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| Birth Name(s) : Karina Lombard |
Date of Birth: January 21, 1969 |
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Full Karina Lombard Biography
Karina Lombard is often best recognized for her role as the woman who seduced Tom Cruise on the beach in The Firm, or as Brad Pitt's wife in Legends of the Fall, but beginning next summer she will be known to a whole new fan base as the woman who seduces Mia Kirshner's straight character in The L Word (formerly known as Earthlings).
A Showtime series set to premiere in the summer of 2003, The L Word features a cast of well-known and semi-known actresses, including Jennifer Beals, Pam Grier, and Laurel Holloman, among others, and revolves around Kirshner's character Jenny as she moves to L.A. with her boyfriend and subsequently begins to question her sexuality after befriending her new lesbian neighbors (played Beals and Holloman).
In the pilot, Lombard plays the pivotal role of Marina, the woman who introduces Jenny to her sapphic side--or, as described by director Chaiken, "the fabulous seductress who rocks Jenny's world."
Karina Lombard's has the most diverse ethnic background of any of the The L Word cast members--her maternal grandparents are Lakota Indians from South Dakota and her father is Swiss Russian-Italian--and speaks English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Born in Tahiti, Karina moved with her father to Barcelona with she was only a year old and subsequently attended a number of private Swiss boarding schools.
Although Lombard admits that she was never really educated about her Native culture because her father and his family discouraged it, she maintains her Native heritage "is inside of me and I feel quite connected to it." Consequently, she always tries to ensure"that Native Americans be represented in the best and most truthful light possible" in the roles she plays.
On a trip to New York as a teenager, Lombard was "discovered" by Bruce Weber for an ad campaign on Native Americans. She got her acting start at eighteen as a half-Tahitian and half-English girl in the Canadian miniseries L'isle, and then moved to New York to launch her American acting career with a small part in The Doors in 1991. Two years later she won a "First Americans in the Arts" award as a Native American Actress for her role in Wide Sargasso Sea, in which she played a Creole woman in Jamaica. She also played a Native American woman in 1993's Legends of the Fall, as Brad Pitt's wife, and had a memorable role a year earlier as the prostitute who seduces Tom Cruise on the beach in The Firm.
Along the way she also appeared as a slave girl in Kull the Conquerer (1997), a photographer in Footsteps (aka Deception, 2001), and a police chief in the 2000 telefilm Murder at the Cannes Film Festival. |
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Additional Karina Lombard Biography
Lombard's mother, Nupuree Lightfoot, was an immigrant of Lakota Sioux ethnicity living in Tahiti. Her father, Henry Lombard, was a European aristocrat. Lombard is a naturalized U.S. citizen, but when she was one year old, her parents separated, and her father, who is of Russian, Italian and Swiss descent, took Karina and her four siblings, Helen, Inez, Charles, and Denise, to live at his estate in Barcelona, Spain. She went on to attend a number of Swiss boarding schools, including in Lausanne, where she has said that "being American Indian meant being treated like a savage". Over the years she gained proficiency in Spanish, English, Italian, French, and German. She came to New York when she was 18 and began modeling and studying acting.
Lombard's major break in modeling came about due to a Calvin Klein photo shoot with a Native American theme. One of her photographs was chosen to be a billboard ad.
As an actress, she appeared on the first season of The L Word, and also in The 4400. She reprised her role as Marina Ferrer in the first episode of Season Four of The L Word and made one more brief appearance later that season (as an actress auditioning for Jenny's film, Les Girls).
Her theatre training and stage experience primarily comes from New York City's Gallery Theatre, the Neighborhood Playhouse, the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the Actors Studio. Lombard was with controversial director Damian Chapa shortly after his divorce from Natasha Henstridge.
Lombard has hinted at being bisexual. When asked about her love scenes in The L Word she said, "I grew up in Europe and you know - you love who you love, so I didn't have to prepare, you know what I mean?"
Later, in 2006, she did a six-page nude pictorial for Playboy where she portrayed both feminine and masculine counterparts of a lesbian couple. The concept was her own idea. She told planetout.com: "one night I had this dream about these images, and it was all about the dichotomy of male and female within an individual, and the empowerment within a human being in embracing the female and the male inside of you -- the dichotomy of the wild self vs. the tamed self. I woke up and I was like, "Whoa -- what was that about?" And when I get those dreams, it's always very specific, and for a specific reason, it's not random."
Though this comment and the pictorial would seem to confirm her orientation as bisexual, she told the magazine: 'I thought I was bisexual until I did the The L Word, then I associated it with work..."
In a Planetout interview she was asked, "What type of women are you attracted to, butch or femme?" and answered, "I don't have categories, I just go with the person. You can be butch and really sexy, and you can be femme and really sexy." |
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