Jane Birkin: a life in pictures
British model, actor, singer and muse Jane Birkin has died aged 76
• Peter Bradshaw on Jane Birkin: a tremendous screen presence with a gift for creative collaboration
• Jane Birkin obituary
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British stage and screen actress Judy Campbell and her husband David Birkin at the christening of their baby daughter, Jane Birkin, with their son Andrew in 1947
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Birkin in France, circa 1960
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Birkin backstage while starring in Graham Greene’s play Carving a Statue in 1964
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(Left to right) Jane Birkin, Francesca Annis, Pauline Collins, Jean Muir and Karin Fernald, who starred together in the musical The Passion Flower Hotel, in 1965
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David Hemmings, Jane Birkin, and Gillian Hills in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, 1966
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Birkin with her partner French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg in Paris in 1969
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Birkin and Gainsbourg at the Cannes film festival, 1969
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Birkin and Gainsbourg at home in Paris, 1969
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Birkin shopping in Paris, 1970
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French actress Brigitte Bardot with Birkin on the set of Roger Vadim’s Don Juan ou Si Don Juan Était une Femme (Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman), 1973
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Birkin and Gainsbourg with daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg, 1973
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Birkin on the ZDF music show Liedercircus in 1977, on which she guest starred with Serge Gainsbourg to perform Je T’Aime ... Moi Non Plus
Photograph: United Archives GmbH/Alamy
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Death on the Nile, 1978. Birkin in the film based on Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name
Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy
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Birkin in Jacques Rivette’s film L’Amour par Terre (Love on the Ground), 1984
Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy
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Birkin with director Agnès Varda in Kung-Fu Master!, 1988
Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy
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Birkin at home in Paris in 2001, with her British bulldog Dora
Photograph: Derek Hudson/Getty Images
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Birkin with her ‘Birkin’ bag in 2008, photographed for the Guardian interview Portrait of the artist
Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian
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Birkin with her daughters Lou Doillon (far left) and Charlotte Gainsbourg in the front row of the Saint Laurent show at Paris fashion week in 2016, with the brand’s co-founder Pierre Bergé
Photograph: Dominique Maitre/WWD/Rex/Shutterstock
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Perfoming at Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona in 2018
Photograph: Adela Loconte/Shutterstock
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Jane Birkin’s Hermès ‘Birkin’ bag on view during the Bags: Inside Out exhibition at Victoria and Albert museum in 2020
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Birkin and her daughter French actress, singer and director Charlotte Gainsbourg (left) arrive for the screening of the film Jane Par Charlotte (Jane By Charlotte) at the 2021 Cannes film festival
Photograph: Valéry Hache/AFP/Getty Images
