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Sylvia Kristel
Sylvia Kristel in 1973
Born
Sylvia Maria Kristel

(1952-09-28)28 September 1952
Utrecht, Netherlands
Died17 October 2012(2012-10-17) (aged 60)[1]
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Occupation(s)Actress, model, memoirist

Sylvia Maria Kristel (28 September 1952 – 17 October 2012)[2] was a Dutch actress who performed in over 50 movies, and was best known for playing the lead character in four of the seven Emmanuelle films.[3][4]

Early life

Kristel was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, the elder daughter of an innkeeper, Jean-Nicholas Kristel, and his wife Piet.[5][6] In her 2006 autobiography, Nue, she claimed to have been sexually abused by an elderly hotel guest when she was nine years old, an experience she otherwise refused to discuss. Her parents divorced when she was fourteen years old after her father abandoned the family for another woman. "It was the saddest thing that ever happened to me", she said of the experience of her parents' separation. [citation needed]

Career

Promotional photo of Sylvia Kristel in Emmanuelle, 1974

Kristel began modeling when she was seventeen. She entered the Miss TV Europe contest in 1973 and won. Multilingual, she spoke Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. She gained international attention in 1974 for playing the title character in the softcore film Emmanuelle which remains one of the most successful French films ever produced. After the success of Emmanuelle, she often played roles that capitalised on that sexually provocative image, most notably starring in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981), and a nudity-filled biopic of the World War I spy in Mata Hari. Her Emmanuelle image followed her to the United States, where she played Nicole Mallow, a maid who seduces a teenage boy, in the 1981 sex comedy Private Lessons.[7] Another mainstream American film appearance was a brief comic turn in the Get Smart revival film The Nude Bomb in 1980.

Kristel at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

Although Private Lessons was one of the highest grossing independent films of 1981 (ranking #28 in US Domestic Gross),[8] Kristel reportedly saw none of the profits and continued to appear in movies and last played Emmanuelle in the early 1990s. In May 1990 she appeared in the television series My Riviera, filmed at her home in St Tropez and offering insights of her life and motivations in an interview with writer-director Michael Feeney Callan. In 2001, she played a small role in Forgive me, Dutch filmmaker Cyrus Frisch's debut. In May 2006, Kristel received an award at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York for directing the animated short film Topor and Me, written by Ruud Den Dryver. The award was presented by Gayle King. After a hiatus of eight years, she acted in the film, Two Sunny Days (2010), and that same year, she played the mother of the Trio Lescano in the TV series The Swing Girls. [citation needed]

Personal life

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Cover of Undressing Emmanuelle, English language translation of autobiography

In September 2006 Kristel's autobiography Nue (Nude) was published in France. It was translated into English as Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir, by Fourth Estate, 2 July 2007 (ISBN 978-0007256952), in which she told of a turbulent personal life blighted by addictions to drugs, alcohol, and her quest for a father figure, which resulted in some harmful relationships with older men. The book received some positive reviews.[9][10]

Her first major relationship was with Belgian author Hugo Claus, twenty three years her senior, with whom she had a son, Arthur (born 1975). Kristel left her husband for British actor Ian McShane, a decade her senior, whom she had met on the set of the 1979 film The Fifth Musketeer. They moved in together in Los Angeles where he had promised to help her launch her American career. However their five year affair would lead to no significant career break for Kristel but a relationship she describes in her autobiography as "awful - he was witty and charming but we were too much alike". About two years into the relationship she began using cocaine. This proved to be her downfall, though at the time she thought of it as a "supervitamin, a very fashionable substance, without danger, but expensive, far more exciting than drowning in alcohol - a fuel necessary to stay in the swing." Interviewed in 2006 for the documentary Hunting Emmanuelle, she describes how, nurturing an expensive cocaine habit, she made a number of poor decisions, including selling her interest in Private Lessons to her agent for $150,000; the film would gross more than $26 million domestically. Since McShane, she married twice, first to an American businessman which ended after five months, and then to film producer Phillippe Blot. She spent a decade with Belgian radio producer Fred De Vree, until his death. [citation needed]

Illness and death

Sylvia Kristel in 2009

A heavy smoker of unfiltered cigarettes from the age of eleven, Kristel was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2001 and underwent three courses of chemotherapy, and surgery after the disease spread to her lungs.[11] On 12 June 2012, she suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in a critical condition.[12] She died in her sleep, aged 60, on 17 October 2012, from esophageal and lung cancer.[13] She was survived by her son, Arthur Claus, and her younger sister, Marianne.

Filmography

  1. The Swing Girls (2010) (TV) .... Eva de Leeuw
  2. Two Sunny Days (2010) .... Angela
  3. Bank (2002) .... Wife
  4. Sexy Boys (2001) .... La sexologue
  5. De vriendschap (2001) .... Sylvia
  6. Vergeef me (2001) .... Chiquita (on stage)
  7. Die Unbesiegbaren (2000) (TV)
  8. Lijmen/Het Been (2000) .... Jeanne
  9. An Amsterdam Tale (1999) .... Alma
  10. Film 1 (1999) .... Patron
  11. Harry Rents a Room (1999) .... Miss Pinky
  12. Gaston's War (1997) .... Miep Visser
  13. Die Sexfalle (1997) (TV) .... Nicole Fuchs
  14. "Onderweg naar morgen" (1994) Serie TV .... Trix Odijk (1996)
  15. "De eenzame oorlog van Koos Tak" (1996) - Tante Heintje (1996) Episodio TV
  16. Emmanuelle au 7ème ciel (1993) .... Emmanuelle
  17. Le secret d'Emmanuelle (1993) (TV)
  18. Beauty School (1993) .... Sylvia
  19. Le parfum d'Emmanuelle (1993) (TV) .... Emmanuelle
  20. Magique Emmanuelle (1993) (TV) .... Emmanuelle
  21. L'amour d'Emmanuelle (1993) (TV) .... Old Emmanuelle
  22. Emmanuelle à Venise (1993) (TV) .... Old Emmanuelle
  23. La revanche d'Emmanuelle (1993) (TV) .... Old Emmanuelle
  24. Éternelle Emmanuelle (1993) (TV) .... Old Emmanuelle
  25. Seong-ae-ui chimmuk (1992)
  26. Hot Blood (1990) .... Sylvia
  27. In the Shadow of the Sandcastle (1990) .... Angel
  28. Dracula's Widow (1988) .... Vanessa
  29. The Arrogant (1988) .... Julie
  30. Casanova (1987) (TV) .... Maddalena
  31. Red Heat (1985) .... Sofia
  32. Mata Hari (1985) .... Mata Hari
  33. The Big Bet (1985) .... Michelle
  34. Emmanuelle IV (1984) .... Sylvia / Emmanuelle
  35. Private School (1983) .... Ms. Regina Copoletta
  36. Private Lessons (1981) .... Nicole Mallow
  37. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981) .... Lady Constance Chatterley
  38. The Million Dollar Face (1981) (TV) .... Brett Devereaux
  39. Un amore in prima classe (1980) .... Beatrice
  40. The Nude Bomb (1980) .... Agent 34
  41. The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979) .... Isabelle
  42. The Fifth Musketeer (1979) .... Maria Theresa
  43. Letti selvaggi (1979) .... The Lady on the Bed/The Unhappy Wife
  44. Mysteries (1978) .... Dany Kielland
  45. Pastorale 1943 (1978) .... Miep Algera
  46. Goodbye Emmanuelle (1977) .... Emmanuelle
  47. René la canne (1977) .... Krista
  48. Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977) .... Alice Caroll
  49. La marge (1976) .... Diana
  50. Une femme fidèle (1976) .... Mathilde Leroy
  51. Emmanuelle: L'antivierge (1975) .... Emmanuelle
  52. Le jeu avec le feu (1975) .... Diana Van Den Berg
  53. Un linceul n'a pas de poches (1974) .... Avril
  54. Der Liebesschüler (1974) .... Andrea
  55. Emmanuelle (1974) .... Emmanuelle
  56. Naakt over de schutting (1973) .... Lilly Marischka
  57. Because of the Cats (1973) .... Hannie Troost
  58. Frank en Eva (1973) .... Sylvia

References

  1. ^ BBC News - Sylvia Kristel, star of Emmanuelle, dies, Bbc.co.uk, 18 October 2012, retrieved 18 October 20128 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ Corder, Mike. "'Emmanuelle' star Sylvia Kristel dies at age 60". The Associated Press, Xfinity.com. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Actrice Sylvia Kristel (60) overleden". de Volkskrant. 18 October 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  4. ^ The New York Times
  5. ^ Profile at Filmreference.com
  6. ^ Sylvia Kristel: Family and Companions, Yahoo! Movies profile
  7. ^ The New York Times review of Private Lessons
  8. ^ 1981 Yearly Box Office Results
  9. ^ Guardian
  10. ^ Timesonline.co.uk
  11. ^ Heraldscotland.com
  12. ^ "Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel suffers stroke"
  13. ^ "Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel dies" Irish Times, 18 October 2012.

Further reading

  • Kristel, Sylvia (2 July 2007) [2006 (French publication)]. Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir. Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-0-00-725695-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
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