Charlotte Rampling
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| Charlotte Rampling | |
 Rampling modeling on a Mickey Spillane book cover, 1972. |
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| Born | February 5, 1946 (age 61) Sturmer, Essex  |
| Years active | 1965 - |
| Spouse(s) | Bryan Southcombe 1972-76 Jean Michel Jarre 1978-1998 |
| Official site | http://www.charlotterampling.net |
| Notable roles | Lucia Atherton in The Night Porter Laura Fischer in The Verdict Marie Drillon in Sous le Sable Sarah Morton in The Swimming Pool |
Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born February 5, 1946 in Sturmer, 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, England.
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[edit] 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. Despite her early flurry of success, 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] She often takes roles which portray her as the villain or as a 'bitch'; an exception was in an episode of The Avengers, as female gunslinger Hana Wilde, where she nearly stole the show from stars Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. Remaining popular in the 1990s, Rampling got a name-check in an episode of Absolutely Fabulous, as a celebrity Edina Monsoon (played by Jennifer Saunders) hoped to impress.
Her 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.
[edit] Personal life
In 1972, she married the actor Bryan Southcombe. They lived in a ménage à trois with a male model[1] 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 is expected to marry Jean-Noel Tassez, a business consultant and her fiancé since 1998 soon.
She credits Francois 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 60s. The family kept details secret from her mother until she died in 2001. Her sister shot herself in Argentina in 1966, aged 23, after giving birth prematurely.
[edit] 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 | Target: Harry | 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 | |
| Imperium: Augustus (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 |
[edit] Trivia
- In the 2000 New Years Honours List Rampling was awarded the OBE.
- Kinky Machine's song "Charlotte Rampling" includes the lyric "I always wanted to be your trampoline."
- In 1995, Empire (magazine) voted her #97 out of 100 of the Sexiest Stars in history while she was one of People Magazines "50 Most Beautiful People" in May 2001.
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater's "The Boss" is based on her image.[2]
- Her father, Godfrey Rampling, won a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the 4x400m relay.
- In 2006 she was president of the jury of the 56th Berlin International Film Festival.
- The Knack...and How to Get It, her first movie, was filmed in part at Ruislip Lido, one-time venue for water skiing championships.
- Jane Birkin and Jacqueline Bisset also had uncredited roles in The Knack...and How to Get It, Birkin as "Girl on a motorbike".
- Kirsten Dunst told Conan O'Brien in 2006 that in 2005 she dressed up as Charlotte Rampling from The Night Porter for Halloween.
- Rampling is featured in a Marc Jacobs print ad lying on a bed next to William Eggleston and a third unidentified woman. The photo was taken by Juergen Teller.
[edit] Reference
- ^ a b Sholto Byrnes (2005-03-26). Charlotte Rampling: In from the cold. The Independent. Retrieved on August 12, 2006.
- ^ Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Commentary [DVD]. Japan: Konami.
[edit] External links
- Charlotte Rampling Website - a Fanpage dedicated to CR
- Charlotte Rampling at the Internet Movie Database
- A time for happiness. The Guardian (2003-08-16). Retrieved on October 23, 2006.
- The ice queen thaws. The Sydney Morning Herald (2006-12-22).
