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Arielle Dombasle


1958

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The actress Arielle Dombasle was born as Arielle Sonnery de Fromental in Norwich, USA. She grew up in Mexico where she lived with her grandparents after the premature dead of her mother.

She took lessons for classical dance and came soon in contact with a theater group. When she went to Paris in 1976 this was the first step to a remarkable career in France.
She made her film debut with the serial "Mazarin" (78), it followed appearances in "Perceval le Gallois" (79) directed by Eric Rohmer and "Tess" (79) directed by Roman Polanski.

She became established as an actress in the 80's who impressed with her beauty but also with her acting abilities.
To her well-known movies of those years belong "Les fruits de la passion" (81), "Le beau mariage" (82),  "Pauline à la plage - Pauline am Strand" (83), "Lace" (84), "Vive la mariée" (85), "The Boss' Wife" (86), "Les pyramides bleues" (88) and the serial "Around the World in 80 Days" (89).

Her roles changed in the course of time and she also appeared often in comedies. It followed many roles in the next years, among them productions like "Moi, général de Gaulle" (90), "Zwischensaison" (92), "Grand bonheur" (93), "Un indien dans la ville" (94), "Soyons amis" (96), "Opération Bugs Bunny" (97), "L'ennui" (98) - for which she was nominated for a César as best support actress and "Astérix et Obélix contre César - Asterix und Obelix gegen Cäsar" (99).

To her latest cinematical works belong "Vatel" (00), "Deux" (02), Claude Lelouch's trilogy "Le genre humain" (04) and "Milady" (05).

Besides her activities as an actress she also realised two movies as a director - "Chassé-croisé" (82) and "Les pyramides bleues" (88) for which she also wrote the script.

Arielle Dombasle is married with the writer Bernard Henry Lévy.
 

Other movies with Arielle Dombasle: 
Louis XI ou le pouvoir central (79) Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette (79) Justocoeur (80) Catherine de Heilbronn (80) Une robe noire pour un tueur (81) Putain d'histoire d'amour (81) Ligeia (81) Chassé-croisé (82) Serie "Mozart" (82) Les dames à la licorne (82) Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (82) La belle captive (83) Un été nommé désir (83) Rosette sort le soir (83) Rosette prend sa douche (84) Los motivos de Berta: Fantasia de Pubertad (85) La nuit porte jarretelles (85) Lace II (85) Flagant désir (86) Serie "Sins" (86) Serie "Miami Vice: Definitely Miami" (86) Jeux d'artifices (87) Serie "Sueurs froides: Dernier week-end" (88) Serie "L'or du diable" (89) The Saint: Wrong Number (89) Try This One for Size (89) Incognito (89) El sueno del mono loco (90) L'homme au double visage (90) Lola Zipper (91) Mémoires (91) Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (92) Villa mauresque (92) La vie crevée (92) La mare aux crocodiles (92) L'absence (93) L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (93) Miroslava (93) L'annamite (95) Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (95) Fado majeur et mineur (95) Mécaniques célestes (95) Un bruit qui rend fou (95) Raging Angels (95) A propos de Nice, la suite (95) Les deux papas et la maman (96) Trois vies & une seule mort (96) Le jour et la nuit (97) J'en suis! (97) Jeunesse (97) Serie "Deserto di fuoco" (97) Maigret et l'improbable Monsieur Owen (97) Les amis de Ninon (98) Que la lumière soit (98) Hors jeu (98) Bo Ba Bu (98) Le temps retrouvé (99) C'est pas ma faute! (99) Les infortunes de la bauté (99) Red Shoe Diaries 18: The Game: Like Father Like Son (00) Le libertin (00) Amazone (00) 30 ans (00) Les faux-fuyants (00) Les éléphants de la planète Mars (00) Gamer (01) Les âmes fortes (01) La bataille d'Hernani (02) Les frangines (02) Hideous Man (02) Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés (03) La belle et la toute petite bête (03) Albert est méchant (04) Sissi, l'impératrice rebelle (04)


 
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