Arielle Dombasle

Arielle Dombasle
Arielle Dombasle
Born	Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery; 27 April 1953; Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Citizenship	United States; France;
Occupation	Actress, singer, director
Years active	1978–present
Spouse(s)	Paul Albou (1976–1985); Bernard-Henri Lévy (1993–present)
Website	Official website

Arielle Dombasle (born April 27, 1953)[Note 1] is an American-born French 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 also starred in the 1984 miniseries Lace and its 1985 sequel Lace II. Since 1978 she has released twenty-one singles and ten albums and has directed four movies.

Early years

She was born Arielle Laure Maxime Sonnery in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Jean-Louis Melchior Sonnery de Fromental, a silk manufacturer, and Francion Garreau-Dombasle. She descends from French-American immigrants in Mexico under her grandfather's diplomatic tenure. The family's surname was created in 1912, when Dombasle's grandfather René Sonnery (1887–1925), an industrialist from Lyon, married Anne-Marie Berthon du Fromental. Arielle took the pseudonym Arielle Dombasle in memory of her mother who died at the age of 36. She was raised as a Roman Catholic.[1]

Dombasle and her brother Gilbert were raised in Mexico by their maternal grandparents after their mother's death in 1964. She attended the Lycée Franco-Mexicain. She was also raised at Château de Chaintré, the Sonnery family estate near Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. Her maternal grandfather, Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, was a close friend of and advisor to Charles de Gaulle and served as the French ambassador to Mexico. Her maternal grandmother was Man'ha Garreau-Dombasle (née Germaine Massenet, 1898–1999), a writer and poet who translated Rabindranath Tagore's works into French and was a longtime friend of the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who dedicated his 1972 novel The Halloween Tree to her.

Career

Dombasle embarked on a career as an actress and singer after attending the Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris[2] and further studies in Mexico.[3] Dombasle has appeared in several Hollywood productions, but most of her acting work has been in French, unlike her albums which are mostly in Spanish and English. She directed four films, Les Pyramides Bleues, Chassé-croisé, Opium and Alien Crystal Palace. She once described her own looks as "a Crazy Horse dancing girl".[4]

In 2006, she released both albums Amor Amor and C'est si Bon in the USA. In September 2006, she also performed three nights in a row at the Supper Club in New York City in front of Michael Douglas, John Malkovich, Lauren Bacall, Salman Rushdie, Andrée Putman and Charlie Rose. The latter invited Arielle Dombasle to promote her albums on The Charlie Rose Show.[5]

Arielle Dombasle then released several albums in 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 January 2016.[6]

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

Dombasle is the first contestant who was confirmed for the eighth season of Danse avec les Stars (the French version of Dancing with the Stars).[7]

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

Two years later, in 2020, Arielle Dombasle announced she would be releasing a second joint album with Nicolas Ker, named Empire. The album was supposed to be released on April 24, 2020, but was postponed to June 16, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]

Personal life

Dombasle is the third wife of writer Bernard-Henri Lévy. They 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."[3]

Dombasle is vegetarian.[9] In 2016, she campaigned against abattoirs (slaughterhouses) for PETA.[9]

Theater

Year	Title	Author	Director	Notes
1979	Das Käthchen von Heilbronn	Heinrich von Kleist	Éric Rohmer	Maison de la culture de Nanterre
1979	La Fugue	Francis Lacombrade & Bernard Broca	Jean-Claude Brialy	Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
1985	Retour à Florence	Henry James	Simone Benmussa	Théâtre Renaud-Barrault
1991	L'Absolu naturel	Goffredo Parise	Simone Benmussa	Théâtre Renaud-Barrault
1991	L'as-tu revue ?	Olivier Benezech	Olivier Benezech	Opéra-Comique
1992	Le Jugement dernier	Bernard-Henri Lévy	Jean-Louis Martinelli	Théâtre de l'Atelier
2003	La Belle et la Toute Petite Bête	Jérôme Savary	Jérôme Savary	Opéra-Comique
2008	Don Quichotte contre l'Ange bleu	Jérôme Savary	Jérôme Savary	Théâtre de Paris
2013	El Tigre	Alfredo Arias	Alfredo Arias	Théâtre du Rond-Point
2017	Folle Amanda	Pierre Barillet & Jean-Pierre Gredy	Marie-Pascale Osterrieth	Théâtre de Paris

Filmography

Actress

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1978	Perceval le Gallois	Blanchefleur	Éric Rohmer
1978	Mazarin	Marie-Thérèse	Pierre Cardinal	TV Mini-Series
1979	Tess	Mercy Chant	Roman Polanski
	Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette	Advertising Actress	Jean Yanne
	The French Atlantic Affair	Hotel Operator	Douglas Heyes	TV miniseries
	Les dossiers de l'écran	Marie de Bourgogne	Alexandre Astruc	TV series (1 Episode)
1980	Justocoeur	Guest	Mary Stephen
1980	Catherine de Heilbronn	Kunigunde de Thurneck	Éric Rohmer	TV movie
1981	Fruits of Passion	Nathalie	Shūji Terayama
	Une robe noire pour un tueur	The drug addict	José Giovanni
	Putain d'histoire d'amour	Antonella	Gilles Béhat
	Les panthères	Micheline	Philippe Masson	TV movie
	La princesse lointaine	Clarisse	Jean-Pierre Prévost	TV movie
	Histoires extraordinaires	Lady Ligeia Fell	Maurice Ronet	TV series (1 Episode)
1982	Le Beau Mariage	Clarisse	Éric Rohmer
	Chassé-croisé	Ermine	Arielle Dombasle
	Laissé inachevé à Tokyo	Sophie	Olivier Assayas	Short
	Les dames à la licorne		Lazare Iglesis	TV movie
	Mozart	Nancy	Marcel Bluwal	TV miniseries
1983	La Belle captive	The hysterical woman	Alain Robbe-Grillet
	Pauline at the Beach	Marion	Éric Rohmer
	Rosette sort le soir	Katie	Rosette	Short
	Un été nommé désir	Arielle	Fred de Fooko	Short
1984	Los motivos de Berta		José Luis Guerín
	Rosette prend sa douche	Sapho	Rosette	Short
	Penelope Last	The woman	Fernando Cobo	Short
	Lace	Maxine Pascal	William Hale	TV miniseries
1985	La Nuit porte-jarretelles	The secretary	Virginie Thévenet
	Vive la mariée	Charlotte	Jean Valère	TV movie
	Lace II	Maxine Pascal	William Hale	TV miniseries
1986	The Boss' Wife	Louise Roalvang	Ziggy Steinberg
	Flagrant désir	Marguerite Barnac	Claude Faraldo
	Sins	Jacqueline Gore	Douglas Hickox	TV miniseries
	Miami Vice	Callie Basset	Rob Cohen	TV series (Episode: "Definitely Miami")
1987	Jeux d'artifices	Arielle	Virginie Thévenet
1988	Les pyramides bleues	Elise	Arielle Dombasle
	Rosette vole les voleurs	The dinner woman	Rosette	Short
	Sueurs froides	Juliette Bolbec	Hervé Palud	TV series (1 Episode)
1989	Twisted Obsession	Marion Derain	Fernando Trueba
	Try This One for Size	Maggie	Guy Hamilton
	Incognito	Renata	Alain Bergala	TV movie
	The Saint: Wrong Number	Stella Moreau	Marijan David Vajda	TV movie
	Around the World in 80 Days	Lucette	Buzz Kulik	TV miniseries
	L'or du diable	Emma Calve	Jean-Louis Fournier	TV miniseries
1990	Moi, général de Gaulle	The Countess of Portes	Denys Granier-Deferre	TV movie
1990	L'homme au double visage	Régine Larnin	Claude Guillemot	TV movie
1991	Lola Zipper	Loretta	Ilan Duran Cohen
1991	Mémoires		Eric Summer	Short
1992	Off Season	Madame Studer	Daniel Schmid
	The Absence		Peter Handke
	La vie crevée	Angele	Guillaume Nicloux
	Villa Mauresque	Sandra	Patrick Mimouni
	Terror Stalks the Class Reunion		Clive Donner	TV movie
	La mare aux crocodiles	Florence Cross	Neal Sundstrom	TV movie
1993	L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque	Bérénice Beaurivage	Éric Rohmer
	Miroslava	Miroslava	Alejandro Pelayo
	Grand bonheur	The actress	Hervé Le Roux
1994	Un indien dans la ville	Charlotte	Hervé Palud
	Fado majeur et mineur	Leda	Raúl Ruiz
	Red Shoe Diaries	Celeste	Rafael Eisenman	TV series (1 Episode)
1995	One Hundred and One Nights	The singer	Agnès Varda
	The Blue Villa	Sarah La Blonde	Dimitri de Clercq & Alain Robbe-Grillet
	Mécaniques célestes	Céleste	Fina Torres
	Raging Angels	Megan	Alan Smithee
	À propos de Nice, la suite		Raúl Ruiz
	L'annamite	Jeanne	Thierry Chabert	TV movie
1996	Three Lives and Only One Death	Hélène	Raúl Ruiz
	Les 2 papas et la maman	Delphine	Jean-Marc Longval & Smaïn
	Soyons amis!	Arielle	Thomas Bardinet	Short
1997	Day and Night	Laure	Bernard-Henri Lévy
	Heads or Tails	Rose Petipas	Claude Fournier
	Jeunesse	Clémence	Noël Alpi
	Opération Bugs Bunny	The fairy	Michel Hassan	TV movie
	Il deserto di fuoco	Magda	Enzo G. Castellari	TV miniseries
	Maigret	Mylène Turner	Pierre Koralnik	TV series (1 Episode)
1998	L'Ennui	Sophie	Cédric Kahn	Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Let There Be Light	The Blond God	Arthur Joffé
	Bo Ba Bu	BA	Ali Khamraev
	Hors jeu	Herself	Karim Dridi
	Les amis de Ninon	The client	Rosette	Short
	Ivre mort pour la patrie	The bride	Vincent Hachet	Short
1999	Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar	Madame Agecanonix	Claude Zidi
	Time Regained	Madame de Farcy	Raúl Ruiz
	Les infortunes de la beauté	Daphné	John Lvoff
	C'est pas ma faute!	Vanessa Goudard	Jacques Monnet
2000	Vatel	Princess of Condé	Roland Joffé
	The Libertine	The Marquise de Jerfeuil	Gabriel Aghion
	Amazone	Margot	Philippe de Broca
	30 ans	Geneviève	Laurent Perrin
	Les faux-fuyants	Luce Ader	Pierre Boutron	TV movie
2001	Savage Souls	Madame Numance	Raúl Ruiz
	Gamer	Valérie Fisher	Patrick Levy
	Les éléphants de la planète Mars	The woman	Philippe Barassat	Short
2002	Two	Professor Barbez	Werner Schroeter
	Hideous Man	Crying woman	John Malkovich	Short
	Les frangines	Alix	Laurence Katrian	TV movie
	La bataille d'Hernani	Mademoiselle Mars / Dona Sol	Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe	TV movie
2003	Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés	Mademoiselle Lecas	Stéphane Clavier
2003	La belle et la toute petite bête	The Beauty	Max Luna	TV movie
2004	Les parisiens	Sabine Duchemin	Claude Lelouch
	Quand je serai star	Diane de Montalte	Patrick Mimouni
	Albert est méchant	Barbara Lechat	Hervé Palud
	Milady	Milady	Josée Dayan	TV movie
	Sissi, l'impératrice rebelle	Sissi	Jean-Daniel Verhaegh	TV movie
2005	Le courage d'aimer	Sabine Duchemin	Claude Lelouch
2006	Oh La La!	Bettina Fleischer	Anne Fontaine
	Gradiva	Leila / Gradiva	Alain Robbe-Grillet
	L'homme de ta vie	Charlotte	Laurence Katrian	TV movie
2008	Sagan	Astrid	Diane Kurys
	La Possibilité d'une île	Mexican Delegate	Michel Houellebecq
	X Femmes	Inspector Blondie	Arielle Dombasle	TV series (1 Episode)
2009	Au siècle de Maupassant	The Duchess of Carigliano	Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe	TV series (1 Episode)
2009	Myster Mocky présente	Hélène Stone	Jean-Pierre Mocky	TV series (2 Episodes)
2010	Roses à crédit	Madame Denise	Amos Gitai
	El baile de San Juan	Virreina	Francisco Athié
	HH, Hitler à Hollywood	Herself	Frédéric Sojcher
	Ni reprise, ni échangée	Julie	Josée Dayan	TV movie
2011	La mer à l'aube	Charmille	Volker Schlöndorff
	Crédit pour tous	Madame Gobert	Jean-Pierre Mocky
	La rouge et la noire	The daughter	Isabelle Prim
2012	Une mariée fascinante	The woman	Ali Mahdavi	Short
2012	Scènes de ménages	Sybille	Karim Adda & Francis Duquet	TV series (1 Episode)
2013	Opium	Mnémosyne	Arielle Dombasle
	À votre bon coeur mesdames	Aphrodite	Jean-Pierre Mocky
	The Return		Karl Lagerfeld	Short
	Doc Martin	Hortense Le Foll	François Velle	TV series (1 Episode)
	Y'a pas d'âge	Cathy	Stéphane Marelli, Vincent Puybaret, ...	TV series (23 Episodes)
2014	Valentin Valentin	Valentin's mother	Pascal Thomas
	DitArielle	Herself	Ali Mahdavi	Short
	Magnum	Herself	Philippe Katerine & Gaëtan Chataignier	TV movie
2017	Fais pas ci, fais pas ça	Herself	Michel Leclerc	TV series (1 Episode)
2018	Alien Crystal Palace	Dolores	Arielle Dombasle
2018	Ma Mère est folle	Jess	Diane Kurys

Director

Year	Title	Notes
1982	Chassé-Croisé
1988	Les Pyramides Bleues
2008	X Femmes : Le Bijou Indiscret	TV Series (1 Episode)
2009	La Traversée du Désir	Documentary
2009	Barbie by Arielle Dombasle
2013	La Voiture d'Albert
2013	Opium
2018	Alien Crystal Palace

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 te vas" (2011)
"Mambo 5" (2011)
"Ave Maria" (2013)
"Cold Song" (2013)
"My Love for 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 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)

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)

Notes

Dombasle's year of birth has been a subject of much debate, and various sources have given dates ranging from 1953 to 1958.

References

Labadie, Pauline (June 7, 2013). "Val-de-Grâce contre Arielle Dombasle: "Une tempête dans un verre d'eau"". Le Figaro. Retrieved September 30, 2016. L'épouse de Bernard Henri-Lévy, catholique fervente, déclare sur son site internet: «Dès l'aurore de ma vie j'ai connu la prière. C'était un moment de recueillement que je croyais obligatoire. Enfant, je m'y appliquais, et déjà, j'en sentais les bienfaits sans trop savoir pourquoi.»
"A Woman at Home in Many Worlds", The New York Sun, May 24, 2006
"Bernard Henri-Levy: France's Prophet Provocateur", vanityfair.com; January 2003.
"crazy horse avec paris cabaret". Pariscabaret.fr. Archived from the original on 2008-08-02. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
"Arielle Dombasle — Charlie Rose". Charlie Rose. September 13, 2006.
Martin, Thomas (January 22, 2016). "Arielle Dombasle rejoint Les Grosses Têtes !". RTL. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
Moreau, Charlotte (July 19, 2017). ""Danse avec les stars" s'offre Arielle Dombasle". Le Parisien (in French).
"" Just Come Back Alive " le premier single extrait d'Empire !". Arielle-Dombasle.com (in French). March 28, 2020.
Beaudoin, Anne-Cécile (September 29, 2016). "Arielle Dombasle, nouvelle icône végétarienne de PETA". Paris Match. Retrieved September 30, 2016.

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[1] Dombasle's year of birth has been a subject of much debate, and various sources have given dates ranging from 1953 to 1958.

[lefigvaldegracecontrearielle-2] Labadie, Pauline (June 7, 2013). "Val-de-Grâce contre Arielle Dombasle: "Une tempête dans un verre d'eau"". Le Figaro. Retrieved September 30, 2016. L'épouse de Bernard Henri-Lévy, catholique fervente, déclare sur son site internet: «Dès l'aurore de ma vie j'ai connu la prière. C'était un moment de recueillement que je croyais obligatoire. Enfant, je m'y appliquais, et déjà, j'en sentais les bienfaits sans trop savoir pourquoi.»

[3] "A Woman at Home in Many Worlds", The New York Sun, May 24, 2006

[autogenerated1-4] "Bernard Henri-Levy: France's Prophet Provocateur", vanityfair.com; January 2003.

[5] "crazy horse avec paris cabaret". Pariscabaret.fr. Archived from the original on 2008-08-02. Retrieved 2012-02-14.

[6] "Arielle Dombasle — Charlie Rose". Charlie Rose. September 13, 2006.

[rtlarielledombaslerejointles-7] Martin, Thomas (January 22, 2016). "Arielle Dombasle rejoint Les Grosses Têtes !". RTL. Retrieved October 4, 2016.

[8] Moreau, Charlotte (July 19, 2017). ""Danse avec les stars" s'offre Arielle Dombasle". Le Parisien (in French).

[9] "" Just Come Back Alive " le premier single extrait d'Empire !". Arielle-Dombasle.com (in French). March 28, 2020.

[matchnouvelleiconebeaudoin-10] Beaudoin, Anne-Cécile (September 29, 2016). "Arielle Dombasle, nouvelle icône végétarienne de PETA". Paris Match. Retrieved September 30, 2016.