| Here are two light songs, chosen to illustrate the beauty of young Charlotte Rampling, one of the greatest living actresses. Charlotte Rampling (born Tessa Charlotte Rampling in 1946) was born in Great Britain. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema. After beginning her career at age seventeen in a commercial role and as a model, Rampling's first screen appearance was uncredited as a water skier in Richard Lester's film "The Knack and How to Get It" in 1965, which was followed a year later by the role of Meredith in the film "Georgy Girl". She also played gunfighter Hana Wilde in "The Superlative Seven", a 1967 episode of The Avengers. After this, her acting career blossomed in both English and French cinema. Young Rampling was sexy and glamorous. Rampling has often performed controversial roles. In 1969, in Luchino Visconti's "The Damned", she played a young wife sent to a concentration camp. This role redrew Rampling entirely as mysterious, tragic, even sinister. "The Look" as co-star Dirk Bogarde called it, became her trademark. In 1974's "The Night Porter" she portrayed a former concentration camp inmate entangled in a sado-masochistic relationship with her former guard, played by Bogarde. The actress gained recognition from American audiences in a remake of Raymond Chandler's detective story "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975) and later with Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories" (1980) and particularly in "The Verdict" (1982), an ... |
