Anouk Aimée Net Worth

Anouk Aimée's Quotes

• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
• Oh come on, it hasn't been an unimpressive career. If you look at the number of projects I've been involved in, the people I've worked with ... But it's perhaps true that I haven't always made the right choices. I've taken parts I didn't particularly like because I wanted to work with the director - Altman, for example. But there's very little that I actually regret doing. I had to do most of it, I needed the money. There are one or two things I could have said yes to, though. That's probably true.
• It is always better to have a few scenes with a good director, than many scenes with a bad one.

Interesting Facts about Anouk Aimée

1. Daughter of Henry Murray (born Henri Dreyfus) and Geneviève Sorya (born Geneviève Marie Thérèse Durand). Her father was from an Alsatian Jewish family.
2. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#56). [1995]
3. Has supported Lionel Jospin's 2002 presidential campaign.
4. Ex-stepmother of Simon Finney.
5. Was one of several actresses considered for the role of "The Baroness" in the film version of The Sound of Music (1965); the role ultimately went to Eleanor Parker.
6. Adopted her stage name "Anouk" after playing a character of that name in her debut film, Henri Calef's La maison sous la mer (1947), in 1946. The name "Aimée" was given to her by Jacques Prévert, who penned La fleur de l'âge (1947), where she starred.
7. Of all the roles she turned down, the one she regrets not accepting the most was the Faye Dunaway role in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
8. Her acting career began when, at age 14, she was walking down the rue Colisée in the eighth arrondissement in Paris with her mother. Director Henri Calef stopped her and asked if she would like to be in a movie.
9. Mother of Manuella Papatakis (b. September 15th 1951).
10. Is one of 13 French actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination. The others in chronological order are: Claudette Colbert, Colette Marchand, Leslie Caron, Simone Signoret, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-Christine Barrault, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Bérénice Bejo, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.
11. First actor to receive an Oscar nomination for a French-language performance (for Un homme et une femme (1966)).
12. Both Anouk and Emmanuelle Riva received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for playing opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant: coincidentally, both actresses were playing a character named Anne.
13. Jean-Louis Trintignant didn't feel much at ease working with Aimée on the set of Un homme et une femme (1966), stating that he found her behaviour aloof and that he vastly preferred spending time with the child actors.
14. She won the 2009 "Prix Henri-Langlois" for her film work.
15. During the shooting of Justine (1969), she and actor Michael York were very much at odds with director George Cukor (who had replaced Joseph Strick). Aimée used to leave the set quite often- to be with her fiancé Albert Finney- and threaten never to come back, something that slowed down the shooting. Cukor stated in interviews that he felt Anouk's acting inability damaged the movie.
16. She won the 1961 'Étoile de cristal' for Best Actress for her performance in La dolce vita (1960).
17. The title role in Mademoiselle (1966) was originally written for her by family friend Jean Genet, who served as best man during her marriage to Nikos Papatakis and handed them the script on that date as a present. While shooting La tête contre les murs (1959), Aimée asked director Georges Franju if he had any interest to helm the project, but, when he mentioned her to the producers, he was told: 'It's not Anouk these days, it's Marie Laforêt'. Other things later factored into Anouk not being cast in the project, such as Genet keeping selling the script to different people when he needed money and Franju having- by the time he had been officially offered the project- grown enamored with the acting skills of his collaborator Emmanuelle Riva and moved on to struggle for the latter being cast. The film was finally directed by Tony Richardson and starred Jeanne Moreau.
18. After her acting career started by accident when she was hired for La maison sous la mer (1947) (something that lead to a few more film roles in the 40's), she actually relocated in England for a while to make her studies in a nunnery school. She also made some theatrical studies while there.
19. She was friends with Jacques Prévert, who wrote the screenplays for her early movies La fleur de l'âge (1947) and Les amants de Vérone (1949). It was through Prévert and his friend Alexandre Trauner that, at age 17, she went on to know some prominent figures of the French cultural and artistic world, such as Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Simone Signoret, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and her second husband Nikos Papatakis.
20. Her relationship with Albert Finney ended when she fell in love with Ryan O'Neal.