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Arielle Dombasle (born Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery de Fromental on April 27, 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut1 or April 27, 1958 in Norwich, Connecticut2) is a French-American singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa (1995). She became known to American audiences through her appearances on Miami Vice and the 1984 miniseries Lace.
Childhood
The daughter of Françion Garreau-Dombasle and Jean-Louis Melchior 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 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, 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.
Dombasle family's surname was created in 1912, when Dombasle's grandfather René Sonnery (1887—1925), an industrialist from Lyon, married Anne-Marie Berthon du Fromental. 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.
Career
Dombasle embarked on a singing career and acting after attending the Conservatoire international de musique de Paris3 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 cabaret in Paris.
Private life
Formerly married to Dr. Paul Albou whom Vanity Fair magazine described as a "Jewish playboy society dentist 32 years her senior,"4 she has been, since 19 June 1993, the third wife of French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy. They were married at Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the Côte d'Azur where they have a villa. 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.
Filmography
| Year |
Film |
Role |
Other notes |
| 1978 |
Perceval le Gallois |
Blanchefleur |
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| 1979 |
Tess |
Mercy Chant |
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| Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette |
Une actrice film publicitaire |
uncredited |
| 1980 |
Justocoeur |
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| 1981 |
Putain d'histoire d'amour |
Antonella |
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| Les Fruits de la passion |
Nathalie |
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| La Femme de l'aviateur |
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Singer ("Paris ma séduit") |
| Une robe noire pour un tueur |
La jeune droguée à la moto |
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| 1982 |
Le Beau mariage |
Clarisse |
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| Chassé-croisé |
Ermine |
also Singer, Director, Writer, Composer |
| Laissé inachevé à Tokyo |
Sophie |
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| 1983 |
Sans soleil |
Herself |
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| Pauline à la plage |
Marion |
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| La Belle captive |
La femme hystérique |
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| Rosette sort le soir |
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| Un été nommé désir |
Arielle |
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| 1984 |
Mode in France |
Herself |
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| Rosette prend sa douche |
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| Penelope Last |
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| 1985 |
La Nuit porte-jarretelles |
La secrétaire |
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| Los Motivos de Berta: Fantasía de Pubertad |
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| 1986 |
The Boss' Wife |
Louise Roalvang |
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| Flagrant désir |
Marguerite Barnac |
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| 1987 |
Jeux d'artifices |
Arielle |
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| 1988 |
Les Pyramides bleues |
Elise |
Director, Writer |
| 1989 |
El sueño del mono loco |
Marion Derain |
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| Try This One for Size |
Maggie |
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| 1991 |
Lola Zipper |
Loretta |
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| Mémoires |
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| 1992 |
La vie crevée |
Angèle |
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| Villa Mauresque |
Sandra |
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| Hors saisons |
Mme. Studer |
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| 1993 |
Grand bonheur |
L'actrice |
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| Miroslava |
Miroslava (adulte) |
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| L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque |
Bérénice Beaurivage |
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| L'absence |
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| 1994 |
Un indien dans la ville |
Charlotte |
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| Fado majeur et mineur |
Leda |
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| 1995 |
Raging Angels |
Megan |
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| Un bruit qui rend fou (The Blue Villa) |
Sarah La Blonde |
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| À propos de Nice, la suite |
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| Celestial Clockwork |
Céleste |
also Singer, Soundtrack |
| Fado majeur et mineur |
Leda |
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| Les Cent et une nuits |
La chanteuse à la Garden-party |
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| 1996 |
Three Lives and Only One Death |
Helene |
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| Two Dads and One Mom |
Delphine |
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| Soyons amis! |
Arielle |
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| 1997 |
Jeunesse |
Clémence |
also Singer |
| J'en suis! |
Rose Petipas |
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| Le Jour et la nuit |
Laure |
By her husband, Bernard-Henri Lévy |
| 1998 |
L'ennui |
Sophie |
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| Hors jeu |
Arielle Dombasle |
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| Let There Be Light |
Dieu la blonde |
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| Bo Ba Bu |
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| 1999 |
Les Infortunes de la beauté |
Daphné |
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| C'est pas ma faute! |
Vanessa Goudard |
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| Le Temps retrouvé |
Madame de Farcy |
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| Astérix et Obélix contre César |
Mme Agecanonix / Frau Methusalix |
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| 2000 |
30 Years |
Geneviève |
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| Amazon |
Margot |
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| Vatel |
Princess de Condé |
also Singer |
| Le libertin |
La Marquise de Jerfeuil |
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| Les Eléphants de la planète Mars |
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| 2001 |
Les âmes fortes |
Madame Numance |
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| Gamer |
Valérie Fisher |
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| 2002 |
Deux |
Professor Barbez |
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| Hideous Man |
Crying woman |
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| 2003 |
Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés |
Mademoiselle Lecas |
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| 2004 |
Quand je serai star |
Diane de Montalte |
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| Genre humain - première partie: Les parisiens, Le |
Sabine Duchemin |
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| Albert est méchant |
Barbara Lechat |
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| 2005 |
Le Courage d'aimer |
Sabine Duchemin |
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| 2006 |
Nouvelle chance |
Bettina |
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| C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle |
Léïla / Gradia |
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| 2008 |
La Possibilité d'une île |
Déléguée Mexicaine |
aka Possibility of an Island |
| Sagan |
Astrid |
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| 2009 |
King Shot |
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in production |
Discography
- Cantate 78 (1978) single
- Je te salue mari (1980) single
- Nada más (1988) single
- Amour symphonique (1990) single
- Liberta (2000) single and album
- Odysseus (2000) single
- Extase (2002) album
- Amor Amor (2004) album
- Arielle en concert (2005) DVD
- C'est si bon (2006) album
- Où Tu Veux (2007) single
- Glamour à mort (2009) album
- Extra-terrestre (2009) single
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231319/
- ^ http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=915.html
- ^ A Woman at Home in Many Worlds - May 24, 2006 - The New York Sun
- ^ a b Bernard Henri-Levy: France's Prophet Provocateur: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
- ^ http://www.pariscabaret.fr/fr/paris/Cabarets/CRAZY-HORSE/63/CRAZY-HORSE_revue-de-presse.html
External links
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| NAME |
Dombasle, Arielle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES |
Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
French-American actress and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
April 27, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Norwich, Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH |
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