Jane Birkin pledges support for Suu Kyi

HAY-ON-WYE, Wales (Reuters) - Actress and singer Jane Birkin pledged on Saturday her support for Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing trial for allowing an uninvited guest into her home.

Birkin , who met Suu Kyi in Myanmar in 1999, said she had written a song about the Nobel laureate, who faces up to five years in jail if found guilty of breaking the terms of her house arrest.

"I haven't stopped singing it and won't until things change in Burma (Myanmar,)" she told an audience at the Hay Festival.

Suu Kyi on Friday pleaded not guilty after a prison court formally charged her. Birkin, has supported a campaign of disinvestment in Myanmar and has taken her plea to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The 62-year old actress, who achieved fame in 1969 for her duet "Je t'aime, moi non plus" with her late partner Serge Gainsbourg, performed songs from a new album as part of the Hay Festival programme.

(Editing by Myra MacDonald)