French actress Anouk Aimée, known for ‘Fellini, eight and a half (8½)’ or ‘La dolce vita’, dies at age 92 | Culture

French actress Anouk Aimée, nominated for an Oscar for A Man and a Womanby Claude Lelouch, in 1966, and who left his Lola for history, in the film of the same name Jacques Demy, died this Tuesday at the age of 92 in his home in Paris, as his daughter, the actress Manuela Papatakis, announced in an Instagram message: “We are very sad to announce the departure of my mother.” .

In his long career, he worked on film classics such as Fellini, eight and a half (8½) and The sweet lifeboth by Federico Fellini, as well as the American ones Ready-to-Wearby Robert Altman, and An appointmentby Sidney Lumet. In 2019, she starred in her latest film: The most beautiful years of your life, where he reunited with the character to whom he owed the Oscar nomination in the Lelouch film. In 2003, she received the Golden Bear of Honor from the Berlin Film Festival.

Born in the French capital in 1932 and the daughter of actors, she began a film career at a very young age that was propelled by her role as Maddalena in The sweet life in 1960, although his consecration came six years later with A Man and a Woman, which earned him a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. In his personal life, he married four times.

The first time was in 1949 with the journalist Edouard Zimmermann, for a year and a half, followed a year later by her union with the director Nikos Papatakis. In 1966 she married the music producer Pierre Barouh, and, already in 1970, she married the British actor Albert Finney, known for films such as Erin Brockovich and Two on the roadwith whom he was until 1978.