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Arielle Dombasle is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Music French born on 27 april 1953 at Hartford (USA)

Arielle Dombasle

Arielle Dombasle
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Birth name Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery
Nationality France
Birth 27 april 1953 (71 years) at Hartford (USA)
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur

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.

Biography

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 "playboy society dentist 32 years her senior."

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.

Best films

Little Indian, Big City (1994)
(Actress)
Two Dads and One Mom (1996)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Arielle Dombasle (82 films)

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Actress

Heads or Tails, 1h43
Directed by Claude Fournier
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Roy Dupuis, Patrick Huard, Arielle Dombasle, Charlotte Laurier, Normand Lévesque, Guy Nadon
Roles Rose Petipas
Rating59% 2.961572.961572.961572.961572.96157
In order to make money fast to put his company back on track, Dominique (Roy Dupuis) encouraged by his business partner Pierre Sanchez (Patrick Huard) finds a job as an antique dealer for Victor (Normand Lévesque). But soon he realizes that the only way he will keep his job is by pretending he is gay, slowly breaking his marriage with his wife Maude (Charlotte Laurier) and stirring weird emotions from his mother Elisabeth (France Castel).
Two Dads and One Mom, 1h25
Directed by Smaïn, Jean-Marc Longval
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Arielle Dombasle, Antoine de Caunes, Julie Gayet, Smaïn, Abder El Kebir, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Roles Delphine
Rating28% 1.433121.433121.433121.433121.43312
Delphine et Jérôme veulent avoir un enfant mais ce dernier apprend qu'il est stérile. Ensemble, ils vont demander à Salim — le meilleur ami de Jérôme — de faire un don de sperme pour permettre une insémination artificielle à la future maman.
Three Lives and Only One Death, 2h3
Directed by Raoul Ruiz
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier
Roles Helene
Rating67% 3.3930253.3930253.3930253.3930253.393025
Tantôt riche personnage qui aide un jeune couple, professeur en Sorbonne qui devient clochard ou maître d'hôtel, Marcello Mastroianni campe un personnage affecté par le syndrome de la multiplication de la personnalité. Pris dans le tourbillon de ce conte fantastique, Mastroianni vit trois vies et assume trois destins qui ne cesseront de s'entrecouper tout au long du film.
Celestial Clockwork, 1h27
Directed by Fina Torres
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Ariadna Gil, Arielle Dombasle, Évelyne Didi, Lluís Homar, Olivier Granier, Didier Azoulay
Roles Céleste
Rating66% 3.3351053.3351053.3351053.3351053.335105
Ana, une jeune cantatrice de Caracas sur le point de se marier, s’enfuit précipitamment à Paris. Les astres vont lui être à la fois bénéfiques et maléfiques : elle fait parallèlement la connaissance d’un gentil groupe de latinos et celle de l’arriviste et inquiétante artiste-vidéaste Céleste.
One Hundred and One Nights, 1h41
Directed by Agnès Varda
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Historical, Romance
Actors Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet, Mathieu Demy, Anouk Aimée
Roles Singer at the Garden Party (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.245193.245193.245193.245193.24519
Film student Camille Miralis (Julie Gayet) is hired by Simon Cinéma, a centenarian cinephile, who lives in a castle and is losing his memory. Over a period of three months she is paid to tell him stories from various films to help him remember his past.
The Blue Villa, 1h40
Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Fred Ward, Arielle Dombasle, Dimitris Poulikakos, Sandrine Le Berre, Charles Tordjman-Darbaud, Muriel Jacobs
Roles Sarah La Blonde
Rating71% 3.5912153.5912153.5912153.5912153.591215
Living on an isolated Greek island are a few native Greeks; several Chinese who spend their days playing mahjong; Nordmann, a boozy screenwriter; and seductive Sarah la-Blonde, the madam at the Blue Villa, the town whorehouse, in which Sarah hides Santa, alias Lotus Blossom. Sarah is teaching Santa to sing an aria from Wagner. One day, Frank arrives on the island. At first, he does not speak and appears to be looking for something or someone. It is later learned that he was involved in the supposed death of Santa, who just might be Nordmann's daughter. It is up to the local police chief, Thieu, to figure out what parts of the story are true and what parts are fiction.
Concerning Nice, 1h40
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Raoul Ruiz, Costa-Gavras, Claire Denis, Pavel Lounguine, Catherine Breillat, Raymond Depardon, Parviz Kimiavi
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes La provence, Documentary films about cities
Actors Grégoire Colin, Laura del Sol, Arielle Dombasle, Parviz Kimiavi
Rating57% 2.8597652.8597652.8597652.8597652.859765
65 ans après le documentaire d'inspiration surréaliste de Jean Vigo, À propos de Nice, de 1930, un hommage au cinéaste de L'Atalante et Zéro de conduite.
L'Annamite
L'Annamite (1995)
, 1h50
Directed by Thierry Chabert
Origin France
Genres Biography
Actors Marie Bunel, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Arielle Dombasle, Wadeck Stanczak, Dany Carrel
Roles Jeanne, l'amie de Juliette

La vie de la petite Yvonne (ici renommée Anne) Chazelles du Chaxel, fille illégitime d'Aimé Chazelles du Chaxel et d'une Vietnamienne nommée Kam, de sa naissance en Indochine à sa transformation en Dany Carrel, vedette du grand écran dans les années 1960 et 1970.
Little Indian, Big City, 1h30
Directed by Antoine Santana, Hervé Palud, Alain Nauroy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Indiens d'Amazonie
Actors Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Timsit, Ludwig Briand, Miou-Miou, Arielle Dombasle, Sonia Vollereaux
Roles Charlotte
Rating56% 2.820822.820822.820822.820822.82082
Steph, a commodities broker living in Paris, wants a divorce from his wife Patricia to marry another woman: Charlotte. However, Patricia has been living among the Venezuelan Amazonas Indians for the past 13 years, so Steph travels to the Indian village to meet her and ask her to sign the divorce papers.
The Absence, 1h52
Directed by Peter Handke
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Jeanne Moreau, Bruno Ganz, Alex Descas, Jenny Alpha, Arielle Dombasle
Rating62% 3.1307553.1307553.1307553.1307553.130755
Quête initiatique de plusieurs personnages à travers des univers désolés.
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque, 1h45
Directed by Éric Rohmer
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Pascal Greggory, Arielle Dombasle, Fabrice Luchini, Clémentine Amouroux, François-Marie Banier
Roles Bérénice Beaurivage
Rating68% 3.441373.441373.441373.441373.44137
In Saint-Juire-Champgillon, a village in Vendée, a young socialist mayor decides to build a media library.
Villa Mauresque, 1h45
Directed by Patrick Mimouni
Genres Drama
Actors Pascal Greggory, Arielle Dombasle, Luís Miguel Cintra, Olga Valery, Rogério Samora
Roles Sandra

Vincent Stroeler, un Suisse apparemment détaché de tout, s’est trouvé un emploi de gardien de nuit dans un ancien palace, l’hôtel Villa Mauresque à Lisbonne. Une cliente française, Sandra, le mêle peu à peu à ses trafics de prostitution. Ces trafics, à la fois pathétiques et extravagants, sortent Vincent de sa torpeur et lui redonnent goût à la vie. Cependant la rencontre d’un écrivain portugais, Tiago Sena, et les circonstances qui amèneront sa mort, bouleverseront leur couple et mettront fin à leur aventure.
Off Season
Off Season (1992)
, 1h35
Directed by Daniel Schmid
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Sami Frey, Geraldine Chaplin, Marisa Paredes, Ingrid Caven, Andréa Ferréol, Arielle Dombasle
Roles Mrs. Studer
Rating61% 3.080663.080663.080663.080663.08066
Adult narrator, (Sami Frey) recalls his myserious childhood at a mountainside hotel which he shared with his mother, grandmother and the hotel's guests. The hotel is host to a series of interesting guests, from the actress, Sarah Bernhard (Paredes), an anarchist assassin (Chaplin), torch singers and seductive women.