Born Tessa Charlotte Rampling on the 5th February 1946 in Strummer, Essex, England, Charlotte is an actress, singer and former model, best known to the world for starring in European art house film, such as “The Damned” and “The Night Porter”, while also having success in USA films, such as “Stardust Memories” (1980), among many other differing appearances.
Have you ever wondered how rich Charlotte Rampling is, as of late 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Rampling’s net worth is as high as $15 million, an amount earned through her long career that has been active since the early ‘60s. During her career, Charlotte has recorded more than 120 film and TV roles.
Charlotte Rampling Net Worth $15 Million
Charlotte is the daughter of Isabel Anne and her husband Godfrey Rampling, who was a British Army officer, and later became NATO Commander.
Charlotte’s childhood was marked by constant moves, as she lived in France, Spain, and Gibraltar before returning to Britain in 1964. She wwas educated at Académie Jeanne d’Arc in Versailles, and St. Hilda’s School, a boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.
Before she marched the streets of London and other great cities of Europe, Charlotte started off from nothing; she was spotted by a casting agent who managed to land her a modeling job at a British multi-national confectionery company, Cadbury. After that, she transitioned into acting with a few uncredited roles, including in the Beatles film “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964). She was then cast in her first notable role as Meredith in the film “Georgy Girl” (1966), and in 1968 appeared in her first Italian film – “Sardinia Kidnapped”. Her net worth was established.
Throughout the ‘70s she would feature in a number of Italian and French films, which would increase her wealth and garner her numerous awards and recognitions. Aside from European films, she had success overseas, appearing in “Zardoz” (1974) next to Sean Connery, then “Farewell, My Lovely” (1975). She divided her time between Europe and USA in the early and mid- ‘80s, recording notable roles in such films as “The Verdict” (1982), “Viva la Vie” (1984), and “Angel Heart” (1987), before taking a break from public life after she being caught in a depression. However, she returned to the world of entertainment in the ‘90s, with the successful film “The Wings of the Dove” (1997) that added a considerable amount to her wealth. She continued with successful and sometimes controversial roles in such films as “Under the Sand” (2000), which earned her the César Award nomination, followed by “Swimming Pool” (2003), and “Lemming” (2005) was also a hit. Having brought attention to herself for her sexual roles, she played Ellen in the film about sexual tourism “Heading South”, and then in 2006 featured in the romantic thriller “Basic Instinct 2”.
Proving she is ageless, in 2009 Charlotte posed nude in front of the Mona Lisa for Juergen Teller, and was used on the cover pages of such magazines as Interview, Elle and Vogue. Since 2010 her career has begun to slow down, though she did manage to acquire several more notable roles that added further to her wealth; some of those appearances include Miss Emily in “Never Let Me Go” (2010), a sci-fi drama directed by Mark Romanek, then the drama “Melancholia”, starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland, the lead role in the thriller drama “I, Anna” (2012), and the lead role in the Academy Award- nominated romantic drama “45 Years” (2015).
Most recently, Charlotte featured in the action adventure “Assasin’s Creed” (2016), and the drama “Hannah” (2017), while she is also working on the films “Valley of the Gods” (2017), and “Waiting for the Miracle to Come”, both scheduled for release late in 2017.
Regarding her personal life, Charlotte has two marriages behind her, and two children out of those relationships. Her first husband was New Zealand actor and publicist Bryan Southcombe, with whom she has a son Barnaby; the two were married from 1972 until 1976.
Two years later she married French composer Jean-Michael Jarre, but divorced him in 1997, after finding out of his extramarital affairs from tabloid newspapers. She has a son with him, David.
A year later, Charlotte became engaged to Jean-Noël Tassez and the two stayed that way until the death of her male companion in 2015.
European Film Award for Best Actress, European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, Honorary César, Excellence Award, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actress, César Award for Best Actress, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, César Award for Best Supporting Actress, The British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting ...
Movies
45 Years, The Night Porter, The Verdict, Georgy Girl, Stardust Memories, Under the Sand, Zardoz, Heading South, Melancholia, Max My Love, Farewell, My Lovely, The Damned, Angel Heart, The Duchess, I, Anna, Young & Beautiful, Basic Instinct 2, The Wings of the Dove, Never Let Me Go, The Look, Swimmin...
TV Shows
London Spy, My Uncle Silas
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[on The Damned (1969)] I just kept putting one foot in front of the other and doing what I was told. I knew it was very strange, but I didn't mind.
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[on The Night Porter (1974)] With Dirk Bogarde beside me, I felt I could do anything. He would give you that cosy but creepy smile and you thought all was well.
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[on Stardust Memories (1980)] I thought I had retired from moviemaking and was just going to be a housewife, then [Woody Allen] sent me that script. Game over.
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[on Dexter (2006)] To come in at the very end of a series like that after so may seasons is like being a surprise relation arriving for the holidays. You feel welcome yet strange at the same time.
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[on Broadchurch (2013)] To act with David Tennant is the thing itself. You can't describe it. You just experience it.
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I like to wait and be invited to dance. I'm an old-fashioned girl.
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[on the kinds of roles she is attracted to] Films that come in quietly and actually do something to you. You could read them and think there's not much story there, but within that 'not much story', a hell of a lot actually goes on. The director wants to find out what goes on in between.
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I was brought up in the hard way. My parents were great, my dad was great, but we didn't talk about our feelings.
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I knew that was a world I couldn't survive in, that Hollywood world. I didn't consciously think about it, but I think I wanted to be a European.
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When I take on something, I take the whole thing on. It's not even a question of separating, "Oh, am I going to be naked?" I go with my whole person.
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He wanted to seduce all the pretty girls. That's for sure. As long as his wife wasn't there, I think he had a pretty good time with most of them. And that was Sean Connery.
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[on living in France] I'm a legitimate foreigner. I'm an Englishwoman speaking French. They have no references for me, or my life, my childhood, my upbringing, my schooling. I'm exotic. They like that, and I like that.
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[on posing nude with the Mona Lisa in the Louvre] It was such a powerful idea, a once-in-a-lifetime trip. It was really a magical experience, and there was something wildly audacious and naughty, too. You've got all these people looking at you from the extraordinary paintings, and it's a very spiritual feeling. You feel that you are part of hundreds of years of art.
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There are now different subjects coming up for us older women that certainly didn't before. Of course, sexuality and sensuality have always been forms that film is obsessed with, but it used to be a form for younger women because, well, they were much prettier, but now directors and audiences are using it to explore older women - it may not be quite so pretty but my God that won't stop me from investigating it.
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I generally don't make films to entertain people. I choose the parts that challenge me to break through my own barriers. A need to devour, punish, humiliate, or surrender seems to be a primal part of human nature, and it's certainly a big part of sex. To discover what normal means, you have to surf a tide of weirdness.
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There's an awful lot of pressure around the idea of a woman growing older and therefore losing that potential of being desirable, and that puts women into a situation where they feel almost embarrassed about the fact they don't have the kind of bodies that young women have, or they don't have the kind of sexual attraction that seems to go with a younger stage of their life. What does that mean, the fact that you're older? It means that you're not going to have the same kind of relationships you had when you were younger. I think we have to reinvent from a woman's point of view another way of being.
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I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you're young. It's a God-given gift. You have a visiting card - you can go into any room and someone will come and talk to you. But I've always thought from very early on that you have to be careful with that - not being vain or narcissistic. Have fun, but don't be obsessed with it.
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I had fun before, but if you can have fun the way I have when I'm nearly 60, that's quite interesting. If you don't worry about getting wrinkled and all that, and you just allow yourself to feel good, then maybe it's because your time has come.
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I'm just amazed. I'm glad to be alive, because I know what it's like not to want to be here, and glad that young directors want to put me in fantastic films. So say no more.
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I didn't allow myself to have fun for a very long time, for all sorts of reasons. What's happened now is that I've lived through that, and I've come to a point where I can say that. I can feel happy too!
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Oh, directors want me to be really stern sometimes. They like that quality in a woman. They find it compelling.
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Difficult acting with a chimp? No, no. The emotions were the same. In a way it was like playing opposite Paul Newman. The chimpanzee reacted differently, that's all.
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[on her tendency to play villainous roles] I'd rather be thought of like that than to play Mary Poppins.
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It was while promoting the film Farewell My Lovely in France that she met Jean-Michael Jarre who would become her second husband.
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When her father was posted to France he took his family with him and she became fluent in French by the age of 9.
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It was the notoriety of the film 'The Night Porter' that made her a world known name.
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On completing her education in England she became a model.
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Her first lead role was in the Boulting Brother's comedy 'Rotten to the Core'.
Director Tim Burstall met her for the title role in Eliza Fraser (1976), but eventually felt she wasn't a comedy actress. Susannah York was cast instead.
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She and Juliette Binoche are the only winners of 2 EFAs (European Film Awards) for Best Actress.
Daughter of Anne Isabelle Rampling and Godfrey Lionel Rampling.
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After attending Jeanne d'Arc Academie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles, France and St. Hilda's School in Bushey, England, she worked as a model, but shortly after decided to study acting at The Royal Court in London.
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Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1997.
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Her father Godfrey won silver in the 4x400m relay at the 1932 Olympics, and gold in the 4x400m relay at the 1936 Olympics. He died on 20 June 2009 at age 100.
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Head of jury at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival.
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In the Extras section of the 2-disc-set Miramax release of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night (1964), actor Jeremy Lloyd, who makes an uncredited appearance in the film's dance scene, claims that Rampling, his then-girlfriend, is also present in the dance scene.
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Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976.
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Invited to join AMPAS in 2005.
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Studied at Jeanne d'Arc Académie Pour Jeunes Filles at Versailles, France when her family moved there.
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The character she played in François Ozon's Swimming Pool (2003), "Sarah Morton", was named after her elder sister, Sarah, who committed suicide at age 23. She told The Guardian, "I thought that after such a very long time of not letting her be with me that I would like to bring her back into my life".
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Has a house in Paris and another in Chelsea.
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Winner of a Honorary Cesar from the French Academy of Cinema in recognition of her work (2001).
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Was included as one of People Magazines 50 Most Beautiful People in May 2001.
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The British rock band Kinky Machine wrote a song about her, simply called "Charlotte Rampling." It includes the line "I always wanted to be your trampoline".
Festival tribute at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France. [1995]
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She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Millennium Honours List for her services to acting and United Kingdom-French cultural relations.
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Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#97). [1995]