Editing Jane Birkin (section)

== Personal life ==
On 16 October 1965, 18-year-old Birkin married British composer and conductor [[John Barry (composer)|John Barry]], 13 years her senior, in a private ceremony at [[Chelsea Register Office]], London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/year-old-jane-birkin-currently-starring-in-the-lead-role-of-news-photo/871153748|title=18-year-old Jane Birkin, currently starring in the lead role of...|website=Getty Images|date=6 November 2017 }}</ref> They met in 1964 when Barry cast Birkin in his musical ''[[The Passion Flower Hotel#Stage adaptation|Passion Flower Hotel]]''. Their daughter was photographer [[Kate Barry (photographer)|Kate Barry]] (1967–2013).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rfimusic.com/artist/chanson/jane-birkin/biography|title=Jane Birkin|work=RFI Music|access-date=26 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807055152/http://www.rfimusic.com/artist/chanson/jane-birkin/biography|archive-date=7 August 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Barry "turned out to be a cold and unfaithful husband" and Birkin wrote in her diary, aged 19, "The feeling of being unwanted, undesired and unloved is beginning to strangle me".<ref name="Obituary Jane Birkin"/>  Their marriage ended in 1968.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/time-and-place-jane-birkin-dqdqsccdqh6|title=Time and place: Jane Birkin|last=Brophy|first=Gwenda|date=15 February 2009|work=The Sunday Times|access-date=16 July 2023|language=en-GB}}</ref> She said she was insecure during the relationship and "couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose [her] and not any of the other girls." She did not want him to see her with her "tiny, piggy eyes" so she would sleep with an eye pencil under her pillow and put it on if he woke up in the night. He eventually went to the United States and left Birkin with their daughter in England.<ref name=":1" />

Birkin had a romantic and creative relationship with French musician [[Serge Gainsbourg]], 18 years her senior, whom she met on the set of ''[[Slogan (film)|Slogan]]'' in 1968. They were together for 12 years<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/4568113/Jane-Birkin-marching-to-her-own-tune.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/4568113/Jane-Birkin-marching-to-her-own-tune.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Jane Birkin: marching to her own tune|last=Auld|first=Tim|date=13 February 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=26 September 2011 |language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}</ref> but never married, despite rumours and misreporting to the contrary.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/11/gainsbourg200711|title=The Secret World of Serge Gainsbourg|last=Robinson|first=Lisa|date=November 2007|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=3 September 2011|quote=Contrary to rumors, Jane and Serge never did marry. "He said in France I'd need to be fingerprinted and have a blood sample", Jane says, "and I was slightly offended and said, 'What on earth for?' I also had a secret fear that marriage changed things, and so, in fact, we weren't."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704476604576158323145370698|title=Death Is Not the End|last=McKie|first=Andrew|date=25 February 2011|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|access-date=26 September 2011|quote=Serge Gainsbourg and actress Jane Birkin often referred to each other as husband and wife, but in fact they were never married, according to Ms. Birkin's agent. An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to Ms. Birkin twice as Gainsbourg's third wife}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1956411,00.html#ixzz1Va7NJr9U|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129050454/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1956411,00.html?#ixzz1Va7NJr9U|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 January 2010|title=French Chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg|last=Adams|first=William Lee|date=26 January 2010|magazine=Time|access-date=26 September 2011|quote=My parents weren't married so I don't have an ideal image of marriage that I'm hoping for.|language=en-US}}</ref> She eventually became a French citizen.<ref name="leparisien" /><ref name="auto6" />

[[File:Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin 2010 b.jpg|upright=0.8|thumb|Birkin with her second daughter [[Charlotte Gainsbourg]] in 2010]]
In 1971, Birkin and Gainsbourg had a daughter, actress and singer [[Charlotte Gainsbourg]]. The couple separated in 1980, because of his [[alcoholism]] and violence.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/a-bit-twisted/2007/06/07/1181089228142.html|title=A bit twisted|last=Barlow|first=Helen|date=9 June 2007|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Life, death and Serge: Jane Birkin reveals her insecurities in emotional memoir|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/27/jane-birkin-serge-gainsbourg-emotional-memoir |accessdate=20 June 2023 |website=theguardian.com|date=27 October 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=5 November 2015 |title=The Secret Stories of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg |url=https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/7996/the-secret-stories-of-jane-birkin-and-serge-gainsbourg |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=anothermag.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Butter |first=Susannah |date=19 June 2023 |title=Jane Birkin on Serge Gainsbourg: 'It wasn't easy for the children' |newspaper=[[The Times]] |language=en-GB |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/article/jane-birkin-on-serge-gainsbourg-it-wasnt-easy-for-the-children-tthnvhkrj |access-date=20 June 2023 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref> She described him as "a very difficult man to live with",<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Amie |date=13 April 2020|title=Jane Birkin on Serge Gainsbourg and Paris in the 70s |url=https://www.russh.com/jane-birkin/ |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=RUSSH}}</ref> and said that during recording sessions he would scream at her and hit her with a ruler if she could not sing a part.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Arts – Unfinished sympathy: Jane Birkin on Serge Gainsbourg |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/28mhhzgbRJCLNNqCZSB5HCY/unfinished-sympathy-jane-birkin-on-serge-gainsbourg |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jane Birkin: My family values – Serge Gainsbourg |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/18/jane-birkin-my-family-values |access-date=20 June 2023|website=[[The Guardian]]|date=18 January 2013 |language=en-GB}}</ref> She took credit for helping him to develop his style later in life, saying: "It's all about me, he listened to me a lot."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=24 August 2018 |title=Interview: Jane Birkin on life, love, style, growing older and Serge Gainsbourg |url=https://www.vogue.fr/vogue-hommes/culture/story/the-jane-genie-jane-birkin-opens-up-to-vogue-hommes-about-her-life-love-style-growing-older-and-serge-gainsbourg/653 |access-date=20 June 2023 |website=Vogue France |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

On 4 September 1982, she gave birth to her third daughter, [[Lou Doillon]], from her relationship with director [[Jacques Doillon]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 July 2023 |title=Jane, Kate, Charlotte et Lou : le clan des filles Birkin |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/jane-kate-charlotte-et-lou-le-clan-des-filles-birkin-20230716 |access-date=16 July 2023|website=LEFIGARO |language=fr}}</ref> She said: "Meeting Jacques was a real turning point in my career. In my private life, after I left Serge, Jacques and I lived together for thirteen years, and had Lou."<ref name=":1" /> She said she was surprised and happy to find out that Doillon was not "an old man". They separated in 1993. ''[[The Observer]]'' reported in 2007 that Doillon "could not compete with her grief for Gainsbourg" (who died in 1991), and that she had lived alone since their separation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/oct/28/worldmusic.paris|title=A charmed life|last=Adams|first=Tim|date=28 October 2007|work=The Observer|access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref> Birkin said that Doillon lost interest in casting her in his movies, and she felt "pain for Jacques going off with all these young girls making all these films all the time". Later, Birkin had a relationship with French writer [[Olivier Rolin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9788193/Birkin-girl-no-pain-no-Jane.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9788193/Birkin-girl-no-pain-no-Jane.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Birkin girl: no pain, no Jane|first=Julia Llewellyn|last=Smith|date=14 January 2013|website=Telegraph.co.uk|language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Birkin became a political activist, and joined protest marches through the streets of Paris against racism, in defence of illegal immigrants, and in support of Palestinian rights, [[Amnesty International]] and the fight against [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]].<ref name="Obituary Jane Birkin"/> In 2001 she received an [[OBE]] award at [[Buckingham Palace]] in London. In 2004 she was awarded France's Ordre nationale du Merite.<ref name="Obituary Jane Birkin"/>

In 2002, she was diagnosed with [[leukaemia]] and underwent rounds of treatment.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/06/jane-birkin-stroke-american-film-festival-france|title=Jane Birkin doing well after stroke, say her family|first=Ben|last=Quinn|date=6 September 2021|accessdate=17 July 2023|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> Birkin often spent time with her six grandchildren.<ref>{{Cite news |last=D'Silva |first=Beverley |date=14 January 2018|title=A Life in the Day: Jane Birkin |url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/article/a-life-in-the-day-jane-birkin-fksrmrww2 | website= [[The Times]] |access-date=16 July 2023|issn=0140-0460|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rocca |first=Jane |date=23 March 2017 |title=Jane Birkin: my travelling mishap inspired the Birkin bag |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/jane-birkin-my-travelling-mishap-inspired-the-birkin-bag-20170322-gv3us2.html |access-date=16 July 2023 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en-AU}}</ref> Her daughter, Kate Barry, died in December 2013 after falling from her fourth floor apartment in Paris.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Randhawa|first1=Kiran|last2=Allen|first2=Peter|title=Kate Barry, photographer daughter of Jane Birkin and Bond film composer John Barry, dies in fall from Paris apartment|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/kate-barry-photographer-daughter-of-jane-birkin-and-bond-film-composer-john-barry-dies-in-fall-from-8999474.html|access-date=17 July 2023|work=Evening Standard|location=London|date=12 December 2013}}</ref>

Birkin mainly resided in Paris from the late 1960s onwards.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Le Vaillant|first1=Luc|title=Jane Birkin, 49 ans, entame deux mois de tournée. Quittant maisons et souvenirs, elle se risque sur ses routes à elle. Jane Bis|url=http://next.liberation.fr/culture/1996/10/02/jane-birkin-49-ans-entame-deux-mois-de-tournee-quittant-maisons-et-souvenirs-elle-se-risque-sur-ses-_185265|website=Libération|access-date=16 June 2017|archive-date=9 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809010246/https://next.liberation.fr/culture/1996/10/02/jane-birkin-49-ans-entame-deux-mois-de-tournee-quittant-maisons-et-souvenirs-elle-se-risque-sur-ses-_185265|url-status=dead|language=fr}}</ref><ref name=mclean /> She was described as "a fixture of the [[Saint-Germain-des-Prés]] neighbourhood on the Left Bank".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/jane-birkin-paris-apartment|title=Inside Jane Birkin's Parisian apartments|date=18 July 2023|website=House & Garden}}</ref> In 2020, recalling 1970s Paris, she said: "it was a time of great innocence, and I don't think social problems were as they are today."<ref name=":0" /> On 6 September 2021, it was reported that Birkin was doing well after having a [[stroke]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/06/jane-birkin-stroke-american-film-festival-france |title=Jane Birkin doing well after stroke, say her family |work=[[TheGuardian.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123030347/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/06/jane-birkin-stroke-american-film-festival-france |archive-date=23 November 2021 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

===Death===
[[File:Kate Barry tombe 2021.jpg|thumb|The grave of [[Kate Barry (photographer)|Kate Barry]] and Jane Birkin in [[Cimetière Montparnasse]] in Paris]]
On 16 July 2023, Birkin was found dead at home in Paris. She was 76.<ref name="leparisien"/> No cause of death was disclosed. The premiere of the documentary ''Jane by Charlotte'', about Birkin's relationship with her daughter Charlotte, on 8 July 2021, was one of her last public appearances. Her funeral took place at the [[Saint-Roch, Paris|Church of Saint-Roch]] in the [[1st arrondissement of Paris]] on the morning of 24 July. After the funeral, her remains were cremated at the crematorium of [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] and her ashes were interred at [[Montparnasse Cemetery]], in the grave of her daughter, [[Kate Barry (photographer)|Kate Barry]], in the same cemetery where Gainsbourg was buried.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/actress-and-singer-jane-birkin-who-found-fame-in-france-dies-age-76/|title=Actress and singer Jane Birkin, who found fame in France, dies age 76|date=17 July 2023|website=cbsnews.com}}</ref>

Many fans gathered to watch the ceremony on a large screen outside of the church. France's First Lady [[Brigitte Macron]] and Minister of Culture [[Rima Abdul Malak]], [[Catherine Deneuve]] and her daughter [[Chiara Mastroianni]]; [[Vanessa Paradis]]; [[Maïwenn]]; [[Sandrine Kiberlain]]; [[Carole Bouquet]]; [[Charlotte Rampling]] and [[Anthony Vaccarello]] were among those who attended.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Richford |first=Rhonda |date=2023-07-24 |title=Jane Birkin Honored at Private Funeral, Public Event in Paris |url=https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/jane-birkin-honored-at-private-funeral-public-event-paris-1235751614/ |access-date=2023-07-26 |website=WWD |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Philanthropy ===
Birkin's humanitarian interests led her to work with [[Amnesty International]] on immigrant welfare and the [[HIV/AIDS]] epidemic. Countries she visited included [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], [[Rwanda]] and [[Palestine]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Birkin's Stock Still Rises|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/1.4785830|last=Mer|first=Benny|date=14 December 2003|work=[[Haaretz]]|language=en}}</ref>

=== Political views and activism ===
As a child, Birkin demonstrated in the streets of London against [[Capital punishment in the United Kingdom|capital punishment]]. In the 1970s, she campaigned for the right to abortion and appeared at the Bobigny trial in support of four women accused of having helped the high school student [[Marie-Claire Chevalier]] to have an abortion following a rape.<ref name="Herreros">{{cite news|last=Herreros|first=Romain|date=16 July 2023|title=Mort de Jane Birkin : chanteuse et comédienne, elle était aussi (très) politique et engagée|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/article/mort-de-jane-birkin-chanteuse-et-comedienne-elle-etait-aussi-tres-politique-et-engagee_220701.html|work=[[HuffPost]]|language=fr|access-date=16 July 2023}}</ref>

Birkin campaigned against the [[Far-right politics|far-right]] in France, participating in a protest denouncing the qualification of [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]] in the second round of the [[2002 French presidential election|2002 presidential election]]. In 2017, she performed at a free concert at the [[Place de la République]] organised in opposition to [[Marine Le Pen]] in the [[2017 French presidential election|2017 presidential election]].<ref name="Herreros"/>

Birkin also demonstrated support for immigrants, denouncing the [[Immigration to France|French government's policy towards undocumented migrants]] in 2010. The same year, she protested outside the residence of the Minister of Immigration, [[Éric Besson]]. She also announced that she was sponsoring a young Congolese who had requested political asylum. In 2015, she marched in Paris in support of refugees.<ref name="Herreros"/>

In September 2018, following the resignation of French environment minister [[Nicolas Hulot]], Birkin was one of the 200 artists and scientists who signed an open letter published on the front page of the daily ''[[Le Monde]]'' titled "The Greatest Challenge in the History of Mankind", which urged politicians to act "firmly and immediately" in fighting [[climate change]] and the "collapse of biodiversity".<ref>{{cite news|date=3 September 2018|title=200 stars urge 'serious' action on climate change in letter to Le Monde|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20180903-climate-change-environment-letter-artists-scientists-le-monde-binoche-france|work=[[France 24]]|access-date=16 July 2023}}</ref>

In late 2022, Birkin, among other French women, cut her hair in support of [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] women and girls who had been killed in [[Mahsa Amini protests|protests]] at the death of [[Mahsa Amini]] after her arrest by [[Guidance Patrol|Iranian morality police]].<ref>{{Cite web |title='For freedom': French actors cut their hair in support of Iranian women {{!}} France {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/french-women-cut-their-hair-in-support-of-iran-protests-juliette-binoche-marion-cotillard |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=amp.theguardian.com|date=5 October 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-05 |title=Marion Cotillard, Jane Birkin & More Cut Their Hair For Iran |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/isabelle-huppert-charlotte-gainsbourg-hair-iran-protests |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=W Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-05 |title=French actors cut hair in solidarity with Iranian women |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/french-actors-iran-mahsa-amini-b2195960.html |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>