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Jane Birkin (b. December 14, 1946) is an
actor|actress and singer born in London who has
spent most of her career in France.

She is the elder daughter of David Birkin (a
commander in the Royal Navy and a World War II war
hero involved in various aspects of espionage) and
actress Judy Campbell (née Gamble), who made her
name as a star of Noel Coward musicals. Birkin
also is a member of a prominent British industrial
family that made its fortune manufacturing lace in
Nottinghamshire. A great-aunt, Winifred (Freda)
May Birkin, later Mrs William Dudley Ward, was a
mistress of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII
of the United Kingdom, later HRH the Duke of
Windsor). She is also related by blood or marriage
to the actresses Penelope Dudley Ward and Rachel
Ward as well as the film director Carol Reed|Sir
Carol Reed.

As a young woman during the swinging 60s in
London, Birkin followed in her mother's footsteps
and launched her own acting career. She starred as
one of the nude models in the controversial film
Blowup in 1967. The next year, she left for France
to audition for the female lead role in Slogan.
Though she did not speak French at all, she
managed to get the role. On the set, she met Serge
Gainsbourg. The two were soon involved in a
passionate affair, which later developed into a
full-blown relationship. Birkin never returned to
England. 

During her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg,
they released a song with the provocative title
"Je t'aime... Moi non plus" ("I love you...
Neither do I"), written by Gainsbourg and
featuring both of them singing, which caused a
minor scandal for its sexual explicitness at the
time of its release in 1969.

Birkin took a short break from her acting career
in 1971-72, but returned as Brigitte Bardot's
lover in Don Juan (or if Don Juan were a woman) in
1973. In 1975, she appeared in Gainsbourg's first
film Je t'aime moi non plus, which created quite a
stir for its frank examination of sexual
ambiguity.  

Birkin has starred in the Agatha Christie films
Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun, and
recorded several albums. She has been awarded an
Order of the British Empire|OBE for her services
to acting, as well as the Ordre National du
Mérite in France.

Charlotte Gainsbourg is Birkin's daughter from her
relationship with Serge Gainsbourg, whom she met
in 1968 and lived with until 1980. She also has a
daughter, Kate Barry (born 1968), from her first
marriage to John Barry (composer)|John Barry (they
separated in 1968 and later divorced), an English
composer who wrote the musical score to the James
Bond movies. Birkin has another daughter, Lou
(born 1982), by film director Jacques Doillon.


==External links==
*http://www.janebirkin.net/ JaneBirkin.net
*imdb name|id=0000945|name= Jane Birkin 
*http://www.gainsbourg.org/vrsn3/html/zooms/jane-b
irkin/index.php A Tribute to Gainsbourg, zoom sur
Jane Birkin
*http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biogr
aphie_6157.asp Jane Birkin biography

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Jane Birkin (b. December 14, 1946) is an
actor|actress and singer born in London who has
spent most of her career in France.

She is the elder daughter of David Birkin (a
commander in the Royal Navy and a World War II war
hero involved in various aspects of espionage) and
actress Judy Campbell (née Gamble), who made her
name as a star of Noel Coward musicals. Birkin
also is a member of a prominent British industrial
family that made its fortune manufacturing lace in
Nottinghamshire. A great-aunt, Winifred (Freda)
May Birkin, later Mrs William Dudley Ward, was a
mistress of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII
of the United Kingdom, later HRH the Duke of
Windsor). She is also related by blood or marriage
to the actresses Penelope Dudley Ward and Rachel
Ward as well as the film director Carol Reed|Sir
Carol Reed.

As a young woman during the swinging 60s in
London, Birkin followed in her mother's footsteps
and launched her own acting career. She starred as
one of the nude models in the controversial film
Blowup in 1967. The next year, she left for France
to audition for the female lead role in Slogan.
Though she did not speak French at all, she
managed to get the role. On the set, she met Serge
Gainsbourg. The two were soon involved in a
passionate affair, which later developed into a
full-blown relationship. Birkin never returned to
England. 

During her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg,
they released a song with the provocative title
"Je t'aime... Moi non plus" ("I love you...
Neither do I"), written by Gainsbourg and
featuring both of them singing, which caused a
minor scandal for its sexual explicitness at the
time of its release in 1969.

Birkin took a short break from her acting career
in 1971-72, but returned as Brigitte Bardot's
lover in Don Juan (or if Don Juan were a woman) in
1973. In 1975, she appeared in Gainsbourg's first
film Je t'aime moi non plus, which created quite a
stir for its frank examination of sexual
ambiguity.  

Birkin has starred in the Agatha Christie films
Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun, and
recorded several albums. She has been awarded an
Order of the British Empire|OBE for her services
to acting, as well as the Ordre National du
Mérite in France.

Charlotte Gainsbourg is Birkin's daughter from her
relationship with Serge Gainsbourg, whom she met
in 1968 and lived with until 1980. She also has a
daughter, Kate Barry (born 1968), from her first
marriage to John Barry (composer)|John Barry (they
separated in 1968 and later divorced), an English
composer who wrote the musical score to the James
Bond movies. Birkin has another daughter, Lou
(born 1982), by film director Jacques Doillon.


==External links==
*http://www.janebirkin.net/ JaneBirkin.net
*imdb name|id=0000945|name= Jane Birkin 
*http://www.gainsbourg.org/vrsn3/html/zooms/jane-b
irkin/index.php A Tribute to Gainsbourg, zoom sur
Jane Birkin
*http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biogr
aphie_6157.asp Jane Birkin biography