Anna Karina was a Danish-French film avant-garde actress, director, writer, and singer. She was also the first wife and cinematic muse of Jean-Luc Godard, appearing in eight of his films.
Anna Karina cause of death: What heppened to Jean-Luc Godard’s first wife?
Karina was born Hanne Karin Bayer in Frederiksberg, Denmark, to a mother who was a dress shop owner. Her father left the family a year after she was born.
Her career in Denmark, where she sang in cabarets and worked as a model playing in commercials.
She has appeared in several of Godard’s films including, The Little Soldier, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou, and Alphaville. The couple married in 1961.
Despite their success together, the couple had a tumultuous and they fought on film sets. After her divorce from Godard, she remarried three times.
She was married to French actors Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and Daniel Duval from 1978 to 1981, and to American film director Dennis Berry from 1982 until her death in 2019.
On Saturday, December 14, 2019, she died at a hospital in Paris. Her agent, Laurent Balandras, said that the cause of death was cancer. However, Berry said that the cause was not cancer, instead it was a complication following a muscular rupture.
