David Tristan Birkin

Actor, Film actor

1977 –

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Who is David Tristan Birkin?

David Birkin is a British artist working in photography, performance, and sculpture. In 2009, he married performance artist Eloise Fornieles.

Birkin comes from a family of artists that includes his father Andrew Birkin, his aunt Jane Birkin, his grandmother Judy Campbell, his cousins Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, and his late brother Anno Birkin.

He grew up between London and New York City, eventually returning to the UK to study human sciences and anthropology at Oxford University. He worked as an actor in film and theatre, including productions for the Royal National Theatre, Peter Hall Company, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, and narrated the English translation of the 1953 film Les statues meurent aussi at the French Institute in London.

Birkin appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation: Family as Rene Picard and Rascals as young Jean-Luc Picard.

He has since written and photographed editorial commissions on subjects ranging from the deforestation of orangutan habitat in Borneo to the Afghan Film Institute in Kabul, and has performed in films by the artist Nathaniel Mellors for the 2009 Tate Triennial, the 2010 British Art Show at the Hayward Gallery, Ourhouse at the ICA in London, and the 2011 Venice Biennale.

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Born
1977
London
Also known as
  • David Birkin
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Nationality
  • United Kingdom
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Education
  • University of Oxford

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on July 23, 2013

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