Agnès Varda

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Born

1928-05-30

Place of Birth

Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Agnès Varda

Biography

Agnès Varda (May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.

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Acting History

2025
Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison as Self (archive footage)
2024
In Her Own Words as Self
2023
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera as Self (archive footage)
2023
Viva Varda! as Self (archive footage)
2022
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 as Self (voice)
2021
The World in Shots as Self
2021
Jim Morrison: The End as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement as French Woman Talking
2020
La Alameda 2018 as ella misma
2020
Agnes V. by Jane B. as Self (Archive Footage)
2020
The Invention of Chris Marker as self
2019
Harumi as Self
2019
Varda by Agnès as Self
2019
Varda by Agnès as Self
2019
Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma as Agnès Varda
2018
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure as Self (archive footage)
2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché as Self
2018
Quinqui Stars as Self (archive footage)
2018
#JR as Self
2018
Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer as Self
2018
Chance Is the Best Assistant as Self
2017
A Visual History with Agnès Varda as Herself
2017
Faces Places as Self
2016
EXPRMNTL as herself
2015
Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2014
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
2014
Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
2014
The 8th Floor as Self
2013
Cinéast(e)s as Self
2012
The 3 Lives of Agnès as Self
2012
Square as Self
2012
Two Street Artists as Narrator (voice)
2011
In Chris Marker's Studio as Self
2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There as Self / Narrator (voice)
2011
Americano as Voice (Uncredited)
2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There as Self
2011
The First Interview as Self / Host (voice)
2009
Great Directors as Self
2008
La chanson 'Lola' as Self
2008
Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story as Self
2008
Souvenirs and Evocations as Self
2008
Daguerre-plage as Self
2008
Trapézistes et voltigeurs as Self
2008
The Beaches of Agnès as Self
2008
Shooting Women as Self
2008
Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg as Self
2008
The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany as Self
2007
From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects as Self
2007
Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD as Self
2007
Women Behind the Camera as Self
2006
Some Widows of Noirmoutier as Self
2006
Le Bonheur? Réponses des Fontenaisiens as Self
2006
Bonheur: nom propre ou concept as Self
2006
Agnès parle du Bonheur as Self
2005
More So-called Caryatids as Narrator
2005
Mag Bodard, un destin as Self (archive footage)
2005
Not Like Before as Self
2005
Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes as Self
2005
Where is Sara Gómez? as Self
2005
Rue Daguerre in 2005 as Self - Narrator
2005
Bread, Painting, Accordion as herself
2004
Ydessa, the Bears and etc. as Narrator (voice)
2004
Leçon de Cinéma as Self
2004
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli as Self
2003
Musique et Travellings as Self
2003
Un film et son époque as Self
2003
The Vanishing Lion as La Lectrice du Parc / Narrator (uncredited)
2003
The Story of an Old Lady as Self
2003
Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments as Narrator / Self
2002
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later as Narrator
2002
The Truth About Charlie as The Widow Hyppolite
2002
Tribute to Zgougou the Cat as Self
2001
Janela da Alma as Self
2000
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema as Self
2000
The Gleaners and I as Self
1995
The World of Jacques Demy as Self
1994
Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South as Self
1993
The Young Girls Turn 25 as Self
1992
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave as Self
1991
Jacquot as Narrator (uncredited)
1990
Pictures of Europe as Self
1988
Calling the Shots as Self
1988
Jane B. by Agnès V. as Self (uncredited)
1986
You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know... as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1986
Ulysse as Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1986
a Nathalie Sarraute as Self (Voice)
1985
Vagabond as (uncredited)
1984
The So-Called Caryatids as Narrator
1983
One Minute for One Image as Self - Narrator (voice)
1981
Documenteur as Mur Murs Play Back (voice) (uncredited)
1981
Mur Murs as Self / Narrator
1978
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness as Self
1978
Daguerréotypes as Narrator
1977
Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda as Self
1977
One Sings, the Other Doesn't as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1975
Women Reply as Self (voice)
1975
La Vie filmée
1971
Nausicaa as Self
1970
Viva Varda! as Self
1969
Lions Love as Agnès (uncredited)
1967
Far from Vietnam as Narrator (segment "Flash Back") (voice)
1967
Uncle Yanco as Self
1967
The Young Girls of Rochefort as Music-Loving Nun (uncredited)
1967
The Birth of Children of Paradise as Self
1965
Agnès Varda tourne... as herself
1964
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même as Self
1963
Hello Cubans as Narrator (voice)
1960
La Mélangite as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1956
All the World's Memory
1956
Cinépanorama as Self
1954
Le Photographe Photographié - Brassaï par Varda