Wil Wheaton
American actor and writer
Charlotte Rampling is an acclaimed English actress who rose to fame in the Swinging Sixties. She has starred in numerous French and Italian art-house films, as well as many European and English-language productions. Rampling has received numerous awards and honors, including an Honorary Cu00e9sar and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Awards.
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Tessa Charlotte Rampling is an English actress. 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, which starred Lynn Redgrave. She soon began making French and Italian arthouse films, notably Luchino Visconti’s The Damnedand Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porterand Young & Beautiful (2013). On television, she is known for her role as Dr. Evelyn Vogel in Dexter (2013).
In 2002 she released an album of recordings in the style of cabaret, titled Like a Woman.
In 2012 she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, both for her performance in the miniseries Restless. For her performance in the 2015 film 45 Years, she won the Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress, the European Film Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 2017, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for Hannah. She received an Honorary Cesar in 2001 and France’s Legion of Honour in 2002. She was made an OBE in 2000 for her services to the arts, and 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. She later worked on an English translation, Who I Am, which was published in March 2017.
Charlotte Rampling was born on February 5, 1946.
Charlotte Rampling’s breakthrough role was as Meredith in the 1966 film Georgy Girl, which also starred Lynn Redgrave.
Early in her career, Charlotte Rampling began making French and Italian art-house films, including Luchino Visconti’s The Damned (1969) and Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter (1974).
Charlotte Rampling has received numerous awards and honors, including an Honorary César in 2001, France’s Legion of Honour in 2002, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Awards in 2015.
On television, Charlotte Rampling is known for her role as Dr. Evelyn Vogel in the series Dexter in 2013.
In 2002, Charlotte Rampling released an album of recordings in the style of cabaret, titled Like a Woman. She also published her autobiography, Qui Je Suis, in French, which was later translated to English and published as Who I Am in 2017.
Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you’re unbelievably nervous and you think that you can’t get a word out, you will get the word out.
British actress
You can never really judge your work because once it’s done, it’s done.
British actress
Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one’s life that one hasn’t come to terms with.
British actress
French women have been made beautiful by the French people – they’re very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they’re very confident of their sexuality. French society’s made them like that.
British actress
I think that most actors don’t have very good opinions of themselves.
British actress
If words don’t have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they’re just words.
British actress
To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don’t even know how to begin to grieve, and I don’t know how you can be taught to grieve.
British actress
I am fascinated by the whole process of what it’s like to be alive, whether it’s unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it’s quite nice.
British actress
Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.
British actress
A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don’t believe in that at all.
British actress
I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.
British actress
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
British actress
One of the reasons I don’t see eye to eye with Women’s Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don’t have to be pretty either.
British actress
European films were what it was about for me – the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can’t really find in American films.
British actress
You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.
British actress
The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.
British actress