Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull is a singer, songwriter, and actress whose work helped define the cultural revolution of the 1960s and beyond. Having begun her career as a folk singer in small venues around London, Faithfull was discovered by the Rolling Stones' producer Andrew Loog Oldham, and went on to a successful career of more than twenty albums merging folk with rock and pop music. Since the 1960s she has collaborated with such icons as the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Emmylou Harris, Joe Jackson, Blur, Beck, and Nick Cave, among many others. Alongside her music, Faithfull has maintained a critically successful career as an actor in theatre, film, and television, having worked with such luminaries as Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Delon, and Sofia Coppola. She lives in Paris.