Sylvia Kristel
Sylvia Kristel
Born	September 28, 1952 (age 54) Utrecht, Netherlands

Sylvia Kristel (September 28, 1952 in Utrecht), pronounced "kri-STELL", is a Dutch actress, model and singer. She is the daughter of a Skeet shooting champion and she had a Catholic upbringing, her parents running a hotel in Utrecht. In her new autobiography, Nue she claims to have been sexually abused by an elderly guest at the age of nine, an event which she still refused to discuss in detail. Her parents divorced when she was 14 and her sister Marianne 12 after their father left home for another woman. 'It was the saddest thing that ever happened to me' she says of it. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... Utrecht ( (help· info)) is a municipality and the capital city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Utrecht ( (help· info)) is a municipality and the capital city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... Photograph of the once famous model Dovima A model is a person who poses or displays for purposes of art, fashion, or other products and advertising. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... Skeet shooting is one of the two major types of competitive shotgun shooting at clay targets (the other is Trap shooting). ...

When she was 17 she began modelling. She entered the Miss TV Europe contest, in 1973, and won. She speaks Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. She gained international attention in 1974 for playing the title character in the soft core film Emmanuelle which remains one of the most successful French films ever produced. A contest is an event involving a competition at least two opposing individuals or teams, to be awarded a prize to the champion. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Erotica, from the Greek eros, love, are works of art, including literature, photography, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or arousing descriptions. ... Kristel stepped away from the role in the 1980s, yielding to younger actresses, although she continued to make cameo appearances as an older Emmanuelle in a number of films. ...

Kristel found herself typecast as Emmanuelle and often played roles that capitalized upon that image, most notably starring in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and a nudity-filled biopic of World War I spy, Mata Hari, in which she played the title role. Her Emmanuelle image followed her to the United States where she played Nicole Mallow, a maid who seduces a teenage boy, in the controversial 1981 sex comedy Private Lessons. One of her only other mainstream American film appearances was a brief comic turn in the Get Smart revival film, The Nude Bomb in 1980. For other meanings, see typecasting. ... Lady Chatterleys Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. ... A biographical film or biopic is a film about a particular person or group of people, based on events that actually happened. ... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nikolay II Aleksey Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert H. Asquith D. Lloyd George Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna... Mata Hari, exotic dancer and convicted spy, made her name synonymous with femme fatale during World War I. For the Indonesian supermarket/department store chain, see Matahari. ... Private Lessons is the title of an American comedy film released in 1981. ... Get Smart was an American comedy television series that satirized the secret agent genre, which was quite popular in the mid-1960s. ... The Nude Bomb (also known as The Return of Maxwell Smart or Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb) was a 1980 comedy film based on the television series Get Smart. ...

Although Private Lessons was one of the highest grossing independent films of 1981 (ranking #28 in US Domestic Gross [1]), Kristel saw none of the profits. She continues to appear in movies, and last played Emmanuelle in the early 1990s. In 2002 she was treated for throat cancer, in 2004 for lung cancer. Private Lessons is the title of an American comedy film released in 1981. ...

Personal Life

In September 2006, Sylvia Kristel's autobiography, Nue (Naked), was published in France. In it she tells 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. Her first major relationship was with Hugo Claus, a Belgian artist 27 years her senior with whom she had a son, Arthur, born in 1975. She left him for Ian McShane, 10 years her senior, whom she met on the set of the 1977 film Man Behind the Mask. 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.' Around two years into the relationship she began taking cocaine. This would prove 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.' Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (born April 5, 1929 in Bruges, Belgium) is a prolific Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Ian McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a Golden Globe-winning English actor. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

Interviewed in 2006 for Firecracker Films'[2] Documentary "Hunting Emmanuelle"[3], she describes how, nurturing an expensive cocaine habit, she made a number of poor decisions, including agreeing to sell her interest in the film to her agent on a whim for $150,000. With a domestic gross of over $26 million, she laughs at how much of her agent's mansion her percentage probably paid for. Cocaine (see also: crack) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...

Her relationship with McShane continued in a turbulent vane. One night before a gala event they were due to attend together in Malibu, he walked in on her after she'd had her make-up and hair done and was surveying the results before departing. He gave her a hostile look then threw a champagne bucket at her head. They fought furiously and neither attended the gala. The following morning Kristal fled back to Utrecht however the relationship wasn't over and soon they were living together in London where McShane was working on a film. Here she fell pregnant, much to McShane's chagrin. He continued drinking, encouraging her to do likewise. Their arguments continued and, after a fall, Kristal was admitted to hospital where she lost the baby. McShane sent word he was unable to attend as he was at a wrap party that night. That proved to be the final straw for Sylvia. After checking out of hospital a couple days later she flew to Paris, her partnership with McShane over for good. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Floating not submerging) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...

Since McShane, she has been married twice, first to an American businessman which ended after five months and then to a film producer, Phillippe Blot. She spent a decade with Belgian radio producer Fred De Vree but he died suddenly. With much of her Emmanuelle earnings flittered away on poor investments, she herself now lives a comparatively simple life back in Amsterdam, presently remaining single whilst mourning the death of De Vree from cancer. Sylvia Kristel has also spoken of relationships with women and says she considers herself bisexual. Nickname: Mokum Motto: Heldhaftig, Vastberaden, Barmhartig (Valiant, Determined, Compassionate) Location of Amsterdam Coordinates: Country Netherlands Province North Holland Government  - Mayor Job Cohen  - Aldermen Lodewijk Asscher Hennah Buyne Carolien Gehrels Tjeerd Herrema Maarten van Poelgeest Marijke Vos  - Secretary Erik Gerritsen Area [1][2]  - City 219 km²  (84. ...

External links

• Sylvia Kristel at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview in Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland
• Emmanuelle star publishes autobiography, The Sunday Times, September 3, 2006.
• XFANZ.com article