Anna Karina, radiant Danish-French actress and Jean-Luc Godard's muse, dies at 79
The actress' productive career was not limited to the movies of Godard, however. She accumulated more than 50 feature credits, working with other major auteurs like Jacques Rivette, Luchino Visconti, Chris Marker, Volker Schlöndorff and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. , J.
Born Hanne-Karine Blarke Bayer in Copenhagen in 1940, Karina was raised by her grandparents and her mother, who ran a clothing store. She began modeling at age 15 for Danish fashion magazines and was an extra on a few dozen movies. When she was just shy of 18, Karina decided to try her luck in Paris. She was soon discovered by a modeling scout and began posing for such French fashion magazines as It was during a run-in with Coco Chanel in 1958 that Hanne-Karine changed her name to Anna Karina, which the fashion designer told her sounded better. She used the moniker for her movie career, which began in earnest in 1960 with Victoriaenfant terrible , and the young and unknown Danish model-actress did not go smoothly.
Known for his orneriness on the set, Godard nearly brought Karina to tears when shooting one of the film's best sequences, where she's interrogated by her lover and subjected to an impromptu photo seance. The production of lasted for two months and was beset with problems, yet by the end of it, Godard and Karina had fallen in love.
They married in March 1961, with a first ceremony taking place in Switzerland and a second one in Paris that was attended by a who's who of French cinema at the time: François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Rivette and Godard producer Georges de Beauregard. The wedding photos made the cover of the tabloid But their euphoria was short-lived. Karina, who was already pregnant at the time, lost the baby a few months later and became sterile.
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