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English actress (born )

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Born	Tessa Charlotte Rampling () 5 February (age&#;78) Sturmer, Essex, England
Occupation(s)	Actress, model, singer
Years&#;active	–present
Works	Full list
Spouses	Bryan Southcombe &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Jean-Michel Jarre &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Partner(s)	Jean-Noël Tassez (–; his death)
Children	2
Relatives	Godfrey Rampling (father)
Awards	Full list

Tessa Charlotte RamplingOBE (born 5 February )^[1] is an English actress.^[2][3] An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model.^[4] She was cast in the role of Meredith in the film Georgy Girl, which starred Lynn Redgrave.

She soon began making French and Italian arthouse films, notably Luchino Visconti's The Damned () and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (). She went on to star in many European and English-language films, including Stardust Memories (), The Verdict (), Long Live Life (), and The Wings of the Dove ().

In the s, she became the muse of French director François Ozon, appearing in several of his films, notably Swimming Pool () and Young & Beautiful (). On television, she is known for her role as Dr. Evelyn Vogel in Dexter ().

In she released an album of recordings in the style of cabaret, titled Like a Woman.^[5]

In she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, both for her performance in the miniseries Restless.

For her performance in the film 45 Years, she won the Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress, the European Film Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In , she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for Hannah.^[6] She received an Honorary César in and France's Legion of Honour in She was made an OBE in for her services to the arts, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Awards.

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In , she released her autobiography, which she wrote in French, titled Qui Je Suis.^[7] She later worked on an English translation, titled Who I Am, which was published in March

Early life

Rampling was born in in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Isabel Anne (née Gurteen; –), a painter, and Godfrey Rampling (–), an Olympic gold medallist runner and British Army officer.^[8][9][10] She spent most of her early life in Gibraltar, France and Spain, before she returned to the UK in ^[11]

She attended Académie Jeanne d'Arc in Versailles and St Hilda's School, a boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.

She had one sister, Sarah, who died by suicide in , aged She and Sarah had a close relationship and they had performed in a cabaret act together during their young years.^[12][13][14]

Career

s: Modelling career, starting as actress

Rampling made her stage debut at the age of 14, singing French chansons with her sister at Bernays Institute in Stanmore.^[15] She began her career as a model and first appeared in a Cadbury advertisement.

She was working as a secretary when she was noticed by a casting agent in the same building.^[16] She made uncredited appearances in two films directed by Richard Lester including his first film with the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night (), and as a water skier in The Knack and How to Get It ().^{[citation needed]} In , she was cast in the role of Meredith in the film Georgy Girl and was given a role by John Boulting in the comedy Rotten to the Core.

In , she starred opposite Yul Brynner in the adventure film The Long Duel. She also appeared alongside Franco Nero in the Italian film Sardinia Kidnapped (Sequestro di persona) (), directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi.^[17]

On television, Rampling played the gunfighter Hana Wilde in "The Superlative Seven", a episode of The Avengers in which she knocked out John Steed.^[18] In , she starred opposite Sam Waterston in the romance-drama Three, and in , she starred opposite Robert Blake in the drama Corky and portrayed Anne Boleyn in the costume drama Henry VIII and His Six Wives.

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."^[19]

Rampling has performed controversial roles.

In , 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 her co-star Dirk Bogarde called it, became her trademark.^[20]

–early s: mature roles, Hollywood, and Italian cinema

She appeared in the cult classic Vanishing Point, in a scene deleted from the U.S.

theatrical release (included in the U.K. release). Lead actor Barry Newman remarked that the scene was of aid in the allegorical lilt of the film.

In 's The Night Porter, in which she again appears alongside Dirk Bogarde, she plays a former concentration camp inmate who, after World War II, reunites with a former camp guard (Bogarde) with whom she had had an ambiguous, sadomasochistic relationship.

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Their relationship resumes, and she becomes his mistress and victim once again. In , she posed nude for Playboy photographs by Helmut Newton.^[21] In she co-presented for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Award with Anthony Hopkins at the 48th Academy Awards.^[22]

In , Rampling starred in John Boorman's science-fiction film Zardoz opposite Sean Connery.

She also starred with Peter O'Toole in Foxtrot () and with Richard Harris in Orca (). She gained recognition from American audiences as the leading lady in a well-received remake of Raymond Chandler's detective story Farewell, My Lovely () starring Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe, and later with Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (), and in The Verdict (), an acclaimed drama directed by Sidney Lumet that starred Paul Newman.^{[citation needed]}

Middle s and s

Rampling starred in Claude Lelouch's film Viva la vie (Long Live Life), before going on to star in the cult-film Max, Mon Amour (), and appear in the thriller Angel Heart ().

For a decade she withdrew from the public eye due to depression. In the late s, she appeared in The Wings of the Dove (), played Miss Havisham in a BBC television adaptation of Great Expectations (), and starred in the film adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard (), directed by Michael Cacoyannis.^{[citation needed]}.

In , she was a jury member at the 54th Venice International Film Festival.

s

Rampling credits François Ozon with drawing her back to film in the s, a period when she came to terms with the death of her elder sister Sarah who, after giving birth prematurely in , died by suicide at She told The Guardian: "I thought that after such a long time of not letting her be with me.

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I would like to bring her back into my life."^[20] The character she played in Ozon's Swimming Pool (), Sarah Morton, was named in her sister's honour.

For most of Rampling's life, she said that her sister had died of a brain haemorrhage; when she and her father learned of Sarah’s death, they agreed they never would let her mother know the truth.

They kept their secret until Rampling's mother died in ^[20]

Rampling appeared in Tony Scott's Spy Game (), and she earned César Award nominations for Under the Sand (), Swimming Pool (), and Lemming (). At 59, she appeared in Laurent Cantet's Heading South (Vers le Sud), a film about sexual tourism.

She appeared as Ellen, a professor of French literature, who holidays in s Haiti to get the sexual attention she does not get at home.^{[citation needed]}

Hideo Kojima used Rampling's likeness for The Boss, the main antagonist of his game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, released in

On her choice of roles, Rampling said "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."^[23]

The actress has continued to work in sexually provocative films, such as Basic Instinct 2 ().

In , she portrayed Countess Spencer, the mother of Keira Knightley's title character, in The Duchess and played the High Priestess in post-apocalyptic thriller Babylon A.D. In , she recorded an album titled Comme Une Femme, or As A Woman. It is in both French and English, and includes passages that are spoken word as well as selections which Rampling sang.^{[citation needed]}.

In February , Rampling was named as the jury president at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival.

She has been seen on the covers of Vogue, Interview and Elle magazines and CRUSHfanzine. In , she posed nude in front of the Mona Lisa for Juergen Teller.^[24] In , Rampling appeared in Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime.

s

In , she completed filming Cleanskin, a terrorist thriller, and played Miss Emily in the dystopian romantic fantasy Never Let Me Go.^[25][26] She also appeared as Helena in the dance drama StreetDance 3D and the nun Mary in The Mill and the Cross with Michael York and Rutger Hauer.

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saw Rampling play Elizabeth Hunter in the Fred Schepisi directed adaptation of Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White's novel, The Eye of the Storm (with Judy Davis and Geoffrey Rush). In she also appeared in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. For her role in the miniseries Restless, Rampling was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

In , she appeared as Dr. Evelyn Vogel in the eighth season of Dexter.^[27] Rampling also appeared as Alice in the drama Jeune et Jolie and the elderly Adriana do Prado in Night Train to Lisbon. Other television roles include the ITV drama Broadchurch ()^[28] and the BBC drama London Spy ().

In , she was named the new face of NARS Cosmetics to launch their new lipstick campaign.^[29]

In , Rampling starred with Tom Courtenay in Andrew Haigh's 45 Years.^[30][31] The film is about a couple preparing to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary when new information regarding the husband's missing previous lover arises.

45 Years was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.^[32][33] She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress and Tom Courtenay won the Silver Bear for Best Actor.^[34] For this role, she also won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress,^[35] the European Film Award for Best Actress, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and also received nominations for the BIFA for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress.^{[citation needed]}

In , Rampling said that efforts to boycott that year's Oscars ceremony over a lack of racial diversity among nominees were "racist to whites".^[36] Her comments were called "offensive, outrageous and ignorant" by Chelsea Clinton, and the comments were defended by Clint Eastwood.

Rampling later apologised for her comments and expressed regret that her statements were misinterpreted.^[37][38]

That same year, Rampling backed children's fairytales app, GivingTales, in aid of UNICEF together with Roger Moore, Stephen Fry, Ewan McGregor, Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, Michael Caine, David Walliams, Paul McKenna and Michael Ball.^[39]

In , Rampling co-starred as Veronica Ford with Jim Broadbent and Emily Mortimer in The Sense of an Ending, based on the novel by Julian Barnes.^[40][41] It had its world premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January ^[42] Her next film was in Andrea Pallaoro's Hannah, where she portrayed the title role of the wife of a man imprisoned on uncertain charges.

For her role, she was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival.^[6]

In , Rampling starred opposite Alicia Vikander and Eva Green in Euphoria, directed by Lisa Langseth.^[43]

s

In January , she was cast as Reverend MotherGaius Helen Mohiam in the Denis Villeneuve film Dune.^[44] She reprised the role in the sequel, Dune: Part Two ().^[45] Rampling was originally cast as Lady Jessica in Alejandro Jodorowsky's failed adaptation of Dune in the s, but left the project in disgust after reading a scene in the script where 2, extras defecated at once.^[46]

Rampling plays a grouchy grandmother in New Zealand writer-director Matthew J.

Saville's black comedy Juniper.^[47][48]

Personal life

In , Rampling married New Zealand actor and publicist Bryan Southcombe^[49] and had a son, Barnaby Southcombe (who became a television director),^[50] before divorcing in ^[51] The couple was reported to have been living in a ménage à trois with Randall Laurence, a male model,^[19] and in , 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 menI didn't mean it in a sexual senseI was just too dirty to clean my act up. We were just like any people sharing an apartment."^[52] In , Rampling acknowledged the relationship in an interview with The Guardian, saying:

Well, I did have two boyfriends, which was racy at the timeWe were all very young.

It was all chop and change. Quite a lot of things were experimental, I suppose. How to live a life! I don't know whether I've got it now, but never mind – I had it!^[53]

In , Rampling married French composer Jean-Michel Jarre and had a second son, David Jarre, who became a musician and singer.^[54] and then a talented magician.

She also raised her stepdaughter, Émilie Jarre, who became a fashion designer. The marriage was publicly dissolved in , when Rampling learned from tabloid stories about Jarre's affairs with other women.^[55] Their divorce was finalised in Rampling later remarked:

It is not uncommon for a man to have an affair, or even for a woman to have an affair.

But the way I found out! In the tabloids. It was demeaning. And then for it to have continued. No, I could not forgive that at the time.^[55]

Rampling was engaged to Jean-Noël Tassez, a French journalist and businessman, from until his death in ^[56]

Rampling has lived in Paris since the late s.^[19][57][58]

Selected filmography

Main article: Charlotte Rampling filmography

Discography

Studio albums

Title	Album details
Comme une femme	Released: &#;() Label: Mohican Records Formats: CD
De l'amour mais quelle drôle d'idée	Released: &#;() Label: 29 Music Formats: CD, Vinyl

Audiobooks

Year	Title	Publisher
	À tes rêves! T'es toi quand tu peins	Les Portes du monde

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Charlotte Rampling

References