Agnès Varda

Arlette Varda, known as Agnès, was born in Ixelles, Belgium, on 30 May 1928, to a father of Greek origin and a French mother. In 1940, her family moved to Sète and lived there on a boat. She studied at the École du Louvre and learned photography, then became the photographer of Jean Vilar's Théâtre national populaire. She shared her life with the filmmaker Jacques Demy. In 2017, she was the first woman director to receive an honorary Oscar. She died in Paris on 29 March 2019.

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• CinemaCléo from 5 to 7Cléo de 5 à 7Agnès Varda · 1962Cinema