Jane Birkin Biography
Born: December 14, 1946
One of the more pleasing by-products of the "Swinging Sixties," British stage actress Jane Birkin made a huge international impression in 1966 as one of the two nude models (she was the blonde) in Antonioni's existential feature film Blow-Up. Since that time, Birkin has often as not appeared in bisexual or androgynous film roles; in Roger_Vadim's Don_Juan_73 (1973), she was cast as Brigitte_Bardot's lover. In the 1970s, she launched a second career as a popular recording artist, scoring a worldwide hit with "Je T'aime, Moi Non Plus." She created a sensation of Blow-Up dimensions in 1987 when, as star and screenwriter of director Agnès_Varda's Kung_Fu_Master, she played a 40-year-old woman carrying on a torrid affair with a 15-year-old boy. The following year, Varda expressed her admiration for Birkin with the feature-length documentary Jane B. par Agnes V. Rightly regarded by European cinephiles as one of filmdom's most versatile actresses, Birkin has had trouble shaking her earlier sex-kitten image with English-speaking audiences; only her work in 1985's Dust and 1990's Daddy_Nostalgie has earned the unqualified praise of American critics. Once married to composer John_Barry, Birkin then became the wife of French director Jacques_Doillon. Jane Birkin is also the mother of actress Charlotte_Gainsbourg, star of the 1996 remake of Jane_Eyre; Charlotte's father is composer/director Serge_Gainsbourg. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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