Anna Karina | |
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![]() Karina in 1977 | |
Born | Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer 22 September 1940 Frederiksberg, Denmark |
Died | 14 December 2019 Paris, France | (aged 79)
Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Occupation(s) | Actress, film director, writer, singer, model |
Years active | 1959–2019 |
Spouses | Pierre Fabre
(m. 1968; div. 1974) |
Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer;[1][2][3][4] 22 September 1940 – 14 December 2019)[5] was a Danish-French film actress, director, writer, model, and singer. She was an early collaborator [6] of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, her first husband, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), My Life to Live (1962), Bande à part (Band of Outsiders; 1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), and Alphaville (1965). For her performance in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.[7]
In 1972, Karina set up a production company for Vivre ensemble (1973), her directorial debut, which screened in the Critics' Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival.[8] She also directed the French-Canadian film Victoria (2008). In addition to her work in cinema, she worked as a singer and wrote several novels.[9]
Karina was an icon of 1960s cinema, and referred to as the "effervescent free spirit of the French New Wave, with all of the scars that the position entails".[10][11][12] The New York Times described her as "one of the screen's great beauties and an enduring symbol of the French New Wave."[13]
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