Charlotte Rampling calls time on screen nudity

Demonstrating the immaculate poise and timing she has brought to the screen over a 40-year career, the Francophile British actress Charlotte Rampling has called time on disrobing on screen. Having brought an icy sexuality to such films as the psychological chiller The Night Porter (above right), in which she played an concentration camp survivor engaged in a self-destructive relationship with her former Nazi guard tormentor, Rampling, 61, has declared enough is enough.
 
"If you're young and beautiful, it's good to look at," she told the Sydney Morning Herald. "But if it's older, it gets a bit 'Oh Gawd'." In addition to The Night Porter, Rampling's roll call of raunchy scenes included Max Mon Amour, in which her romantic lead was a chimpanzee, Heading South, where she played a Boston lecturer who travels to Haiti for sex, and her latest film, Twice Upon a Time.
 
Directed by Antoine de Caunes - the extravagantly French-accented co-host and foil to Jean Paul Gaultier on Channel Four's Eurotrash - her 70th film sees her playing an actress who reignites her romance with a director. In real life, she has been married to New Zealand actor Bryan Southcombe and composer Jean Michel Jarre. ·