Known For: English actress (born 1946)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: model, stage actor, singer, film actor, television actor
Country: United Kingdom
City: Sturmer
Date of Birth: Tuesday, 05 February 1946
Language English
Tessa Charlotte Rampling is an English actress. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model. She was cast in the role of Meredith in the 1966 film Georgy Girl, which starred Lynn Redgrave. She soon began making French and Italian arthouse films, notably Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969) and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). She went on to star in many European and English-language films, including Stardust Memories (1980), The Verdict (1982), Long Live Life (1984), and The Wings of the Dove (1997). In the 2000s, she became the muse of French director François Ozon, appearing in several of his films, notably Swimming Pool (2003) and Young & Beautiful (2013). On television, she is known for her role as Dr. Evelyn Vogel in Dexter (2013).
| BirthPlace | Sturmer |
| Education | Q7588343 |
| Awards | Q10855271, Q10762848, Q727282, Q514445, Q376834, Q1377738, Q1377738, Q10855195 |
| Spouses | Jean-Michel Jarre, Bryan Southcombe |
| Children | Barnaby Southcombe, David Jarre |
| Website | http://www.charlotterampling.net/ |
| Wikipedia | Charlotte_Rampling |
Rampling was born in 1946 in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Isabel Anne (née Gurteen; 1918–2001), a painter, and Godfrey Rampling (1909–2009), an Olympic gold medallist runner and British Army officer. She spent most of her early life in Gibraltar, France and Spain, before she returned to the UK in 1964. She attended Académie Jeanne d'Arc in Versailles and St Hilda's School, a boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. She had one sister, Sarah, who died by suicide in 1966, aged 23. She and Sarah had a close relationship and they had performed in a cabaret act together during their young years.
