Singer and actress Jane Birkin has died on the age of 76, French media have reported.

The English-French star, who impressed the Hermès Birkin designer purse, was discovered at her dwelling by her caregiver, BFMTV reported.

The singer had been pressured to postpone a number of concert events in Paris scheduled for May after breaking her shoulder in March 2022, BFMTV reported.

"I've always been a big optimist, and I realise that it still takes me a little while to be able to be on stage again and with you. I love being with you so much," she stated in a press release on the time.

It adopted one other string of cancelled exhibits after the star suffered from a stroke in September 2021.

Born in London, Birkin started her profession as an actress, Birkin gained worldwide fame for her on and off-screen relationship with Serge Gainsbourg.

The pair met whereas co-starring in 1969 French satirical romantic comedy, Slogan, and went on to launch a debut album in the identical yr.

The album featured the sexually express music "Je t'aime... moi non plus" which reached primary within the UK Singles Char, regardless of being banned from quite a few radio stations.

After their cut up in 1980 Birkin continued to work, showing in a number of movies and recording quite a few solo albums, which Gainsbourg wrote for.

Her performing credit included 1966 crime comedy Kaleidoscope, a 1978 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile and thriller movie Evil Under the Sun in 1982.

In 2016, she starred within the Oscar-nominated quick movie La femme et le TGV, which she stated can be her ultimate movie position.

In 1981, the actress was subsequent to Hermès chief government Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight from Paris to London, in accordance with L'Officiel journal.

Following a dialog between the 2 about how tough it was to discover a bag that would fulfil Birkin's wants as a mother-of-two, the Birkin bag was born.

Dumas designed the bag on the spot and named it after Birkin when it got here into manufacturing in 1984, in accordance with studies.

The purse has gone on to change into a standing image, with some fetching nicely over $10,000 (£7,638).