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Karina Lombard (born
January 21,
1969 in
Tahiti) is an
actress.
Biography
Early life
Doña Karina 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's 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.
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Career
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, her first major film was
Wide Sargasso Sea in 1993, and in the 2000s she moved into television, appearing 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, Lez 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.
Sexuality
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'd 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."
Selected filmography
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