Anouk Aimee, star of 'La Dolce Vita' and 'A Man and a Woman', dies aged 92

Anouk Aimée, the French star of European New Wave classics including La Dolce Vita, A Man and a Woman and Lola, has died aged 92. Her daughter Manuela Papatakis announced the news on social media on Tuesday.

Born Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus in 1932 to actor parents (her father Jewish, her mother Catholic), Aimée began acting as Françoise Dreyfus, and was cast in a small role in her first film, The House Under the Sea, in 1946 aged 14.

Having broken into screen roles in the late 1940s, Aimée achieved international recognition with a series of high-profile successful films in the 1960s, associating her with the major directors of the era, Federico Fellini and Jacques Demy among them.

Arguably her most influential hit was the Oscar-winning A Man and a Woman, opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant, released in 1966 and which won the best foreign language film and best original screenplay Oscars, as well as a best actress nomination for Aimée herself.

At: https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/18/anouk-aimee-star-of-la-dolce-vita-and-a-man-and-a-woman-dies-aged-92