British actor Lucy Gordon, an up-and-coming talent who played a role in Spider-Man 3 and will soon appear as Jane Birkin in a Serge Gainsbourg biopic, has killed herself in Paris, her agent said
The 29-year-old died on Wednesday, Gordon s representative Elisabeth Simpson said in a statement. According to press reports in Paris and London she hanged herself in a flat she shared with a boyfriend, who raised the alarm.
Selected scenes from Gordon s latest movie, Gainsbourg: Heroic Life , have been played this week at the Cannes Film Festival and she was seen in the film industry as a possible future star.
The film owes a lot to the generous spirit, to the kindness and immense talent of Lucy Gordon, director Joann Sfar and producers Marc du Pontavice and Didier Lupfer said in a statement.
Gordon lived in France, where she was best known for her breakthrough role in Cedric Klapisch s romantic comedy Poupees Russes (Russian Dolls). -AFP
