Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar (1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).

Her maternal grandfather was the novelist and dramatist François Mauriac.

Wiazemsky was born on 14 May 1947 in Berlin, Germany.^[1] Her father Yvan Wiazemsky, a French diplomat, was a Russian prince who had emigrated to France following the Russian Revolution.^[2] Her mother Claire Mauriac was the daughter of François Mauriac, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.^[1]

Wiazemsky spent her early years abroad following her father's postings around the world, including Geneva and Caracas; she returned to Paris in 1962.^[1][3] She graduated from the high school Ecole Sainte Marie de Passy in Paris.^[1]

During the 1966 filming of Au Hasard Balthazar, director Robert Bresson proposed to her several times, but she refused.^[11] In 1967, she married Jean-Luc Godard and starred in several of his films; the couple separated as early as 1970,^[12] though the marriage officially ended in divorce in 1979.^[11]

In 1971, Wiazemsky signed the Manifesto of the 343, which publicly declared she had an abortion as a way to advocate for reproductive rights; the procedure was illegal in France at the time.^[8]

Novels

• 1989: Mon beau navire, Gallimard, Paris
• 1991: Marimé, Gallimard, Paris
• 1993: Canines, Gallimard, Paris
• 1998: Une poignée de gens (1998 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française), Gallimard, Paris, ISBN 2-07-074676-3
• 2001: Aux quatre coins du monde, Gallimard, Paris
• 2002: Sept garçons, Gallimard, Paris
• 2004: Je m'appelle Elizabeth (Je m'appelle Élisabeth), Gallimard, Paris
• 2007: Jeune Fille, Gallimard, Paris, ISBN 2-07-077409-0
• 2009: Mon enfant de Berlin, Gallimard, Paris
• 2012: Une année studieuse, Gallimard, Paris ISBN 978-2-07-045387-0
• 2015: Un an après, Gallimard, Paris, ISBN 978-2-07-013543-1

Short stories

• 1988: Des filles bien élevées, Gallimard, Paris

Juvenile

• 2003: Les Visiteurs du soir (illustrations by Stanislas Bouvier)

Memoirs

• 1996: Hymnes à l'amour (1996 Prix Maurice Genevoix), Gallimard, Paris
• 2017: Un saint homme, Gallimard, Paris, ISBN 978-2-07-010712-4

Biography

• 1992: Album de famille
• 2000: Il était une fois... les cafés (photographs by Roger-Viollet)
• 2000: Tableaux de chats
• 2001: Venise (photographs by Jean Noël de Soye)

Preface

• 1994: En habillant