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Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born February 5, 1946 in Sturmer, Essex) is an English actress and former model (her height is 170 cm (5' 7")). She attended Jeanne d'Arc Academie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles and St. Hilda's School in Bushey, England.

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. Despite her 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." She often takes roles which portray her as the villain or as a 'bitch'; an exception was in an episode of The Avengers, as female gunslinger Hana Wilde, where she nearly stole the show from stars Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. Remaining popular in the 1990s, Rampling got a name-check in an episode of Absolutely Fabulous, as a celebrity Edina Monsoon (played by Jennifer Saunders) hoped to impress.

Personal life

In 1972, she married the actor Bryan Southcombe. They lived in a ménage à trois with a male model 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 one child, the magician David Jarre. The marriage was dissolved in the late 1990s when she found out via tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women. She is expected to marry Jean-Noel Tassez, a business consultant and her fiancé since 1998 soon.

Filmography

Trivia

• In the 2000 New Years Honours List Rampling was awarded the OBE.
• Kinky Machine's song "Charlotte Rampling" includes the lyric "I always wanted to be your trampoline."
• In 1995, Empire (magazine) voted her #97 out of 100 of the Sexiest Stars in history while she was one of People Magazines "50 Most Beautiful People" in May 2001.
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater's "The Boss" is based on her image.
• Her father, Godfrey Rampling, won a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the 4x400m relay.
• In 2006 she was president of the jury of the 56th Berlin International Film Festival.
• The Knack...and How to Get It, her first movie, was filmed in part at Ruislip Lido, one-time venue for water skiing championships.
• Kirsten Dunst told Conan O'Brien in 2006 that in 2005 she dressed up as Charlotte Rampling from The Night Porter for Halloween.

Reference

External links

• Charlotte Rampling Website - a Fanpage dedicated to CR

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