As one of the faces of the 1960s, Faithfull carved out a side-career as an actor.
She appeared at London’s Royal Court in an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, alongside Glenda Jackson.
She became the first person ever to utter the F-word in a mainstream film, I’ll Never Forget What’sisname, in 1967.
A year later, she starred opposite Alain Delon, as a doomed, leather-clad beauty in The Girl on a Motorcycle.
Her character’s psychedelic and erotic fantasies saw the film win the first ever X-rating in the United States.
Of course, there were a lot of drugs.
During a police raid on Keith Richards’ house in Sussex, Faithfull was discovered naked, draped in a fur rug – which she took indecent pleasure in occasionally letting slip.
Allegations involving a Mars bar, she insisted, were entirely made up. But the drugs bust took a toll on her reputation. “It destroyed me,” she later said.
“To be a male drug addict and to act like that is always enhancing and glamorising, she explained.
“A woman in that situation becomes a slut and a bad mother.”
