Charlotte Gainsbourg

At 52 years old, Charlotte Gainsbourg has this physical status:

Career

Gainsbourg soared on film sets, as both of her parents were active in the film industry. She argued that her mother pushed her into acting, claiming that she wanted to be an actress and encouraging her to make her motion picture debut in the film Paroles et Musique (1984).

Gainsbourg received the César Award for "Most Promising Actress" for An Impudent Girl in 1986. Gainsbourg appeared in the film Charlotte for Ever about a man who has incestuous aspirations for his teenage daughter after his wife died in the same year. Gainsbourg's father, Serge Gainsbourg, who also appeared on film, heightened the controversies that resulted from Gainsbourg's debut single Lemon Incest, which had similar themes but was also performed and performed with her father Serge Gainsbourg's father, prompting press speculation that the video was autobiographical.

Agnès Varda directing Jane B. and her mother in 1988, 1988. Gainsbourg made her English-speaking debut in The Cement Garden, written and directed by her uncle, Andrew Birkin, in 1993. In David Mamet's Oleanna at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse in 1994, she made her stage debut in 1994. Gainsbourg appeared as the title character in Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront's film adaptation of Charlotte Bront's 1847 novel. In 2000, she received the César Award for "Best Support Actress" for the film La Bûche.

Gainsbourg appeared in 21 Grams with Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, and Benicio del Toro in 2003. Gainsbourg appeared in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep in 2006. She appeared as Claire in Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biographical film "I'm Not There" in 2007, as well as a cover version of Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" to the film soundtrack. She was named Best Actress at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for the film Antichrist. Gainsbourg appeared in The Tree, a French/Australian film that was released in 2010, as well as Lars von Trier's science fiction disaster film Melancholia. In February 2012, she was on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Confession of a Child of the Century premiered in May 2012, in which she appeared alongside British musician Pete Doherty.

Gainsbourg appeared in his 2013 film Nymphomaniac, in which she appeared in the title role. From youth to middle age, the 51-hour film depicts the life of a sex addict from youth to middle age. Gainsbourg recalled that the sex scenes weren't all difficult, despite her reservations about the role. It was all the masochistic scenes for me. Those were embarrassing and, yes, a little humiliating."

She appeared in Three Hearts and Olivier Toledano film Samba in 2014, for which she was nominated for a Lumières Award for Best Actress. In Independence Day: Revival, a sequel to the 1996 film Independence Day, Catherine Marceaux appeared later. In 2017, she appeared alongside Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson in The Snowman, a crime drama film. In 2020, she appeared in the first episode of Call My Agent's fourth season.

In 1984, Gainsbourg made her musical debut on the tense song "Lemon Incest." The lyrics, sung by Gainsbourg and her father Serge, depicted a pedophiliac relationship between a father and daughter, prompting some to believe that the data was autobiographical. Gainsbourg, who was 13 at the time of the album's debut, later said she had just started boarding school and was therefore unaware of the drama until she was much older.

Charlotte for Ever, her father's debut album, was released in 1986. Gainsbourg was featured on "What It Feels Like for a Girl" on Madonna's album Music in 2000. Gainsbourg's long spoken introduction is taken from the film The Cement Garden, which inspired the song's name. In 2001, the track was reimagined for a single version, with Gainsbourg's The Cement Garden address repeated during the performance.

Gainsbourg was on the Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith's album Peradam on the track "The Four Cardinal Times" in 2000.

She sang a duet with French pop star Étienne Daho on his single "If" in 2004. Gainsbourg's second album 5:55 received critical acclaim and commercial success in 2006, debuting first on the French charts and achieving platinum status in the region. The album in the United Kingdom was moderately successful, peaking at No. 78. 78. (The single "The Songs That We Sing" only made it to No. 129.) Gainsbourg attributed the twenty-year gap between her debut album and 5:55 to her father's death and her reluctance to pursue a musical career without him.

Gainsbourg's third studio album, IRM, was released in late 2009 by Beck. Time spent filming Antichrist was one of the album's most influential factors in the album's development process. Gainsbourg's head injury in 2007 inspired the album "IRM," an abbreviation for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). She began to think about music after her brain scan. "I was inside the machine, it was a relief to think about music." It's a rhythm. It was very chaotic."

On 2 March 2010, her song "Heaven Can Wait" was selected as the Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week. "Trick Pony" by the Grey's Anatomy episode "Perfect Little Accident" (Season 6, Episode 16/airdate: February 25, 2010), was included on the FIFA 11 soundtrack, and it was used in the 2012 Teleflora Super Bowl commercial starring supermodel Adriana Lima.

Gainsbourg unveiled the double album Stage Whisper, a set of unreleased songs from IRM and live tracks, in 2011. Gainsbourg released a cover version of the song "Hey Joe," which was performed by Beck on the soundtrack to the film Nymphomaniac, in which she was the lead actress. Tove Lo, who cited Charlotte's IRM's simplicity and peculiar lyrical content as her main inspiration in her musical career, and said it "opened a new world" for her as a result of sound, and she performed a bilingual version of "The Maiden's Prayer" in French and English as the opening tune for the Anglo-French crime thriller television series The Tunnel.

Gainsbourg has been supporting Hear the World Foundation as ambassador since 2014. In her role, she advocates for equal opportunities and a higher quality of life for people with hearing loss. She was included in the Hear the World Calendar 2014, the proceeds of which were donated to support the foundation's programs.

Gainsbourg spent four years in New York, mainly in New York, with producer Sebastian Akchoté (known as SebastiAn) on her fifth studio album, titled Rest. The rest is a representation of her grief after her father Serge Gainsbourg's death and half-sister Kate Barry's death, which was based on alcohol use. "The album went in a different direction," she said of it. "I wanted to express [my grief] not only with sadness but also with rage." Both English and French lyrics are included in the book. The singles "Rest" and "Deadly Valentine" were released in September 2017, and both were directed by Gainsbourg herself. Her children appear in the music videos. The album was released on November 17th, 2017. The following year, Rest, a companion EP for Rest was announced, titled Take 2. Gainsbourg appeared on Akchoté's second studio album Thirst in November 2019.

Gainsbourg posted photos of her in the recording studio with Irish-Scottish music producer Salvador Navarrete, who is better known by his stage name Sega Bodega, on social media in late November 2020. The sessions were described as "sounding gorgeous" by Navarrete. Gainsbourg will appear on Navarrete's second studio album, Romeo, which was released on September 20, 2021, was announced in September 2021. More music between the two bands is expected to be released, according to reports.

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Awards and nominations

• Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016)