Alessandra Martines
Alessandra Martines ( born September 19, 1963 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian film actress.
Life
Alessandra Martines is a second cousin of Carla Bruni, the wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and raised from the age of five in France. Here she attended a drama school in Paris, and was at the age of 15 years in Schauspielhaus in Zurich on stage. In 1981 she moved to the United States, where she worked at theaters in New York City and Chicago.
From the mid- 1980s, followed first television appearances and theater engagements in Italy and France.
Martines has become very well known in German-speaking mainly by their main and title role in Princess Fantaghirò.
In addition, she appeared in some Italian / French co-productions, which mainly her husband, Oscar-winner Claude Lelouch, directed by. The two met in 1993 and married two years later. On 10 October 1998 their daughter Stella was born. 2008 Martines and Lelouch divorced.
Martines is romantically involved since 2008 with the German - French actor Cyril Descours. On 26 October 2012, Martines and Descours parents of a son, Hugo.
She speaks her native Italian also fluent in English and French.