Anouk Aimée

French film actress, a hauntingly beautiful brunette, feline, and graceful, who often portrayed a femme fatale with a melancholy aura. The daughter of theatrical parents, she studied dance at Opera of Marseilles, followed by drama lessons in Paris. She was highly acclaimed in Les Amants de Verone (1949).

She appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019, including La Dolce Vita (1959), Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981) and A Man and a Woman at the height of her career, in 1966, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Of her four marriages, the last was to British actor Albert Finney on 7 August 1970. She had one child, Manuela Papatakis (born 1951), from her second marriage to director Nico Papatakis.

Anouk Aimée died in Paris on 18 June 2024 at age 92.