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Charlotte Gainsbourg
Background information
Birth name	Charlotte Lucy Ginsburg
Born	21 July 1971 (1971-07-21) (age 37) London, England
Origin	Paris, France
Genre(s)	French pop
Occupation(s)	actress, singer-songwriter
Years active	1986 - present
Label(s)	Phonogram Records, Atlantic Records, Because Music

Charlotte Lucy Ginsburg (born 21 July 1971 in London¹), known as Charlotte Gainsbourg, is an English-French actress and singer-songwriter.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Personal life 2 Career 2.1 Acting 2.2 Music 3 Filmography 4 Discography 5 References 6 External links

Biography

Personal life

Gainsbourg was born in London, England, but was raised in Paris, France. 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,² with whom she has two children, Benjamin (born in 1997) and Alice (born in 2003).

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

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 César 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 Mamet'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 Jane Eyre in the acclaimed film adaption of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 Jane Eyre novel. The film Jane Eyre was directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

In 2007, Gainsbourg appeared as Claire in the 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 appears alongside Anthony Hopkins and Laura Linney in the film The City of Your Final Destination. She will soon start filming for the Patrice Chereau film project Persecution.

Music

She made her musical debut with her father on the song "Lemon Incest" in 1984.³ Two years later, she released her debut album Charlotte for Ever, which was produced by her father.

In 2004, she sang a duet with French pop star Étienne 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.

She is currently working on her third studio album. It has also been confirmed that Beck is working on the upcoming album.⁴⁵

Filmography

• Paroles et Musique (1984) - Charlotte Marker
• La tentation d'Isabelle (1985, by Jacques Doillon) - L'enfant
• L'Effrontée (1985) - Charlotte Castang (won for the César Award for Most Promising Actress)
• Charlotte For Ever (1986, by Serge Gainsbourg) - Charlotte
• Le Petit amour (1987) - Lucy
• Jane B. par Agnès V. (1987) - La fille de J.
• La Petite voleuse/The Little Thief (1988) - Janine Castang (nominated for the César Award for Best Actress)
• Aux yeux du monde (1990) - Juliette Mangin
• Il sole anche di notte (1990) - Matilda
• Contre l'oubli (1991) - (segment \"Pour Anstraum Aman Villagran Morales, Guatémala\")
• Merci la vie (1991) - Camille Pelleveau
• Amoureuse (1991, by Jacques Doillon) - Marie
• The Cement Garden (1993, by Andrew Birkin) - Julie
• Grosse fatigue (1994) - Herself
• Jane Eyre (1996) - Jane Eyre
• Anna Oz (1996) - Anna Oz
• Love, etc... (1996) - Marie (nominated for the César Award for Best Actress)
• The Intruder (1999) - Catherine Girard
• La Bûche (1999) - Milla Robin (nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress)
• Passionnément (1999) - Alice Almeida (previous title Le soleil de plus près)
• Les Misérables (2000, TV) - Fantine
• Nurenberg (2000, TV)
• Félix et Lola (2001, by Patrice Leconte) - Lola
• My Wife Is an Actress (2001, by Yvan Attal) - Charlotte
• La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan (2002) (voice)
• 21 Grams (2003) - Mary Rivers
• ...And They Lived Happily Ever After (2004, by Yvan Attal) - Gabrielle
• L'un reste, l'autre part (2005) - Judith
• Lemming (2005) - Bénédicte Getty
• The Golden Door (2006) - Lucia
• The Science of Sleep (2006) - Stéphanie
• Prête-moi ta main (2006) - Emma
• I'm Not There (2007) - Claire
• The City of Your Final Destination (2008) - Arden Langdon
• Antichrist (2009)
• Persecution (2009)

Discography

Albums:

• Charlotte for Ever (1986)
• Lemon Incest (1998)
• 5:55 (2006)
• TBA (2009)

References

External links

• Official website
• Review of 5:55 on Subculture Magazine
• Interview with Jean-Paul Enthoven, L'Officiel, September 2001
• Charlotte Gainsbourg at the Internet Movie Database