Born Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris in 1932.
Discovered by director Henri Calef at age 13 and billed as Anouk in her first film, La Maison Sous La Mer.
Added the last name Aimée later, meaning ‘loved’ in French.
Career spanned over 50 films including The Lovers Of Verona, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2, Jacques Demy’s Lola, and Model Shop.
Most famously starred in Claude Lelouch’s A Man And A Woman as a young widow who falls in love with a race car driver.
Received Best Actress nomination for her performance in A Man And A Woman and won Best Foreign Actress awards at Cannes, BAFTA, and Golden Globes.
Married and divorced four times: to Edouard Zimmermann, Nikos Papatakis, Pierre Barouh whom she met on the set of A Man And A Woman, and Albert Finney.
Survived by her daughter Manuela Papatakis, granddaughter Mila, and great-granddaughter.
Anouk Aimée was born Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus in Paris in 1932.
She made her screen debut in 1946 in the movie La Maison Sur La Mer and adopted her character’s name, Anouk, as her own.
French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prevert convinced her to also change her surname to Aimée, meaning ‘loved’
Anouk Aimée was sought after to appear in Italian films as well as those in her native country.
Her big break came with Federico Fellini’s arthouse film La Dolce Vita in 1960 and 8½ in 1963.
She had one daughter, Manuela, with film director Nico Papatakis and married composer Pierre Barouh who wrote the theme for A Man and a Woman. Her fourth husband was the British actor Albert Finney whom she wed in August 1970.