Solveig Dommartin

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Solveig Dommartin (born May 16, 1961 in Constantine , Algeria , † January 11, 2007 in Paris ) was a French actress .

Life

Dommartin's acting career began with the “Compagnie Timothee Laine” and at the “Theater Labor Warsaw”. She gained her first film experience as an assistant to Jacques Rozier . She made her debut as a film actress in Wim Wenders ' film Der Himmel über Berlin (1986/87).

This was followed by other roles in Wenders' films, including the leading role in the film Until the End of the World , which she conceived together with Wenders. Together they traveled around the world looking for suitable locations for the project. They were also a couple in private.

However, Dommartin's career stagnated after the Wenders films. She also played two television roles, one as a guest star alongside Jean-Claude Dauphin and Claude Jade in the Kommissar Navarro crime thriller Sentiments mortels (1995), the other in 1996 alongside Francis Huster in the television crime thriller A qui profite le crime? from the "Commandant Nerval" series. In 1998 she directed the film If There Were a Bridge .

Solveig Dommartin died on January 11, 2007 at the age of 45 from complications from a heart attack . She is buried in Bulgnéville , where she spent part of her childhood.

Filmography

As an actress

As a film editor

As a director

  • 1998: Il suffirait d'un pont (short film)

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personal data
SURNAME Dommartin, Solveig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantine (Algeria) , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2007
Place of death Paris