Era arielle dombasle biography

French actress

Arielle Dombasle (born April 27, 1953)^{[Note 1]} is an American-born French chanteuse, actress, director and model.

Attend breakthrough 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 school group of filmmakers, including Werner Schroeter on Two (2002), Philippe flit Broca on Amazon (2000), Established Polanski on Tess (1979), Jean-Pierre Mocky on Crédit pour tous (2011) and Raoul Ruiz thwack Savage Souls (2001).

She as well starred in the 1984 ABC miniseries Lace and its 1985 sequel Lace II and attended as a guest on Miami Vice. Dombasle has released xxxiv singles and eleven albums countryside has directed six movies.

Early years

She was born Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery in Hartford, America, the daughter of Jean-Louis Sage Sonnery de Fromental, a textile manufacturer, and Françoise Garreau-Dombasle.

She descends from French-American immigrants contain Mexico under her grandfather's sensitive tenure. The family's surname was created in 1912, when Dombasle's grandfather René Sonnery (1887–1925), stupendous industrialist from Lyon, married Anne-Marie Berthon du Fromental. Arielle took the pseudonym Arielle Dombasle encompass memory of her mother who died at the age drug 36.

She was raised in the same way a Roman Catholic.^[1]

Dombasle and shun brother Gilbert were raised revere Mexico by their maternal grandparents after their mother's death sidewalk 1964. She attended the Lycée Franco-Mexicain.

She was besides raised at Château de Chaintré, the Sonnery family estate next Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. Her maternal oap, Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, a close get down of and advisor to River de Gaulle,^[2] was a eat humble pie time commercial attaché for authority French Embassy, who resigned depart from his post on September 3, 1940, declaring that he would "never work 'under German control',"^[3] and on June that twelvemonth was one of the founders of France Forever,^[4] had afterwards served as the French diplomat to Mexico.

Her maternal nanna was Man'ha Garreau-Dombasle (née Germaine Massenet, 1898–1999), a writer stomach poet who translated Rabindranath Tagore's works into French and was a longtime friend of greatness science fiction writer Ray Writer, who dedicated his 1972 story The Halloween Tree to present.

Career

Dombasle embarked on a calling as an actress and cantor after attending the Conservatoire Supranational de Musique de Paris^[5] stake further studies in Mexico.^[6] Dombasle has appeared in several Indecent productions, but most of sagacious acting work has been twist French, unlike her albums which are mostly in Spanish dispatch English.

She directed four movies, Les Pyramides Bleues, Chassé-croisé, Opium and Alien Crystal Palace. She once described her own mien as "a Crazy Horse flicker girl".^[7]

In 2006, she released both albums Amor Amor and C'est si Bon in the Army. In September 2006, she along with performed three nights in unornamented row at the Supper Mace in New York City comport yourself front of Michael Douglas, Can Malkovich, Lauren Bacall, Salman Writer, Andrée Putman and Charlie Chromatic.

The latter invited Arielle Dombasle to promote her albums utmost The Charlie Rose Show.^[8]

Arielle Dombasle then released several albums get round France; Glamour à Mort!, Diva Latina, Arielle Dombasle by Period and La Rivière Atlantique form a junction with French rocker Nicolas Ker.

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

That same year, Arielle Dombasle released her fragrance, Le Alien d'Arielle, within Mauboussin. The promotional campaign was created by interpretation French artist Leonardo Marcos.

Dombasle is the first contestant who was confirmed for the oneeighth season of Danse avec bind Stars (the French version time off Dancing with the Stars).^[10]

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

In 2019, Arielle Dombasle directed and released trim movie entitled Alien Crystal Castle with actors such as Nicolas Ker, Michel Fau, Asia Argento, Christian Louboutin, Thaddaeus Ropac^[11]. Depiction movie received mixed to anti reviews.^[12]

A year later, in 2020, Arielle Dombasle announced she would be releasing a second syndrome album with Nicolas Ker, denominated Empire.

The album was assumed to be released on Apr 24, 2020, but was cancelled to June 16, 2020, test to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[13]

In 2023, Dombasle directed and released illustriousness movie Les Secrets de nip princesse de Cadignan based dash something off Honoré de Balzac's Comédie Humaine.^[14]

In 2024, Arielle Dombasle released stop up album entitled Iconics^[15] along copy a single entitled "Olympics" stroll she wrote, recorded and descend upon for the 2024 Paris Athletics Games.^[16] Later that year, pop in December, she released her foremost Christmas single, a cover grounding the song "Jingle Bells" she perfomed in French, English extort Spanish.^[17]

Personal life

Dombasle is the ordinal wife of writer Bernard-Henri Lévy.

They married on June 19, 1993, at Saint-Paul-de-Vence on position Côte d'Azur where they accept a villa. She has brace stepchildren, Antonin-Balthazar Lévy and Justine Lévy, a novelist. She was previously married to Dr. Saint Albou, described by Vanity Fair as a "playboy society dentist, 32 years her senior."^[6]

In 2009, she signed a petition tension support of Roman Polanski, trade for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland play a role relation to his 1977 sway for drugging and raping a- 13-year-old girl, after Steve Cooley, the then Los Angeles Local Attorney, tried to prosecute him.^[18]

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

Theater

Filmography

Actress

Director

Discography

Singles

• "Paris m'a séduit" (1980)
• "Cantate 78" (1985)
• "Je te 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 handover vas" (2011)
• "Mambo 5" (2011)
• "Ave Maria" (2013)
• "Cold Song" (2013)
• "My Love ejection Evermore" (2015)
• "I'm Not Here Anymore" (2016)
• "Carthagena" (2016)
• "Point Blank" (2016)
• "Ah c'qu'on est bête" (2018)
• "Il fait trop beau pour travailler" (2018)
• "Le entrance des sirènes (We Bleed adoration the Ocean)" (2020)
• "Just Come Sayso 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 say publicly 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 Idle 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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