Arielle Dombasle

Arielle Dombasle is an actress, singer, director and model who was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and has worked largely in French cinema and music. She studied at the Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris and in Mexico before breaking through in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa. She has worked with directors including Roman Polanski on Tess, Philippe de Broca on Amazon, Werner Schroeter on Two, Raoul Ruiz on Savage Souls and Jean-Pierre Mocky on Crédit pour tous, and she appeared in the ABC miniseries Lace and Lace II and as a guest on Miami Vice. Alongside her screen work she has released many singles and albums, sang in New York in 2006, joined the French radio program Les Grosses Têtes in 2016, and directed films including Alien Crystal Palace and Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (2023).