The French actress Anouk Aimée, who was known for her roles in European New Wave classics such as “La Dolce Vita,” “A Man and a Woman,” and “Lola,” has away at the age of 92. On Tuesday, her daughter Manuela Papatakis shared the news over various social media platforms.

Papatakis expressed his profound sorrow by saying, “We are very saddened to announce the loss of my mother… During the time when she passed away this morning, I was in close proximity to her at her residence in Paris.

After making her debut in the film industry in the late 1940s, Aimée went on to earn worldwide notoriety via a string of high-profile and commercially successful films in the 1960s. These films brought her into association with some of the most prominent filmmakers of the time, including Federico Fellini and Jacques Demy alike. It is arguable that her most important success was the Oscar-winning picture A Man and a Woman, which was released in 1966 and directed by Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film won the Oscars for best foreign language film and best original screenplay, and it also received a nomination for best actress for Aimée herself.

Nicole Francoise Florence Dreyfus was born in 1932 to actress parents, her father being Jewish and her mother being Catholic. Aimée started her acting career under the name Francoise Dreyfus, and she was cast in a tiny part in her debut film, The House Under the Sea, when she was just 14 years old during the year 1946. The name “Aimée” was provided by the poet Jacques Prévert, who was also the co-writer of her first starring part in The Lovers of Verona, which was a modernized version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. She preserved the name of her character, Anouk, as a stage alias.

During the 1950s, Aimée worked with notable filmmakers on a number of films, including the adventure picture Golden Salamander, in which she starred alongside Trevor Howard; the Zola adaption Pot-Bouille, directed by Julien Duvivier; and the Modigliani biographical Montparnasse 19, directed by Jacques Becker. However, she became a worldwide superstar after being featured in Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita, which was released in 1960. In the role of Maddalena, an affluent and free woman who picks up reporter Marcello Mastroianni in a nightclub, Aimée looked to exemplify a bohemian sexuality at the beginning of the new decade.

Aimée portrayed the titular character, a showgirl who is the object of love attraction for a number of men, in the film Lola, which was directed by Jacques Demy and released in 1961. This impression was further strengthened by her subsequent important part when she appeared in the film. The next year, in 1963, Aimée reconnected with Fellini and Mastroianni for the film 8½, in which she played the role of Luisa, Mastroianni’s wife who had been separated from him. The intensely romantic study of a relationship between two people whose previous spouses were both de.ad struck a major chord, becoming a breakthrough international hit for the French New Wave. Three years later, she was cast in Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman on the recommendation of her co-star, Trintignant. The film was a breakthrough for the French New Wave. A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later, which was released in 1986, and The Best Years of a Life, which was published in 2019, were the three films that would go on to reconnect for further projects. The latter film would be Aimée and Trintignant’s last films to be released during their lives.

It was because of the success of A Man and a Woman that Aimée was able to enter the elite of the international cinema business. She went on to participate in films such as Justine, which was directed by George Cukor, The Appointment, which was directed by Sidney Lumet, and Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man, which was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Some of the other highlights of her latter career include the fashion comedy Prêt-à-Porter, directed by Robert Altman, Happily Ever After, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal, and Festival in Cannes, directed by Henry Jaglom, an independent filmmaker from the United States.

Aimée was married four times, the most recent of which was to fellow actor Albert Finney that lasted from 1970 to 1978. This was her fourth and last marriage. The result of her second marriage, which was to the Greek film director Nikos Papatakis, was a daughter named Manuela.