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Charlotte Rampling, OBE (born 5 February 1946) is an acclaimed English actress. Her career spans four decades and delves into both French and Italian cinema. Rampling was born into an `upper class family` in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Anne Isabelle (née Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist and army officer. She attended Jeanne d`Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles and St. Hilda`s School, a boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.

In 1972, Rampling married the actor and publicist Bryan Southcombe. They were widely reported to be living in a ménage à trois with a male model, Randall Laurence, and had one child, Barnaby Southcombe (now a successful television director) before divorcing in 1976. In 1974, Rampling was quoted by the syndicated columnist Earl Wilson as saying: "There are so many misunderstandings in life. I once caused a scandal by saying I lived with two men. I didn`t mean it in a sexual sense. We were just like any people sharing an apartment." In 1978, Rampling married the French composer Jean Michel Jarre and had a son, magician David Jarre. She also raised stepdaughter Émilie Jarre, now a fashion designer. The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997 when she found out via tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre`s affairs with other women and had a nervous breakdown. She has been engaged to Jean-Noël Tassez, a French communications tycoon, since 1998.

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