[2] While in the fourth form of Oxford High School she was noticed by a talent-spotter from a modelling agency as she and her mother visited a Clothes Show Live exhibition.

She was signed to Select modelling agency in London and had appeared in the covers of Italian Glamour and Elle.

[citation needed] Gordon made her film debut in the 2001 as the character Sarah in Perfume.

Gordon played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in a film biopic of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.

"[1] On 20 May 2009, Gordon was found hanging by an electrical wire in the Paris flat she shared with her partner.