"Whether playing a streetwalker or a terrorist, Ms. Karina managed to look flirtatious, with her dark hair, wispy bangs, heavy eyeliner..."

"... and chic wardrobe of sailor-uniform tops, knee socks, lots of plaid and perky headwear, from berets to boaters.... At 14, she dropped out of school, sang in cabarets and worked as a television model. At 17, she ran away from home — hitchhiking to Paris — and was discovered by the casting director of an advertising agency while sitting at Les Deux Magots, the fashionable Left Bank cafe. During a photo shoot for Elle magazine, she met the fashion designer Coco Chanel, who advised her to change her name. Godard, a film critic at the time, saw her in a movie theater ad for a Palmolive bath product. When he subsequently offered her a small part in his first full-length film... she objected to doing a nude scene. Godard said he didn’t understand — after all, he had just seen her onscreen in a bathtub, looking very comfortable and showing plenty of skin. 'I wasn’t nude,' she told him... 'That was your imagination.' She had been wearing a swimsuit in the tub, she said, and “the soapsuds were up to my neck.'... After her divorce from Godard ('He would say he was going out for cigarettes and come back three weeks later,' she told The Guardian), she married several other times... Ms. Karina was happy to acknowledge Godard as a Pygmalion figure, but also pointed out her own contributions... 'I gave him self-confidence.'"

From the NYT obituary for Anna Karina, whose  name, prior to that encounter with Coco Chanel, was Hanne Karin Bayer.