Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single As Tears Go By and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States.

Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London. Her halfbrother is Simon Faithfull. Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British Army officer and professor of Italian Literature at Bedford College of London University. Her mother was styled as Eva von SacherMasoch, Baroness Erisso and was originally from Vienna. The family of SacherMasoch had secretly opposed the Nazi regime in Vienna. Glynn Faithfulls work as an Intelligence Officer for the British Army brought him into contact with the family, and he thus met Eva. Faithfulls maternal grandfather had aristocratic roots, in the Habsburg Dynasty, while Faithfulls maternal grandmother was Jewish. Erisso was a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Faithfulls maternal great great uncle was Leopold von SacherMasoch, the 19th century Austrian nobleman whose erotic novel, Venus in Furs, spawned the word masochism.

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