Anouk Aimée, the French star of classic titles like Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Jacques Demy’s Lola has died. She was 92.
Aimée’s daughter, Manuela Papatakis, shared the news with a post on social media Tuesday morning. Aimée’s cause of death has yet to be announced.
“With my daughter, Galaad, and my granddaughter, Mila, we have great sadness to announce the departure of my mother Anouk Aimée,” the statement read. “I was right by her side when she passed away this morning at her home in Paris.”
Aimée clocked almost 100 credits during her decades-long career. She is perhaps best known for her role in Federico Fellini’s seminal thriller La Dolce Vita. She later re-teamed with Fellini for his enigmatic epic 8½. She went on to work with some of world cinema’s leading new-wave filmmakers, including Jacques Demy, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Robert Altman.
However, she received her most critical acclaim for her leading role in Claude Lelouch’s 1967 drama A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme). She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for the pic and was nominated for an Oscar. In 2002, she received an honorary César Award. The next year she received an Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Aimée was born Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris on April 27, 1932. Both her parents, Geneviève Sorya and Henry Dreyfus, were actors. She made her film debut at age 14 in Henri Calef’s The House Under The Sea. Her last feature credit was Claude Lelouch’s The Best Years of a Life.
