Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg (born July 21 1971) is a British-French actress and singer.

Charlotte Gainsbourg was born in London, England, and raised in Paris, France, the daughter of British actress and singer Jane Birkin and French actor and singer Serge Gainsbourg. Her maternal grandmother was actress Judy Campbell and her uncle is the screenwriter Andrew Birkin, who directed her in The Cement Garden. Gainsbourg's longtime boyfriend and spouse is the French actor and director Yvan Attal, with whom she has two children, Benjamin and Alice.

On September 5, 2007, Charlotte Gainsbourg was rushed to a Paris hospital where she underwent surgery for a cerebral haemorrhage. She had been experiencing headaches since a minor water skiing accident in the United States several weeks prior.

Charlotte Gainsbourg made her motion picture debut playing Catherine Deneuve's daughter in the 1984 film Paroles et musique. She made her musical debut with her father on the song "Lemon Incest." In 1986, Gainsbourg won a César Award for "Most Promising Actress" for L'effrontée, and, in 2000, she won "Best Supporting Actress" for the film La Bûche.

In 1994, Charlotte Gainsbourg made her stage debut in David Mamet's Oleanna at the Théâtre de la Gaîté Montparnasse. Gainsbourg has sung the title song in three of her films and has released two albums. In 2004, she sang a duet with French pop star Étienne Daho on his single "If".

In 2007, she appeared as Claire in the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, also contributing a cover of the Dylan song "Just Like a Woman" to the film's soundtrack. She will appear in the upcoming release of Terminator 4 Salvation.