Dombasle, Arielle

(Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery / April 27, 1953, Hartford, Connecticut, USA-)

   The granddaughter of a French ambassador in Mexico and the daughter of a textile industrialist, she spent her adolescence in Mexico. She moved to Paris, where she attended dramatic art courses and studied lyric art at the Paris International Conserva­tory of Music. She more recently has become a singer but remains known mostly as an actress (almost 100 movies from 1970 The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jo-dorowsky, USA / Mexico, to 2008 La Possibilité d'une Ile, Michel Houellebecq).

 Filmography

1982 ◘ Chassé-Croisé (also screenwriter, dialogist, singer, actor)

1988 ◘ Les Pyramides bleues / La novicia / Paradise Calling (also screenwriter, co-dialogist, singer, actor; France / Mexico)

2008 ◘ Le Bijou indiscret (short; also screenwriter)