Charlotte Rampling
- Actress
- Writer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Tessa Charlotte Rampling was born 5 February 1946 in Sturmer, England, to Isabel Anne (Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Lionel Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist, army officer, and colonel, who became a NATO commander. She was
educated at Jeanne d'Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles,
France and at the exclusive St. Hilda's school in Bushey, England. She
was a model before entering films in
Richard Lester's
The Knack... and How to Get It (1965),
followed by roles in
Georgy Girl (1966) and
Luchino Visconti's
The Damned (1969).
Rampling is best known for her role in
Liliana Cavani's
The Night Porter (1974),
where she played a concentration camp survivor who is reunited with the
Nazi guard (Dirk Bogarde) who tortured her
throughout her captivity. In 1974, she co-starred with
Sean Connery in
John Boorman's science fiction adventure
Zardoz (1974), with
Robert Mitchum in
Farewell, My Lovely (1975),
with Woody Allen in his
Stardust Memories (1980), and
with Paul Newman in
Sidney Lumet's
The Verdict (1982). An actress always
willing to take on bold and meaningful roles, Rampling had perhaps the
most off-beat one in Nagisa Ôshima's 1986
comedy Max My Love (1986) as
Margaret, a woman in love with a chimpanzee. She has also voiced video
games, such as The Ring.
