French actress and 60s icon Anouk Aimée dies aged 92

Anouk Aimée, star of European new wave classics such as La Dolce Vita, A Man and a Woman and Lola, has died aged 92. The news was confirmed by her daughter, Manuela Papatakis, via a social media post.

“We have the immense sadness to announce the departure of my mother,’ Papatakis wrote. “I was close to her when she passed away this morning, at her home in Paris.”

Born from a Jewish father in 1932, Aimée's life was turned upside down when she was eight years old, as German troops marched into Paris.

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Her family sent her to the countryside where they hoped she would be safer, changing her name so she would not have to wear a yellow star.

The war over, she began her career at the age of 13 when she was picked to play in a Marcel Carné film that was never finished.

The following year, she made her debut in Henri Calef’s La Maison Sous la Mer, and adopted her character's name, Anouk, as her own.

Aimée went on to be Oscar-nominated for her work on A Man and a Woman, winning a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her performance in 1968. She then won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980 for A Leap in the Dark.

She lived out the last few decades of her life in Paris's Montmartre district.