Anna Karina

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1940 age 0

   Born

2. 1961 age 21

   CreditA Woman Is a Woman

3. 1962 age 22

   CreditCléo from 5 to 7

   CreditMy Life to Live

4. 1965 age 25

   CreditAlphaville

   CreditPierrot le Fou

5. 2019 age 79

   Died

• JGJean-Luc Godard5 titles
• RCRaoul Coutard4 titles
• GBGeorges de Beauregard3 titles
• MLMichel Legrand3 titles
• HAHenri Attal3 titles
• LSLászló Szabó3 titles
• CPCarlo Ponti2 titles
• JLJean-Pierre Léaud2 titles
• JBJean-Claude Brialy2 titles
• JBJean-Paul Belmondo2 titles

• Spouse

  • JGJean-Luc Godard
  • DDDaniel Duval
  • PFPierre Fabre
  • DBDennis Berry

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Joost Evers / AnefoCC0

• I came to the showroom to show pictures, and [Coco Chanel] said, “Okay, we’ll make a test to see if you can do it.” I was a little girl—about 17-and-a-half—and so I went into the makeup room and I did my makeup, and my hair, and the eyes to get them a little bit bolder. This woman came in with a big hat, she was 66 or 65 or something like that, but very beautiful! Kind of militaire. She said, “What is your name little girl?” I was talking to the makeup lady, and said, “My name is Hanne Karin Bayer.” She said, “Hanne Karin Bayer? And you want to be an actress? You’ve got to call yourself Anna Karina.” And I said, “Oh that sounds good, thank you, Madame.” Afterwards everybody told me it was Coco Chanel. Two weeks later I got my photo on the cover of Elle magazine and I really got work. That was a big honor at the time, and they called me “Anna Karina,” but they spelled it the wrong way in the beginning, with a “C,” the Italian way.

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• We did not see ourselves as remaking cinema at the time, at least not in my view. Myself and the other actors were not part of the industry; we weren’t inside the star system. We were running around, shooting in the streets, hiding behind trees to do our makeup. It was a very simple way of working.

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• As soon as we were happy, he tried to get at us by another means, another path. He provoked a new ordeal. One could have thought that it bored him, happiness.

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• Lots of resistance. People really didn’t like it. ‘What is she doing here? This is not her job, she should stay being an actress.’ But I just wanted to see if I could do it, that’s all. And I wrote novels. And did singing – two albums, or did I say that already?

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• I like the earlier [Jean-Luc Godard films] better. The earlier ones are human, the later ones abstract. Like Cubist paintings – not so fun. One day in Los Angeles, I went to a museum and paid $25 and what did I see? White cubes! What’s going on? I go back to the ticket booth and said: ‘I want my money back. I don’t want to look at white cubes.’

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• Serge savait ce qu'il voulait, perfectionniste, on a beaucoup répété, on se parlait même en verlan. Je me suis rarement autant amusée avec un homme, nous étions très complices.

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