Marianne Faithfull is an English singer and actress who was born on December 29, 1946. With the publication of her number-one single “As Tears Go By” in the 1960s, she rose to fame and was one of the top female musicians in America during the British Invasion.
Faithfull, a London native from Hampstead, started her career in 1964 after meeting Andrew Loog Oldham at a Rolling Stones gathering. A number of albums on Decca Records followed Marianne Faithfull’s commercially successful debut album Marianne Faithfull (1965), which was released concurrently with her album Come My Way. She and Mick Jagger had a well-documented romance that lasted from 1966 through 1970.
Marianne Faithfull parents: Meet Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull
Faithfull was born in London’s Hampstead. Simon Faithfull is an artist and her half-brother. Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, her father, was a professor of Italian literature at Bedford College of the University of London and a British intelligence officer.
Eva, the mother of Faithfull, was the daughter of Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, an Austro-Hungarian nobility. Eva made the decision to go by the name Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso.
Early in her career, Eva danced for the Max Reinhardt Company and appeared in plays by the German playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
