Agnès Varda

French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer (1928–2019)

  • Fame58.7
  • Momentum1.4
  • Wikipedia41K
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Lived 1928–2019, aged 91France
  • Wikipedia
    58 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1928–2019
    Aged 91
  • Known for
    Cléo from 5 to 7
    1962
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

She shot on real streets when studios still painted fake ones, cast strangers instead of stars, and kept doing both into her nineties. Scorsese called her one of the gods of cinema — the first woman to win an honorary Oscar for directing agreed, but never stopped working like an outsider.

Biography

About

Born Arlette Varda in Belgium in 1928, she became Agnès and moved through photography into film at a moment when sound equipment chained most directors to soundstages. Her 1955 debut La Pointe Courte used location shooting and non-professional actors, methods rare enough in fifties France to mark her as strange. Cléo from 5 to 7 followed in 1962, then decades of narrative features like Vagabond — which won the Golden Lion at Venice in 1985 — and documentaries from Black Panthers in 1968 to The Gleaners and I in 2000. She kept filming into her eighties: Faces Places earned an Oscar nomination,…

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58.7
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Momentum1.4
Historical25.5
Source confidence70.0
Completeness80.0
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    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
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