Anouk Aimée
Though she never achieved the enduring international popularity of her contemporaries Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve, actress Anouk Aimée nonetheless forged a steady screen career and remained a strong presence in a number of European-based productions. Both sultry and enigmatic, Aimée appeared in a string of melodramas throughout the 1950s until finally breaking into Hollywood with a supporting part in "The Journey" (1959). But it was a turn as a bored nymphomaniac in Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960) that made international audiences sit up and take notice. Following another solid performance as a long-suffering wife in Fellini's "8 1/2" (1963), she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for "A Man and a Woman" (1966), an international hit and one of the most romantic movies ever made. Even though she gained worldwide prominence from the role, Aimée was unable to turn into a true international star. She had a solid turn in "The Model Shop" (1969), but did little of note during the 1970s and 1980s, though she maintained a steady stream of work. Aimée even tried to return to fertile ground with "A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later" (1986), but that did little to boost her profile. After a brief reemergence on the world stage in Robert Altman's "Prêt-à-Porter/Ready to Wear" (1994). Aimée settled into a number of supporting roles in European-made films and television miniseries, yet never once lost the allure she had displayed so vividly in her 1960s heyday.
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Anouk Aimée
Filmography
Movies
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82% |
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The Best Years of a Life | Anne Gauthier (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet |
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Silence of Love | Agathe (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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What Love May Bring | Madame Blum (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paris Connections | Agnes (Character) | - | 2010 |
100% |
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Chacun Son Cinema | Self | - | 2007 |
71% |
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Hotel Harabati | Nelly (Character) | - | 2006 |
59% |
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... And They Lived Happily Ever After | La mère de Vincent (Character) | $252.3K | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Birch-Tree Meadow | Myriam (Character) | - | 2003 |
65% |
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Festival in Cannes | Millie Marquand (Character) | $299.0K | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One 4 All | La femme du musicien (Character) | $30.8K | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 1999 Madeleine | Eve, la mère de Madeleine (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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L.A. Without a Map | Self | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Solomon | Bathsheba (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Liars | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Men, Women: A User's Manual | The Widow (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Say Yes | Claire Charvet (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dis-moi oui... | Claire Charvet (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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The World of Jacques Demy | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
21% |
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Ready to Wear (Pret-a-Porter) | Simone Lowenthal (Character) | $10.7M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Voices in the Garden | Cuckoo Peverall (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bethune: The Making of a Hero | Marie-France Coudaire (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spinning Table | Unknown (Voice) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Goodbye and Thank You | Laura (Character) | - | 1988 |
29% |
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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later | Anne Gauthier (Character) | $199.3K | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Success Is the Best Revenge | Monique des Fontaines (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The General of the Dead Army | Countess Betsy Mirafiore (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Viva la Vie! | Anouk (Character) | - | 1983 |
67% |
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Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man | Barbara Spaggiari (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leap Into the Void | Marta Ponticelli (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Second Chance | Sarah Gordon (Character) | - | 1976 |
83% |
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Model Shop | Lola (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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Justine | Justine (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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The Appointment | Carla (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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One Night, a Train | Anne (Character) | - | 1968 |
75% |
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A Man and a Woman | Anne Gauthier (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lo scandalo | Alessandra (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Counter Tenors | Lorenza (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Fuga | Unknown (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | White Voices | Lorenza (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Liolà | Mita (Character) | - | 1964 |
50% |
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Sodom and Gomorrah | Queen Bera (Character) | - | 1963 |
97% |
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8 1/2 | Luisa Anselmi (as Anouk Aimee) (Character) | $50.7K | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Success | Laura Ceriani (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Of Flesh and Blood | Anna (Character) | - | 1962 |
95% |
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Lola | Lola (Character) | $104.0K | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Judgment | Giorgio's wife Irene (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joker | Hélène Laroche (Character) | - | 1961 |
95% |
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La Dolce Vita | Maddalena (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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The Journey | Eva (Character) | - | 1959 |
100% |
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Head Against the Wall | Stéphanie (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
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The Chasers | Jeanne (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Modigliani of Montparnasse | Jeanne Hébuterne (Character) | - | 1958 |
83% |
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Hero of Montmartre | Unknown (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Everybody Wants to Kill Me | Isabelle (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lovers of Paris | Marie Pichon (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Seek You | Dr. Francoise Maurer (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bad Liaisons | Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Contraband Spain | Elena Vargas (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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The Paris Express | Jeanne, the prostitute (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La bergère et le ramoneur | La bergère (Voice) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Crimson Curtain | Unknown (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Golden Salamander | Anna (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lovers of Verona | Georgia Maglia (Character) | - | 1948 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rheingold Theatre | Wanda (Character) | 1953 |