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Charlotte Rampling 
Rampling at the 2009 Venice Film FestivalBorn Tessa Charlotte Rampling
5 February 1946
Sturmer, Essex, EnglandYears active 1965–present Spouse Bryan Southcombe (1972–1976)
Jean Michel Jarre (1978–1998)Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born Tessa Charlotte Rampling; 5 February 1946) is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.
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Early life
Rampling was born in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Isabel Anne (née Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist 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.
Career
After beginning her career at age 17 in a commercial role and as a model, Rampling's first screen appearance 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. She also played gunfighter Hana Wilde in "The Superlative Seven", a 1967 episode of The Avengers.[2] After this, her acting career blossomed in both English and French cinema.
Despite an early flurry of success, 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."[3]
Rampling has performed controversial roles. In 1969, in Luchino Visconti's The Damned (La Caduta degli dei), she played a young wife sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Critics praised her performance, and it cast her in a whole new image: mysterious, sensitive, and ultimately tragic. "The Look" as co-star Dirk Bogarde called it, became her trademark.[4] In 1974's The Night Porter she portrayed a former concentration camp inmate who after the war meets a former camp guard with whom she had an ambiguous relationship, and their relationship resumes. Bogarde played the camp guard. In Max mon amour, she played a woman who fell in love with a chimpanzee.
Rampling gained recognition from American audiences in a remake of Raymond Chandler's detective story Farewell, My Lovely (1975) and later with Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) and particularly in The Verdict (1982), an acclaimed drama directed by Sidney Lumet that starred Paul Newman.
Rampling at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
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 oldest sister Sarah, who, after giving birth prematurely in 1966, committed suicide at 23. "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."[4] The character she played in Ozon's Swimming Pool (2003), Sarah Morton, was named in her sister's honor. 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 her mother know the truth. They kept their secret until Rampling's mother died in 2001.[4]
At 59, Rampling appeared in Laurent Cantet's Heading South (Vers le Sud), a 2005 film about 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."[citation needed]
The actress has continued to work in sexually provocative films such as Swimming Pool and Basic Instinct 2. More recently, she portrayed the mother of Keira Knightley's character in the title role in 2008's The Duchess.
In 2002, she also recorded an album entitled Comme Une Femme. It is in both French and English, and includes parts that are spoken word as well as tracks Rampling sang.[citation needed]
Given her striking style and look, Rampling can also be seen on the cover of Vogue Magazine, Interview Magazine, Elle Magazine and CRUSHfanzine.
In 2010, she completed filming Cleanskin, a terrorist thriller starring Sean Bean, James Fox, Tuppence Middleton, Michelle Ryan and Abhin Galeya.[citation needed] The film was written, produced and directed by Hadi Hajaig.[citation needed]
Personal life
In 1972, Rampling married the actor and publicist Bryan Southcombe. They were widely reported to be living in a ménage à trois with a male model, Randall Laurence,[3] and had one child, Barnaby Southcombe (who is now a successful television director) before divorcing in 1976. In 1974, Rampling was quoted by the syndicated columnist Earl Wilson as saying: "There are so many misunderstandings in life. I once caused a scandal by saying I lived with two men [...] I didn't mean it in a sexual sense [...] We were just like any people sharing an apartment."[5] In 1978, Rampling married the French composer Jean Michel Jarre and had a second son, magician David Jarre. She also raised stepdaughter Émilie Jarre, now a fashion designer. The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997 when she found out from 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.[6] On 6 April 2009, it was reported by The Daily Mail that Rampling had hired lawyers to try to block the publication of a biography about her written by a close friend.[7]
Filmography
Film and television credits Year Title Role Notes 1965 The Knack ...and How to Get It Water Skier Uncredited 1965 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 1969 The Damned Elisabeth Thallman 1969 Three Marty 1971 Vanishing Point Hitchhiker scenes deleted 1971 Addio, fratello crudele Annabella 1971 The Ski Bum Samantha 1972 Henry VIII and His Six Wives Anne Boleyn 1972 Corky Corky's Wife 1972 Asylum Barbara 1973 Giordano Bruno Fosca 1974 Zardoz Consuella 1974 Caravan to Vaccares Lila 1974 The Night Porter Lucia Atherton 1975 Yuppi du Silvia 1975 La Chair de l'orchidée Claire 1975 Farewell, My Lovely Helen Grayle 1976 Foxtrot Julia 1976 Sherlock Holmes in New York (TV) Irene Adler 1977 Un taxi mauve Sharon 1977 Orca Rachel Bedford 1977 Al di là del bene e del male Lou von Salomé 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 Nominated—César Award for Best Actress 1985 Tristesse et beauté Léa Uéno 1986 Max, Mon Amour Margaret Jones 1987 Angel Heart Margaret Krusemark 1987 Mascara Gaby Hart Fantasporto Award for Best Actress 1988 Paris by Night Clara Paige 1988 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 1993 Asphalt Tango Marion 1994 Murder in Mind[disambiguation needed 
] (TV)Sonya Davies 1994 Time Is Money Irina Kaufman 1995 Samson le magnifique (TV) Isabelle de Marsac 1996 La Dernière fête (TV) La marquise 1996 Invasion of Privacy Deidre Stiles, Josh's Attorney 1997 The Wings of the Dove Aunt Maude 1999 Great Expectations (TV) Miss Havisham 1999 The Cherry Orchard Lyubov Ranyevskaya 2000 My Uncle Silas Sylvia Featherstone TV series 2000 Signs & Wonders Marjorie 2000 Hommage à Alfred Lepetit 2000 Aberdeen Helen 2000 Sous le sable Marie Drillon Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
Nominated—César Award for Best Actress2001 The Fourth Angel Kate Stockton 2001 Superstition Frances Matteo 2001 Spy Game Ann Cathcart 2002 Embrassez qui vous voudrez Elizabeth Lannier 2003 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Helen 2003 Swimming Pool Sarah Morton European Film Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress
Nominated—César Award for Best Actress
Nominated—London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the year2003 Imperium: Augustus (TV) Livia 2003 The Statement Nicole 2004 Jerusalemski sindrom 2004 Immortel (ad vitam) Elma Turner Nominated—European Film Award for Best Actress 2004 The Keys to the House Nicole 2005 Lemming Alice Pollock Nominated—César Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—European Film Award for Best Actress2005 Vers le sud Ellen 2006 Basic Instinct 2 Milena Gardosh 2006 Désaccord parfait Alice d'Abanville 2007 Angel Hermione Gilbright 2007 Caótica Ana Justine 2008 Deception Wall Street Belle 2008 Babylon A.D. Noelite High Priestess 2008 The Duchess Lady Spencer 2009 Quelque chose à te dire Mady Celliers 2009 The Ball of the Actresses Herself 2009 Boogie Woogie Emille 2009 La femme invisible (d'après une histoire vraie) Rose 2009 Life During Wartime Jacqueline 2010 Never Let Me Go Miss Emily 2010 StreetDance 3D Helena 2010 Rio Sex Comedy Charlotte 2010 The Mill and the Cross Mary 2011 Melancholia Gaby 2011 Cars 2 Narrator 2011 The Eye of the Storm Elizabeth Hunter 2011 Cleanskin Charlotte McQueen Post-production Further reading
- Nicolaevitch, S. 2008. Charlotte Forever. Citizen K International, 46 (Spring): 244–253.
References
- ^ "Charlotte Rampling Biography (1946?-)". Filmreference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/89/Charlotte-Rampling.html. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
- ^ The Avengers Forever: Guest Actor Biography, accessed May 7, 2010
- ^ a b Sholto Byrnes (2005-03-26). "Charlotte Rampling: In from the cold". London: The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts/film/features/article7794.ece. Retrieved 2006-08-12.
- ^ a b c "Good Charlotte". The Age (Melbourne). 2003-10-04. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/01/1064988260820.html.
- ^ Earl Wilson, An Explanation of Streaking. The Post-Register, Idaho Falls, Monday, March 18, 1974, p.10
- ^ Byrnes, Sholto (26 mar 2005). "Charlotte Rampling: In from the cold". Independent (London): pp. 1. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/charlotte-rampling-in-from-the-cold-529788.html. Retrieved 25 oct 2010.
- ^ Churcher, Sharon (6 apr 2009). "Actress Charlotte Rampling ‘freaks out’ and tells lawyer to halt biography written by pal". Daily Mail (London): pp. 1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1167544/Actress-Charlotte-Rampling--8216-freaks-8217-tells-lawyer-halt-biography-written-pal.html. Retrieved 25 oct 2010.
External links
- Charlotte Rampling Website – a Fanpage dedicated to CR
- Charlotte Rampling at the Internet Movie Database
- MacKenzie, Suzie (2003-08-16). "A time for happiness". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1018487,00.html. Retrieved 2006-10-23.
- "The ice queen thaws". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2006-12-22. http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/the-ice-queen-thaws/2006/12/20/1166290619652.html.
Categories:- 1946 births
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- English film actors
- English television actors
- European Film Award for Best Actress winners
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- People from Essex
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