Actress and singer Jane Birkin has died on the age of 76.
The British-French star was reportedly discovered useless at her house in Paris by her caregiver on Sunday, in keeping with Le Parisien and BFM TV. A reason behind dying has not been disclosed.
Born in London, Birkin started her profession as an actress within the ’60s with movies equivalent to Blowup, Kaleidoscope, and La Piscine. She shot to fame in 1968 along with her on and off-screen relationship with the French singer, actor and director Serge Gainsbourg, with whom she had her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg, additionally a well-known actress and singer.
Birkin and Gainsbourg launched a collaborative album, Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg, in 1969 and it featured the controversially specific tune Je t’aime… moi non plus. She additionally starred in his movie of the identical identify in 1976.
After they cut up in 1980, Birkin continued to work as an actress and singer, releasing quite a few solo albums and showing in movies equivalent to Dying on the Nile and Evil Beneath the Solar.
Birkin, who gave her identify to the Hermès Birkin designer purse, was additionally the mom of late photographer Kate Barry along with her ex-husband, composer John Barry, and musician Lou Doillon along with her former accomplice Jacques Doillon, a director.
Birkin, who had lived in Paris because the late ’60s, suffered a stroke in September 2021. She postponed a sequence of live shows after breaking her shoulder in March 2022.
