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Date of Birth

22 September 1940, Copenhagen, Denmark

Birth Name

Hanne Karen Blarke Bayer

Height

5' 7" (1.70 m)

Mini Biography

Born in Denmark, she came to Paris at 18. She met Coco Chanel and Pierre Cardin and started as a top model. She met Jean-Luc Godard about a cameo in Breathless (1960), but she had to be naked and she refused to play in the movie. One year later, they got married and she became famous with the "Nouvelle vague" movies directed by him, Jacques Rivette or Agnès Varda.

In 1967, Serge Gainsbourg wrote his only film musical Anna (1967) (TV) for her, with the hit "Sous le soleil exactement". Then, she went to Hollywood for a few movies and came back to Paris. She wrote and directed Vivre ensemble (1973) after her divorce from Pierre Fabre. She's now married to Dennis Berry.

IMDb Mini Biography By: laurent.onze@infonie.fr

Spouse

Maurice Cooks	(2009 - present)
Dennis Berry	(1982 - 1994) (divorced)
Daniel Duval	(1978 - 1981) (divorced)
Pierre Fabre	(1968 - 1974) (divorced)
Jean-Luc Godard	(3 March 1961 - 1967) (divorced)

Trivia

Same birthday as actress Catherine Oxenberg.

Friends with actresses Bernadette Lafont, Macha Méril, Alexandra Stewart and Françoise Brion.

Has written three novels.

Appeared in a short film when she was 14, which later won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Studied dance and painting in Denmark.

Fluent in five languages French, Danish, English, Swedish and Italian.

Has worked with film directors such as Agnès Varda, Roger Vadim, Valerio Zurlini, Jacques Rivette, George Stevens, Volker Schlöndorff, George Cukor and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Friends with Jean-Claude Brialy and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

In 1972 set up a production company named Raska.

Recorded the soundtrack album for her TV musical film Anna (1967) (TV) with songs written by Serge Gainsbourg and accompanied by her co-star and friend Jean-Claude Brialy on the vocals in a couple of songs.

Companion of Ulli Lommel in the late 1970s. The couple made few movies together, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's Chinese Roulette (1976) and Monkey Business (1978), directed by Lommel.

In the 1980s, she lived in Los Angles for a while where she met her fourth husband, Dennis Berry.

Husband Dennis Berry was once married to Jean Seberg (1972-1978) whom Anna's first husband, Jean-Luc Godard, directed in Breathless (1960) (aka Breathless).

Member of the jury at the Montreal International Film Festival in 2005.

Made 8 movies with ex-husband Jean-Luc Godard: Vivre Sa Vie (1962), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), The Oldest Profession (1967), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Le Petit Soldat (1963), Made in U.S.A (1966), Band of Outsiders (1964) and Alphaville (1965).

Daughter-in-law of John Berry.

Personal Quotes

Some people have scripts and scripts and lots of scripts, and they change it all the time. Even though [Jean-Luc Godard] had no script, he had it all in his heart and in his brain. He can explain it to you in a way where even if you get the dialogue five minutes before in the morning and you have to shoot it later, at least you have an idea about it, because he takes his time to explain things and to do the movements with you. There was always lots of rehearsal.

When I had my cover on Elle magazine, everyone wanted to work with me, you know... I earned a lot of money in six months, because I did Coca-Cola for England, Palmolive, Pepsodent for the Germans. Everything I could find. So that's how Jean-Luc Godard saw me, because on one side of the Champs Elysées I was selling one brand of soap, and on the other I was selling Palmolive.