Leelee Sobieski: actress, artist and simply beautiful. Biography, films, photos

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Whatever they say, the movie star, who married fashion designer Adam Kimmel in 2010, leads a full creative life. Firstly, she helps her husband in his work, and secondly, she herself became an artist.

A noblewoman by birth, a nominee for prestigious American film and television awards, back in 2012, Lily said she was ready to leave Hollywood.

Film stars below: Drew Barrymore on the right, Leelee Sobieski on the left. The photo was taken during a charity fair to help children with leukemia.

Royal Origins

Lilian Rudabet Gloria Elzbieta, known to film lovers as Leelee Sobieski, was born on June 10, 1983 in New York, in a creative family.

• Her mother, Elizabeth Sobieski Solomon, is a film producer and screenwriter who also works as a manager.
• Lily's father, Jan Sobieski, artist, former actor.
• Liliana got her name from her grandmotherpaternal line.
• On her paternal side, her ancestor was the last king of the Commonwe alth, Jan Sobieski, who put an end to Ottoman rule over Europe in 1683.
• Maternal grandfather was a captain in the US Navy.

Raised in a pan-religious household, Lillian is proud of her family roots and traditions.

After graduating from high school in 2001, she entered Brown University, where she began to study literature and painting. But bright events in the girl's life, first love and natural beauty took her away from the student audience to the world of cinema.

First roles bring success

The first interesting and serious role Leelee Sobieski received from the film studio "Disney", the film "Jungle to Jungle" was released in 1997. Soon the fourteen-year-old Lily was offered a screen test by Stanley Kubrick. It was the last film by the great director Eyes Wide Shut, where Sobieski played the memorable, albeit minor, role of the girl who saved the protagonist.

In 2001, Lily received the Emmy and Golden Globe awards for her performance as Joan of Arc in the film of the same name. She became the first and so far the only actress who played Jeanne at the same age as her heroine, who led the king's army - at seventeen. In the same 2001, the actress was waiting for another "Golden Globe" for her performance in the television mini-series "Uprising".

• The most successful at the box office was the film "Collision withabyss".
• Film critics praised the new movie star in every way, predicting a bright future for her. In August 2004, Leelee Sobieski signed contracts to star in the film "Paradise Break" and the TV series "Hercules".
• In 2007, she played in the film "In the Name of the King" directed by Uwe Boll, starring Jason Statham.

Sobieski continued to act in films until 2016, when she decided to leave acting and focus on her family. From this moment on, the paths of Leelee Sobieski and filmography forever diverge.

A meeting of a lifetime

As an American, Leelee Sobieski is fluent in French, which she learned from her father in France.

In January 2009, Sobieski began dating fashion designer Adam Kimmel, grandson of American racing driver and designer Donald Arnie.

They got engaged in May 2009, which they were forced to announce publicly in June, because Sobieski's fans found a ring on the girl's finger at the premiere of the film. The couple officially announced their engagement in mid-July of the same year. The wedding took place in August 2010.

From Lily's relationship with Adam in December 2009, a daughter was born, named Louisiana Ray. And in 2014, their son Martin was born. This married couple has one view of happiness.

Artistic motifs

In order not to depend on the fame of a movie star, Sobieski began her career as an artist under a new name - Lily Kimmel.

Sheenthusiastically draws abstract paintings on a dark or snow-white background, using bright colors. Sculpts unusual works from monoclay, reminiscent of gelatinous, flowing multi-colored abstractions. Like looking across the water at a goldfish castle.

Her solo debut in 2018 opened at a Brooklyn gallery to positive reviews. Vogue magazine wrote that the exhibition of Lily Kimmel's work "deserves serious attention from viewers."

Then she was shown at her first UK exhibition called Wormhole at the Simon Lee Gallery in London.

In this latest exhibition, she showed the public large-scale abstract art canvases that are confrontational in both color and size. In artistic overtones, Kimmel touches on the themes of creation and destruction.

Kimmel's world is very much her own - a heady combination of naivety and depth. A space that potentially captures, but at the same time disorients those who are not familiar with it. Such are the worlds that she creates in her paintings. Vogue Magazine

Thinking back on her acting career, Lili often emphasizes that the films she has starred in are escapist and in fact audiences have not yet fully grasped the deep message that films with Leelee Sobieski brought to the world.