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Anna Karina, French new wave icon – a life in pictures

The Danish born actor, who was to become one of the icons of French new wave cinema in the 1960s, has died at the age of 79. Here we look back at her career.

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Main image: Anna Karina. Photograph: Jean-Regis Roustan/Roger Viollet via Getty Images

Sun 15 Dec 2019 10.33 GMT Last modified on Tue 24 Mar 2020 17.11 GMT

  • Hanne Karin Bayer was born in Solbjerg, Denmark on 22 September 1940. At 17 years old, she hitchhiked to Paris and started modelling. Coco Chanel recommended she change her name.

  • Le Petit Soldat, 1960

    Anna Karina turned down a role in Jean-Luc Godard’s debut film Breathless. She did appear in his next film, made in 1960 but not released until 1963, playing pro-Algerian activist, Veronica.

  • Karina in a bar in Paris in 1960.

  • Ce Soir ou Jamais, 1961

  • Une Femme Est une Femme, 1961

    Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo in A Woman is a Woman, written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Karina won best actress at the Berlin film festival for her performance.

  • She’ll Have to Go, 1962

    Anna Karina in a publicity shoot for the British comedy film, also known as Maid for Murder.

  • Anna Karina with Jean-Luc Godard in 1962. They were married from 1961 to 1965.

  • Vivre sa Vie, 1962

    Anna Karina plays Nana Kleinfrankenheim, a Parisian whose life descends into prostitution in Godard’s tragic drama.

  • Godard and Karina at the 1963 Cannes film festival.

  • Bande à Part, 1964

    Claude Brasseur as Arthur, Anna Karina as Odile and Sami Frey as Frantz in Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders.

  • De L’amour, 1964

    Karina as Hélène in the romantic comedy All About Loving.

  • Alphaville, 1965

    Anna Karina as Natacha von Braun and Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution in Jean-Luc Godard’s sci-fi drama.

  • Pierrot le Fou, 1965

  • La Religieuse, 1966

    Anna Karina in The Nun, directed by Jacques Rivette.

  • Made in USA, 1966

  • Anna, 1967

    Karina starred in a musical comedy with songs written by Serge Gainsbourg. Karina sang in the movie and had two hits with Sous le Soleil Exactement and Roller Girl.

  • The Stranger, 1967

    Anna Karina and Marcello Mastroianni in Luchino Visconti’s drama, based on the Albert Camus novel.

  • Karina and fellow actor Pierre Fabre before their wedding in Paris on 13 February 1968. The marriage lasted until 1974.

  • Karina and Serge Gainsbourg before the recording of the television show Entrez dans la Confidence in Paris on 6 March 1968. The couple sang Do Not Say Anything from the film Anna.

  • The Magus, 1968

    Michael Caine and Anna Karina in the disastrous adaptation of John Fowles’ novel.

  • Laughter in the Dark, 1969

    Anna Karina in the drama directed by Tony Richardson.

  • Justine, 1969

    Dirk Bogarde, Michael York, John Vernon, Anouk Aimee and Anna Karina, in a film based on Lawrence Durrell’s novel.

  • The Wedding Ring, 1970

  • Vivre Ensemble, 1973

    Michel Lancelot and Karina in her directorial debut, which she also wrote.

  • More’s Invention, 1974

  • Chinese Roulette, 1976

    Anna Karina and Margit Carstensen in the thriller directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

  • Karina and fellow actor Daniel Duval on the day of their wedding in La Garde-Freinet in the Côte d’Azur in 1978. The couple divorced in 1981.

  • Bruno Cremer and Anna Karina in After the Rehearsal by Ingmar Bergman at the Renaissance Theatre in Paris in September 1997.

  • The Truth About Charlie, 2002

    Karina in Jonathan Demme’s thriller.

  • Anna Karina photographed in January 2016 for an interview the Guardian. In 2018 she was awarded the Legion d’Honneur in recognition of her services to French cinema.
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