Charlotte Gainsbourg

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Charlotte Gainsbourg, 2010

Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg [ gɛzbur ] (* 21st July 1971 as Charlotte Lucy Ginsburg in London ) is a French actress and singer .

Life

Gainsbourg with her mother Jane Birkin , 2010

Charlotte Gainsbourg is the daughter of the French chansonnier and actor Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991) and the British actress Jane Birkin (* 1946). She has two half-sisters, the photographer Kate Barry (1967-2013) and the actress Lou Doillon , and a half-brother, the musician Lulu.

Charlotte Gainsbourg, 2018

Gainsbourg received her first role in the 1984 film Duett zu threesome through her mother Jane Birkin when she was twelve. Just two years later (1986) she was awarded a César as best young actress for her performance in the film The Naughty Girl by Claude Miller . The second collaboration with Miller in The Little Thief, based on a screenplay by François Truffaut , brought her three years later the first César nomination for the female lead.

For the film Die Zeit mit Julien (1987) by Agnès Varda , she was in front of the camera with her mother, her younger half-sister Lou Doillon and Agnès Varda's son Mathieu Demy . They played a family in which the single mother fell in love with her older daughter's schoolmate. The film was shot in Jane Birkin's childhood home in England, among others.

The film Charlotte for Ever , released in 1986 when Gainsbourg was just fifteen, made headlines . The film deals with the erotic love between father and daughter, incest . Her father Serge, who was not only the author but also the director and leading actor of the film, caused a sensation by publishing the recorded scenes with his biological daughter. The 1993 film The Cement Garden based on the novel of the same name by Ian McEwan and directed by her uncle Andrew Birkin also dealt with incest, this time between siblings .

With Yvan Attal Gainsbourg formed a couple of films in front of the camera several times, for the first time in 1991 in Eric Rochant's Abduction from Love and Jacques Doillon's Amoureuse . 1996, concluded the joint presence in Marion Vernoux 'triangle comedy Love, etc. on. In 2001 and 2004, Attal's own directorial work followed, My Wife, the Actress and Happy Ending with Obstacles .

In 2000, Gainsbourg received another César, this time for best supporting female role in the film La Bûche (1999). In 1989 and 1997 she was nominated for a César for best female leading role. Actually, she was supposed to take on the lead role in the film We're Less Alone Together (2007); However, she was so seriously injured in a waterskiing accident while filming in the USA that she had to take a year off. Audrey Tautou stood in for them. The female lead in the film Terminator: The Redemption (2009), she could not play due to scheduling reasons.

In fall 2008, she turned to the side of Willem Dafoe , directed by Lars von Trier horror thriller Antichrist , of her the Best Actor Award of the 62nd Film Festival of Cannes , the Danish Bodil and a nomination for the European Film Awards earned. She received another nomination for the European Film Prize in 2011 for her renewed collaboration with Lars von Trier for Melancholia , in which she can be seen as Kirsten Dunst's pragmatic sister . For her performance in Early promise of Éric Barbier was one more time for the 2018 César for Best Actress nomination.

In 2012 she was appointed to the competition jury of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . In 2017 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Private life

She lives with the French actor and director Yvan Attal , with whom she has three children. She is a godchild of Yul Brynner . After the death of her sister, she moved from Paris to New York in 2014 .

Filmography

singing

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
5:55
  DE 38 09/22/2006 (4 weeks)
  AT 41 09/22/2006 (2 weeks)
  CH 12 09/17/2006 (20 weeks)
  UK 78 09/16/2006 (1 week)
  US 196 05/12/2007 (1 week)
  FR 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 09/02/2006 (50 weeks)
IRM
  CH 28 December 20, 2009 (11 weeks)
  UK 62 02/06/2010 (1 week)
  US 69 02/13/2010 (2 weeks)
  FR 4th 12/12/2009 (42 weeks)
Stage Whisper
  DE 89 01/27/2012 (1 week)
rest
  DE 74 11/24/2017 (1 week)
  AT 49 December 01, 2017 (1 week)
  CH 8th 11/26/2017 (16 weeks)
  UK 89 11/30/2017 (1 week)
  FR 14th 
gold
gold
11/25/2017 (2 weeks)
Singles
Lemon Incest (Serge & Charlotte Gainsbourg)
  FR 2 
silver
silver
10/26/1985 (18 weeks)
If ( Daho / Gainsbourg)
  CH 98 04/25/2005 (1 week)
  FR 42 03/28/2004 (13 weeks)
The Songs That We Sing
  FR 30th 11/18/2006 (30 weeks)

Charlotte Gainsbourg is also a regular singer. She did this publicly for the first time in the song Lemon Incest together with her father Serge on his album Love on the Beat (1984). She later sang the theme songs for the films Charlotte For Ever (1986) and Love, etc. (1996). In 2000, her voice could be heard in Madonna's song What It Feels Like for a Girl (a sample from the film The Cement Garden ). She sang the duet If with Étienne Daho on his album Réévolution (2003). She can be heard with the title song in the film L'un reste, l'autre part , released in France in January 2005 . In August 2006, the album 5:55 was released with compositions by the band Air and lyrics by Air, Jarvis Cocker ( Pulp ) and Neil Hannon ( Divine Comedy ). In 2007 she and Calexico covered the song Just Like a Woman for the soundtrack of I'm Not There , a film about Bob Dylan . In December 2009 the studio album IRM was released , in which the American musician Beck Hansen worked as a songwriter, composer and producer.

Discography

Albums :

  • 1986: Charlotte for Ever
  • 1993: Lemon Incest (Rerelease of Charlotte for Ever with the new title song as a bonus)
  • 2006: 5:55
  • 2009: IRM
  • 2011: Stage Whisper
  • 2017: rest

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Gainsbourg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Les gens du cinema
  2. ↑ "I found it difficult to break out of the shadow of my parents" . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 13, 2006; Interview with Marcus Rothe
  3. ↑ Charlotte Gainsbourg . Biography at laut.de
  4. ↑ Bryce Dallas Howard for "Terminator 4" in conversation . Rhein-Zeitung Online; Retrieved December 3, 2015
  5. ↑ Class of 2017 oscars.org; accessed on June 30, 2017.
  6. ^ "J'avais besoin de penser à moi": Charlotte Gainsbourg explique sa fuite à New York . gala.fr, September 28, 2017 (French), accessed November 20, 2017
  7. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US FR (until January 2011)
  8. ↑ Awards for music sales: FR
  9. ^ Review of the album at laut.de at laut.de.
  10. ↑ Review . FAZ.net
personal data
SURNAME Gainsbourg, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ginsburg, Charlotte Lucy (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK