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Arielle Dombasle 
Arielle Dombasle at the 2000 César Awards ceremonyBorn Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery
April 27, 1958
ConnecticutOccupation Actress, singer Years active 1978–present Spouse Philippe Albou (1976-1985)
Bernard-Henri Lévy (1993–present)Website arielle-dombasle.com Arielle Dombasle (born April 27, 1958) 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 is best known to American audiences for her appearances on Miami Vice and the 1984 miniseries Lace. She has released eight singles between 1978 and 2011 and seven albums.
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Childhood
She was born Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery de Fromental, the daughter of Jean-Louis Melchior Sonnery de Fromental, a silk manufacturer, and Francion Garreau-Dombasle. The date and city of her birth are unclear. One source gives April 27, 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut[1] while another gives April 27, 1958 in Norwich, Connecticut.[2]
She and her brother Gilbert were raised in Mexico by their maternal grandparents after their mother died in 1964. She was also raised at Château de Chaintré, the Sonnery family's estate near Saumur, Maine et Loire. 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.
Career
Claude Lelouch and Arielle Dombasle
Dombasle embarked on a singing career and acting after attending the Conservatoire international de 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 cabaret in Paris.
Personal life
She is the third wife of French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy. They were married on June 19, 1993 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. She was previously married to Dr. Paul Albou, described by Vanity Fair as a "Jewish playboy society dentist 32 years her senior."[4]
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 1979 Tess Mercy Chant Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette Une actrice film publicitaire uncredited 1980 Justocoeur 1981 Putain d'histoire d'amour Antonella Les Fruits de la passion Nathalie érotique La Femme de l'aviateur Singer ("Paris ma séduit") Une robe noire pour un tueur La jeune droguée à la moto 1982 Le Beau mariage Clarisse Chassé-croisé Ermine also Singer, Director, Writer, Composer Laissé inachevé à Tokyo Sophie 1983 Sans soleil Herself Pauline à la plage Marion La Belle captive La femme hystérique Rosette sort le soir Un été nommé désir Arielle 1984 Mode in France Herself Lace Maxine Pascal Rosette prend sa douche Penelope Last 1985 La Nuit porte-jarretelles La secrétaire Lace II Maxine Pascal Los Motivos de Berta: Fantasía de Pubertad 1986 The Boss' Wife Louise Roalvang Flagrant désir Marguerite Barnac 1987 Jeux d'artifices Arielle 1988 Les Pyramides bleues Elise Director, Writer 1989 El sueño del mono loco Marion Derain Try This One for Size Maggie 1991 Lola Zipper Loretta Mémoires 1992 La vie crevée Angèle Villa Mauresque Sandra Hors Saison Mme. Studer 1993 Grand bonheur L'actrice Miroslava Miroslava (adulte) L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque Bérénice Beaurivage L'absence 1994 Un indien dans la ville Charlotte Fado majeur et mineur Leda 1995 Raging Angels Megan Un bruit qui rend fou (The Blue Villa) Sarah La Blonde À propos de Nice, la suite Celestial Clockwork Céleste also Singer, Soundtrack Fado majeur et mineur Leda Les Cent et une nuits La chanteuse à la Garden-party 1996 Three Lives and Only One Death Helene Two Dads and One Mom Delphine Soyons amis! Arielle 1997 Jeunesse Clémence also Singer J'en suis! Rose Petipas Le Jour et la nuit Laure By her husband, Bernard-Henri Lévy 1998 L'ennui Sophie Hors jeu Arielle Dombasle Let There Be Light Dieu la blonde Bo Ba Bu 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 2000 30 Years Geneviève Amazon Margot Vatel Princess de Condé also Singer Le libertin La Marquise de Jerfeuil Les Eléphants de la planète Mars 2001 Les âmes fortes Madame Numance Gamer Valérie Fisher 2002 Deux Professor Barbez Hideous Man Crying woman 2003 Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés Mademoiselle Lecas 2004 Quand je serai star Diane de Montalte Genre humain - première partie: Les parisiens, Le Sabine Duchemin Albert est méchant Barbara Lechat 2005 Le Courage d'aimer Sabine Duchemin 2006 Nouvelle chance Bettina C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle Léïla / Gradia 2008 La Possibilité d'une île Déléguée Mexicaine aka Possibility of an Island Sagan Astrid 2009 King Shot in production Television
- X Femmes, Season 1, Episode 1. Director and actress.
Discography
Singles
- Cantate 78 (1978)
- Je te salue mari (1980)
- Nada más (1988) single
- Amour symphonique (1990)
- Liberta (2000)
- Odysseus (2000)
- Où Tu Veux (2007)
- Extra-terrestre (2009)
- Hasta siempre (2010)
- Porque te vas (2011)
Albums
- Liberta (2000)
- Extase (2002)
- Amor Amor (2004)
- Arielle en concert (2005) DVD
- C'est si bon (2006)
- Glamour à mort (2009)
- Diva Latina (2011)
References
- ^ Arielle Dombasle on imdb.com
- ^ (French) Arielle Dombasle on allocine.fr
- ^ 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
- Official web site
- Arielle Dombasle at the Internet Movie Database
- Arielle Dombasle at AllRovi
- Profile at Canal+ (French)
Categories:- Living people
- French film actors
- French television actors
- French film directors
- French screenwriters
- People from Connecticut
- American people of French descent
- Dombasle albums
- Wrasse Records artists
- French female singers
- 1953 births
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