Karina Lombard
Karina Lombard ( born January 21, 1969, Tahiti, French Polynesia ) is an American actress.
Life
Karina Lombard, was born as the daughter of Henry Lombard, the Swiss-Russian heir to a Geneva banking family and Nupuree Lightfoot, medicine woman of the Lakota, a tribe of Sioux Indians. Her mother died nine months after the birth. She then moved with her father to Barcelona, spent her school years in various Swiss boarding schools and, therefore, is fluent in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian. At 18, she moved to New York City to become an actress. The photographer Bruce Weber, in search of models for Calvin Klein campaign Native Americans, Lombard spotted at a cafe. From then on she was seen as a model in prestigious magazines such as Elle and Vogue. 2005 Lombard was seen in a feature of the magazine Playboy.
Lombard took acting classes at New York's Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the famous actor forge The Actors Studio, first acting experience she gained at the Gallery Theatre and the Neighborhood Playhouse.
Her film career began in 1987 with the female lead role in the French series of the mutineers Island (L' Ile ) after the director François Leterrier Karina had discovered on the cover of the magazine 20 ANS. It was followed by the role of Antoinette Cosway with Karina for the film Wide Sargasso Sea directed by John Duigan, for which she received not only excellent reviews, but also the price First Americans in the art ( FAITA ). Brad Pitt chose for the role of Isabel Two in the movie Legends of the Fall, still she starred with Tom Cruise in the company.
In Germany Lombard was known by until August 2006 broadcast of May on ProSieben Season 1 of the U.S. Showtime series The L Word, as they in the role of the mysterious Marina Ferrer, owner of the West Hollywood cafes The Planet, the favorite meeting place for the L- Word - clique, especially conquered the heart of Jenny Schecter ( Mia Kirshner ). In season 2 and 3 to see Lombard will have some guest appearances in Season 4, which will air in the U.S. in January 2007 via Pay- TV channels ( Showtime ). From 2005 - 2006 she was in two seasons of the series 4400 - To see the returnees as Alana Mareva.
Lombard also works as a singer ( theme song Femmes Océanes from the movie L' Ile ) and songwriter ( Cirque du Soleil ). In 2004, she was with the violinist Dorian Cheah in Los Angeles on stage and working on her first own album.
Lombard was married for seven years from 1991 with the actor and model Anthony Crane.
Filmography
Award
- 2001: First Americans in the Arts Award in the category "Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a TV Movie / Special ( Lead) " for Murder at the Cannes Film Festival