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__NOTOC__ Marianne Faithfull (born December 29 , 1946 in Hampstead , London , England ) is a British Singer and Actress whose career spans over four decades. BIOGRAPHY Faithfull was born Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull to a British Military officer father named Major Glynn Faithfull and the Baroness Eva Erisso, a Viennese noblewoman of half Jewish and half noble Austria n descent, coming from the Habsburg dynasty. Faithfull attended a Roman Catholic girls school. Faithfull began her singing career in . She then released a series of successful singles, including "This Little Bird", "Summer Nights" and "Sister Morphine" which she co-wrote with Mick Jagger. Marianne Faithfull married artist John Dunbar in 1965 and that same year gave birth to a son named Nicholas. The marriage was short-lived however, and Faithfull began a much publicized relationship with Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. The relationship with Jagger lasted throughout the late 1960s and has become notorious for a fictitious incident involving a Mars Bar . Faithfull has repeatedly and vehemently denied the incident in interviews, and her account has been publicly corroborated by Bill Wyman and Keith Richards . In 1968 Faithfull miscarried a daughter named Corrina at seven months gestation. After splitting up with Jagger in 1970 , Faithfull briefly stopped recording and nursed a Drug Addiction . She moved to Dublin in the middle of the 1970s and had quite a success with ''Dreaming my Dreams'', which reached the top of the Irish pop charts. She returned in 1979 (see 1979 In Music ) with '' Broken English '', one of her most critically hailed album releases. ''Broken English'' also saw Faithfull emerge as a songwriter of some ability with powerful songs on follow up albums '' Dangerous Acquaintances '' and '' A Child's Adventure ''. Her success continued throughout the 1980s , culminating with ''Strange Weather'' ( 1987 ), her most critically lauded album of the decade. Faithfull’s musical career had a second fillip during the early 1990s with the recording of the live album "Blazing Away" and performances of the work of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill . She released a recording of ''The Seven Deadly Sins'' and also performed in '' The Threepenny Opera ''. Her interpretation of the music of this era has been critically acclaimed and led to a new album, ''Twentieth Century Blues'', and a successful concert and cabaret tour. In 1994 she published her autobiography, entitled ''Faithfull''. The next year she recorded ''A Secret Life'', with songs written with Angelo Badalamenti , David Lynch 's composer. Faithfull also sang backup vocals on Metallica's song " The Memory Remains " from their 1997 album '' ReLoad ''. Faithfull's 1999 DVD ''Dreaming my Dreams'' contains material about her childhood and parents, good historical video footage going back to 1964, and interviews with the artist and several women friends who have known her since she was a young girl. There are sections on her relationship with first husband John Dunbar and with Mick Jagger and brief interviews with his fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards, with whom she has remained on friendly terms since the 1960s. The DVD concludes with a 30-minute live concert. The new millennium has seen Faithfull's talent flourish, with every album receiving critical plaudits. In 2000 she released the ''Vagabond Ways.'' which was hailed as one of the finest of her career, and certainly showed her songwriting reaching a new peak. Her renaissance continued with ''Kissin' Time'' (2002), with songs written with Beck , Billy Corgan , Jarvis Cocker , Dave Stewart , David Courts , and the French pop singer Etienne Daho . On this record, she paid tribute to Nico (with "Song for Nico") whose work she admired, and showed a strong sense of humour with the autobiographical "Sliding Through Life on Charm." This was followed in 2004 by ''Before the Poison'', a collaboration with PJ Harvey , Nick Cave , Damon Albarn and Jon Brion . It was considered by many critics to be the best work of her career, though to much of the public ''Broken English'' remains her definitive record. With a recording career that spans over four decades, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona; Experimenting in vastly different musical genres and collaborating with such varied artists as David Bowie , The Chieftans , Tom Waits , Lenny Kaye , and Pink Floyd . Faithfull also made a modestly successful foray into an acting career and has given notable performances in the 1967 film ''I'll Never Forget Whats 'Is Name'' alongside Orson Welles , as a leather-clad motorcyclist in the 1968 French film ''Girl On A Motorcycle'' opposite Alain Delon , and in the 1969 Kenneth Anger cult film ''Lucifer Rising''. In 1969 , Faithfull played Ophelia in the Nicol Williamson adaptation of '' Hamlet ''. In 1993 she played the role of Pirate Jenny In ''The Threepenny Opera'' at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Later she performed "The Seven Deadly Sins" with the Vienna Radio Symphony. She has made brief guest star appearances in the British sitcom '' Absolutely Fabulous '' (as God), in Patrice Chéreau 's '' Intimacy (2001 Film) '', and will play Empress Maria-Teresa in Sofia Coppola 's forthcoming biopic, '' Marie-Antoinette '' which will star Kirsten Dunst in the title role. She also pursues a theatrical career. In 2004 and in 2005, she appeared in Robert Wilson and Tom Waits's '' The Black Rider ''. Faithfull currently resides in Paris, France , and still regularly appears in concerts. ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
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