Editing Charlotte Rampling (section)

=== 1960s: Modelling career, starting as actress ===
[[File:Sequestro di persona 431.png|thumb|upright=1.2|Rampling in 1968's ''[[Sardinia Kidnapped]]'']] 
Rampling made her stage debut at the age of 14, singing French [[chanson]]s with her sister at [[Bernays Institute]] in [[Stanmore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stanmoretouristboard.org.uk/bernays-memorial-institute-stanmore.html|title=The Bernays Memorial Institute, Stanmore|access-date=31 December 2020|archive-date=9 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209212843/https://www.stanmoretouristboard.org.uk/bernays-memorial-institute-stanmore.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She began her career as a model and first appeared in a [[Cadbury]] advertisement. She was working as a secretary when she was noticed by a casting agent in the same building.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nicholson |first1=Rebecca |title=Charlotte Rampling: 'Depression makes you dead to the world – you've got to build yourself up again' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/01/charlotte-rampling-ive-got-a-very-restless-character-its-a-beast |access-date=4 February 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=1 March 2019 |archive-date=4 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204161457/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/01/charlotte-rampling-ive-got-a-very-restless-character-its-a-beast |url-status=live }}</ref> She made uncredited appearances in two films directed by [[Richard Lester]] including his first film with [[the Beatles]], ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (1964), and as a [[water ski]]er in ''[[The Knack ...and How to Get It]]'' (1965).{{cn|date=March 2024}} In 1965, she was cast in the role of Meredith in the film ''[[Georgy Girl]]'' and was given a role by [[John Boulting]] in the comedy ''[[Rotten to the Core (film)|Rotten to the Core]]''. In 1967, she starred opposite [[Yul Brynner]] in the adventure film ''[[The Long Duel]]''. She also appeared alongside [[Franco Nero]] in the Italian film ''[[Sardinia Kidnapped]]'' (''Sequestro di persona'') (1968), directed by [[Gianfranco Mingozzi]].<ref name="Merc">{{cite video
 | title = [[The Mercenary (film)|The Mercenary]] (How to make a Revolution)
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On television, Rampling played the [[gunfighter]] Hana Wilde in "The Superlative Seven", a 1967 episode of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' in which she knocked out John Steed.<ref>[http://theavengers.tv/forever/pnote-rampling.htm The Avengers Forever: Guest Actor Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101016045948/http://theavengers.tv/forever/pnote-rampling.htm |date=16 October 2010 }}, accessed 7 May 2010</ref> In 1969, she starred opposite [[Sam Waterston]] in the romance-drama ''[[Three (1969 film)|Three]]'', and in 1972, she starred opposite [[Robert Blake (actor)|Robert Blake]] in the drama ''[[Corky (film)|Corky]]'' and portrayed [[Anne Boleyn]] in the costume drama ''[[Henry VIII and His Six Wives]]''. After this, her acting career blossomed in both English and French cinema.

Despite an early flurry of success, she told ''The Independent'': "We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that. Everyone seemed to be having fun, but they were taking so many drugs they wouldn't know it anyway."<ref name=byrnes2005>{{Cite news| last=Byrnes|first=Sholto|title=Charlotte Rampling: In from the cold|newspaper=The Independent|publisher=Independent Print, Ltd.|location=London, England|date=26 March 2005|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts/film/features/article7794.ece|access-date=12 August 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930163736/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts/film/features/article7794.ece|archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref>

Rampling has performed controversial roles. In 1969, in [[Luchino Visconti]]'s ''[[The Damned (1969 film)|The Damned]]'' (''La Caduta degli dei''), she played a young wife sent to a [[Nazi concentration camp]]. Critics praised her performance, and it cast her in a whole new image: mysterious, sensitive, and ultimately tragic. "The Look", as her co-star [[Dirk Bogarde]] called it, became her trademark.<ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/01/1064988260820.html|location=Melbourne, Australia|work=The Age|publisher=Nine Entertainment Co.|title=Good Charlotte|date=4 October 2003|access-date=11 August 2007|archive-date=2 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602013258/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/01/1064988260820.html|url-status=live}}</ref>