Jane Birkin: her mother was also a movie star

Jane Birkin didn’t inherit her talent for comedy from far away, as her mother Judy Campbell was also a movie star. A look back at the career of the British actress who tragically passed away in 2004.

It is a tragic disappearance that has shocked both his loved ones and his many fans around the world. It has now been a year since Jane Birkin has taken her last breathvictim of a stroke in his Parisian home. Serge Gainsbourg’s ex-partner has left her mark on the world of the seventh art, appearing in the castings of many successful fictions in which she appears in the company of many film stars.

In The swimming poolreleased in 1969, she played opposite Alain Delon and Romy Schneider. In Death on the Nile (1978), she shared the bill with Angela Lansbury, Peter Ustinov and Bette Davis. This was a career that certainly made Judy Campbell, her mother, proud. The reason? It was the latter who passed on his love of comedy.

Judy Campbell, Jane Birkin’s mother, has appeared in several films

“My mother was spectacular. She was nationally renowned in the film world. She was an actress for whom Noël Coward wrote three or four plays. She was really famous. She was considered one of the most beautiful women in England.” This is what he had confided Jane Birkin on her mother during an interview broadcast on France 2.

A justified admiration because Judy Campbell, who died tragically in 2004, spent a good part of her life on film sets or on stage. It was in 1935, when she was 19 years old, that her career began. She then joined the Royal Theatre before working at the Liverpool Theatre. During her career, Judy Campbell appeared in dozens of films, including: The Color that Kills, released in 1946, The Great Revolt, released two years later, or even Kung fu master, released in 1988, in which she shares the bill with her daughter. An artistic career that has left its mark on the world of cinema.