Anne Wiazemsky

Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist of the Russian Rurikid family of Princes Vyazemsky-Counts Levashov.

Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of François Mauriac. She appeared in Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) and in Jean-Luc Godard's films La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967) and One Plus One (1968). She and Godard were married from 1967 to 1979.

Wiazemsky's novels include Canines (1993), Une Poignée de Gens (1998), Hymnes à l’Amour (1996) and Aux Quatre Coins du Monde (2001). Hymnes à l’Amour was filmed in 2003 as Toutes ces belles promesses (All the Fine Promises), directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac and starring Valérie Crunchantand Bulle Ogier. Her novel Jeune Fille (2007) was based on her experience starring in Au Hasard Balthazar at the age of 18.