Not a classically beautiful screen leading lady, but with a compelling charisma and deep eyes that draw you immediately to her, Charlotte Gainsbourg became a star as a teenager in France, then moved to crack America and the international film world with the leading role in the 1996 remake of "Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'", directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Gainsbourg played the adult Jane, an impoverished governess who falls in love with her brooding employer (played by William Hurt).

Gainsbourg is the daughter of French singer, songwriter and actor Serge Gainsbourg and the British actress Jane