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Her first professional theatre appearance was in a 1967 stage adaptation of Chekhov ’ s Three Sisters, at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in which she played Irina, co-starring with Glenda Jackson and Avril Elgar.

Before that she played herself in Jean-Luc Godard's film Made in U. S. A .. Faithfull has also appeared in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's ' isname alongside Orson Welles ( where she notedly became the first person to say " fuck " in a mainstream studio picture ), in the French television film Anna, starring Anna Karina ( in which Faithfull sang Serge Gainsbourg's " Hier ou Demain "), as a leather-clad motorcyclist in the 1968 French film La Motocyclette ( English titles: Girl on a Motorcycle and Naked Under Leather ) opposite Alain Delon, and in Kenneth Anger's 1969 film Lucifer Rising, in which she played Lilith.

In 1969, Faithfull played Ophelia opposite Nicol Williamson's title character in Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson and featuring Anthony Hopkins as Claudius.

The original producers of The Rocky Horror Show wanted her to the part of " Magenta / Usherette ", but as Patricia Quinn ( who got the part ) stated in an interview " She went to India with her guru ".