Jane Birkin was a British-born actor and singer who was adored in France and inspired a designer handbag. She made music with Serge Gainsbourg.
“On my obituary, it will say, ‘Like the bag’ or something,” Birkin joked in a 2018 interview with CBS. “Well, it could be worse.”
She also appeared in dozens of films released in both English and French. Her screen credits included 1966’s “Blow-Up,” 1978’s “Death on the Nile” and 1982’s “Evil Under the Sun.”Jane Birkin at Rome’s night club Cabala 25 in 1972, during a party to launch her record “Black and White.”translated by Google, French President Emmanuel Macron fondly remembered Birkin as “a complete artist.”
“Her voice was as sweet as her engagements were fiery. She bequeaths us tunes and images that will never leave us.”
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