Arielle Dombasle
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Arielle Dombasle (born Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery de Fromental on April 27, 1953 in Norwich, Connecticut) is a French-American[1] singer and actress. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa. She became known to American audiences through her appearances on Miami Vice and the 1984 miniseries Lace.
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[edit] Childhood
The daughter of Francion Garreau-Dombasle and Jean-Louis Sonnery de Fromental, a silk manufacturer, Dombasle and her brother, Gilbert, were raised in Mexico by their maternal grandparents after their mother died in 1964. (Her father later married a painter, Laurence de Lubersac.) Her maternal grandfather, Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, was a close friend of and advisor to Charles de Gaulle and served as the French ambassador to Mexico. Her maternal grandmother was Man'Ha Dombasle (née Germaine Massenet, 1898-1999)[1], a writer and poet who translated Rabindranath Tagore's works into French and was a longtime friend of the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who dedicated to her his 1972 novel The Halloween Tree.
Her family surname was created in 1912, when Dombasle's grandfather René Sonnery (1887—1925), an industrialist from Lyon, married Anne-Marie Berthon du Fromental.[2] She took Dombasle as her professional surname in honor of her mother.
She was raised in Mexico and also at Château de Chaintré, the Sonnery family's estate near Saumur, Maine et Loire
[edit] Career
Dombasle embarked on a singing career and acting after attending the Conservatoire Musique de Paris[3] and further studies in Mexico.[4]
She has appeared in several Hollywood English-language productions, but most of her acting work has been in French, as are her albums. She also has directed and written the scripts for two films, Les Pyramides Bleues and Chassé-croisé. Renowned for her beauty, she has described her looks as "a Crazy Horse dancing girl",[5] a reference to the famous strip-tease cabaret in Paris.
[edit] Private life
Formerly married to a man who Vanity Fair magazine described as a "Jewish playboy society dentist 32 years her senior,"[6], she has been, since 1993, the third wife of French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy. She has two stepchildren, Antonin-Balthazar Lévy and Justine Lévy, a novelist. Her brother, Gilbert Sonnery (aka Gilbert Sonnery Garreau), is a textile executive, having been chairman of J. B. Martin Ltée and vice chairman of the French holding company MRM.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Nouvelle chance | Bettina |
| C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle | Léïla / Gradia | |
| 2005 | Le Courage d'aimer | Sabine Duchemin |
| 2004 | Quand je serai star | Diane de Montalte |
| Genre humain - première partie: Les parisiens, Le | Sabine Duchemin | |
| Albert est méchant | Barbara Lechat | |
| 2003 | Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés | Mademoiselle Lecas |
| 2002 | Deux | Professor Barbez |
| 2001 | Les âmes fortes | Madame Numance |
| Folle de Rachid en transit sur Mars, segment "Les éléphants de la planète Mars" | ||
| G@mer | Valérie Fisher | |
| 2000 | 30 Years | Geneviève |
| Amazon | Margot | |
| Vatel | Princess de Condé (also Singer) | |
| Le libertin | Madame de Jerfeuil | |
| 1999 | Les Infortunes de la beauté | Daphné |
| C'est pas ma faute! | Vanessa Goudard | |
| Le Temps retrouvé | Madame de Farcy | |
| Astérix et Obélix contre César | Mme Agecanonix / Frau Methusalix | |
| 1998 | L'ennui | Sophie |
| Hors jeu | Arielle Dombasle | |
| Let There Be Light | Dieu la blonde | |
| Bo Ba Bu | Actress | |
| 1997 | Jeunesse | Clémence (also Singer) |
| J'en suis! | Rose Petipas | |
| Le Jour et la nuit[2] | Laure | |
| 1996 | Three Lives and Only One Death | Helene |
| Two Dads and One Mom | Delphine | |
| 1995 | Raging Angels | Megan |
| Un bruit qui rend fou | Sarah La Blonde | |
| À propos de Nice, la suite | Actress | |
| Celestial Clockwork | Céleste (also Singer, Soundtrack) | |
| Fado majeur et mineur | Leda | |
| Les Cent et une nuits | La chanteuse à la Garden-party | |
| 1994 | Un indien dans la ville | Charlotte |
| 1993 | Grand bonheur | L'actrice |
| Miroslava | Miroslava (adulte) | |
| L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque | Bérénice Beaurivage | |
| L'absence | ||
| 1992 | La vie crevée | Angèle |
| Villa Mauresque | Sandra | |
| Hors saisons | Mme. Studer | |
| 1991 | Lola Zipper | Loretta |
| 1989 | El sueño del mono loco | Marion Derain |
| Try This One for Size | Maggie | |
| 1988 | Les Pyramides bleues | Elise, Director, Writer |
| 1987 | Jeux d'artifices | Arielle |
| 1986 | The Boss' Wife | Louise Roalvang |
| Flagrant désir | Marguerite Barnac | |
| 1985 | La Nuit porte-jarretelles | La secrétaire |
| Los Motivos de Berta: Fantasía de Pubertad | Actress | |
| 1984 | Mode in France | Herself |
| 1983 | Sans soleil | Herself |
| Pauline à la plage | Marion | |
| La Belle captive | La femme hystérique | |
| 1982 | Le Beau mariage | Clarisse |
| Chassé-croisé | Ermine (also Singer, Director, Writer, Composer) | |
| 1981 | Putain d'histoire d'amour | Antonella |
| Les Fruits de la passion | Nathalie | |
| La Femme de l'aviateur | Singer ("Paris ma séduit") | |
| Une robe noire pour un tueur | La jeune droguée à la moto | |
| 1980 | Justocoeur | |
| 1979 | Tess | Mercy Chant |
| 1978 | Perceval le Gallois | Blanchefleur |
[edit] References and notes
- ^ Arielle, l'amie américaine - l'Humanite
- ^ By her husband, Bernard-Henri Lévy.
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| NAME | Dombasle, Arielle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | de Fromental, Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | French-American actress and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norwich, Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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