FILE – French actress Anouk Aimée receives the Golden Bear Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 53rd Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003. | Photo Credit: Sven Kastner
Anouk Aimée, Golden Globe winner for her leading role a man and a woman The actress who starred in legendary French director Claude Lelouch’s “The Mistake of the Year” has died, her agent said Tuesday. She was 92.
agent Sebastien Perrolat said in a text message. The Associated Press He said Amy died Tuesday morning “surrounded by her loved ones.” He did not give a cause of death.
Aimee’s daughter, Manuela Papatakis, first announced her death in an Instagram post, saying: “We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our mother, Anouk Aimee.”
“I was with him at his home in Paris when he died this morning,” she said.
Born in Paris, Amy’s parents were both actors, and she worked with many acclaimed directors, including Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci and Robert Altman.
She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 1967 for her role as a widow in a complicated romance film. a man and a womanWith French film legend Jean-Louis Trintignant, who died in 2022.
FILE – French actress Anouk Aimée poses with her husband, lyricist Pierre Baruch, last night in Hollywood as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented her with the best actress of the year award at the group’s annual Golden Globes awards banquet. She won the award in the drama category in February 1967 for her role in “A Man and a Woman.” The film was named the year’s best foreign language film.
Amy was also nominated for an Oscar for that role, and Lelouch for his direction. The film won two Oscars, for Best Foreign Language Film and for Lelouch’s screenwriting.
Aimée’s film career spanned eight decades, from the 1940s until her reunion with Trintignant in 2019, again under the direction of Lelouch, The most beautiful years of life,
