![]() ![]() She first took to the stage aged 17 and went on to appear in the 1965 musical Passion Flower Hotel by conductor and composer John Barry, whom she married shortly after. Jane Mallory Birkin was born in London in December 1946, daughter of British actress Judy Campbell and Royal Navy commander David Birkin. ![]() "We will never forget her songs, her laughs and her incomparable accent which always accompanied us." The "most Parisian of the English has left us," said Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. She had lived in her adopted France since the late 1960s and apart from her singing and roles in dozens of films, she was a popular figure for her warm nature, stalwart fight for women's and LGBT rights. ![]() Birkin had a mild stroke in 2021 after suffering heart problems in previous years.īirkin was best known overseas for her 1969 hit in which she and her then-lover, the late French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, sang the sexually explicit Je t’aime.moi non plus. Local media reported she had been found dead at her home, citing people close to her. The French Culture Ministry said the country had lost a "timeless Francophone icon". PARIS - British-born actress and singer Jane Birkin, a 1960s wildchild who became a beloved figure in France, has died in Paris aged 76. ![]()
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