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Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg (born 21 July 1971 as Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg) is a French actress and singer-songwriter.

Personal life

Gainsbourg was born in London ; but was raised in Paris. She is the daughter of British actress and singer Jane Birkin and French actor/singer Serge Gainsbourg. Her maternal grandmother was actress Judy Campbell and her uncle is the screenwriter Andrew Birkin, who directed her in "The Cement Garden". Gainsbourg's longtime partner and spouse is the French actor/director Yvan Attal, with whom she has two children, Ben (born on 12 June 1997) and Alice (born on 8 November 2002).

On 5 September 2007, Gainsbourg was rushed to a Paris hospital where she underwent surgery for a cerebral hemerrhage. She had been experiencing headaches since a minor water skiing accident in the United States several weeks prior.

Career

Acting

Gainsbourg made her motion picture debut playing Catherine Deneuve's daughter in the film "Paroles et musique "(1984). In 1986, Gainsbourg won a Cesar Award for "Most Promising Actress" for "L'effrontée", and in 2000, she won "Best Supporting Actress" for the film "La Bûche".

In 1994, Gainsbourg made her stage debut in David Marnet's "Oleanna" at the Théâtre de la Gaîté Montparnasse. Gainsbourg has sung the title song in three of her films.

In 1996, Gainsbourg starred as the title character in Jane Eyre, the acclaimed film adaption of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel.

In 2005 she gained critical praise for her role alongside Charlotte Rampling in the surreal thriller Lemming.

In 2007, Gainsbourg appeared alongside Gael Garcia Bernal in Michel Gondry's La Science des rêves and as Claire in the Todd Haynes directed Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There", also contributing a cover of the Dylan song "Just Like a Woman" to the film's soundtrack.

In 2008, she appeared alongside Anthony Hopkins and Laura Linny in the film The City of Your Final Destination. She will soon start filming for the Patrice Chereau film project Persecution.

In 2009, she won the award for Best Actress at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for the film "Antichrist".

Patrice Chereau's Persecution premiered in September 2009 at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion. The film is an intense study of a relationship, also starring Romain Durris and Jean-Hugues Anglade. Gainsbourg's mother Jane Birkin also had a film screening in competition, Jacques Rivette's "36 Views from the Pic Saint-Loup".

Music

Charlotte Gainsbourg during the Air concert in Melkweg, Amsterdam on March 27th, 2007.

Gainsbourg made her musical debut with her father on the song "Lemon Incest" in 1984.Two years later, she released her debut album "Charlotte For Ever",which was produced by her father.

In 2000, Gainsbourg was featured on the Madonna album, Music on the track "What It Feels Like For a Girl". There is a lengthy spoken intro by Gainsbourg, taken from the film The Cement Garden, which inspired the title of the song. The track was further remixed for the single version of this song in 2001, with Gainsbourg's The Cement Garden speech repeated during the song.

In 2004, she sang a duet with French pop star Etienne Daho on his single "If".

In 2006, Gainsbourg released her second album 5:55 to critical acclaim and commercial success, reaching the top spot on the French charts and achieving platinum status in the country. In the UK, the album was moderately successful, reaching #78 (The single "The Songs That We Sing" only made #129).

Gainsbourg has now completed her third studio album, IRM. It has also been confirmed that Beck is working on the upcoming album.One of the influential factors in the album's creative process was her time spent filming Antichrist.

Filmography

Film

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1984	Paroles et musique	Charlotte Marker
1985	La tentation d'Isabelle	L'enfant
	L'Effrontee	Charlotte Castang	Cesar Award for Most Promising Actress
1986	Charlotte For Ever	Charlotte	Serge Gainsbourg film
1988	La Petit Amour	Lucy	aka Kung-fu master!
	Jane B. par Agnès V.	La fille de J.	Agnes Varda film
	The Little Thief	Janine Castang	aka La petite voleuse
1990	Il sole anche di notte	Matilda	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani film
1991	Merci la Vie	Camille Pelleveau
	Aux yeux du monde	Juliette Mangin	Eric Rochant film
1992	Amoureuse	Marie	aka The Lover
1993	The Cement Garden	Julie	Andrew Birkin film
1994	Grosse Fatigue	Herself	aka Dead Tired
1996	Jane Eyre	Jane Eyre	Franco Zeffirelli film
	Anna Oz	Anna Oz	Eric Rochant film
	Love etc.	Marie	Marion Vernoux film
1999	The Intruder	Catherine Girard
	La Büche	Milla Robin	aka Season's Beatings
2000	Passionnément	Alice Almeida	aka Passionately
2001	Félix et Lola	Lola	Patrice Leconte film
	My Wife is An Actress	Charlotte	aka Ma Femme est une actrice
2002	La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan	Voice
2003	21 Grams	Mary Rivers
2004	Une star internationale	Herself	Short film
	Ils Se Marièrent et Eurent Beaucoup d'Enfants	Gabrielle	aka ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
2005	L'un reste, l'autre part	Judith	aka One Stays, the Other Leaves
	Lemming	Bénédicte Getty	Dominik Moll film
2006	Nuovomondo	Lucy Reed	aka The Golden Door
	Prête-moi ta main	Emma	aka I Do/Rent a Wife
	La Science des Reves	Stéphanie	aka The Science of Sleep
2007	I'm Not There	Claire	Todd Haynes Film
2008	The City of Your Final Destination	Arden Langdon	Awaiting release
2009	Antichrist	She	Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award
	Persécution	Sonia	Patrice Chereau film
2010	The Tree (Film) 2010	Dawn	Julie Bertuccelli film Post-Production

Television

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Nuremberg	Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier	Miniseries
	Les Misérables	Fantine	Miniseries

Discography (album)

• Charlotte For Ever (1986)
• 5:55 (2006)
• IRM (2009)