Tessa Charlotte Rampling was born on 5 February 1946 and is an English actress, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian.
39 Facts About Charlotte Rampling
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Charlotte Rampling soon began making French and Italian arthouse films, notably Luchino Visconti's The Damned and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter.
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Charlotte Rampling went on to star in many European and English-language films, including Stardust Memories ; in The Verdict ; Long Live Life, and The Wings of the Dove.
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Charlotte Rampling received an Honorary Cesar in 2001 and France's Legion of Honour in 2002.
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Charlotte Rampling was made an OBE in 2000 for her services to the arts, and received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Awards.
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Charlotte Rampling later worked on an English translation, Who I Am, which was published in March 2017.
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Tessa Charlotte Rampling was born in 1946 in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Isabel Anne, a painter, and Godfrey Rampling, an Olympic gold medallist runner and British Army officer.
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Charlotte Rampling spent most of her early life in Gibraltar, France and Spain, before she returned to the UK in 1964.
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Charlotte Rampling attended Academie Jeanne d'Arc in Versailles and St Hilda's School, a boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.
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Charlotte Rampling had one sister, Sarah, who died by suicide in 1966, aged 23.
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Charlotte Rampling began her career as a model and first appeared in a Cadbury advertisement.
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Charlotte Rampling was working as a secretary when she was noticed by a casting agent in the same building.
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Charlotte Rampling made uncredited appearances in two films directed by Richard Lester, his first film with the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, and as a water skier in The Knack.
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Charlotte Rampling appeared alongside Franco Nero in the Italian film Sardinia Kidnapped, directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi.
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On television, Charlotte Rampling played the gunfighter Hana Wilde in "The Superlative Seven", a 1967 episode of The Avengers in which she knocked out John Steed.
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Charlotte Rampling appeared in the cult classic Vanishing Point, in a scene deleted from the US theatrical release.
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In 1974, Charlotte Rampling starred in John Boorman's science-fiction film Zardoz opposite Sean Connery.
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Charlotte Rampling starred with Peter O'Toole in Foxtrot and with Richard Harris in Orca.
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Charlotte Rampling gained recognition from American audiences as the leading lady in a well-received remake of Raymond Chandler's detective story Farewell, My Lovely starring Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe, and later with Woody Allen's Stardust Memories, and in The Verdict, an acclaimed drama directed by Sidney Lumet that starred Paul Newman.
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Charlotte Rampling starred in Claude Lelouch's 1984 film Viva la vie, before going on to star in the cult-film Max, Mon Amour, and appear in the thriller Angel Heart.
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Charlotte Rampling appeared in Tony Scott's Spy Game, and she earned Cesar Award nominations for Under the Sand, Swimming Pool, and Lemming.
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In February 2006, Charlotte Rampling was named as the jury president at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Charlotte Rampling has been seen on the covers of Vogue, Interview and Elle magazines and CRUSHfanzine.
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In 2009, Charlotte Rampling appeared in Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime.
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Charlotte Rampling appeared as Helena in the dance drama StreetDance 3D and the nun Mary in The Mill and the Cross with Michael York and Rutger Hauer.
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Charlotte Rampling appeared as Alice in the drama Jeune et Jolie and the elderly Adriana do Prado in Night Train to Lisbon.
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In 2015, Charlotte Rampling starred opposite Tom Courtenay in Andrew Haigh's 45 Years.
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Charlotte Rampling won the Silver Bear for Best Actress and Tom Courtenay won the Silver Bear for Best Actor.
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In 2016, Charlotte Rampling said that efforts to boycott that year's Oscars ceremony over a lack of racial diversity among nominees were "racist to whites".
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Charlotte Rampling's comments were called "offensive, outrageous and ignorant" by Chelsea Clinton, while they were defended by Clint Eastwood.
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Charlotte Rampling later apologised for her comments and expressed regret that her statements were misinterpreted.
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That same year, Charlotte Rampling backed children's fairytales app, GivingTales, in aid of UNICEF together with Roger Moore, Stephen Fry, Ewan McGregor, Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, Michael Caine, David Walliams, Paul McKenna and Michael Ball.
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In 2017, Charlotte Rampling co-starred as Veronica Ford with Jim Broadbent and Emily Mortimer in The Sense of an Ending, which was based on the novel by Julian Barnes.
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In 2017, Charlotte Rampling starred opposite Alicia Vikander and Eva Green in Euphoria, directed by Lisa Langseth.
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In 1972, Charlotte Rampling married New Zealand actor and publicist Bryan Southcombe and had a son, Barnaby Southcombe, before divorcing in 1976.
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In 1978, Charlotte Rampling married French composer Jean-Michel Jarre and had a second son, David Jarre, who became a musician and singer.
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Charlotte Rampling raised her stepdaughter, Emilie Jarre, who became a fashion designer.
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The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997, when Charlotte Rampling learned from tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women.
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Charlotte Rampling was engaged to Jean-Noel Tassez, a French journalist and businessman, from 1998 until his death in 2015.