- The first time the F-word was spoken in a movie was by her in I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967).
- The Rolling Stones' song "As Tears Go By" was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards--their first collaboration--for her.
- John Lennon's 1966 song "And Your Bird Can Sing" was inspired by Mick Jagger's relationship with Faithfull.
- Was best friends with Anita Pallenberg when they both dated The Rolling Stones band members (Faithfull dated Mick Jagger and Pallenberg dated Brian Jones).
- In 1967 she was among those arrested in a drug raid by British police at the residence of Keith Richards.
- Reportedly working on a follow-up to her 1994 autobiography, "Faithfull", which is being turned into a screenplay.
- British group The Hollies' 1967 hit song "Carrie Anne" was written about her.
- Has made a full recovery from breast cancer after undergoing surgery [November 6, 2006].
- Her father was English and her mother was Austrian. Marianne's maternal grandfather was an Austrian nobleman, and through him, she is a great-grandniece of Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the infamous 19th century Austrian nobleman whose classic erotic novel, "Venus in Furs", spawned the word "masochism". Marianne's maternal grandmother was from a Jewish family.
- Because of her attempted suicide/drug overdose she was unable to appear in the film Ned Kelly (1970) with her then-boyfriend Mick Jagger.
- Some of the lyrics to The Rolling Stones' song "Wild Horses" were allegedly about her break-up with Mick Jagger.
- Her mother was a baroness; her father was an officer in British Intelligence.
- Ranked #25 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
- In 1969, director Tony Richardson cast Faithfull in the movie version of Nicol Williamson's Hamlet (1969), which had been an international success. Francesca Annis had played Ophelia to Williamson's Gloomy Dane in London, on Broadway and during an American tour. Ironically, Roman Polanski nixed both Williamson and Faithfull for the roles of Macbeth and His Lady in the 1971 adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1971), Williamson for lacking sex appeal and Faithfull because of her heroin addiction. Polanski cast Annis as Lady Macbeth instead.
- John Dunbar got custody of their son Nicholas after the divorce.
- September 2006 - According to her website, Marianne is being treated for breast cancer. The prognosis was stated to be excellent.
- Lives in Paris with her manager François Ravard.
- Poet Allen Ginsberg, an old friend, named her "Professor of Poetics, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets."
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 134, pages 137-138. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Attended a Roman Catholic girls' school in her youth.
- Mother, with ex-husband John Dunbar, of son Nicholas Dunbar (b. November 10, 1965).
- Now a grandmother of two living in Ireland.
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