Anouk Aimée was born Judith Dreyfus in Paris, France on April 27 1932. Her father as stage actor Henry Dreyfus (who used the stage name Henry Murray) and her mother was actress Genevieve Sorya (nee Durand). During World War II, she took her mother's maiden name to avoid Nazi persecution due to her Jewish last name of Dreyfus. She attended boarding school in the Alps.
She was 14 years old when she was discovered by director Henri Calef. He cast her in the role of Anouk in La maison sous la mer (1947). She kept Anouk as her stage name. Author Jacques Prevert suggested she adopt Aimée as the surname of her stage name. In the late Forties she appeared in the movies The Lovers of Verona (1949) and Golden Salamander (1950).
In the Fifties she appeared in the movies The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952), Les crimes de l'amour (1953), Contraband Spain (1955), Noche de tormenta (1955), Bad Liaisons (1955), Ich suche Dich (1956), Nina (1956), Stresemann (1957), Pot Bouille (1957), Anyone Can Kill Me (1957), Montparnasse 19 (1958), The Journey (1959), La tête contre les murs (1959), Les dragueurs (1959), La dolce vita (1960), and Le farcenur (1960). She provided a voice in the animated film La bergère et le ramoneur (1952). She guest starred on the anthology television series Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents.
In the Sixties Anouk Aimée appeared in the movies Lola (1961), L'imprevisto (1961), Quai Notre-Dame (1961), The Last Judgement (1961), Sodom and Gomorrah (1962), 8 1/2 (1963), The Shortest Day (1963), Les grands chemins (1963), Il successo (1963), Il terrorista (1963), Liolà (1964), White Voices (1964), The Escape (1964), The Dreamer (1965), Le stagioni del nostro amore (1966), A Man and a Woman (1966), Lo scandalo (1966), Vivre pour vivre (1967), One Night...a Train (1968), Model Shop (1969), The Appointment (1969), and Justine (1969). She appeared on the TV series Festival and in the 1961 TV movie Hors jeu.
In the Seventies she appeared in the movies Hustle (1975), Second Chance (1976), Mon premier amour (1978), and A Leap in the Dark (1979). She appeared on the TV show Le roman du samedi. In the Eighties Anouk Aimée appeared in the movies Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981), The General of the Dead Army (1983), Viva la vie (1984), Success is the Best Revenge (1984), A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986), Arrivederci e grazie (1988), and Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990). On television she appeared on the TV series Piazza Navona (1988) and the mini-series Mon dernier rêve sera pour vous.
In the Nineties she appeared on television on the TV show Screen Two and the mini-series Solomon. She appeared in the movies Ruptures (1993), Les marmottes (1993), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995), Dis-moi oui... (1995), Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi (1996), Riches, belles, etc. (1998), L.A. Without a Map (1998), 1999 Madeleine (1999), and Une pour toutes (1999).
In the Naughts Anouk Aimée appeared in the television mini-series Napoleon and the TV movie Love Letters. She appeared in the movies Festival in Cannes (2001), La petite prairie aux bouleaux (2003), Happily Ever After (2004), De particulier à particulier (2006), Stranger Than Fiction (2006), Celle que j'aime (2009), Ces amours-là (2009), and Paris Connections (2010). She appeared in the 2008 TV movie Love Letters.
In the Naughts Anouk Aimée appeared in the movies Tous les soleils (2011), Mince alors! (2012), and Les plus belles années d'une vie (2019).
Anouk Aimée was a remarkable actress who played a wide variety of roles. In La dolce vita she played Maddalena, the world weary and wealthy heiress who is one of the lovers of Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni). In 8 1/2 she was Luisa Anselmi, the estranged wife of Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni). In A Leap in the Dark she played Marta Ponticelli, a mentally disturbed woman who had raised her younger brother, Judge Mauro Ponticelli (Michel Piccoli). She played fashion designer Simone Lowenthal in Prêt-à-Porter. Throughout her career Anouk Aimée played a wide variety of roles and she played all of them well.
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