Karina Lombard
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Karina Lombard | |
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Born | Tahiti, French Polynesia, France | January 21, 1969
Nationality | French and American |
Occupation(s) | Actress, screenwriter and director |
Years active | 1987–Present |
Website | karinalombard |
Karina Lombard (born January 21, 1969) is a French-American actor, screenwriter and director. She is best known for her role as Marina Ferrer in Season 1 of The L Word, and has had smaller roles in film and television, including the films “Wide Sargasso Sea”, “The Firm”, and “Legends of the Fall”, and TV series “NCIS,” CSI: “Rescue Me”, and “The 4400.”
Early life
Karina Lombard was born in Tahiti, is the youngest of five children. She was raised in Spain, Switzerland and Peru, and claims fluency in English, Spanish, Italian, French and German. She currently resides in Venice, California.
Career
Lombard's major break in modeling was a Calvin Klein photo shoot with a "Native American" theme, after which she started claiming to have Native American heritage. One of her photographs was chosen for a billboard. Photographs of her as a model appeared in Elle and Vogue.[1]
She studied acting in New York City, where she also gained stage experience. She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the Actors Studio, and performed also at New York City's Gallery Theatre and the Neighborhood Playhouse.
Lombard's first film role was as a princess in L'île (The Island).[1] She played her first major role as Antoinette Cosway, a Jamaican heiress, in Wide Sargasso Sea in 1993, based on the novel of the same name by Jean Rhys. She had a supporting part that year in The Firm.
Lombard appeared in the 1994 film Legends of the Fall, based on the novel by Jim Harrison. She starred in Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis in 1996.[1]
In the 2000s Lombard moved into television, appearing in The 4400 and on the first season of The L Word, as restaurateur Marina Ferrer. She portrayed the recurring character Geneviève on FX's Rescue Me.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1991 | The Doors | Warhol Actress | |
1993 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Antoinette Cosway | |
1993 | The Firm | Girl on beach | |
1994 | Legends of the Fall | Isabel Two | |
1996 | Last Man Standing | Felina | |
1997 | Kull the Conqueror | Zareta | |
1998 | Exposé | Amber Collins | |
2001 | Guardian | Katherine Kross | |
2003 | Deception | Margareth de Vries | |
2004 | Big Kiss | Liz | |
2011 | Jo's Boy | Alice Hamilton | |
2018 | Reign of Judges: Title of Liberty | Mahigana | Short film/action |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1987 | L'île | Ivoa | TV miniseries |
1998 | Early Edition | Sammia Watts | "Mum's the Word" |
1998 | The Violent Earth | Anna Temaru | TV miniseries |
1999 | The Seventh Scroll | Royan | TV miniseries |
2000 | Murder at the Cannes Film Festival | Inspector Renee Reno | TV film |
2004 | Dr. Vegas | Jessica Rhodes / Black Widow | "All In" |
2004–2009 | The L Word | Marina Ferrer | Main role (Season 1) Guest (Season 4,6) |
2005–2006 | The 4400 | Alana Mareva | Main role |
2007 | Secrets | Claude Perkins | TV miniseries |
2007 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Pippa Sanchez | "A La Cart" |
2009 | Rescue Me | Geneviéve | Recurring role |
2011 | CSI: NY | Eva Martinez | "Holding Cell" |
2012 | NCIS | Monique Lisson | "The Missionary Position" |
2014 | Le Family Show | Mayi Rioux | TV film |
Awards
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
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1997 | FAITA Award | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a movie (lead) | Kull the Conqueror (1997) | Won |
2004 | FAITA Award | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a TV series (lead) | The L Word (2004) | Won |
2011 | FAITA Award | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a TV Movie/Special (lead) | Murder at the Cannes Film Festival (2000) | Won |
References
- ^ a b c Brady, James (September 22, 1996), "In step with Karina Lombard", Parade Magazine: 14
External links
- 1969 births
- Living people
- American female models
- American film actresses
- American people of Russian descent
- American people of Italian descent
- American people of Swiss descent
- French Polynesian people of Italian descent
- French Polynesian people of Swiss descent
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- French Polynesian actresses
- French Polynesian emigrants to the United States
- French Polynesian people
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Actresses of Italian descent