50 facts about Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling's 50 facts.

1. Her first name is Tessa.

2. She is an English actress, model and chanteuse.

3. She is known for her work in European arthouse films in three languages, English, French, and Italian.

4. Rampling is an icon of the Swinging Sixties.

5. She began her career as a model and later became a fashion icon and muse.

6. She was cast in the role of Meredith in 1966 film Georgy Girl, which starred Lynn Redgrave.

7. She soon began making French and Italian arthouse films, most notably during this time in Luchino Visconti's The Damned and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter.

8. She went on to star in Zardoz, Farewell, My Lovely, Woody Allen's Stardust Memories, opposite Paul Newman in The Verdict, Long Live Life, Max, Mon Amour, Angel Heart and The Wings of the Dove.

9. In 2002, she released an album of recordings in the style of cabaret titled As A Woman.

10. In the 2000s, she became the muse of French director François Ozon, appearing in his films Under the Sand, Swimming Pool and Angel.

11. On television, she is known for her role as Evelyn Vogel in Dexter.

12. In 2012, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the miniseries Restless.

13. Other television roles include the 2015 dramas Broadchurch and London Spy.

14. For her performance in the 2015 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.

15. A four-time César Award nominee, she received an Honorary César in 2001 and France's Legion of Honour in 2002.

16. She was made an OBE in 2000 for her services to the arts, and received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Awards.

17. In 2015, she released her autobiography in French, titled Who I Am.

18. Rampling was born in Sturmer, Essex.

19. She is the daughter of Isabel Anne, a painter, and Godfrey Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist and British Army officer.

20. She grew up in Gibraltar, France, and Spain.

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

22. She had one sister, Sarah, who committed suicide in 1966, aged 23. She and Sarah had had a close relationship and performed in a cabaret act together during their teenage years.

23. She began her career as a model and first appeared in a Cadbury advertisement.

24. She was noticed by a casting agent while walking down a street in London.

25. Her first screen appearance was uncredited as a water skier in Richard Lester's film The Knack ...and How to Get It.

26. Rampling has performed controversial roles. In 1969, 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 co-star Dirk Bogarde called it, became her trademark.

27. In 2008, she portrayed Countess Spencer, the mother of Keira Knightley's character in the title role in The Duchess.

28. In 2002, she recorded an album entitled Comme Une Femme. It is in both French and English, and includes parts that are spoken word as well as tracks Rampling sang.

29. She has been seen on the covers of Vogue Magazine, Interview Magazine, Elle Magazine and CRUSHfanzine.

30. In 2009, Rampling appeared in Todd Solondz' Life During Wartime.

31. In 2011, she appeared in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia.

32. For her role in the 2012 miniseries Restless, Rampling was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

33. In 2013, she played Dr. Evelyn Vogel in the final season of Dexter.

34. Other television roles include the ITV drama Broadchurch and the BBC drama London Spy.

35. In 2014, she was named the new face of NARS Cosmetics to launch their new lipstick campaign.

36. In 2015, Rampling starred opposite Tom Courtenay in Andrew Haigh's 45 Years. 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.

37. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress and Tom Courtenay won the Silver Bear for Best Actor. For this role, she also won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, the European Film Award for Best Actress, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and also received nominations for the BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress.

38. Rampling is currently set to star as Lady Denham in the film adaptation of Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon, which is to be directed by Jim O'Hanlon for Fluidity Pictures.

39. In 1972, Rampling married actor and publicist Bryan Southcombe.

40. She and Southcombe had their son, Barnaby Southcombe.

41. Her son Barnaby Southcombe is now a television director.

42. The couple divorced in 1976.

43. In 1978, Rampling married French composer Jean Michel Jarre.

44. Jarre and Rampling had a son, David Jarre.

45. Her son David Jarre is now a musician and singe).

46. She raised her stepdaughter émilie Jarre (now a fashion designer).

47. Her stepdaughter Jarre is now a fashion designer.

48. The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997, when Rampling learned from tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women and had a nervous breakdown.

49. She was engaged to Jean-Noël Tassez, a French communications tycoon, from 1998 until his death in 2015.

50. Rampling lives in Paris.