Happy birthday Yvan Attal! This January 4, 2021, the actor and director is indeed celebrating his 57th birthday. The opportunity for his longtime companion, a certain Charlotte Gainsbourg, to display it in photo, the time of an Instagram Story full of humor, tenderness and neon wig. After 30 years of living together, between France and the United States, they continue to form one of the most solid star couples.
Tuesday noon, Charlotte Gainsbourg took to her well-stocked Instagram account to relay a surprising photo of her half in Story: Yvan Attal appears serious on the phone, leaning on the kitchen, in front of a recipe book … a neon pink wig on the head and this, as if nothing had happened (see slideshow). “Happy Birthday my love !!!!“, she addresses him then, in English. Since their meeting on the set of the film In the eyes of the world (in 1991), the parents of Ben, Alice and Joe (24, 19 and 10 years old) continue to write their love story, which is as modest as it is solid.
We cannot really speak of love at first sight between the two actors. “We saw each other for the first time during a rehearsal ofIn the eyes of the world, by Eric Rochant, where she played my lover“, remembered Yvan Attal, with Psychologies Magazine in 2013. “She arrived in the office of the production house, we exchanged courtesies. It was hard to get three words out of her back then. ” He then had to show patience and determination to seduce Charlotte Gainsbourg. “We met at a mutual friend’s house. Or rather a friend of hers, with whom I wanted to be friends because I wanted to make myself her friend! And that’s where it all started. “
The couple continues, despite the hardships. In 2013, following the tragic death of her sister Kate Barry, Charlotte Gainsbourg decided to move to New York with her daughters. After seven years spent between two continents, the performer and actress finally returned to France during the first confinement, in the spring of 2020. A severe depression then followed … Supported by her companion and her mother Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg found the smile and the camera. Once again after My wife is an actress, Do Not Disturb or My stupid dog, she joined Yvan Attal for a family film project: the drama Human things, released in early December, in which their son Ben – also an actor – stars.