Charlotte Gainsbourg

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Biography

Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (born 21 July 1971) is a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English-French actress and singer Jane Birkin and French singer and actor Serge Gainsbourg. She has acted in many films, including collaborations with Lars von Trier, and received two César Awards and Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress Award 2009 for the movie Antichrist, among many nominations.

Known For

Independence Day: Resurgence

Dr. Catherine Marceaux

Melancholia

Claire

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Joe

21 Grams

Mary Rivers

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Joe

Antichrist

She

The Snowman

Rakel

The Pale Blue Eye

Patsy

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Gisèle - Au nom de toutes MOVIE	Gisèle Halimi
2025	Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2025	The Phoenician Scheme MOVIE	1st Wife
2025	Étoile TV	Geneviève Lavigne
2025	Belle MOVIE	Cléa
2025	Twiggy MOVIE	Self
2024	As Time Goes By MOVIE	Self
2024	Jane Birkin by Friends MOVIE	Self
2024	Meet the Leroys MOVIE	Sandrine Leroy
2023	Tout sauf l’ennui MOVIE	Self
2023	Alphonse TV	Margot
2023	Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself MOVIE	Self - Actress
2023	Life for Real MOVIE	Roxane
2023	Beau geste TV	Self
2022	The Pale Blue Eye MOVIE	Patsy
2022	The Almond and the Seahorse MOVIE	Toni
2022	Je connais personne MOVIE	Self
2022	Le Late avec Alain Chabat TV	Self - Guest
2022	The A Talks TV	Self - Guest
2022	The Passengers of the Night MOVIE	Elisabeth
2022	Sundown MOVIE	Alice Bennett
2022	Jane by Charlotte MOVIE	Self
2021	The Accusation MOVIE	Claire Farel
2021	Suzanna Andler MOVIE	Suzanna
2021	Gainsbourg, toute une vie MOVIE	Self
2021	In Treatment TV	Claire
2020	April 2020 Paris MOVIE	Frances
2020	Lux Æterna MOVIE	Charlotte
2020	Le festival des festivals MOVIE	Self
2020	Agnes V. by Jane B. MOVIE	Self (Archive Footage)
2019	My Dog Stupid MOVIE	Cécile Mohen
2019	Oh Les Filles! MOVIE	Self
2018	Le cri du rhinocéros MOVIE	Self
2018	Basique, le concert TV	Self
2018	Basique, le concert : Charlotte Gainsbourg MOVIE	Self
2018	I Think We're Alone Now MOVIE	Violet
2018	Vidéo Club TV	Self
2017	Promise at Dawn MOVIE	Nina Kacew
2017	The Snowman MOVIE	Rakel
2017	Ismael's Ghosts MOVIE	Sylvia
2016	Dark Crimes MOVIE	Kasia
2016	Independence Day: Resurgence MOVIE	Dr. Catherine Marceaux
2016	Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence' MOVIE	Self
2016	The Jews MOVIE	Mathilde
2016	Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer MOVIE	Alex Green
2015	Call My Agent! TV	Self
2015	Every Thing Will Be Fine MOVIE	Kate
2014	Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui MOVIE	Self
2014	Samba MOVIE	Alice
2014	3 Hearts MOVIE	Sylvie Berger
2014	Misunderstood MOVIE	Madre
2014	His Wife MOVIE	Catherine de Rosa
2014	Jacky in the Kingdom of Women MOVIE	La colonelle Bubunne XVII
2013	Nymphomaniac: Vol. II MOVIE	Joe
2013	Nymphomaniac: Vol. I MOVIE	Joe
2012	Les Enfants de la Pop 80's MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2012	Do Not Disturb MOVIE	Lilly
2012	Confession of a Child of the Century MOVIE	Brigitte
2011	Melancholia MOVIE	Claire
2011	Souvenirs of Serge MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2010	The Tree MOVIE	Dawn O'Neil
2010	Gainsbourg and His Girls MOVIE	Self - Daughter (voice)
2009	Persecution MOVIE	Sonia
2009	Antichrist MOVIE	She
2009	The City of Your Final Destination MOVIE	Arden Langdon
2008	The Beaches of Agnès MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2008	Etienne Daho : An Evening with Daho MOVIE	Self
2008	My Heart Laid Bare MOVIE	Woman
2007	I'm Not There MOVIE	Claire
2006	I Do MOVIE	Emma
2006	Golden Door MOVIE	Lucy Reed
2006	The Science of Sleep MOVIE	Stéphanie
2005	French Beauty MOVIE	Self
2005	Lemming MOVIE	Bénédicte Getty
2005	One Stays, the Other Leaves MOVIE	Judith
2004	Kulturplatz TV	Self
2004	Happily Ever After MOVIE	Gabrielle
2004	La chanson de l'année TV	Self
2003	21 Grams MOVIE	Mary Rivers
2002	A Day in the Life of French Cinema MOVIE	Self
2002	La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan MOVIE	(voice)
2001	My Wife Is an Actress MOVIE	Charlotte
2001	Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés MOVIE	Self
2001	Felix and Lola MOVIE	Lola
2000	Les Misérables TV	Fantine
2000	Nuremberg TV	Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
2000	Passionnément MOVIE	Alice Almeida
1999	Season's Beatings MOVIE	Milla Robin
1999	The Intruder MOVIE	Catherine Girard
1999	arte 360° Reportage TV	Narrator
1998	Vivement dimanche TV	Self
1996	Love, etc. MOVIE	Marie
1996	Anna Oz MOVIE	Anna Oz
1996	Jane Eyre MOVIE	Jane Eyre
1994	Dead Tired MOVIE	Charlotte Gainsbourg
1994	Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex MOVIE	Self
1993	The Cement Garden MOVIE	Julie
1992	Lover MOVIE	Marie
1991	Against Oblivion MOVIE	Self
1991	In the Eyes of the World MOVIE	Juliette Mangin
1991	Thank You, Life MOVIE	Camille Pelleveau
1990	Night Sun MOVIE	Matilda
1988	The Little Thief MOVIE	Janine Castang
1988	Kung-Fu Master! MOVIE	Lucy
1988	Jane B. by Agnès V. MOVIE	Self - J's Daughter
1986	Charlotte for Ever MOVIE	Charlotte
1985	An Impudent Girl MOVIE	Charlotte Castang
1985	Victoires de la musique TV	Self
1985	The Temptation of Isabelle MOVIE	The child
1984	Paroles et musique MOVIE	Charlotte Marker
1982	Champs-Elysées TV	Self
1976	Cérémonie des César TV	Self - President
1974	3 nach 9 TV	Self
1974	Spécial cinéma TV	Self
1968	À bout portant TV	Self
	Charlotte etc. MOVIE	Self
	An Ocean Apart MOVIE	Simone de Beauvoir
	Only What We Carry MOVIE	Josephine Chabrol
	Blurry Moon MOVIE	Self
	Riverrun MOVIE	Lucy
	L’Homme qui s’envola MOVIE	Sarah Chardonnet

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