Anna Karina
Born: 1940-09-22 in Solbjerg, Denmark
Died: 2019-12-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Sang titre as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
- Quantum Cowboys as Blacky's Memory
- Godard Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Sem Título #8: Vai Sobreviver as (archive footage)
2020
- Anna Karina, Remember as Self
- Anna and the Jellyfish as Self (archive footage)
2019
2015
- Every Day Words Disappear as (archive footage)
2008
- Victoria as Victoria
2007
- To Each His Own Cinema as (segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
2005
- French Beauty as Self (archive footage)
2003
- I, Cesar as Gloria
2002
- The Truth About Charlie as Karina
- In the Darkness of Time as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
- Nom de code : Sacha as Anna Karina
1999
- Set Me Free as Nana Kleinfrankenheim (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Godard on TV: 1960-2000 as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Birth of a Nation as Self
1996
- Chloé as Katia
1995
- Up, Down, Fragile as Sarah
1993
- Dark Galaxy as (archive footage)
1992
1990
- Manden der ville være skyldig as Edith
1988
- The Abyss as Catherine
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- Cayenne Palace as Lola
- Matin Bonheur as Self
- Last Song as Susan
1986
- Treasure Island as Mother
- Blockhaus USA
1984
- Ave Maria as Berthe Granjeux
1983
- A Friend of Vincent as Eleonore
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Regina Roma as Regina
1978
- Surprise Sock as Nathalie
- Just Like at Home as Anna
- Ausgerechnet Bananen as Natascha
- Madame le Juge as Emma
1977
- Chinese Roulette as Irene Cartis
1976
- Scrambled Eggs as Clara Dutilleul
- The Musician Killer as Louise
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974
- Bread and Chocolate as Elena
- Morel's Invention as Faustine
1973
- Living Together as Julie Andersen
1972
- Midi trente as Self
- The Salzburg Connection as Anna Bryant
1971
- The Wedding Ring as Jeanne
- Carlos as Clara
- Appointment in Bray as Elle
1970
- The Time to Die as The Young Woman
1969
- Justine as Melissa
- Laughter in the Dark as Margot
- Before Winter Comes as Maria
- Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel as Elisabeth Kohlhaas
1968
- The Magus as Anne
1967
- The Nun as Suzanne
- The Stranger as Marie Cardona
- Anna as Anna
- Lamiel as Lamiel
- Made in U.S.A as Paula Nelson
- A Propos D'Un Crime as Self
- Tender Sharks as Elena / Costa
- The Oldest Profession as Natasha (segment "Anticipation, ou l'amour en l'an 2000")
- Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000 as Natasha
1966
- Carl Th. Dreyer as Self (uncredited)
1965
- The Camp Followers as Elenitza
- Alphaville as Natacha von Braun
- Pierrot le Fou as Marianne Renoir
- The Thief of Tibadabo as Maria
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer as Self / Narrator
- Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965 as Self
- Husband for Sale as Béatrice Reinhof
1964
- Circle of Love as Rose
- Band of Outsiders as Odile
- All About Loving as Hélène
- La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même as Self
1963
- Le petit soldat as Veronica Dreyer
- Sweet and Sour as Ginette
- Scheherazade as Shéhérazade
- The Lovely Month of May as Self (uncredited)
1962
- Z-Cars as Lady Customer (uncredited)
- Cléo from 5 to 7 as Anna, The Blonde Bride / Actress in Silent Film
- Vivre Sa Vie as Nana Kleinfrankenheim
- Petit Jour as Self
- The Four Truths as Colombe (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
- She'll Have to Go as Toni Oberon
- Sun in Your Eyes as Emma
- Fiancés on the Bridge as Anna, The Blonde Girl
1961
- A Woman Is a Woman as Angela
- Tonight or Never as Valérie
1959
- Discorama as Self
- Pigen og skoene
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
1951
- Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak as Clara (voice)