Charlotte Gainsbourg is the daughter of English actress and singer Jane Birkin and French singer Serge Gainsbourg.
40 Facts About Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Charlotte Gainsbourg acted in many films, including collaborations with Lars von Trier, and received two Cesar Awards and Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress Award, among many nominations.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg was born on 21 July 1971 in the Marylebone area of Central London to English actress and singer Jane Birkin and French musician Serge Charlotte Gainsbourg.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg has continued to use the Gainsbourg name professionally.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg is a cousin of theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg's father was Jewish, whereas her mother is from a Protestant background.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg attended Ecole Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel in Paris and College Alpin International Beau Soleil in Switzerland.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg was raised in Paris alongside her half-sister, Kate Barry, from her mother's marriage to composer John Barry.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg has a young brother, Lucien "Lulu" Gainsbourg, born in 1986 from her father's relationship with Bambou.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg's half-sister, Lou Doillon, was born in 1982 as a result of the union.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg would go on to work with her stepfather in the film The Temptation of Isabelle in 1985 and later in Amoureuse in 1992, which starred her future partner Yvan Attal.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg remained devoted to preserving his legacy and preserved his home, saying she hoped to eventually turn it into a museum.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg eventually abandoned the project and decided to maintain the house as a private residence instead.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg grew up on film sets, as both of her parents were involved in the film industry.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg stated that her mother had pushed her into acting, believing that she wanted to be an actress and encouraging her to make her motion picture debut playing Catherine Deneuve's daughter in the film Paroles et Musique.
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In 1986, Charlotte Gainsbourg won a Cesar Award for "Most Promising Actress" for An Impudent Girl.
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In 1993, Charlotte Gainsbourg made her English-speaking debut in The Cement Garden, written and directed by her uncle, Andrew Birkin.
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In 2003, Charlotte Gainsbourg starred in 21 Grams, with Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro.
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In 2006, Charlotte Gainsbourg appeared alongside Gael Garcia Bernal in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg was on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg worked with von Trier on his 2013 film Nymphomaniac, in which she played the title role.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg then played Dr Catherine Marceaux in Independence Day: Resurgence, sequel of the 1996 film Independence Day.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg made her musical debut on the controversial song "Lemon Incest" in 1984.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg, who was 13 at the time of the song's release, later stated that she had just begun boarding school and was therefore unaware of the controversy regarding the song until she was much older.
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In 2000, Charlotte Gainsbourg was featured on the Madonna album Music on the track "What It Feels Like for a Girl".
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The lengthy spoken introduction by Charlotte Gainsbourg is taken from the film The Cement Garden, which inspired the title of the song.
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In 2000, Charlotte Gainsbourg was featured on the Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith album Peradam on the track "The Four Cardinal Times".
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In 2006, Charlotte 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 that country.
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In late 2009, Charlotte Gainsbourg released her third studio album, IRM, which was produced by Beck.
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In 2011, Charlotte Gainsbourg released the double album Stage Whisper, a collection of unreleased songs from IRM and live tracks.
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In 2013, Charlotte Gainsbourg released a cover version of the song "Hey Joe", recorded with Beck, for the soundtrack of the film Nymphomaniac, in which she was the lead actress.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg's music influenced artists such as Tove Lo, who cited the simplicity and quirky lyrical content of Charlotte's IRM as the main inspiration behind her career in music and said that it "opened a new world" for her as regards sound, and she performed a bilingual cover of "The Maiden's Prayer" in French and English as the opening tune for the Anglo-French crime thriller television serial The Tunnel.
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Since 2014, Charlotte Gainsbourg has been supporting the Hear the World Foundation as ambassador.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg was featured in the Hear the World Calendar 2014, the proceeds of which were to benefit the foundation's projects.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg worked for four years, mainly in New York, with producer Sebastian Akchote on her fifth studio album, titled Rest.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg additionally featured on Akchote's second studio album Thirst in November 2019.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg identifies as Jewish and celebrates Jewish holidays with her husband's family.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg was born in London, but she spent most of her life in Paris until the death of her sister Kate Barry.
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On 5 September 2007, Charlotte Gainsbourg underwent surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg had been experiencing headaches since a waterskiing accident in the United States several weeks earlier.