Jane Birkin

British actress and singer based in since the late '60s.
Born: 14th December 1946 London, England.
Died: 16th July 2023 Paris, .
She was a bit of a It-girl during the swinging sixties, appearing in two of the defining movies of the era: Richard Lester's "The Knack ... and how to get it" and Antonioni's "Blow Up". She then married movie scores composer Kate Barry.
After splitting from Charlotte Gainsbourg.
After separating from Serge at the tail end of the seventies she lived with movie director Jacques Doillon with whom she had another daughter, model and actress Lou Doillon. Her estranged mentor kept on offering her songs to record all through the eighties until his death in 1991. When Serge ed-away, Jane concentrated on her acting career, branching out in theatre and even directing a couple of movies.
She came back to singing in the late nineties, first through various re-interpretations of Serge's back catalogue and then, in spite of her many declarations she couldn't even imagine singing someone else's words, with an album of collaborations with artists as diverse as Kate Bush on 2006 "Fictions".
Daughter of Anno Birkin.
Appointed OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2002.