The actress, one of the divas of French cinema, who has died at the age of 92, never starred in any scandal although she was related to Omar Sharif and Warren Beatty.
“Together with my daughter Gilead and my granddaughter Mila, it is with great sadness that we announce the death of my mother Anouk Aimée. I was at her side when she passed away this morning at her home in Paris,” he officially announced on social media this Tuesday morning. Manuela Papatakisthe only daughter of the legendary French actress, the result of her second marriage with the screenwriter and director Nikos Papatakis.
Aimée was married three other times, to the journalist Edouard Zimmermann (1949-50), singer-songwriter and producer Pierre Barouh (1966-69) and the last one with the actor Albert Finney (1970-78). All marriages ended in divorce.
Regularly described as “enigmatic”, “regal” and “intelligent”, Anouk Aimée is undoubtedly one of the greatest stars in film history who won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar for A Man and a Woman (1966) Jean-Louis Trintignant. Throughout his career he won the Honorary César at the French César Awards in 2002, an Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2003 and the Silver Medallion at Telluride in 2009.
Of Tunisian origin, Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, was the daughter of a Jewish actor and a Catholic actress. She was raised Catholic.but later converted to Judaism. He debuted at 14 years old in The Maison sous la mer (1947) and adopted her character’s stage name, Anouk. The poet Jacques Prévert Aimée added (‘beloved’ in French). He was the co-writer of The Fleur de l’age (1947), the footage of which disappeared. Despite having had the talent in his home, the French diva studied in ParisLondon and Marseille dramatic art and ballet, training at the elitist Bauer-Therond school.
After its debut in English in Golden Salamander (1950) his imposing presence attracted the interest of the public and critics. With her passing we say goodbye to the only remaining survivor of The sweet life (1960) by Federico Fellini, with whom he also worked on Fellini 8 and a half (1963). He kept some wise advice from the legendary Italian director: “The most important thing is to know how to listen. Just listen to what other characters say and don’t take it too seriously.”
Journalist Sandy Flitterman-Lewis said of the performer that she possessed “an aura of disturbing and mysterious beauty that has earned her the status of one of the hundred sexiest stars in the history of cinema“, according to a survey carried out by the magazine empire in 1995. On one occasion he confessed: “I have never known how to sell myself, but I can do it for others. In that sense I have failed.” In 1995, she was chosen by the magazine empire one of the 100 sexiest movie stars in history
Regarding your private life, always She was a very discreet woman, He never caused a scandal and knew how to preserve his privacy from the prying eyes of the paparazzi despite having been married four times and having been related to Omar Sharif and Warren Beatty. The actress combined her passion for cinema with her love for animals and defending the environment. She belonged to the Jane Goodall Institute in France and was a personal friend of the famous primatologist.
In 2019 he starred in his last film, The most beautiful years of your life. He has left a legacy of 92 films and several television series. And of course, an indelible mark in the collective imagination of several generations.
