With her luxuriant hair, feline gray-green eyes and an ex-model's grace, Charlotte Rampling was often cast as the archetypal femme mysterieuse at the height of her career in the 1970s and 80s. The British-born beauty was noted as much for her willingness to appear nude as for her acting abilities. The youngest daughter of a former Olympian-turned-career army officer, Rampling had a nomadic childhood, living throughout the UK, in Gibraltar and France. As youngsters, she and her older sister Sarah had formed a cabaret singing act, a background she called upon when she dropped out of the
