Anna Karina Death
Anna passed away on December 14, 2019 at the age of 79 in Paris, France. Anna's cause of death was cancer.
When did Anna Karina die?
December 14, 2019How did Anna Karina die? What was the cause of death?
CancerHow old was Anna Karina when died?
79Where did Anna Karina die? What was the location of death?
Paris, France
Anna Karina Birthday and Date of Death
Anna Karina was born on September 22, 1940 and died on December 14, 2019. Anna was 79 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: September 22, 1940
Date of Death: December 14, 2019
Age at Death: 79
Anna Karina - Biography
Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; 22 September 1940) is a Danish-French citizen, film actress, director, and screenwriter who has spent most of her working life in France. She is known as 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). With A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Karina was 17 when she arrived in Paris. Poor and unable to speak French, she lived on the streets. One day while sitting at the café Les Deux Magots she was approached by a woman from an advertisement agency who asked her to do some photos. She began to work as a model and eventually became successful, posing for several magazines, including Elle, and meeting Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel. Karina said that Chanel helped her devise her professional name, Anna Karina.
In 1961, after working together on Le Petit Soldat, Karina and Godard married; The Independent described them as "one of the most celebrated pairings of the 1960s." During their marriage, they made seven feature films together. A writer for Filmmaker magazine called their work "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema."
Despite the critical success, their relationship behind the scenes was described as tumultuous; they fought on film sets, Karina fell ill several times, and Godard was often absent without explanation. The couple divorced in 1965. Karina said they no longer spoke to each other. After divorcing Godard, 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.
