Charlotte Rampling is nine years old when her family leaves England and settles in Fontainebleau, France. After a time passed in Spain, she finds herself in London where she works as a model before making her film debut in The Knack...and How to Get It (1965), director Richard Lester's acclaimed sex comedy. She follows acting courses at the Royal Court Stage School and plays in Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969). But everything comes to a dead end in 1970 after her sister passes away. Charlotte Rampling returns to cinema a year later with The Ski Bum.
Her breakout role, however, wouldn't come until 1974's The Night Porter. She collaborates with John Boorman in Zardoz, in 1980 Rampling played a lead role alongside Woody Allen in Stardust Memories and shortly afterward in director Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (1982).
In 2000, Rampling’s comeback in Under the Sand directed by François Ozon, was praised by critics and audiences alike as one of the best performances of the year, the role would win her a “césar d'honneur” in 2001. In 2002 Rampling starred in director François Ozon's Swimming Pool. The actress also plays alongside Jacques Dutronc in the comedy Embrassez qui vous voudrez. In 2006, she co-stars with Jean Rochefort in Antoine de Caunes’s last comedy entitled Désaccord parfait. With Charlotte Rampling, we will take on a page of the history of cinema by embarking on a voyage to both shores: the French and the British.

She had come to Créteil in 1995 to present her first films; today she is coming back with a career upgraded by her unexpected artistic choices on the side of comedy in particular.

When she received us, in her very beautiful living room lit by broad picture windows, the winter light was soft, offering a peaceful, relaxed, accessible atmosphere. Very quickly Charlotte Rampling plunged her eyes in ours, listened carefully and answered openhandedly to our demands and relevant  questions approaching issues such as cinema, her career as an actress and her life as a woman, as we tagged along the course of the films which she chose for this self-portrait.