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A YOUNG actress who appeared in Spider-Man 3 killed herself after a close friend also committed suicide, it emerged today.

Lucy Gordon took her own life just two days before her 29th birthday by hanging herself in her Paris apartment.

She was discovered by her boyfriend, who then rushed into the street below and screamed: "Call the police – my friend has hung herself."

Today it was revealed that her tragic death had been sparked by the suicide of a close friend back in Britain.

One officer said: "The young woman had taken her own life in terrible circumstances. We are not seeking anyone else. It was a clear case of suicide."

Gordon, who also worked as a model, played the role of a TV reporter in Spider-Man 3, which starred Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.

She had just played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in a biopic about the late French singer Serge Gainsbourg, which is currently being shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

Her father Richard, 60, who lives in Oxford, paid tribute to his daughter, saying: "The whole family is so proud of Lucy, and we always have been. Her death has come completely out of the blue and the entire family is devastated.

"Everything about how she died is just speculation at the minute, and we want to concentrate on paying tribute to our daughter.

"We have loved her so much throughout her life. She was the light of mine, her mum's, and her sister's lives. Lucy was a lovely, generous and unselfish person who always gave so much thought to other people and put them before herself.

"Acting was what she had always wanted to do. She had been acting since the age of two, which was really as soon as she could walk. Her career had been just taking off, and it's a tragedy that it has been cut short so soon."

Gordon's boyfriend is being questioned by police, but officers stressed they do not suspect foul play.