Jean-Pierre Verges (21 May 2009). "Actress Lucy Gordon found dead at age 28 in Paris". Yahoo! News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 27 May 2009 . Retrieved 15 August 2011. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) Spider-Man's Lucy Gordon in Paris Suicide". Sky News. 21 May 2009. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011 . Retrieved 5 July 2010. On 20 May 2009, Gordon was found hanging in the Paris flat she shared with her boyfriend just two days short of her 29th birthday. [1] [4] A French police official said she appeared to have committed suicide by hanging. [5] She left two suicide notes, one detailing her last wishes regarding her estate, the other a letter for her parents. Gordon played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in a film biopic of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. The film, entitled Serge Gainsbourg, vie héroïque was presented at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was released in early 2010. Gordon's father, Richard Gordon said that she had loved playing her latest role in this film about Gainsbourg. [3] The director Joann Sfar and the producers of the film Marc du Pontavice and Didier Lupfer released a statement that the film "owes a lot to the generosity, gentleness and immense talent of Lucy Gordon." [1] Death [ edit ]

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Gordon made her film debut in the 2001 as the character Sarah in Perfume. She appeared alongside Heath Ledger in the 2002 film The Four Feathers. She appeared as the reporter Jennifer Dugan in the 2007 film Spider-Man 3. a b c d Henry Samuel (21 May 2009). "British actress Lucy Gordon found dead in Paris flat". The Daily Telegraph. UK . Retrieved 21 May 2009. Gordon was born in Oxford. [1] She went to Oxford High School where she passed nine GCSEs in 1997. She moved to Paris after living in New York for several years. [2] Career [ edit ]Lucy Gordon (22 May 1980 – 20 May 2009) was an English actress and model. She became a face of CoverGirl in 1997 before starting an acting career. Her first film was Perfume in 2001 before going on to have small roles in Spider-Man 3, Serendipity and The Four Feathers. Gordon had played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in the film Gainsbourg, a biopic of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Before the film was released, she hanged herself in her flat in Paris on 20 May 2009. [1] Early life [ edit ]