Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin OBE
Birkin in 1970
Born	Jane Mallory Birkin (1946-12-14)14 December 1946 Marylebone, London, England
Died	16 July 2023(2023-07-16) (aged 76) Paris, France
Resting place	Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
Citizenship	United Kingdom France
Education	Upper Chine School, Isle of Wight
Occupations	Singer actress
Years active	1965–2023
Spouse	John Barry ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1969)​
Partners	Serge Gainsbourg (1968–1980) Jacques Doillon (1980–1993)
Children	Kate Barry Charlotte Gainsbourg Lou Doillon
Parent	Judy Campbell (mother)
Relatives	Andrew Birkin (brother) David Birkin (nephew) Anno Birkin (nephew)

Jane Mallory Birkin OBE (/ˈbɜːrkɪn/, French: [dʒɛn malɔʁi biʁkin]; 14 December 1946 – 16 July 2023) was a British and French actress and singer. She had a decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She also had a prolific career as an actress, mostly in French cinema.

A native of London, Birkin began her career as an actress, appearing in minor roles in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966), and Kaleidoscope (1966). In 1968, she met Serge Gainsbourg while co-starring with him in Slogan, which marked the beginning of a years-long working and personal relationship.^[1] The duo released their debut album Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg (1969), and Birkin also appeared in the Je t'aime moi non plus (1976) under Gainsbourg's direction. Though she mostly worked in France where she had become a major star, Birkin occasionally appeared in English-language films such as the Agatha Christie adaptations Death on the Nile (1978) and Evil Under the Sun (1982), as well as James Ivory's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998).

After separating from Gainsbourg in 1980, Birkin continued to work as both an actress and a singer, appearing in various independent films and recording numerous solo albums. In 2016, she starred in the Academy Award-nominated short film La femme et le TGV, which she said would be her final film role.

Birkin lived mainly in France from the late 1960s onwards, and would acquire French citizenship.^[2][3] She was the mother of photographer Kate Barry, with her first husband John Barry; actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, with Serge Gainsbourg; and musician Lou Doillon, with Jacques Doillon. In addition to her acting and musical credits, she lent her name to the Hermès Birkin handbag.