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Early lifeHer father was a ship's captain. Before Anna turned one, he had left her mother. After being raised by her maternal grandparents, where she stayed until the age of four, she spent time in and out of foster homes, before returning to live with her mother from the age of eight. She has described her childhood as "terribly wanting to be loved" and made numerous attempts as a child to run away from home. Career
At age 14, she appeared on a Danish short film which won a prize at Cannes. Study dance and paiting in Denmark and for a while made a living selling her paintings before moving to Paris. She came to Paris in 1958 at age 17 where she met Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel, who convinced her to change her name to Anna Karina.
Godard and Karina married on 3 March 1961, during the shooting of Une femme est une femme, and divorced in 1967. Karina was awarded best actress at the Berlin Film Festival in 1961 for her interpretation of the character Angela in the film Une femme est une femme. Her acting career was not however limited to Godard's films, and she went on to a successful collaboration with other well-known directors. Her role in Suzanne Simonin, la Religieuse de Diderot (1967) by Jacques Rivette is considered by some as her best performance. She also acted in Luchino Visconti's L'Etranger. Other notable films include: George Cukor's "Justine" (1969), Tony Richardson's "Laughter in the Dark" (1969), Christian de Chalonge's "L'Alliance" (1970), Andre Delvaux's "Rendezvous a Bray" (1971), The Salzburg Connection (1972), Franco Brusati's "Bread and Chocolate" (1973) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Chinese Roulette" (1976). In 1972 set up a production company named Raska for her 1973’s film directing debut Vivre Ensemble. In 1973 she made her directing debut in Vivre Ensemble in which she also acted. She wrote and acted in Last Song in 1987. More recently, she appeared in Haut, Bas, Fragile (1995) by Jacques Rivette and sang in The Truth About Charlie. She has also appeared on stage, in Rivette's adaptation of "La Religieuse", "Pour Lucrece", "Toi et Tes Nuages", Francoise Sagan's "Il Fait Beau Jour et Nuit" and Ingmar Bergman's "Apres Le Repitition." Karina has also maintained an important singing career. At the beginning of the 1960s, she scored a major hit with "Sous le soleil exactement" and "Roller Girl", both songs taken from the musical comedy "Anna" by Serge Gainsbourg in which she sings seven songs alongside Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Brialy. More recently, she recorded an album entitled "Une histoire d'amour" with Philippe Katerine, which was followed up by a concert tour. Karina has also written three novels and made several appearances on television. In 2005 she released "Chansons de films", a collection of songs sung in movies. She is scheduled to write, direct and star in "Dame de Coeur", a musical road movie to be filmed in Montreal. After Godard, she was married thrice more: to scriptwriter-actor Pierre Fabre (1968-1973), actor-director Daniel Duval (1978-1981) and director Dennis Berry (1982- Present), ex-husband of Jean Seberg and son of American expatriate director John Berry. Anna is fluent in Danish, French, English, Swedish and Italian. Has written two books one in 1983 and another one in 1988. Filmography, as actress, includes
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