Anouk Aimée Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Birth name Françoise Nicole Sorya Dreyfus
French nationality
Birth April 27, 1932 (Paris – France)

BIOGRAPHY
Daughter of actors, Françoise Dreyfus was only 13 years old when, walking in the street with her mother, she was offered a role in La Maison sous la mer by Henri Calef released in 1947. Her character in the film is called Anouk, a first name that she will keep. If the young girl continued her secondary studies in England for a while, she soon enrolled in the Bauer-Thérond theater class and took dance lessons.

After her first shoot, the actress was contacted by Marcel Carné to play in The Flower of Age . The project did not come to fruition, but was the occasion for her to have a decisive meeting with the screenwriter Jacques Prévert , who suggested that she adopt the name “Aimée”, and wrote Les Amants de Verone de Cayatte for her , a successful film which established the young actress as a romantic heroine alongside Serge Reggiani in 1949.

Lending her voice to La Bergère et le ramoneur , a cartoon by Grimault -written by friend Prévert-, she then toured with Duvivier ( Pot -Bouille ), Becker ( Montparnasse 19 ), and in the first feature films of Franju ( La Tete contre les Murs ) and Astruc ( Les Mauvaises Rencontres ).

In 1960, Federico Fellini offered the actress the role of a rich and idle woman in La Dolce Vita . Anouk Aimée confided that it was through contact with the maestro , who would direct her again three years later in Eight and a Half , that she began to take her profession as an actress seriously.

During the rich decade that followed, she flitted gracefully in Demy ‘s Lola and filmed alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant the triumphant A Man and a Woman by Lelouch , which earned her the Golden Globe for Best Actress in 1967 – these two notable films will give rise to sequels, Model Shop and A Man and a Woman: Twenty Years Already . Settling in Italy for a few years, she toured there with Lattuada , Bertolucci and Bellocchio : sister of Piccoli in Le Saut dans le vide , she won, like her partner, the Best Actor Prize at Cannes in 1980.

Subsequently, Anouk Aimée is less present on French screens, if we except her frequent reunions with Lelouch ( Viva la vie , 1983, Hommes, femmes: mode d’emploi , 1996, Une pour tous , 1999, … ) and his roles in the films of Elie Chouraqui ( What makes David run?, 1981, Les Marmottes , 1993, …).

In 2003, however, she was the heroine of La Petite prairie aux bouleaux , a unique work on the memory of deportation. Far from any strategy, Anouk Aimée, who has always been a traveling actress, works around the world with the Belgian Andre Delvaux ( Un soir un train , 1968), the Pole Jerzy Skolimowski and the Americans Cukor ( Justine , 1969), Lumet ( Le Rendez-vous , id.) and Altman ( Prêt-à-porter in 1994).

The embodiment of European glamour , the actress received an honorary César in 2002, and the following year a Golden Bear in Berlin, for her entire career.

Returning to French cinema in the early 2000s, Anouk Aimée plays Yvan Attal ‘s mother in his comedy They Married and Had Many Children (2004). Starring in the dramatic comedy From Particular to Particular in 2006, she returned three years later to the sets of Claude Lelouch , for his fresco film, Ces amours-là . The following year, the actress slipped into the shoes of a patient in palliative care, for the needs of Philippe Claudel

‘s comedy , Tous les soleils . In 2019, she reunited with Claude Lelouch for The Most Beautiful Years of a Life , the sequel to A Man and a Woman .