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My Take
Anne Wiazemsky lived two distinct artistic lives, and both impress me. At eighteen she was Marie in Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar, then married Godard and became a face of his most politically charged late-sixties films like La Chinoise and Week End. But the second act is what I find moving, reinventing herself as a novelist serious enough to win the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. She died in 2017. Few people sit at the center of French New Wave cinema and then earn equal respect on the page. Her memoirs of the Godard years are quietly devastating.
Overview
Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a German-born French actress and novelist of Russian ancestry. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Anne Wiazemsky
- Name (Japanese)
- アンヌ・ヴィアゼムスキー
- Reading
- あんぬ・ゔぃあぜむすきー
- Born
- May 14, 1947 – October 5, 2017
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Boar
- Origin
- Charlottenburg, Germany
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / film director / novelist / screenwriter / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Paris Nanterre University
Awards & achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- 1993 Prix Goncourt des Lycéens
- 1998 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
- 1998 Prix Renaudot des lycéens
- 2007 Jean-Freustié Prize
- 1996 Grand prix RTL-Lire
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.