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Anna Karina
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22 September 1940 - 14 December 2019
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Anna Karina, real name Hanna Karin Blarke Bayer is a Danish and French theater and film actress and director.
She was born on September 22, 1940 in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the age of 14, she began her career as a cabaret singer, appeared in commercial radio programs and starred in short films.
Her first significant film role was in the film The Girl in Shoes, which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1958, she moved to Paris, where, on the advice of Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel, she
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Anna Karina, real name Hanna Karin Blarke Bayer is a Danish and French theater and film actress and director.
She was born on September 22, 1940 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
At the age of 14, she began her career as a cabaret singer, appeared in commercial radio programs and starred in short films.
Her first significant film role was in the film The Girl in Shoes, which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1958, she moved to Paris, where, on the advice of Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel, she adopted the pseudonym Anna Karina. In 1959, after filming in a commercial for soap, Jean-Luc Godard drew the attention of her, who offered her a role in his film. In 1961, she starred in the film Woman is Woman.
On March 3, 1961, she married Godard and lived with him until 1967. By that time, she starred in films by other directors such as Luchino Visconti, Rainer Fassbinder, Martha Mesaros. In 1973, she directed the film “Living Together”, but this film did not receive approval from the audience.
After the divorce from Godard, Anna Karina gained fame as a theater actress, starring in the play The Nun by Denis Diderot. She later starred in Jacques Rivette's film Suzanne Simonen, the nun Denis Diderot.
After breaking up with Godard, Anna Karina married three more times.
Anna Karina is fluent in Danish, French, English, Swedish and Italian.