Sylvia Kristel

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Kristel at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival

Sylvia Kristel (born September 28, 1952 in Utrecht , † October 17, 2012 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch actress and model .

Career

Sylvia Kristel (1973)

At the age of 17 she started working as a model, in 1973 she won the Miss TV Europe competition . She became internationally known in 1974 through the lead role in the erotic film Emmanuelle (based on the novel by Emmanuelle Arsan ). Since then, her name has been closely associated with the film and the film poster, on which she sits with short hair and half-naked in a rattan chair and plays with a pearl necklace, has become a symbol of the sexual revolution . In the 1970s, the erotic film by director Just Jaeckin was the most successful film from French production. In later films, she remained true to her image and, in addition to Emmanuelle's follow-up films, also played the title roles in the erotic film adaptations of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981) and Mata Hari (1985). In 1981 she worked in the United States on the controversial sex comedy Tenderly, Love Begins With. Kristel has appeared in over 50 films as a leading or supporting actress.

In 2004 she directed the short film Topor et moi , which deals with the beginning of her career; he remained her only directorial work.

Private life

In her 2006 autobiography, Kristel describes how she was molested when she was nine. When she was 14 and her younger sister Marianne 12, the parents separated in what Kristel called trauma.

Her son Arthur Kristel (* 1975) comes from a relationship with the Belgian writer Hugo Claus (1929–2008). She left Claus for the actor Ian McShane , whom she met in 1979 while filming the film The Secret of the Iron Mask . The couple moved to Los Angeles, where Kristel tried unsuccessfully to gain a foothold in American films for the next five years and eventually became addicted to cocaine .

After her relationship with McShane, Kristel was married twice. Her marriage to the American businessman Alan Turner ended after five months. Her second marriage was to the film producer Phillippe Blot . She later lived with the Belgian radio producer Fred De Vree until his death.

In addition to Dutch, she also spoke French , English , German and Italian and lived in Amsterdam .

Kristel had been a heavy smoker of unfiltered cigarettes since she was eleven. In 2001 she was diagnosed with cancer of the throat, which later spread to her lungs despite chemotherapy. In July 2012 she suffered a stroke and on October 17, 2012 she finally succumbed to cancer.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1973: Niet voor de Poesen (CATS)
  • 1973: Frank & Eva (Frank en Eva)
  • 1974: Emmanuelle
  • 1974: O's niece (Julia - It wasn't the nightingale )
  • 1975: Emmanuelle 2 - Garden of Love (Emmanuelle: L'antivierge)
  • 1976: Alice (Alice ou la dernière fugue)
  • 1976: The Faithful Woman (Une femme fidèle)
  • 1976: Emanuela 77 (La Marge)
  • 1977: The Wild Meals (René la canne)
  • 1977: Goodbye Emmanuelle
  • 1978: Mysteries
  • 1978: Tigers in Lipstick (Letti selvaggi)
  • 1979: Airport '80 - Die Concorde (The Concorde: Airport '79)
  • 1979: The Secret of the Iron Mask (The Fifth Musketeer)
  • 1980: The Nude Bomb (The Nude Bomb)
  • 1980: First class (Un amore in prima classe)
  • 1981: Lady Chatterley's Lover
  • 1981: Love begins tenderly (Private Lessons)
  • 1983: Private School
  • 1984: Emmanuelle 4 (Emmanuelle IV)
  • 1985: Mata Hari
  • 1985: Love tutoring (The Big Bet)
  • 1985: Red Heat - innocence behind bars (Red Heat)
  • 1987: Casanova (TV movie)
  • 1987: Escape to Death (The Arrogant)
  • 1989: Dracula's Widow (Dracula's Widow)
  • 1989: Fire in Blood (Hot Blood)
  • 1990: In the Shadow of the Sandcastle
  • 1993: Digital Love (Emmanuelle au 7ème ciel)
  • 1993: Emmanuelle's girlfriend (L'amour d'Emmanuelle)
  • 1993: Emmanuelle in Tibet (Éternelle Emmanuelle)
  • 1993: Emmanuelle's magic (Magique Emmanuelle)
  • 1993: Emmanuelles Perfume (Le parfum d'Emmanuelle)
  • 1993: Emmanuelle in Africa (La revanche d'Emmanuelle)
  • 1993: Emmanuelle in Venice (Emmanuelle à Venise)
  • 1993: Emmanuelle's secret (Le secret d'Emmanuelle)
  • 1997: Gaston's War
  • 1999: Harry Rents a Room
  • 2000: The Invincibles
  • 2001: Forgive me (Vergeef me)
  • 2010: Two Sunny Days
  • 2010: The Swing Girls ( Le ragazze dello swing , TV movie)

literature

  • Jean Arcelin, Sylvia Kristel: Undressing Emmanuelle, A Life Stripped Bare. A Memoir ( autobiography , translated by Polly McLean from the French original Nue , Cherche midi, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-749-10776-9 ). Harpercollins, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-00-725696-9 (English).
    • Dutch translation: Naakt: een autobiography (translated by Truus Boot and Eveline van Hemert), Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-234-2553-3 .

Web links

Commons : Sylvia Kristel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Emmanuelle" actress Sylvia Kristel is dead on derwesten.de, accessed on October 18, 2012
  2. ↑ Sylvia Kristel, Miss TV Europe, In A Floral Crop Top (PHOTO) (The Huffington Post , August 30, 2012, accessed October 18, 2012)
  3. ^ "Emmanuelle" actress Sylvia Kristel has died
  4. ^ Marc Felix Serrao: Forever Emmanuelle . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung 242/2012, October 19, 2012, p. 12.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f My violent love affair with Lovejoy at dailymail.co.uk, accessed December 15, 2012
  6. ^ No regrets at heraldscotland.com, accessed September 11, 2013
  7. ^ "Emmanuelle" actress in a clinic: erotic icon suffers stroke at n-tv.de, accessed on July 2, 2012
  8. ^ Actress Sylvia Kristel is dead sueddeutsche.de, accessed on October 18, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Kristel, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2012
Place of death Amsterdam