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Anna Karina

Also known as: Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer

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Anna Karina Biography

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Died: Saturday 14th of December 2019 (age 79)

Born: Sunday 22nd of September 1940

Years active: 1959-2019 (started around 18 years old; 60 years active)

Birthplace: Frederiksberg, Denmark

Nationality: (Danish), (French)

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Professions: Actress (former), Director (former), Model (former), Musician (former), Writer (former)

Sexuality: Straight

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Height: 5'7" (or 170 cm)

About Anna Karina

Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; 22 September 1940 – 14 December 2019) was a Danish-French film actress, director, writer, model, and singer. She was French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's early collaborator, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier (1960), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), My Life to Live (1962), Bande à part (Band of Outsiders; 1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), and Alphaville (1965). For her performance in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress 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 a singer and wrote several novels.

Karina was an icon of 1960s cinema, and referred to as the "effervescent free spirit of the French New Wave, with all of the scars that the position entails". The New York Times described her as "one of the screen's great beauties and an enduring symbol of the French New Wave."