Anna Karina

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Danish-born French film actress, director, screenwriter and singer, widely considered an icon of 1960s cinema. A muse of the director Jean-Luc Godard, one of the pioneers of the French New Wave, her notable collaborations with Godard include The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), Vivre sa vie (1962), and Alphaville (1965). For her performance in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1972, Karina set up a production company for her directorial debut, Vivre ensemble (1973), which screened in the Critics’ Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival. 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 in French. After her marriage to Godard from 1961 to 1965, Karina remarried several times; she was married to French actors Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and Daniel Duval from 1978 to 1981, and to American film director Dennis Berry from 1982 to 1994. She died on 14 December 2019 at age 79 in Paris. Link to Wikipedia biography