Singer and actress Jane Birkin dead at 76 - reports

The vocalist and histrion Jane Birkin has died astatine the property of 76, according to media reports successful France.

The English-French prima was known for her nonrecreational and idiosyncratic narration with the instrumentalist Serge Gainsbourg and was considered a benignant icon successful the precocious 1960s and 1970s.

She was calved successful London but recovered fame singing successful French, and relocated determination successful the 1970s.

French media reported that she was recovered dormant astatine her location successful Paris.

Her idiosyncratic and creator narration with Gainsbourg made her celebrated astir the satellite pursuing their planetary deed "Je t'aime... moi non plus".

The duet was recorded successful 1968, months aft they met connected the acceptable of the movie Slogan.

The brace were unneurotic for 12 years but remained friends aft their split, with Gainsbourg inactive penning songs for Birkin.

Her acting credits included films specified arsenic the 1966 classical Blow Up, Death connected the Nile (1978) and Evil Under the Sun (1982).

Birkin was besides a exemplary and came to beryllium wide seen arsenic a manner trendsetter, inspiring the Birkin handbag, a benignant enactment into accumulation by Hermes.

Menna Rawlings, the British ambassador to France, paid tribute to her connected Twitter, describing her arsenic "the astir French of British artists".

It was reported successful September 2021 that she had suffered a stroke, forcing her to cancel a planned quality astatine an American movie festival.