Tessa Charlotte Rampling OBE is an English actress, model and singer. Known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model. Cast in the role of Meredith in the 1966 film Georgy Girl.
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Tessa Charlotte Rampling OBE is an English actress, model and singer. Known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. 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. In the 2000s, she became the muse of French director François Ozon. On television, she is known for her role as Evelyn Vogel in Dexter. In 2012 she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. For her performance in the 2015 film 45 Years, she won the Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Awards. In 2015, she released her autobiography, which she wrote in French, titled Qui Je Suis, or Who I Am. She later worked on an English translation, which was published in March 2017. Rampling was born in 1946 in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Isabel Anne, a painter, and Godfrey Rampling, an Olympic gold medallist and British Army officer. 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 had a close relationship, and they had performed in a cabaret act together during their teenage years. She spent most of her childhood in Gibraltar, France and Spain, before she returned to the UK in 1964. In 1969, she starred opposite Sam Waterston in the romance-drama Three, and in 1972, she portrayed Anne Boleyn in the drama Henry VIII. After this, her acting career blossomed in both English and French cinema. Despite an early flurry of success, she has performed controversial roles, including in Dirk Bogarde’s The Look, Dirk, as well as in The Damned and The Night Porter. She has also appeared in The Verdict, Max, Mon Amour, Angel Heart and The Wings of the Dove. She won the Volpi Cup for Best actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for Hannah. She is a four-time César Award nominee, and received an Honorary Cesar in 2001 and France’s Legion of Honour in 2002. She also appeared alongside Franco Nero in the Italian film Sardinia Kidnapped , directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi. She played the gunfighter Hana Wilde in The Superlative Seven, a 1967 episode of The Avengers.
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