Leelee Sobieski

Infobox actor
birthdate = birth date and age|1983|6|10
birthname = Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski
birthplace = New York City, New York, U.S.
homepage = http://www.leeleesobieski.com/

Leelee Sobieski (born June 10, 1983)cite web|title=Yahoo! - Biography|work=|url=http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019203/bio|accessmonthday=June 14|accessyear=2008] is an American actress.

Biography

Personal life

Sobieski was born Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski in New York City, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Salomon), an American novelist and screenwriter who also works as Sobieski's manager, and Jean Sobieski, a French painter and artist who appeared in French and Italian spaghetti Westerns during his youth, as well as dated actress Jean Seberg.cite web|title=Girl, uninterrupted|work=Los Angeles Magazine|year=2001|url=http://www.leeleesobieski.com/articles/la/index.html|accessmonthday=August 23|accessyear=2006] [cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/67/Leelee-Sobieski.html|title=Leelee Sobieski Biography (1982-)|work=Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies|year=2003|accessdate=2008-05-12] Sobieski's first name, "Liliane", was the name of her paternal grandmother.cite web|work=LeeleeSobieski.com|title=America Online: Deep Impact | url=http://www.leeleesobieski.com/articles/aol/aol1.html | accessmonthday=August 23 | accessyear=2006] Sobieski has a younger brother, Robert, who attends Princeton University.cite web | title=Box Office.com | work=CUT: "GLASS" | url=http://www.boxoff.com/issues/aug01/sobieski.html | accessmonthday=August 23 | accessyear=2006] [Stated on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on August 30, 2006] Sobieski's maternal grandfather, United States Navy captain Robert Salomon, was Jewish and Sobieski grew up in a "pan-religious" family; she has said that she is "proud of [her] Jewishroots".cite news|last=|first=|coauthors=|title=Leelee Sobieski's Sobering Take on Terror|pages=|publisher=Jewish Exponent|date=2001-11-01|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79382062.html|accessdate=2007-12-10] cite web | title=The Jewish Journal | work=The Film No One Wanted | url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=9840 | accessmonthday=August 23 | accessyear=2006] She has stated that her "...great great granduncle" was John III Sobieski, one of the elected kings of Poland who saved Europe by riding West with the Polish army in 1683 to lift the siege of Vienna from Ottoman Turks. Sobieski speaks fluent French, although she does not speak Polish.cite web | title=LeeleeSobieski.com | work=Flaunt: Leelee's Big Adventure | url=http://www.leeleesobieski.com/articles/flaunt/flaunt.html | accessmonthday=August 23 | accessyear=2006] Her father currently lives in France.cite web | title=Leelee Sobieski.com | work=Leeleesobieski.com - In Person Interview | url=http://www.leeleesobieski.com/articles/eric/eric2.html | accessmonthday=August 23 | accessyear=2006]

Sobieski has described her upbringing as "bohemian", having often attended Shakespeare in the Park and art galleries in SoHo during her childhood. During this time, she attended Trevor Day School [ [http://www.leeleesobieski.com/articles/newyork/nymag.html Article: New York Magazine - Little Leelee ] ] and spent her summers in her paternal grandfather's ranch in the Camargue. Sobieski attended Brown University but dropped out after two and a half years. She is an ardent fan of Nina Simone and has a half Yorkshire Terrier, half Pomeranian dog named after her.

Career

Sobieski rose to fame in her mid-teens with her appearance in the movie "Deep Impact" (1998) and played a modern Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" (released in 1999, she was not even fifteen when her nymphet-like scenes were shot). She was playing alongside Tom Cruise: she recalls he was "very kind and considerate with me", and says her most vivid recollection of Stanley Kubrick was that he "genuinely seemed to hold something magic".cite journal|author=Yianni Vassiliou|year=2008|month=May|title=24 things in the life of Leelee Sobieski|journal= [http://www.woundmagazine.com Wound Magazine] |issue=3|pages=50-53|location=London|issn=1755-800X] The title role in the TV movie "Joan of Arc" (1999) earned her an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe nomination and a second nomination followed her portrayal of Tosia Altman in the TV movie "Uprising" (2001).

Sobieski's fluency in French landed her roles in the Merchant Ivory Film "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries" (1998), "L'Idole" (2002) and the miniseries "Les Liaisons dangereuses" (2003) with Catherine Deneuve and Rupert Everett, an adaptation of Laclos's classic novel of sexual intrigue.

Poetry

After the September 11 attacks, Sobieski appeared on "The Tonight Show". She read her poem entitled "This Day And All The Rest".

Filmography

References

External links

*imdb name|0005447|Leelee Sobieski