Trivia

She became a friend of Jim Morrison during his time in Paris, France. Varda was one of only six people to attend Morrison's funeral.

Was the very first director to ever cast Gérard Depardieu, in 1965. The film, called "Christmas Carole" (revolving around Carole, a young comics writer), was never completed due to lack of money. Around 8 minutes were shot, featuring Depardieu, and this was shown at the Cinémathèque Française at the end of the 1990s.

Unlike her friends in the French New Wave associated with Cahiers Du Cinema magazine, and unlike her Left Bank colleague Alain Resnais, Varda had not been a cinephile when she became a filmmaker and had only seen, she said, about ten films by the mid 1950s.

Legally changed her first name from Arlette to Agnès when she turned 18.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 58th Cannes International Film Festival in 2005.

From 2013 she was a member of the 'Documentary Branch' of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS).

She was the daughter of Christiane (Pasquet) and Eugène Jean Varda, an engineer. Her father was from a family of Greek refugees from Asia Minor. Her mother was French, from Sète.

Before being taken up by the Paris theatre, she made a living as a wedding photographer in her native Belgium.

She was the official photographer of Jean Vilar's TNP and thus knew Philippe Noiret and Silvia Monfort, the main actors of her first film La Pointe Courte (1955).

Was a fan of the American series Girls (2012).

Her name is pronounced like Ahn-yes Varda, and not Ag-nes.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 40th Venice International Film Festival in 1983.

Mother of Rosalie Varda with Antoine Bourseiller.

After studying photography, she became the official stills photographer for the Theatre National Populaire in Paris. From there, she tried her hand at filmmaking and made her first movie, which was based loosely on William Faulkner's novel The Wild Palms.

Interred at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris, France.