Lou Doillon

Lou Doillon
File:DOILLON Lou-24x30-2009.jpg Lou Doillon photographed by Studio Harcourt Paris
Born	(1982-09-04) 4 September 1982 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Occupation	Actress, singer, model
Years active	1987–present
Children	1

Lou Doillon (born 4 September 1982) is a French model, singer, and actress. Her father is director Jacques Doillon and her mother is British actress and singer Jane Birkin.

Early life

Doillon was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. On her mother's side, she is the half-sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kate Barry (1967–2013), and of Lola Doillon, Lily and Lina on her father's side.

Career

Acting

She started her acting career as her mother's daughter in Kung-Fu Master (1988). Then her father cast her in her first great role in the movie Trop (Peu) d'Amour (1997), 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. In 2001 she starred in Carrément à l'ouest, a movie by Jacques Doillon, her father. She also starred in Saint Ange (House of Voices), in 2004. In 2007, she played a small part in Go Go Tales by Abel Ferrara. She played the leading character in "Gigola" (2010) alongside Marie Kremer and Thierry Lhermitte. In 2012, she played one of the main characters in Un enfant de toi (Me, You and Us, a movie by her father).

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 modelled 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. In 2014, Doillon starred in the Spring-Summer advertising campaign for fashion house Chloé.

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; she released her first EP with Brenner, musician John Mitchell, and various artists. The album is titled Places and her first single is "I.C.U." (as in "I see you"). Doillon told Interview Magazine "I wrote that because I was desperately in love with someone that I hadn't seen and that I never saw again in my life. I wandered for months in the street looking for him." The album receives rave reviews and Doillon won the "Best Female Artist" at the 2013 Victoires de la Musique.

Personal life

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

Lou has three tattoos: the name of her son, Marlowe, on her right forearm, a salamander on her lower back, and one that reads "Sam's" on her left wrist, which she got when she was in a relationship with actor-writer Samuel Benchetrit.

Filmography

Films

• Kung-Fu Master (1988) – 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
• BAZAR (2009) - of Patricia Plattner, with Bernadette Lafont
• Gigola (2010)
• Naked in London (2011)
• Polisse (2011) - of Maïwenn
• Un enfant de toi (2012) – of Jacques Doillon

Television

• Nana (2001) – Édouard Molinaro
• The Private Life of Samuel Pepys (2003) – Oliver Parker
• Gossip Girl (2010) – Herself

Other media

• "Pigalle", narrator—an audio walking tour of the Paris neighborhood Pigalle created by Soundwalk.

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	Peak positions					Certification
		BEL FL	BEL Wa	FR	SWI	CAN [1]
2012	Places	101	5	3	22	7
2015	Lay Low	118	3	3	6

Singles

Year	Album	Peak positions	Certification	Album
		FR
2012	"I.C.U"	57		Places
	"Defiant"	125
	"Devil or Angel"	69
2015	"Where to Start"	40		Lay Low

External links

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