BIOGRAPHY
Charlotte Gainsbourg is a Franco-British actress, singer-songwriter, model, and director born on July 21, 1971, in Paris. She is the daughter of French singer and actor Serge Gainsbourg and British actress Jane Birkin. She is also the granddaughter of actress and singer Judy Campbell and journalist and writer Joseph Kessel.
Charlotte Gainsbourg began her acting career at the age of 12 in the film L'Effrontée by François Truffaut. She later appeared in several of his films, including Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent and L'Amour en fuite. In 1984, she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in Claude Berri's Paroles et musique.
In the 1980s, she also appeared in several English films, including The Cement Garden by Andrew Birkin, The City of Lost Children by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and The Nightmare Before Christmas by Henry Selick.
In 1991, Charlotte Gainsbourg played the lead female role in Claude Miller's Le petit voleur, which earned her a César nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, she appeared in numerous films, including Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1992), Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie (2002), Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003), Lars von Trier's Antichrist (2009) and Melancholia (2011).
In 2007, she directed her first short film, The Little Thief. In 2010, she directed and starred in Beck's musical video Terrible Angels, from his album I Am a Bird Now.
In 2011, she published her first book, Les mots pour le dire. In 2013, she released her third studio album, Stage Whisper.
Charlotte Gainsbourg was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2015.