Rare Photos of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Home: Inside the Life of the Iconic Actress and Singer

Charlotte Gainsbourg, rare photos of her home

Born on July 21, 1971 in London, Charlotte Gainsbourg, 52, is the daughter of the cult couple who created Jane Birkin etc Serge Gainsbourg. She shares her life with her partner, the actor and director Yvan Attal, with whom she has three children.

Charlotte Gainsbourg will be present at the photo shoot Jane Le Charlotte at the Urban Hotel in Madrid, March 7, 2022.© Juan Naharro Gimenez/WireImage via Getty Images

Everyday life captured by Charlotte Gainsbourg

In 2019, for the first time, she posted moments collected from her daily life in the Big Apple on social networks, through photos often in black and white, full of poetry. In the show En Aparté broadcast on Canal + last April, Charlotte Gainsbourg returns to this passion for photography and drawing, and images in general. “I like taking pictures of faces. (…) There, right now I’m taking a lot of pictures of it rue de Verneuil because it escapes me and suddenly there are only objects, or vice versa, it’s like drawing, I need faces or bodies. » She even explains that when she was young she had a small darkroom to develop her pictures in the shed in the garden Jane Birkinin Saint-Germain-des-Pres: “There was a small shed in the garden of my mother’s house in Paris, and when I was 15 or 16, I was fascinated by the magic of the development. »

Life in New York

Charlotte Gainsbourg she moved to New York in 2014, in a typical town house with a garden that she keeps carefully. The decision after the sudden death of his sister, a time when he left across the Atlantic saves life. The actress and singer is responsible for the Swiss magazine The Picture that his move to New York was then “necessary and very selfish”, way to “stay sane”. The house that she so often immortalizes in black and white, Charlotte Gainsbourg will leave in 2020, for unknown reasons. She will post on Instagram a photo of her face along with the laconic caption Welcome home.