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...film Paroles et Musique, she's racked up 37 movie credits, including critically acclaimed turns in 21 Grams and Antichrist, which earned her a Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival last year. But despite these successes, she's still known primarily as the daughter of Jane Birkin, the gamine English model and actress, and Serge Gainsbourg, France's beloved singer-songwriter. When Serge died in 1991, the nation went into mourning and President François Mitterrand lauded him as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Carrying such celebrated DNA can be a daunting task. "With acting I never have...
...Gainsbourg doesn't have a straight answer, but she says the graphic scenes didn't faze her. "I felt more naked crying and howling than I did showing my bottom," she explains. Then again, her father did give her an early education in provocation. His infamous 1969 duet with Birkin, "Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus," was banned by the Vatican because of its salacious lyrics and feigned orgasms. And in 1984, he recorded "Lemon Incest," a duet in which he and a 13-year-old Charlotte sing that "the love that we will never make together is the most...
...Your mother inspired the Hermès Birkin bag. Do you own one? No. [Laughs.] It would be weird to have my mother's bag. It's so close to what she is and how she is. I'd have the impression I'd be copying. But it is a beautiful...
...Lars von Trier film Antichrist, which required her to attack Willem Dafoe with a shovel and simulate mutilating her own genitals. For her troubles, she won the Best Actress Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Gainsbourg - the daughter of French singer Serge Gainsbourg and British model Jane Birkin - spoke with TIME about working with Beck, her father's musical legacy and growing up in one of France's most famous families. (See TIME's 10 best albums...
...Antichrist, Gainsbourg, daughter of Brit actress Jane Birkin and the late French singer-provocateur Serge Gainsbourg, played a woman so traumatized by her child's death that she goes slowly, deeply, mutilatingly mad. Accepting her award, she called the experience "intense, sad and exciting." If not the best performance of the festival, Gainsbourg's was surely of the self-punishing kind that could be appreciated by jury members Huppert, Asia Argento and Shu Qi, all of whom have played similarly extreme roles. Waltz, the suave German on Brad Pitt's tail in Inglourious Basterds, thanked the film's "unique...