Charlotte Rampling
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| Charlotte Rampling | |
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| Born | February 5, 1946  Essex, England |
| Years active | 1965 - |
| Spouse(s) | Bryan Southcombe 1972-76 Jean Michel Jarre 1978-1998 |
Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born February 5, 1946) is an English actress and former model. She is noted for her appearances in French films.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Rampling was born in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Anne Isabelle (née Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Rampling, an athlete and army officer.[1] She attended Jeanne d'Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles and St. Hilda's School, a boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.
[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.
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."[2]
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.[3] 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."[4]
The actress gained recognition from American audiences in 1975's detective story Farewell, My Lovely and later with Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) and particularly in The Verdict, an acclaimed drama directed by Sidney Lumet that starred Paul Newman. One of Rampling's recent roles embodied 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 prematurely in 1966, committed suicide at the age of 23.[5] 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.[6]
[edit] Personal life
In 1972, Rampling married the actor Bryan Southcombe. They lived in a ménage à trois with a male model Randall Laurence[2] 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 a son, the magician David Jarre. She also raised her stepdaughter, Émilie Jarre, now a fashion designer. The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997 when she found out via tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women and had a nervous breakdown. She has been engaged to Jean-Noël Tassez, a French communications tycoon, 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. "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."[7]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
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| 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 |
| Caótica Ana | Justine | |
| 2008 | Deception | Wall Street Belle |
| Babylon A.D. | Neolite Priestess | |
| The Duchess | Lady Spencer | |
| Boogie Woogie | Emille |
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/89/Charlotte-Rampling.html
- ^ a b Sholto Byrnes (2005-03-26). Charlotte Rampling: In from the cold. The Independent. Retrieved on 2006-08-12.
- ^ Good Charlotte - www.theage.com.au
- ^ Charlotte Rampling - Biography
- ^ Charlotte Rampling - Biography
- ^ Good Charlotte - www.theage.com.au
- ^ Good Charlotte - www.theage.com.au
[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 2006-10-23.
- The ice queen thaws. The Sydney Morning Herald (2006-12-22).
