Now that she’s joined the cast of Dexter in its final season, let’s take a look at Charlotte Rampling’s impressive career. Here is some of her best work, presented in chronological order.
Elizabeth Thalmann in The Damned (1969)
Rampling plays the wife of Herbert Thalmann, vice president of a wealthy industrialist family's firm. While Herbert is able to escape the Gestapo, Rampling's Elizabeth is sent to Dachau, where she dies. This was a more tragic role than many of the roles Rampling would go on to play.
Via: Warner Bros.
Anne Boleyn in Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
But Rampling did play another tragic figure in the historical drama Henry VIII and His Six Wives. Like so many of Henry VIII's wives, Anne Boleyn was beheaded for her failure to produce a male heir.
Via: BBC
Consuella in Zardoz (1974)
There's a reason Zardoz is regarded as infamously terrible: it really is. But it's a fun spectacle to endure at least once, particularly with Rampling as the psychic Eternal Consuella. As silly as it all is, Rampling does get some powerful (and seriously sexy) scenes.
Via: 20th Century Fox
Lucia Atherton in The Night Porter (1974)
Rampling continued to take on controversial and sexually explicit roles. In The Night Porter, she plays a former concentration camp inmate who has a sadomasochistic relationship with a former Nazi officer, who was once her lover and tormentor.
Via: The Criterion Collection
