Karina Lombard

Karina Lombard is a Tahitian actress who started in modeling, where a Native American themed photo shoot led to a billboard and then her first acting job. She trained in New York, studying at the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and gained stage experience at the Gallery Theatre and Neighborhood Playhouse. Her debut film role was a princess in L'île (The Island). In 1993 she took the lead as Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea, adapted from Jean Rhys's novel. That same year she appeared in The Firm (1993), and a year later she was Isabel Two in Legends of the Fall (1994). She also starred opposite Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing (1996). On television she took the role of Marina Ferrer during the opening season of The L Word, later made guest appearances in the fourth and sixth seasons, and had a recurring part on Rescue Me. She also appeared in The 4400.