Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at Transilvania IFF in 2005, French legend actress Annie has died on Monday, February 28th, at the age of 79.
She remains one of the most important and influential French actresses of the past century. Her parts in over 150 films have marked young & old for the past 50 years.
Born on October 25th, 1931 in Paris, she played her first part back in 1955, in André Hunebelle's Treize à table. Her electric part in Luchino Visconti's Rocco and his brothers (1960) turned her into a European star, rocketing her career into one of the most glamorous on the continent. Parts in iconic films of the past decade, such as Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher (2001) and Caché (2005) have kept her in the spotlight as an inspiration for the new generations of actors.
In 2005, Mrs. Girardot travelled to Cluj-Napoca to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, creating one of the most impressive moments in the history of the Transilvania International Film Festival and being one of the first cult figures of world cinema to attend the young Romanian festival, then – at its fourth edition.
Transilvania IFF expresses its grief and admiration for a great friend of the festival and a truly inspirational artist in the history of European cinema.
