Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg was born the July 21st 1971 with London. Actress and Franco-British singer, girl of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, it began her cinematographic career very early, pushed by her mother. She is married with Yvan Attal, itself actor and realizer.

Cinema

Career

In 1984, Jane Birkin, in turning on the Pirate of Jacques Doillon, encourages his daughter to pass the casting of Élie Chouraqui for Paroles and music . It thus obtains its first role at the 13 years age. The year, following, Jacques Doillon some counterparts in to him the Temptation of Isabelle offers who is worth to him to be noticed by Claude Miller. This last will offer to him one of the principal roles of its film Shameless the . Its performance is worth then the to him César of the best most promising young actress in 1986. She works then with her father ( Charlotte for Ever in 1986), then with her mother ( Kung Fu Master! in 1987). In 1988, Claude Miller again makes to call to it for the Small Robber according to a scenario of François Truffaut. But it is only with Merci the life for Bertrand Blier that Charlotte decides to make career in the cinema: “ It is really there that I decided to continue to make this trade. Front, I hid behind pretexts. I wanted to make good figure. And if one were not going to any more to propose roles me? That terrified me. Then I preferred to tell that I did not know if I were going to proceed in this way .” (Le Figaro, June 23rd 1996). Paradoxically, it is at this time that its career seems to stagnate, in spite of its meeting again with Jacques Doillon in the main role of Amoureuse . Its career starts again starting from 2001 with two films of her husband My wife is an actress and They married and had many children as to the international level with 21 grams where she plays sides of Sean Penn.

In the night of the 5 to the September 6th 2007, it is operated urgently brain hemorrhage, following an accident of jet-ski.

Catalog of films

Nominations and rewards

Song

Career

Charlotte sang on several occasions. The first time on the album of Serge Gainsbourg, Coils one the happy , in 1983, where she sings in Duo Lemon incest with him. A Vidéo-clip where Charlotte appears in small behavior lengthened beside her father comes to supplement this ambiguity; the words evoke " love which we will never make ensemble".

In 1986 it repeats with the album Charlotte for Ever where, taking the installation of a difficult teenager, it sings a series of texts to the contents also provocant: Charlotte for ever , softer with me (both in duet with Serge), Elastic , Zero pointed towards infinite the .

During 8 years she will not sing any more until she embarks in the adventure of the Enfoirés, singers supporting the Resto du coeur: in 1994, in the spectacle the Dumbs in large Rex , it interprets Di doo dah , written by his/her father and created by his mother, Another world of Téléphone and the song of the restaurants of Jean-Jacques Goldman. She again works in 2001 for the Resto du coeur, in 2001: The odyssey of the Dumbs where she interprets, inter alia, a song of Renaud, Manu , with Francis Cabrel, Julien Clerc and another actor, Thierry Lhermitte.

In 1996, it takes part in the B.O of Love, etc . In 2000, one hears his voice in the album Music of Madonna: the beginning of the song What it feels like for has girl contains some words pronounced by Charlotte in the film The Cement Garden . Its last truth duet in date is If with Etienne Daho, on the album Réévolution (2003) of this last. In 2005, Charlotte takes part in the B.O of One remains, the other share , by interpreting the song of the same name.

The August 28th 2006 left its second album " 5: 55" in collaboration with the group Air, Jarvis Cocker spaniel, Nigel Godrich, Tony Allen, David Campbell and Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy. The album counts English and French titles.

Discography

Albums

  • Charlotte for ever - 1986

  • 5:55 - 2006

    • " 5: 55"
    • " AF607105"
    • " The operation"
    • " Such as you es"
    • " The songs that we sing"
    • " Beauty mark"
    • " Little monsters"
    • " Jamais"
    • " Night-time intermission"
    • " Everything I boat see"
    • " Morning song"

Theater

Charlotte also played in the part of Théâtre “Oléanna” of David Mamet, adapted by Pierre Laville in 1994, which was worth Molière to him.

External bonds

  • Official site of Charlotte Gainsbourg

  • Official site of its music
  • official MySpace
  • has Tribute to Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg interprets
  • Forum in connection with Air Charlotte Gainsbourg was surrounded by Air (Nicolas Godin and Jean Benoît Dunckel) to produce this album, 5.55.

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