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Birth Name: Jane Mallory Birkin

Born: 14 December 1946 Died: 16 July 2023

Country of origin: United Kingdom

Height: 5' 8"

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Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime moi non plus

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Description: Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English actress and singer who lives in France. She is perhaps best known for her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg in the 1970s. She was born on 14 December 1946, in Marylebone, London. Her mother, Judy Campbell, was an English actress, best known for her work on stage. Her father, David Birkin, was a Royal Navy lieutenant-commander and World War II spy. Her brother is the screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin. She is first cousin twice removed to theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter.Birkin was raised in Chelsea, and described herself as a "shy English girl." She was educat Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English actress and singer who lives in France. She is perhaps best known for her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg in the 1970s.

She was born on 14 December 1946, in Marylebone, London. Her mother, Judy Campbell, was an English actress, best known for her work on stage. Her father, David Birkin, was a Royal Navy lieutenant-commander and World War II spy. Her brother is the screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin. She is first cousin twice removed to theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter.Birkin was raised in Chelsea, and described herself as a "shy English girl."

She was educated at Upper Chine School, Isle of Wight, and at Kensington Aldridge Academy in London. At age 17, she met composer John Barry, whom she married in 1965 and with whom she had her first daughter, Kate Barry, who was born on 8th April 1967. They met when Barry cast Birkin in his musical Passion Flower Hotel. After the couple divorced in 1968, Birkin returned to live with her family in London, and began to audition for film and television roles in England and Los Angeles, California.

She had a passionate and creative relationship with her mentor Serge Gainsbourg, whom she met on the set of Slogan in 1968, a relationship that lasted 13 years. They never married, despite rumours and misreporting to the contrary. In 1971, they had a daughter, the actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. They separated in 1980.

On 4 September 1982 she gave birth to her third daughter, Lou Doillon, from her relationship with the director Jacques Doillon. They separated in the 1990s. The Observer reported in 2007 that Doillon "could not compete with her grief for Gainsbourg" (who died in 1991), and that she had lived alone since their separation.

Her grandchildren are Roman de Kermadec (born 1987) from Kate Barry, Ben (born 1997), Alice (born 2002), and Jo (born 2011) from Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Marlowe (born 2002) from Lou Doillon.

Birkin has mainly resided in Paris, France since the late 1960s.

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