Jane Birkin has died at 76. The singer, actress, and elegance icon was discovered at her residence in Paris, as Le Parisien reviews.

Birkin was born in London in 1946; her mom was stage actress Judy Campbell. She began appearing as a teen and have become part of the Swinging London scene within the Sixties. She picked up just a few small movie components in her youth, and drew consideration for her position in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 movie Blowup, which led to bigger roles in Kaleidoscope and Wonderwall. She married James Bond composer John Barry in 1965 and had her first daughter, Kate, in 1967. (Kate Barry handed away in 2013.) Her and Barry had been divorced by 1968.

She auditioned for the feminine lead within the French movie Slogan that very same 12 months, which is the place she met her co-star and future accomplice Serge Gainsbourg. They carried out the movie’s theme tune collectively, “La Chanson de Slogan.” The pair quickly launched their most enduring monitor, the erotically-charged “Je t’aime… moi non plus,” which appeared on their 1969 album.

A decade’s value of musical collaborations adopted, together with appearances on Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson and a string of solo albums all through the ’70s, together with 1975’s Lolita Go House and 1978’s Ex fan des sixties, each of which had been additionally collaborations with Gainsbourg. Birkin additionally appeared in Gainsbourg’s 1976 directorial debut Je t’aime moi non plus. Birkin and Gainsbourg had a daughter collectively, the musician and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, who was born in 1971. The pair separated in 1980.

She married director Jacques Doillon in 1980; they’d a daughter, Lou Doillon, in 1982. Birkin continued to launch music on her personal, and he or she appeared in lots of movies, working with administrators like Jean-Luc Godard, Agnes Varda, Jacques Rivette, Roger Vadim, and Alain Resnais. She additionally appeared within the Agatha Christie variations Dying On The Nile and Evil Beneath The Solar. She was an inspiration within the vogue world as a socialite and mannequin, as properly; in 1984, Hermès govt Jean-Louis Dumas was impressed by Birkin to create a namesake bag.

Birkin’s most up-to-date album was 2020’s Oh! Pardon, tu dormais…; we talked to her about it right here. Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, issued a press release upon her passing: “As a result of she embodied freedom, as a result of she sang essentially the most lovely phrases of our language, Jane Birkin was a French icon. A whole artist, her voice was as candy as her engagements had been fiery. She bequeaths us tunes and pictures that can by no means go away us.”