Actress Anouk Aimée, the sophisticated French beauty who graced the films of Federico Fellini, Jacques Demy, , and Claude Lelouch, has died. She was 92. Aimee’s daughter said in an Instagram post on Tuesday that the star died at her home in Paris without providing further details.
Perhaps best known for her role opposite in Lelouch’s (1966) — for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress and won a Golden Globe — Aimée also starred in such art house standouts as Fellini’s (1960) and (1963), Demy’s (1961), Jacques Becker’s (1958) and Bertolucci’s (1981). Her career kicked off in the late 1940s and lasted all the way through a reunion with Trintignant in ( ), Lelouch’s 2019 epilogue to With more than 80 feature credits, she also sparkled in ‘s send-up of the fashion world, (1994); Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ (2003), in which she played a Holocaust survivor who returns to Auschwitz 60 years after the war; and Yvan Attal’s (2004). In a 2007 interview, the elegant Aimée revealed her secret of acting to : “It was Fellini who taught me this: The most important thing of all is to listen, just listen to what the other characters say.
And don’t take [yourself] too seriously.” Born in Paris on April 27, 1932, Aimée, whose real name was Judith Dreyfus — though some official documents list her first name as Nicole — was the daughter of actor Henri Dreyfus (stage name: Henry Murray) and actress Genevieve Sorya (nee Durand). During World W.
