Jeanne Moreau's most celebrated roles

Having already collaborated on "Elevator to the Gallows," Moreau again worked with her paramour, the director Louis Malle, on "The Lovers" in 1958. The French New Wave classic was a breakthrough film for both. It was also provocative. The story of a married woman who contemplates an affair with a passing stranger was labeled as pornography in America.

In 1960, she won a Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival for "Seven Days... Seven Nights" (1960), and in 1961 Jeanne Moreau appeared with Marcello Mastroianni in the Golden Bear-winning film, "The Night" by Michelangelo Antonioni. Playing the wife of a famous and adulterous writer, Moreau performs some infidelity of her own as their marriage dissolves over a single night.

Orson Welles called Moreau "the greatest actress in the world" after they first collaborated on the 1962 English-language film "The Trial," which Welles both directed and acted in. Moreau (left) played alongside Anthony Perkins of "Psycho" fame, who is told to stand trial for a crime that is never explained to him. The film noir classic based on the Franz Kafka novel also starred Romy Schneider.

In 1964, Moreau played the title role in the romantic spy thriller, "Mata Hari Agent 21." In this rendering, Hari is a Dutch exotic dancer who begins spying for Germany on the eve of World War I before she is caught up in a doomed affair. The film's screenplay was partly written by Francois Truffaut, who Moreau dated for a time, while it was directed by her former husband, Jean-Louis Richard.

Already good friends, Jeanne Moreau (left) and Bridget Bardot finally teamed up on the Louis Malle film "Viva Maria!" in 1965. It's the story of Mary and Mary, two free-spirited femmes fatales who adventure across Mexico while engaging in love, revolution and the occasional strip tease.

Jeanne Moreau (left) and Italian movie star Sophia Loren (right) join arms with French film legend Alain Delon as they arrive at Nice airport in 1989 to attend the opening night of the 42nd Cannes Film Festival. Moreau received a lifetime achievement award at Cannes in 2004, where she also twice sat on the film festival jury.

Jeanne Moreau is pictured talking to the media during a press conference in Berlin in 2000 during the Berlin International Film Festival . She was awarded an honorary Golden Bear for her lifetime achievement during that Berlinale. Like the honorary Oscar she also received, it was a testament to nearly 70 years in film across a remarkable career.