Marianne Faithfull

Mother, with ex-husband John Dunbar, of son Nicholas Dunbar (b. November 10, 1965).

John Lennon's 1966 song "And Your Bird Can Sing" was inspired by Mick Jagger's relationship to Faithful.

The first time the F-word was spoken in a movie was by her in I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967).

In 1969, director Tony Richardson cast Faithful in the movie version of Nicol Williamson's Hamlet (1969), which had been an international success. Francesca Annis had played Ophelia to Williamson's Gloomy Dane in London, on Broadway and during an American tour. Ironically, Roman Polanski nixed both Williamson and Faithful for the roles of Macbeth and His Lady in the 1971 adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1971), Williamson for lacking sex appeal and Faithful because of her heroin addiction. Polanski cast Annis as Lady Macbeth instead.

Because of her attempted suicide/drug overdose she was unable to appear in the film Ned Kelly (1970) with her then boyfriend Mick Jagger.

Reportedly working on a follow-up to her 1994 autobiography, "Faithfull", which is being turned into a screenplay.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 134, pages 137-138. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

September 2006 - According to her website, Marianne is being treated for breast cancer. The prognosis was stated to be excellent.

Her father was English and her mother was Austrian. Marianne's maternal grandfather was an Austrian nobleman, and through him, she is a great-grandniece of Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the infamous 19th century Austrian nobleman whose classic erotic novel, "Venus in Furs", spawned the word "masochism". Marianne's maternal grandmother was from a Jewish family.