“It sounds weird because they were songs that were written when I left Serge, for the most part, but they were the most beautiful songs on separation.”
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Jane Birkin
Jane Mallory Birkin was an English-French actress and singer. She had a prolific career as an actress, mostly in French cinema.
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entertainment · British actress and singer (1946–2023) · singer · film actor · stage actor · recording artist · screenwriter · film director · fashion model · actor · director · model · also Jane Birkin, Birkin
Born 14 December 1946 · Died 16 July 2023 · Q212873
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2026· 5 entries
“I keep saying to Hermès to make it out of plastic or cardboard, then it wouldn”
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“pain for Jacques going off with all these young girls making all these films all the time”
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“This was the album of the break-up when everything changed. All of a sudden, Serge got me to sing of his wounds and his feminine side. It was very unsettling to sing about the wounds that you have triggered.”
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2025· 1 entry
Released ep “Romance”.
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2023· 6 entries
Published video “Jane Birkin - Avec le temps (Live Officiel au Bataclan 1987)”.
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Published video “Le live "Oh pardon tu dormais" avec Ex fan des sixties est maintenant disponible #janebirkin #live”.
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Published video “Jane Birkin - Ex fan des sixties (Live Officiel "Oh pardon tu dormais" 2022)”.
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Released ep “Jane B.”.
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Died 2023-07-16.
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Released ep “I Am Woman : Jane Birkin”.
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2022· 10 entries
Published video “Avez-vous vu la lyric video de #Ladecadanse avec @sergegainsbourgofficiel ?”.
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Published video “Rdv demain à 18H pour découvrir la lyric video de "La décadanse" avec @sergegainsbourgofficiel”.
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Published video “Jane Birkin - Ex fan des sixties (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Jane Birkin - Ex fan des sixties (Teaser)”.
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Published video “Découvrez la lyric vidéo d'Ex-Fan des Sixties ce soir à 18h !! Inscrivez-vous pour la première.”.
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Released album “Oh ! Pardon tu dormais... Le Live (Live)”.
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Published video “La lyric vidéo de Jane B. est disponible ! 🎵”.
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Published video “Jane Birkin - Jane B. (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2022).
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Was raised to the highest rank in the order, Commandeur
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2021· 2 entries
Awarded Victory of honor (2021).
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Said she had started taking sleeping pills at 16 and never stopped
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2020· 4 entries
Released album “Oh ! Pardon tu dormais…”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Jane Birkin”.
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Recalling 1970s Paris, she said: "it was a time of great innocence, and I don't think social problems were as they are today
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In 2020, recalling 1970s Paris, she said: "it was a time of great innocence, and I don't think social problems were as they are today." On 6 September 2021, it was reported that Birkin was doing well after having a stroke.
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary Lumière Award (2019).
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“an absolutely unfounded optimism”
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette (2018).
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Was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in the Spring Conferment for her efforts in promoting cultural exchanges between Japan and France
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “Birkin / Gainsbourg : le Symphonique”.
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Performed at a free concert at the Place de la République organised in opposition to Le Pen in the 2017 presidential election
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2016· 2 entries
Birkin appeared in an advertising campaign for Yves Saint Laurent shot by Hedi Slimane which featured various female musicians, including Marianne Faithfull, Courtney Love, and Joni Mitchell
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Starred in the Academy Award-nominated short film La femme et le TGV, which she said would be her final film role
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded Officer of the National Order of Merit (2015).
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Marched in Paris in support of refugees
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Birkin wrote a public letter to Hermès requesting that her name be removed from the bag, stating she wanted the company to "debaptise the Birkin Croco until better practices in line with international norms can be put in
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “Jane & Serge 1973”.
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Released album “The Other Side”.
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2013· 2 entries
Released album “Mes images privées de Serge”.
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And her daughter, Lou Doillon, were appointed to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres as Chevaliers
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Jane Birkin Sings Serge Gainsbourg Via Japan”.
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2011· 2 entries
“We use some of the money to feed the poor people who can”
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That Gainsbourg had been someone who "drank a vast amount
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “Au Palace”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Enfants d’hiver”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Les 50 Plus Belles Chansons”.
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That Doillon "could not compete with her grief for Gainsbourg" (who died in 1991), and that she had lived alone since their separation
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2006· 5 entries
Released album “Anthologie”.
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Released album “Fictions”.
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Birkin recorded and released the album Fictions, and in 2010, recorded a duet, "Marie," with Brazilian singer Sérgio Dias, which appeared on We Are the Lilies, an album by Dias and French band Tahiti Boy and the Palmtree
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Played the title role in Elektra, directed by Philippe Calvario in France
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2004· 4 entries
Released album “Best Of”.
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Awarded Knight of the National Order of Merit (2004).
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Released album “Rendez‐vous”.
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Was awarded France's Ordre national du Mérite
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Live”.
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “Arabesque”.
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Was diagnosed with leukemia and underwent rounds of treatment
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Volume 1 : Je t'aime... moi non plus / Di doo dah”.
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Received an OBE award at Buckingham Palace in London
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “À la légère”.
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Released album “The Best of Jane Birkin”.
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Released album “Best of Jane Birkin”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Versions Jane”.
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Released album “Jane: Intégral Olympia”.
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1995· 1 entry
Birkin played one of the lead roles in the Euripides tragedy The Trojan Women at the National Theatre in London
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Jane Birkin, Vol. 2”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Jane B”.
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Released album “Volume 4 : Amours des feintes / Lost Song”.
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1992· 4 entries
Awarded Victoires de la Musique – Female artist of the year (1992).
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Released album “Volume 3. Ex-fan des sixties - Baby Alone in Babylone”.
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Released album “Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais... Concert intégral au Casino de Paris”.
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Released album “Volume 2. Ballade de Johnny-Jane - Lolita Go Home”.
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1991· 2 entries
“drank a vast amount. It started out being funny and then it got monotonous, (but) our friendship went on until his dying day.”
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Released album “Jane Birkin, Volume 1”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Amours des feintes”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Jane Birkin au Bataclan”.
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Released album “Lost Song”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Quoi”.
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1985· 1 entry
Co-starred with John Gielgud in Leave All Fair (1985)
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1984· 1 entry
Dumas created a black supple leather bag for her, which he called the "Birkin bag"
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1983· 2 entries
Hermès chief executive Jean-Louis Dumas was seated next to Birkin on a flight from Paris to London
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Released album “Baby Alone in Babylone”.
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1980· 3 entries
To Amours des feintes (1990), the last he wrote before his death from a heart attack in March 1991
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Appearing as the mistress of Austrian artist Egon Schiele, played by Mathieu Carrière
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Birkin continued to work both as an actress and a singer, appearing in various independent films and recording numerous solo albums
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Je t’aime moi non plus”.
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Ex-fan des sixties”.
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Birkin modeled in trade advertisements for Lee Cooper jeans
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “Lolita Go Home”.
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Including Claude Zidi's box-office hit La course a l'echalote and Gainsbourg's first film as a director, Je t'aime moi non plus, which created a stir for its frank examination of sexual ambiguity, and was banned in the U
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “Di doo dah”.
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As Brigitte Bardot's lover in Roger Vadim's Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman
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1971· 1 entry
Birkin and Gainsbourg had a daughter, actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg
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1969· 5 entries
And Birkin moved in with Gainsbourg in the Rue de Verneuil in Paris
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Released album “Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg”.
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Appeared with Gainsbourg in two films, Les Chemins de Katmandou and Cannabis, and by herself in Jacques Deray's psychological thriller La Piscine, which starred Romy Schneider and Alain Delon
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And Birkin appeared in the film Je t'aime moi non plus in 1976 under Gainsbourg's direction
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Gainsbourg and Birkin released the duet "Je t'aime
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1968· 2 entries
And Birkin returned to live with her family in London
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Met Serge Gainsbourg while co-starring with him in Slogan, which marked the beginning of a years-long working and personal relationship
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1967· 1 entry
“The feeling of being unwanted, undesired and unloved is beginning to strangle me”
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1965· 3 entries
Had her first film role in Richard Lester's The Knack
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And with whom she had her first daughter, Kate, in 1967
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Also appeared in a musical, Passion Flower Hotel, for which John Barry wrote the music
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1964· 2 entries
They met in 1964 when Barry cast Birkin in his musical Passion Flower Hotel.
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When Barry cast Birkin in his musical Passion Flower Hotel
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-12-14.
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