Anouk Aimée
Anouk Aimée (* April 27, 1932 in Paris, Françoise Sorya Dreyfus actually ) is a French film actress.
Life
Aimee is the daughter of actors Geneviève Sorya and Henri Dreyfus pair. At the age of 13, she made her film debut. The lead role in the romantic drama The Lovers of Verona in addition to the established stars Serge Reggiani and Pierre Brasseur made Anouk Aimée known. In the following years she was described as " young beauty " in the adventure film The Golden Salamander ( 1950) and as a prostitute in the Georges Simenon adaptation The man himself did not know busy. In 1957 she starred with the then superstar Gérard Philipe in Montparnasse 19
Her collaboration with Federico Fellini in La Dolce Vita brought Aimée the big success. The role of melancholy enigmatic woman she played so convincingly that Fellini hired her in 1962 for the film Eight and a half. After that she was seen again and again as a character actress in smaller Italian productions.
1966 was Aimée back in France before the camera. In Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman, she played the script girl Anne Gauthier, falling in love after the death of his man in the racers also a widow (Jean -Louis Trintignant ). Film connoisseurs called this film as one of the most beautiful love stories of cinema. She was nominated for an Oscar for her dramatic work, received a Golden Globe nomination and a British Academy Film Award for Best Actress.
In 1970 she met the actor Albert Finney, whom she married in fourth marriage. So she disappeared for six years from the screen, before a touch of tenderness was seen again in Claude Lelouch. In 1980 she got together with Michel Piccoli The Leap into the Void Best Actor Award at the film festival of Cannes 1980 Six years later, she played in the continuation of their worldwide success A man and a woman for the role of a brother and sister in Marco Bellocchio -. , Twenty years later (1986 ) again Anne Gauthier. In 1995, she was among the many stars in Robert Altman's episodic film Prêt -à- Porter. In the TV adaptation of Napoleon Bonaparte's life (2001) she played his mother.
From 1995 to 1997, she shifted her work on the theater stage. In 2003 she was awarded the César for her life's work.