![]() FRANCE – CIRCA 1960: Portrait of Jane Birkin, taken in the Sixties. “She embodied freedom, because she sang the most beautiful words of our language, Jane Birkin was a French icon,” he continued. “She bequeaths us a legacy of songs and images that will never leave us.” A complete artist, her voice was as gentle as her commitments were ardent,” tweeted French president Emmanuel Macron. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 24: (L-R) Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin arrive at 48th Cesar Film Awards at L’Olympia on Februin Paris, France. Charlotte Gainsbourg is a musician and actress, and Lou Doillon is a model and musician. Her eldest Kate, a fashion photographer, sadly died in 2013 after falling from a balcony in Paris. (Photo by FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)īirkin and Gainbourgh’s relationship was up and down-reportedly, Birkin once launched herself into the River Seine after throwing a custard pie in Gainsbourg’s face!-and they ended their romantic relationship in 1980.īirkin had another daughter, Lou, with French film director Jacques Doillon. La Piscine / DER SWIMMINGPOOL FRA/ITA, 1968. DER SWIMMINGPOOL / La Piscine FRA/ITA, 1968 / Jaques Deray Szene mit ALAIN DELON (Jean Paul) und JANE BIRKIN (Penelope) Regie: Jaques Deray aka. This role was later replayed by Dakota Johnson in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash remake/rework. My favourite was 1969’s La Piscine where Birkin played fatale teenager Penelope who seduces a writer by a swimming pool along the Côte d’Azur. (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)īirkin starred in over 70 films Death On The Nile, Evil Under The Sun, Cannabis, Wonderwall, The Pirate, the list goes on. ![]() British singer and actress Jane Birkin, and her daughter Charlotte at home in Paris. In 1971, the couple welcomed a daughter, Charlotte. Who could ask for more?” Birkin told CNN in 2006. “He and I became the most famous of couples in that strange way because of Je t’aime and … he went on being my friend until the day he died. In February 1969, they released a song titled “Je t’aime…Moi Non” (“I Love You…Me Neither”), its sexual lyrics led it to be condemned by the Vatican and banned in several countries. (Photo by Victor Crawshaw/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)įor 13 years, the pair enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle as France’s most famous couple. Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg (Photo by: Universal Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg leaving for Paris where they are to recording a new song called Melody Nelson. ![]() Little did she realise at the time, Gainbourgh (who was 18 years her senior) would be the love of her life. A year later, Birkin moved across the channel to star in romantic comedy titled Slogan alongside French singer-songwriter Serge Gainbourgh. In 1966, Birkin burned a hole in the cinema screen in Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic film Blow Up, a role as a beautiful ingenue that saw the actress catapult to fame. (Photo by King/Sunday Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images) 18-year-old Jane Birkin, currently starring in the lead role of ‘Passion Flower Hotel’ marries in secret at Chelsea Registry Office London to John Barry, aged 30, 16th October 1965. The couple welcomed daughter Kate in 1967. Raised by an actor mother and naval officer father, Birkin married music composer John Barry at just 17 years old, a union that would last three years. The news comes just two months after Birkin cancelled string of concerts, citing health concerns-and two years since the star suffered a stroke.ĭespite being born in London in 1946, the French considered Birkin one of their own. (Photo by Barham/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)īeloved Anglo-Franco actress, singer and model Jane Birkin died at her home in Paris on July 15. Jane Birkin, Actress and Model, models for The Sun Women’s Page, poses for pictures in a Park, London, Sunday 20th December 1964.
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