Born: 22 May 1980, Oxford, England
Died: 20 May 2009
Height: 5' 7 3/4"
Discovered: She became a face of CoverGirl in 1997 before starting an acting career. Her first film was Perfume in 2001 before going on to have small roles in Spider-Man 3, Serendipity and The Four Feathers. Gordon had played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in Serge Gainsbourg, vie h?ro?que; a biopic of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Before the film was released, she was found hanged in her flat in Paris on 20 May 2009 after committing suicide.
Career: While in the fourth form of Oxford High School she was "spotted" by a talent-spotter from a modelling agency as she and her mother visited a Clothes Show Live exhibition. She went on to appear as one of the faces of CoverGirl and soon after she moved into acting. She was signed to Select modeling agency in London and had appeared in the covers of Italian Glamour and Elle.
Gordon had played the actress and singer Jane Birkin on a biopic of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg before her death. The film, entitled Serge Gainsbourg, vie h?ro?que was presented at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and is due to be released in early 2010. Gordon's father, Richard Gordon said that she had loved playing her latest role in this film about Gainsbourg. The director Joann Sfar and the producers of the film Marc du Pontavice and Didier Lupfer released a statement that the film "owes a lot to the generosity, gentleness and immense talent of Lucy Gordon."
Filmography:
Perfume (2001) ... Sarah
Serendipity (2001) ... Caroline Mitchell
The Four Feathers (2002) ... Isabelle
The Russian Dolls (2005) ... Celia Shelburn
Spider-Man 3 (2007) ... Jennifer Dugan
Serial (2007) ... Sadie Grady
The Last International Playboy (2009) ...Kate Hardwick
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) ... Hitchhiker
Cin?man (2009) ... Viviane Cook
Serge Gainsbourg, vie h?ro?que (2010) ... Jane Birkin
Trivia:
Gordon was 15 when she signed on as a Cover Girl model.
Playing a British TV reporter in Spider-Man 3 (2007), she found early notice as a model while still at an Oxford public school. She went on to become a "Cover Girl" face and moved into acting a few years later.
Left two suicide notes before hanging herself in the Paris flat she shared with her cinematographer boyfriend J?r?me Alm?ras, who was asleep at the time and discovered her body. Despondent over the suicide of a friend recently, she was two days shy of her 29th birthday.
She was sharing an apartment with boyfriend cinematographer J?r?me Alm?ras in Paris's 10th arrondissement on the Right Bank of the Seine at the time of her death.
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