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Not a classically beautiful screen leading lady, but with a compelling
charisma and deep eyes that draw you immediately to her, Charlotte
Gainsbourg became a star as a teenager in France, then moved to crack
America and the international film world with the leading role in the 1996
remake of "Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'", directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
Gainsbourg played the adult Jane, an impoverished governess who falls in
love with her brooding employer (played by William Hurt).
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Gainsbourg is the daughter of French singer, songwriter and actor Serge
Gainsbourg and the British actress Jane Birkin. She grew up in the public
eye not only because she had celebrity parents, but because she had
celebrity parents who had never married, lived openly together and had a
child. (They separated when Charlotte was nine years old.) She made her
screen debut in 1983 as Catherine Deneuve's daughter in "Love Songs", a film
about divorce. Two years later, director Claude Miller cast Gainsbourg as
the tempest-tossed adolescent in "L'Effrontee", and before she was 15,
Gainsbourg had won a Cesar, the French counterpart of the Oscar, for her
performance. In 1989, American audience saw Gainsbourg for the first time in
"The Little Thief", this time as a precocious teen. She has since appeared
in several other films, including the British "The Cement Garden" (1993),
directed by her uncle Andrew Birkin, and "Kung Fu Master!" (1987), written
by and starring her mother. Gainsbourg also starred in the Paris production
of David Mamet's "Oleanna" (1995).
The actress would continue to appear in several European films and
television productions, the most accaimed of which was her real-life husband
writer-actor-director Yvan Attal's boisterous and enjoyable French romantic
seriocomedy "Ma Femme Est une Actrice" (2001), known to American audiences
as "My Wife Is an Actress." Gainsbourg played the highly desirable actress-wife
of a jealous Parisian sportswriter who frets over the multiple opportunities
to stray that may or may not be presented to her by her handsome, older co-star
(Terrence Stamp). The film won praise in many critical circles and
spotlighted Gainsbourg's beguiling mix of willowy plaintiveness and slightly
irregular beauty. In 2003 Gainsbourg returned to an American film and
received strong notices for her performance in "21 Grams" as Mary, the
previously estranged wife of a dying math professor (Sean Penn) who is
determined to get pregnant with his child through artificial insemination
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