Anna Karina
Acting
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 a singer and wrote several novels.
Known for
2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Nana Kleinfrankenheim / Odile (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025Sang titre
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2025The Wild Palms
Paula Nelson
2023Godard Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2023Quantum Cowboys
Blacky's Memory
2023L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
2022Sem Título #8: Vai Sobreviver
(archive footage)
2020Anna Karina, Remember
Self
2019Philippe R. Doumic - Sous son regard l'étincelle
Self
2015Every Day Words Disappear
(archive footage)
2009Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
2007To Each His Own Cinema
(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
2005French Beauty
Self (archive footage)
2003I, Cesar
Gloria
2002In the Darkness of Time
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2002The Truth About Charlie
Karina
1999Set Me Free
Nana Kleinfrankenheim (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998Anna
Anna
1997Birth of a Nation
Self
1996Chloé
Katia
1995Up, Down, Fragile
Sarah
1993Dark Galaxy
(archive footage)
1990Manden der ville være skyldig
Edith
1988The Abyss
Catherine
