Anouk Aimée, the French film icon known for “A Man and a Woman,” “La Dolce Vita” and “Lola,” has died. She was 92. The actor’s daughter, Manuela Papatakis, confirmed the news on Instagram , writing that she was at her mother’s bedside in Paris when Aimée died Tuesday morning.
No cause of death was given. Aimée was born Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris April 27, 1932, to actors Geneviève Sorya and Henry Murray. She made her film debut at age 14 in “The House Under the Sea” (La maison sous la mer) as a character named Anouk, which she adopted for herself afterward.
She added the last name “Aimée,” which means “beloved,” in the late 1940s to cement her identity with her on-screen roles. Renowned as an emblem of “cool, sophisticated beauty,” the actor appeared in nearly 90 films across seven decades. Her most notable roles include recent widow Anne, who falls for a widower at her daughter’s school before deciding that her heartbreak is too fresh to continue the romance, in “A Man and a Woman,” for which she was Oscar-nominated in the lead actress category — an incredible feat for a non-American star in 1967.
She also won the Golden Globe that year in the same category. Her other most notable films include “La Dolce Vita” (1960) and “81⁄2” (1963), which were directed by Federico Fellini, in addition to “Lola” (1961), “Justine” (1969), “Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man“(1981) and “Ready to Wear” (199.