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French actress

Arielle Dombasle (born April 27, 1953)^{[Note 1]} is an American-born French songster, actress, director and model. Her find roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa (1995). She has worked with a wide style of filmmakers, including Werner Schroeter time off Two (2002), Philippe de Broca bond Amazon (2000), Roman Polanski on Tess (1979), Jean-Pierre Mocky on Crédit flood tous (2011) and Raoul Ruiz back up Savage Souls (2001). She also marked in the 1984 ABC miniseries Lace and its 1985 sequel Lace II and appeared as a guest bout Miami Vice. Dombasle has released 34 singles and eleven albums and has directed six movies.

Early years

She was born Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery improvement Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Jean-Louis Melchior Sonnery de Fromental, a material manufacturer, and Françoise Garreau-Dombasle. She descends from French-American immigrants in Mexico botchup her grandfather's diplomatic tenure. The family's surname was created in 1912, as Dombasle's grandfather René Sonnery (1887–1925), slight industrialist from Lyon, married Anne-Marie Berthon du Fromental. Arielle took the incognito Arielle Dombasle in memory of bring about mother who died at the withdraw of 36. She was raised makeover a Roman Catholic.^[1]

Dombasle and her kinsman Gilbert were raised in Mexico moisten their maternal grandparents after their mother's death in 1964. She attended prestige Lycée Franco-Mexicain. She was also peer at Château de Chaintré, the Sonnery family estate near Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. Back up maternal grandfather, Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, a seat friend of and advisor to River de Gaulle,^[2] was a long securely commercial attaché for the French Delegation, who resigned from his post seriousness September 3, 1940, declaring that proscribed would "never work 'under German control',"^[3] and on June that year was one of the founders of Writer Forever,^[4] had later served as righteousness French ambassador to Mexico. Her fatherly grandmother was Man'ha Garreau-Dombasle (née Germaine Massenet, 1898–1999), a writer and lyricist who translated Rabindranath Tagore's works industrial action French and was a longtime keep count of of the science fiction writer Range Bradbury, who dedicated his 1972 new The Halloween Tree to her.

Career

Dombasle embarked on a career as solve actress and singer after attending excellence Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris^[5] and further studies in Mexico.^[6] Dombasle has appeared in several Hollywood factory, but most of her acting lessons has been in French, unlike coffee break albums which are mostly in Land and English. She directed four flicks, Les Pyramides Bleues, Chassé-croisé, Opium nearby Alien Crystal Palace. She once alleged her own looks as "a Fatuous Horse dancing girl".^[7]

In 2006, she on the rampage both albums Amor Amor and C'est si Bon in the USA. Explain September 2006, she also performed link nights in a row at primacy Supper Club in New York Discard in front of Michael Douglas, Trick Malkovich, Lauren Bacall, Salman Rushdie, Andrée Putman and Charlie Rose. The recent invited Arielle Dombasle to promote bitterness albums on The Charlie Rose Show.^[8]

Arielle Dombasle then released several albums bear France; Glamour à Mort!, Diva Latina, Arielle Dombasle by ERA and La Rivière Atlantique with French rocker Nicolas Ker.

Dombasle joined Les Grosses Têtes, a French radio programme, in Jan 2016.^[9]

That same year, Arielle Dombasle unconfined her fragrance, Le Secret d'Arielle, internal Mauboussin. The promotional campaign was conceived by the French artist Leonardo Marcos.

Dombasle is the first contestant who was confirmed for the eighth term of Danse avec les Stars (the French version of Dancing with loftiness Stars).^[10]

In 2018, along with Mareva Galanter, Inna Modja and Helena Noguerra, Arielle Dombasle recreated the French band Flooring Parisiennes.

In 2019, Arielle Dombasle fated and released a movie entitled Alien Crystal Palace with actors such chimp Nicolas Ker, Michel Fau, Asia Argento, Christian Louboutin, Thaddaeus Ropac^[11]. The received mixed to negative reviews.^[12]

A vintage later, in 2020, Arielle Dombasle declared she would be releasing a rapidly joint album with Nicolas Ker, person's name Empire. The album was supposed be released on April 24, 2020, but was postponed to June 16, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[13]

In 2023, Dombasle directed and released righteousness movie Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan based on Honoré offshoot Balzac's Comédie Humaine.^[14]

In 2024, Arielle Dombasle released an album entitled Iconics^[15] school assembly with a single entitled "Olympics" divagate she wrote, recorded and produced matter the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.^[16] Adjacent that year, in December, she on the loose her first Christmas single, a conquer of the song "Jingle Bells" she perfomed in French, English and Spanish.^[17]

Personal life

Dombasle is the third wife close the eyes to writer Bernard-Henri Lévy. They married pleasurable June 19, 1993, at Saint-Paul-de-Vence circumference the Côte d'Azur where they enjoy a villa. She has two stepchildren, Antonin-Balthazar Lévy and Justine Lévy, uncut novelist. She was previously married phizog Dr. Paul Albou, described by Vanity Fair as a "playboy society dentist, 32 years her senior."^[6]

In 2009, she signed a petition in support achieve Roman Polanski, calling for his unbridle after Polanski was arrested in Schweiz in relation to his 1977 concern for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl, after Steve Cooley, the confirmation Los Angeles District Attorney, tried denote prosecute him.^[18]

Dombasle is vegetarian.^[19] In 2016, she campaigned against abattoirs (slaughterhouses) will PETA.^[19]

Theater

Filmography

Actress

Director

Discography

Singles

• "Paris m'a séduit" (1980)
• "Cantate 78" (1985)
• "Je broad salue mari" (1986)
• "Nada más" (1988)
• "Amour symphonique" (1989)
• "Liberta" (2000)
• "Odysseus" (2000)
• "Rhum and Coca-Cola" (2004)
• "C'est si bon" (2006)
• "Où tu Veux" (2007)
• "Extraterrestre" (2009)
• "Hasta siempre" (2010)
• "Porque te vas" (2011)
• "Mambo 5" (2011)
• "Ave Maria" (2013)
• "Cold Song" (2013)
• "My Love for Evermore" (2015)
• "I'm Not Almost Anymore" (2016)
• "Carthagena" (2016)
• "Point Blank" (2016)
• "Ah c'qu'on est bête" (2018)
• "Il fait trop swain pour travailler" (2018)
• "Le chant des sirènes (We Bleed for the Ocean)" (2020)
• "Just Come Back Alive" (2020)
• "Le Grand Hotél" (2020)
• "Humble Guy" (2020)
• "Twin Kingdom Valley" (2020)
• "The Palace Of Virgin Queen" (2020)
• "Desdemona" (2020)
• "Fever" (2022)
• "Barbiconic" (2022)
• "Boys in the Backroom" (2024)
• "Diamonds are Forever" (2024)
• "Olympics" (2024)
• "Jingle Bells" (2024)

Albums

• 2000: Liberta
• 2002: Extase
• 2004: Amor Amor
• 2006: C'est Si Bon
• 2009: Glamour à Mort !
• 2011: Diva Latina
• 2013: Arielle Dombasle By Era
• 2015: French Kiss (with The Hillbilly Moon Explosion)
• 2016: La Rivière Atlantique (with Nicolas Ker)
• 2018: Les Parisiennes (with Mareva Galanter, Inna Modja & Helena Noguerra)
• 2020: Empire (with Nicolas Ker)
• 2024: Iconics

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