French-American actress and model

Arielle Dombasle

Arielle Dombasle is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa (1995). She has worked with a wide variety of filmmakers, including Werner Schroeter on Two (2002), Philippe de Broca on Amazon (2000), Roman Polanski on Tess (1979), Jean-Pierre Mocky on Crédit pour tous (2011) and Raoul Ruiz on Savage Souls (2001). She also starred in the 1984 ABC miniseries Lace and its 1985 sequel Lace II and appeared as a guest on Miami Vice.

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1953

April 27

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1950s

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1953 Born

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247 Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.
395 Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
711 Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

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The world in 1953

When Arielle arrived

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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August Wilson 1945–2005 American author and playwright (died 2005) Fethullah Gülen 1941–2024 Turkish preacher and theologian (died 2024) Frank Abagnale Jr. 1948– American security consultant and criminal Frank Catalanotto 1974– American baseball player Irving Adler 1913–2012 American mathematician, author, and academic (died 2012) Kate Pierson 1948– American singer-songwriter and bass player Lim Bo Seng 1909– Chinese businessman, resistance fighter of Force 136 and war hero of Singapore (died 1944) Mumtaz Mahal 1593–1631 Mughal empress buried at the Taj Mahal (died 1631) Pik Botha 1932– South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States (died 2018)

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Alex Grey 1953– American visual artist and author Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alister McGrath 1953– Irish priest, historian, and theologian Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Angélica Aragón 1953– Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer Ben Bernanke 1953– American economist Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Ciarán Hinds 1953– Irish actor Claire van Kampen 1953–2025 English director and composer (born 1953)

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