Jane Birkin - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress

As a teenager, a miniskirted Chelsea girl, Jane embraced the pop excitement of " Swinging London ". Following in her mother's footsteps, she started auditioning. Noticed by Binky Beaumont, she made her acting debut at seventeen at the Haymarket Theater playing a young deaf-mute in Carving a Statue by Graham Greene. But it was in a musical, Passion Flower Hotel, at the Prince of Wales Theater, that she made her singing debut. She auditioned for the part encouraged by composer John Barry, author of the James Bond 007 theme and whom she ended up marrying at nineteen. After a first movie experience in Richard Lester's The Knack, she was hired by Antonioni who was shooting Blow Up, which later received the Palme d'Or Award at the Cannes international film festival. This movie also created her first controversy brief scene, where she appeared naked; it was the talk of London. 

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