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Jane Birkin was born in London, England, UK. During the 1960s, she was renowned as a symbol of swinging London and is remembered fondly as a "legendary waif." She began acting on stage, then made her film debut in Richard Lester's The Knack, and How to Get It (1965). She was next seen as one of the Models who romp nude with David Hemmings in Antonioni's controversial classic Blowup (1966), then gained international fame with such roles as a drug-addict hippie in Les Chemins de Katmandu Brigitte Bardot's lover in Don Juan 73 (1973), an androgynous bartender in Je t'aime moi non plus and two Agatha Christie films: Death on the Nile (1978) and Evil Under the Sun (1982). Most recently, she wrote and starred in Kung Fu Master (1987, directed by Agnes Varda), and played Dirk Bogarde's daughter in Daddy Nostalgia (1991) and Michel Piccoli's wife in La Belle Noiseuse (1991).
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