years later she played in the continuation of her worldwide success, A Man and a Woman - Twenty Years Later (1986), again as Anne Gauthier, also in 2019 in The Most Beautiful Years of a Life . In 1995 she was one of the numerous stars in Robert Altman's episodic film Prêt-à-Porter . In the TV adaptation of Napoléon Bonaparte's life (2001), she played his mother.
From 1995 to 1997 she shifted her work to the theater stage. In 2003 she was awarded the César for her life's work.
Private life
Aimée was married a total of four times. She has a daughter with her second husband, director Nico Papatakis. Manuela Papatakis was born in 1951. In 1970 she met actor Albert Finney , whom she married soon after; their last marriage ended in 1978.
Filmography (selection)
- 1949: The lovers of Verona (Les amants de Verone)
- 1950: The Golden Salamander (Golden Salamander)
- 1952: The scarlet curtain (Le rideau cramoisi)
- 1955: I'm looking for you
- 1956: Nina
- 1956: Stresemann
- 1957: The sixth man (Tous peuvent me tuer)
- 1957: Whenever the light goes out (Pot-Bouille)
- 1958: Montparnasse 19 (Les Amants de Montparnasse)
- 1958: With your head against the walls (La tête contre les murs)
- 1959: The Journey (The Journey)
- 1960: The sweet life (La Dolce Vita)
- 1960: Before the light goes out (L'imprévu)
- 1960: Lola, the girl from the port (Lola)
- 1960: where is morality, sir? (Le farceur)
- 1961: The Last Judgment does not take place (Il giudizio universale)
- 1961: Quai Notre Dame
- 1961: Sodom and Gomorrah (Sodom and Gomorrah)
- 1962: Cruel Hands (FLASH)
- 1963: eight and a half (8½)
- 1963: Liolà
- 1965: Love in the Twilight (La fuga)
- 1965: The stations of our love (Le stagionie de nostro amore)
- 1966: A man and a woman (Un homme et une femme)
- 1967: An evening ... a train (Un soir, un train)
- 1968: The Model Shop
- 1969: Alexandria - Greenhouse of Sin (Justine)
- 1969: A touch of sensuality (The Appointment)
- 1976: A touch of tenderness (Si c'était à refaire)
- 1978: My first love (Mon premier amour)
- 1979: The leap into the void (Salto nel vuoto)
- 1980: A sheet of love (Un page d'amour)
- 1981: The tragedy of a ridiculous man (La tragedia di un uomo ridiculo)
- 1984: Viva la vie - Long live life (Vive la vie)
- 1986: A man and a woman - 20 years later (Un homme et une femme - 20 ans déjà)
- 1988: The Chaoten Duo (Arrivederci e grazie)
- 1990: Bethune - doctor and hero (Bethune: The making of a heroe)
- 1992: The fate of Baron von Leisenbohg (L'amour maudit de Leisenbohg)
- 1992: Voices in the garden
- 1994: One hundred and one nights (Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma)
- 1994: Prêt-à-Porter
- 1995: say yes! (Dis-moi oui)
- 1997: The Bible - Solomon (Solomon)
- 1998: LA Without a Map
- 2001: Napoleon
- 2001: Festival in Cannes
- 2002: Birkenau and Rosenfeld (La Petite prairie aux bouleaux)
- 2004: Happy ending with obstacles (Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants)
- 2010: Paris Connections
- 2011: Tous les soleils
- 2012: Pretty Biggest Friends (Mince Alors!)
- 2019: Les plus belles années d'une vie
Web links
- Anouk Aimée in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures by Anouk Aimée In: Virtual History
- Anouk Aimée in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Anouk Aimée in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anouk Aimée at encinematheque.fr (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aimée, Anouk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dreyfus, Nicole Françoise Florence (civil) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |