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'Charlotte Rampling', OBE (born February 5, 1946 in Sturmer, Essex, England, UK) 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.

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Career

Personal life

Filmography

References

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Career

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."^[1]
Rampling has often performed controversial roles. In 1969, in Luchino Visconti's ''The Damned'' (''La Caduta degli dei''), she played a young wife sent to a concentration camp. This role redrew Rampling entirely as mysterious, tragic, even sinister. "The Look" as co-star Dirk Bogarde called it, became her trademark. ^[2] In 1974's ''The Night Porter'' she portrayed a former concentration camp inmate entangled in a sado-masochistic relationship with her former guard, played by Bogarde. Rampling's 2005 film at age 59 was Laurent Cantet's ''Heading South (Vers le Sud)'', a film about female sexual tourism. She plays Ellen, a professor of French literature and single Englishwoman, who holidays in 1970s Haiti to get the sexual attention she does not get at home. On her choice of roles, Rampling says, "I generally don't make films to entertain people. I choose the parts that challenge me to break through my own barriers. A need to devour, punish, humiliate, or surrender seems to be a primal part of human nature, and it's certainly a big part of sex. To discover what normal means, you have to surf a tide of weirdness." ^[3]
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 committed suicide at age 23. ^[4] 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. ^[5]

Personal life

In 1972, Rampling married the actor Bryan Southcombe. They lived in a ménage à trois with a male model¹ 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 one child, the magician David Jarre. The marriage was dissolved in the late 1990s when she found out via tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women. She has been engaged to Jean-Noel Tassez, a business consultant, 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.
Rampling credits François Ozon with drawing her back to film in the 2000s, a period when she came to terms with the death of her sister Sarah in the 1960s. "I thought that after such a long time of not letting her be with me," she told The Guardian, "I would like to bring her back into my life." ^[2]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1965	''The Knack …and How to Get It'' (uncredited)	Water Skier
	''Rotten to the Core''	Sara Capell
1966	''Georgy Girl''	Meredith
1967	''The Long Duel''	Jane
1968	''Sequestro di persona''	Christina
1969	''	Ruth Carlyle
	''The Damned''	Elisabeth Thallman
	''Three''	Marty
1971	''Vanishing Point''	Hitchhiker (scenes deleted)
	''Addio, fratello crudele''	Annabella
	''The Ski Bum''	Samantha
1972	''Henry VIII and His Six Wives''	Anne Boleyn
	''Corky''	Corky's Wife
	''Asylum''	Barbara
1973	''Giordano Bruno''	Fosca
1974	''Zardoz''	Consuella
	''Caravan to Vaccares''	Lila
	''The Night Porter''	Lucia Atherton
1975	''Yuppi du''	Silvia
	''La Chair de l'orchidée''	Claire
	''Farewell, My Lovely''	Helen Grayle
1976	''Foxtrot''	Julia
	''Sherlock Holmes in New York'' (TV)	Irene Adler
1977	''Un taxi mauve''	Sharon
	''Orca''	Rachel Bedford
1980	''Stardust Memories''	Dorrie
1982	''The Verdict''	Laura Fischer
1983	''Infidelities''	TV Flaminia
1984	''Viva la vie!''	Catherine Perrin
1985	''On ne meurt que 2 fois''	Barbara Spark
	''Tristesse et beauté''	Léa Uéno
1986	''Max, Mon Amour''	Margaret Jones
1987	''Angel Heart''	Margaret Krusemark
	''Mascara''	Gaby Hart
1988	''Paris by Night''	Clara Paige
	''D.O.A.''	Mrs. Fitzwaring
1989	''Rebus''	Miriam, contessa di Du Terrail
1992	''La Femme abandonnée'' (TV)	Fanny de Lussange
1993	''Hammers Over the Anvil''	Grace McAlister
	''Asphalt Tango''	Marion
1994	''Murder In Mind'' (TV)	Sonya Davies
	''Time Is Money''	Irina Kaufman
1995	''Samson le magnifique'' (TV)	Isabelle de Marsac
1996	''La Dernière fête'' (TV)	La marquise
	''Invasion of Privacy''	Deidre Stiles, Josh's Attorney
1997	''The Wings of the Dove''	Aunt Maude
1999	''Great Expectations'' (TV)	Miss Havisham
	''The Cherry Orchard''	Ranyevskaya
2000	''My Uncle Silas'' (TV Series)	Sylvia Featherstone
	''Signs & Wonders''	Marjorie
	''Hommage à Alfred Lepetit''
	''Aberdeen''	Helen
	''Sous le sable''	Marie Drillon
2001	''The Fourth Angel''	Kate Stockton
	''Superstition''	Frances Matteo
	''Spy Game''	Ann Cathcart
2002	''Embrassez qui vous voudrez''	Elizabeth Lannier
2003	''I'll Sleep When I'm Dead''	Helen
	''Swimming Pool''	Sarah Morton
	'' (TV)	Livia
	''The Statement''	Nicole
2004	''Jerusalemski sindrom''
	''Immortel (ad vitam)''	Elma Turner
	''Le Chiavi di casa''	Nicole
2005	''Lemming''	Alice Pollock
	''Vers le sud''	Ellen
2006	''Basic Instinct 2''	Milena Gardosh
	''Désaccord parfait''	Alice d'Abanville
2007	''Angel''	Hermione Gilbright
2008	''Babylon A.D. (film)''

References

1. Charlotte Rampling: In from the cold Sholto Byrnes
2. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/01/1064988260820.html
3. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001648/bio
4. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001648/bio
5. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/01/1064988260820.html
6. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/01/1064988260820.html

External links

★ Charlotte Rampling Website - ''a Fanpage dedicated to CR''

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★ A time for happiness

★ The ice queen thaws