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Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is a French and British actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress and singer Jane Birkin and French singer Serge Gainsbourg. After making her musical debut with her father on the song "Lemon Incest" at the age of 12, she released an album with her father at the age of 15. More than 20 years passed before Gainsbourg released albums as an adult, to commerci…
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Born 21 July 1971 · Q276005
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 6 entries
Yahoo: Charlotte Gainsbourg Says ‘I Don’t Need to See My Movies Anymore’ and Fighting for Acting Roles Is Better Than Getting Offers: ‘You Feel Like You Own It’
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collider: “They Didn’t Need Me”: 'Étoile’s Charlotte Gainsbourg Was Disappointed She Didn’t Get Her Own Dance Number
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Decider: Charlotte Gainsbourg And Lou de Laâge On The Joys And Challenges Of ‘Étoile’: “It’s Beautiful To Be Part Of A Show About Believers”
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FirstShowing.net: First Trailer for 'Étoile' Series with Luke Kirby & Charlotte Gainsbourg
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IndieWire: ‘Étoile’ Trailer: Charlotte Gainsbourg and Luke Kirby Swap Ballerinas in Francophile Dramedy
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Signed a call for legally condemning anti-Zionism as antisemitism
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2023· 6 entries
Deadline.com: Charlotte Gainsbourg To Replace Camille Cottin In Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s Prime Video Series ‘Étoile’
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Women's Wear Daily: Charlotte Gainsbourg Turns Her Father’s House Into a Museum
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Released album “2010-01-27: Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW, Santa Monica, CA”.
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Yahoo: Jane Birkin’s Daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Edgy Style: Platform Heels, Crystal Mesh and More Sleek Shoe Moments
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2023).
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Deadline.com: Charlotte Gainsbourg & Guillaume Canet Announced For Benoît Jacquot’s Crime Drama ‘Belle’ As France TV Distribution Launches Sales – Cannes Market
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Lovotic”.
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2021· 3 entries
Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Paradisco (Joakim's "Paradisco Garage" Remix)”.
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Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Paradisco (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Paradisco (Joakim's "Paradisco Garage" Dub)”.
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2020· 2 entries
Released album “Peradam”.
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Gainsbourg had a guest role playing herself in the first episode of the fourth season of Call My Agent
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2019· 3 entries
Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Bombs Away (Leo Pol Remix)”.
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Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Bombs Away (Myd Remix)”.
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Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Bombs Away (Roosevelt Remix)”.
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2018· 6 entries
Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Bombs Away (Official Audio)”.
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Released ep “Take 2”.
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Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Such A Remarkable Day (Official Live Video)”.
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Awarded Victoires de la Musique – Female artist of the year (2018).
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Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Sylvia Says (Mind Enterprises Remix)”.
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Published video “Charlotte Gainsbourg - Sylvia Says (Radio Slave Remix)”.
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “Rest”.
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Starred alongside Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson in the crime thriller film The Snowman
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (2016).
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Nymphomaniac (2014).
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Starred in Three Hearts and Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache's film Samba, for which she was nominated for a Lumière Award for Best Actress
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2013· 2 entries
Gainsbourg released a cover version of the song "Hey Joe", recorded with Beck, for the soundtrack of the film Nymphomaniac, in which she was the lead actress
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And her family relocated to New York City
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “5:55 / IRM”.
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Awarded Robert Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Melancholia (2012).
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Stage Whisper”.
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Gainsbourg released the compilation album Stage Whisper, a collection of unreleased songs from IRM and live tracks
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2010· 4 entries
Awarded Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Antichrist (2010).
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Released ep “Live At Sunset Sound”.
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Released ep “Sunset Sound EP”.
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And in Lars von Trier's science fiction disaster film Melancholia
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “IRM”.
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Antichrist (2009).
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Won the award for Best Actress at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for the film Antichrist
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2007· 3 entries
Appeared as Claire in the Todd Haynes-directed Bob Dylan biographical film I'm Not There, also contributing a cover version of the Dylan song "Just Like a Woman" to the film soundtrack
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On 5 September 2007, Gainsbourg underwent surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Influenced the title of the album IRM, an abbreviation for the French translation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “5:55”.
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Gainsbourg released her second album 5:55 to critical acclaim and commercial success, reaching the top spot on the French charts and achieving platinum status in that country
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Gainsbourg appeared alongside Gael García Bernal in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep
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2004· 1 entry
Sang a duet with French pop star Étienne Daho on his single "If"
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2003· 1 entry
Gainsbourg starred in 21 Grams, with Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro
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2001· 1 entry
With Gainsbourg's The Cement Garden speech repeated during the song
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2000· 4 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Season's Beatings (2000).
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Gainsbourg was featured on the Madonna album Music on the track "What It Feels Like for a Girl"
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Won the César Award for "Best Supporting Actress" for the film La Bûche
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Gainsbourg was featured on the Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith album Peradam on the track "The Four Cardinal Times"
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1996· 1 entry
Gainsbourg starred as the title character in Jane Eyre, a film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel
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1994· 1 entry
In David Mamet's Oleanna at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse
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1993· 1 entry
Gainsbourg made her English-language debut in The Cement Garden, written and directed by her uncle, Andrew Birkin
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1988· 1 entry
Appeared with her mother in the films Kung Fu Master and the documentary drama Jane B
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1987· 1 entry
Was the target of a bungled kidnapping
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1986· 4 entries
Released album “Charlotte for Ever”.
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From her father's relationship with Bambou
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Gainsbourg won a César Award for "Most Promising Actress" for An Impudent Girl
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Released her debut album Charlotte for Ever, which was produced by her father
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded César Award for Best Female Revelation for An Impudent Girl (1985).
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1971· 1 entry
Born 1971-07-21.
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