Charlotte Gainsbourg
Born: July 21, 1971
Known for: Singing cutely about incest, being awake during The Science of Sleep.
File Mademoiselle Gainsbourg together with Liv Tyler under "Curiously Attractive Actress Daughters of Hideously Unsightly Musicians." The daughter of Serge Gainsbourg, a French singer, songwriter and poet of enough renown, importance and eccentricity to render any attempted parallels futile, and English model Jane Birkin, Charlotte made her performance debut as a teenager, singing a duet with her father called "Lemon Incest," whose suggestive lyrics and video featuring father and daughter scantily clad in bed raised eyebrows even in notoriously libertine France. We told you he was eccentric. After her father's death, Gainsbourg became a well-regarded actress and pop singer, perhaps best known in the States for her roles in Michel Gondry's dreamy The Science of Sleep and the avant-garde Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There. She's currently married to Algerian-Israeli-French Jewish director Yvan Attal, who apparently didn't mind Papa Gainsbourg's sloppy seconds.
