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| Birth Name(s) : Charlotte Rampling |
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Bryan Southcombe 1972-76 |
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Full Charlotte Rampling Biography
Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born February 5, 1945 in Sturmer, Essex) is an English actress and former model (her height is 170 cm (5' 7")). She attended Jeanne d'Arc Academie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles and St. Hilda's School in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.
After beginning her acting career at age seventeen in a starring commercial role and working as a model for a while, Rampling's first screen role was uncredited as a water skier in Richard Lester's film The Knack...and How to Get It in 1965 which was followed a year later by the role of Meredith in the film Georgy Girl. After this her acting career blossomed in both English and French cinema.
Young Rampling was sexy in the skinny, boyish way favored by the times. Despite an early flurry of success, however, she told The Independent, "We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that. Everyone seemed to be having fun, but they were taking so many drugs they wouldn't know it anyway."
Other roles embody a personal twist: The character she played in François Ozon's Swimming Pool (2003) Sarah Morton was named after her oldest sister Sarah who, after giving birth prematurely in 1966, committed suicide at the age of 23. For most of Rampling's life she would say only that her sister had died of a brain hemorrhage; when she and her father heard the news, they agreed they would never let Charlotte's mother know the truth. They kept their secret until Rampling's mother died in 2001.
In 1972, Rampling married the actor Bryan Southcombe. They lived in a ménage à trois with a male model and had one child, Barnaby, before divorcing in 1976. Barnaby is now a successful television director. In 1978, she married the French composer Jean Michel Jarre and had a son, the magician David Jarre. She also raised her stepdaughter, Emilie Jarre, now a fashion designer. The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997 when she found out via tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women and had a nervous breakdown. She has been engaged to Jean-Noel Tassez, a French communications tycoon, since 1998.
In 1995, Empire (magazine) voted Rampling #97 out of 100 of the Sexiest Stars in history while she was one of People Magazines "50 Most Beautiful People" in May 2001. |
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