Anna Karina

Not to be confused with Anna Karenina.
For the Jackie DeShannon song, see Anna Karina (song).

Anna Karina
Karina in 1977
Born
Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer

(1940-09-22)22 September 1940
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Died14 December 2019(2019-12-14) (aged 79)
Paris, France
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery
Occupation(s)Actress, film director, writer, singer, model
Years active1959–2019
Spouses
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(m. 1961; div. 1965)​
Pierre Fabre
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(m. 1968; div. 1974)​
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(m. 1978; div. 1981)​
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(m. 1982)​

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]

  1. ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 94.
  2. ^ "Harrison Smith, "Anna Karina, luminous star of French New Wave films, dies at 79," The Washington Post, Obituaries, December 15, 2019". Retrieved 2 January 2020.
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  5. ^ "Anna Karina, légendaire actrice de la Nouvelle Vague, est morte" Le Monde. Retrieved 15 December 2019
  6. ^ Cowie, Peter (2005). Revolution!: The Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties. Macmillan. p. 62. ISBN 0-571-21135-6.
  7. ^ "Berlinale 1961: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  8. ^ Lang, Jamie (20 October 2017). "Lumière Festival: Celluloid Angels to Give Anna Karina Directorial Debut 'Vivre Ensemble' 4K Restoration". Variety. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
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  10. ^ "Looking For (But Never Really Finding) Anna Karina in New York on Notebook". MUBI. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Anna Karina – Interview with the Actress And Style Icon". Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  12. ^ Brooks, Xan (21 January 2016). "Anna Karina on love, cinema and being Jean-Luc Godard's muse: 'I didn't want to be alive any more'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  13. ^ Kenny, Glenn (4 May 2016). "Anna Karina Recalls Her Life in Film With Jean-Luc Godard". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 January 2018.