She was natural into the notable personal including: David Birkin, father, Royal Navy commander and World War II espionage hero. Judy Campbell (née Gamble), mother, an actress in Noel Coward musicals. Winifred (Freda) May Birkin, great aunty, mistress of the Prince of Wales.

In the swinging 60s in London, Birkin starred as one of a naked system in the controversial film Blowup in 1967.

She was married to John Barry, an English composer who wrote a musical score to the James Bond movies. Their girl Kate Barry was natural inside 1968.

Around 1968 Jane Birkinside attend France to audition for the lead female role in Slogan. Though she did non speak French, she had a role. On the placed, she met Serge Gainsbourg, whith whom she cohabitated until 1980. It got the girl, Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Around 1969 she & Serge Gainsbourg released "Je t'aime... moi non plus" ("I love you... me neither"), written by Gainsbourg & featuring two of the two singing, which driven the scandal for its intimate explicitness. Thanks to the publicity it had from either existence banned at radio stations inside Italy, Sweden, Spain & the UK, it was a commercial profits completely across Europe. A song debuted at #1 on the UK charts

Birkwithin took the short break from either her acting career in 1971-72, however returned when Brigitte Bardot's lover in Don Juan (or even within case Don Juan were the woman) in 1973. Inside 1975, she appeared within Gainsbourg's number one film ''Je t'aime... moi non plus, which created quite a stir for its frank examination of sexual ambiguity.

Birkin has starred in the Agatha Christie films Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun'', and recorded many albums. She has been awarded an OBE for her services to acting, when well as a Ordre National du Mérite in France.

Around 1982 Birkin experienced the third girl, Lou, using director Jacques Doillon.