Anouk Aimée

Nicole Dreyfus started acting at 14 in 1947, studying dance and performance alongside school. She worked steadily in French cinema through the 1950s, then exploded into view with La dolce vita in 1960 — Fellini's portrait of Roman decadence that made her a rising star. She returned for his 8½ in 1963, played the title role in Demy's Lola in 1961, and in 1966 starred in A Man and a Woman, a film that "virtually reignited the lush on-screen romance in an era of skeptical modernism" and earned her Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominations (she won the latter two). She kept working across borders…