Anna Karina

Anna Karina

Hanne Blarke

Birth Date

9/22/1940 (Age 79)

Birth Place

Solbjerg, Denmark

Death Date

12/14/2019

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Anna Karina  (22 September 1940 - 14 December 2019) was a Danish film actress, director, and screenwriter who spent most of her working life in France. Karina was 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) and Vivre sa vie (1962). With 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 Vivre ensemble (1973), her directorial debut, 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 ...

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Acting

Gender

Female

Total Credits

16

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Frequent Collaborators

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

15 films together

Raoul Coutard

Raoul Coutard

6 films together

Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

4 films together

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2 films together

Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette

2 films together

Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

2 films together

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