Lou Doillon

Lou Doillon
Lou Doillon
Born	4 September 1982 (1982-09-04) (age 27) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Years active	1987 - Present

Lou Doillon (born 4 September 1982 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French model and actress. Her father is director Jacques Doillon and her mother is actress Jane Birkin.¹

On her mother's side she is the half-sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kate Barry, and of Lola Doillon and Lily on her father's side.¹

At the age of nine, her appearance was distinctive, with Indian leggings under short dresses, worn with Grateful Dead T-shirts and rollerblades, and long dreadlocks. By the time she was 11½, she had tattoos and a stud in her tongue.²

She gave birth to her first child, a son Marlowe Jack Tiger Mitchell, in 2002. She parted company with his father, musician Thomas-John Mitchell, less than a year later and went to New York.²

Acting

She started her acting career as her mother's daughter in Kung-Fu Master (1987).¹ Then her father offered her her first great role in the movie Trop (Peu) d'Amour (1998), and she also played in Mauvaises Fréquentations (Bad Company) (1999). She became a model because of her atypical beauty and is now a known face in European cinema.¹

Fashion

As a model Doillon has appeared in the one-time Gap, Inc. publication "Individuals" and is the face and muse of the fashion house Givenchy. She also modeled for the 2007 Pirelli Calendar. In 2007 the heritage jeans brand Lee Cooper made her its creative partner but after a year of great reviews closed the line citing bankruptcy.³

Filmography

• Kung-Fu Master (1987) - by Agnes Varda
• Trop (peu) d'amour (1998) - Jacques Doillon
• Mauvaises fréquentations (1999) - of Jean-Pierre Améris
• Scénarios sur la drogue (2000) - of Guillaume Canet and Jean-Christophe Pagnac (segment Avalanche)
• Mamirolle (2000) - of Brigitte Coscas
• Carrément à l'ouest (2001) - of Jacques Doillon
• Embrassez qui vous voudrez (2002) - of Michel Blanc
• Blanche (2002) - of Bernie Bonvoisin
• Saint Ange (2004) - of Pascal Laugier
• La Vida perra de Juanita Narboni (2005) - of Farida Ben Lyziad
• Sisters (2006) - of Douglas Buck
• Go Go Tales (2006) - of Abel Ferrara
• Boxes (2007) - of Jane Birkin with Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, Michel Piccoli and Natacha Régnier

Television

• Nana (2001) - Édouard Molinaro
• The Private Life of Samuel Pepys (2003) - Oliver Parker

Music

In 2006 Doillon began writing music with friend and musician Chris Brenner. A song they wrote together "The Girl Is Gone" was featured on the Visionaire Magazine special music issue and picture disk in 2007. Doillon sings, plays guitar and writes lyrics and is rumored to be writing material for an upcoming album with Brenner, musician John Mitchell and various artists.

Other media

• "Pigalle," narrator--an audio walking tour of the Paris neighborhood. Created by Soundwalk⁴

References

External links

• Lou Doillon at the Internet Movie Database
• Lou Doillon Style Photo Gallery

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