Sylvia Kristel

Sylvia Kristel (28 September 1952 – 17 October 2012) was a Dutch actress, model and singer. Her most famous role is in the French film Emmanuelle.

Early life

Kristel was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, as the daughter of Piet and Jean-Nicholas, who ran an inn in Utrecht. In her 2006 autobiography Nue she claims to have been sexually abused by an elderly guest at the hotel at the age of nine, an event which she has refused to discuss in detail. Her parents divorced when she was 14 years old after her father left home for another woman. "It was the saddest thing that ever happened to me", she says of the experience of her parents' separation. She has a younger sister, Marianne.

Career

Kristel began modeling when she was 17. She entered the Miss TV Europe contest in 1973 and won. 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.

Kristel found herself typecast as Emmanuelle and often played roles that capitalised upon that 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 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.
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), Kristel saw none of the profits. She 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 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 not having acted for eight years, Kristel played a part in the movie Two Sunny Days in 2010 and in the same year she played the mother of the Trio Lescano in the TV series The Swing Girls.

Personal life

In September 2006 Sylvia 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 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. The book received some positive reviews.

Her first major relationship was with Hugo Claus, a Belgian author twenty-seven years her senior with whom she had a son, Arthur, born in 1975. She left him for Ian McShane, ten years her senior, whom she 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 agreeing to sell her interest in Private Lessons 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.

Since McShane, she has been 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 before he died.

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 it spread to her lung. On June 12, 2012 Kristel suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in life threatening condition.

Death

Kristel died in her sleep, aged 60, on the evening of 17 October 2012. She suffered throat cancer, lung cancer and esophageal cancer.


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Sylvia Kristel

Sylvia Kristel, who has died aged 60, starred in a series of notorious 1970s soft-porn films beginning with Emmanuelle (1974), which followed the sexual exploits of a bored young diplomat’s wife in the fleshpots of Thailand.

 Promoted under the slogan “X was never like this”, the film generated numerous profitable sequels and countless imitations, thanks to Sylvia Kristel’s erotic portrayal of the half-innocent, half sex-crazed Emmanuelle as she gambolled naked, joined the “mile-high club”, simulated oral sex, fumbled with other women and faked orgasm.

Made when she was 22, the film became a sensation, with worldwide audiences estimated at some 650 million. In France it was the highest-grossing film of the decade and was screened at a cinema on the Champs-Elysées in Paris for an unbroken nine years.

Sylvia Kristel also starred in a series of sequels — Emmanuelle 2 in 1975, Goodbye Emmanuelle in 1977 and Emmanuelle 4 in 1984. “I realised that the public had been deeply affected by Emmanuelle,” she declared, “and wanted to prolong their fantasy, to keep me within it, symbolic and naked, idealised and necessary.”

But her career in sex films drew her down into a netherworld of moguls on the make, who cast her in a succession of even more tawdry pictures that sought to cash in on her reputation as a sex-kitten.

Her autobiography, published in English as Undressing Emmanuelle (2007), also disclosed a turbulent personal life blighted by addictions to drugs and alcohol, and her search for a father figure which had resulted in several abusive relationships with older men.

She had been scratching a living as a clerk to supplement her earnings as a struggling young actress when she was cast in the title role of the original Emmanuelle. The film was promoted by a photograph of Sylvia Kristel seated topless in a wicker chair, toying suggestively with a string of pearls. “At last,” ran the caption, “a film that won’t make you feel bad about feeling good.”

In 1977, as she sought to reinvent her acting career in Hollywood, she began a turbulent four-year affair with the British actor Ian McShane, best-known as the cavalier antiques dealer Lovejoy in the successful television series, whom she met on the set of the film The Fifth Musketeer.

The couple lived together in Los Angeles, where Sylvia Kristel took a cameo role as an air stewardess in Airport ’79. By then she had begun using cocaine, which she described 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”.

But drugs and alcoholism, combined with management problems, eventually sent her career into terminal decline. When The Daily Telegraph writer Mick Brown interviewed her in 2007, she was living alone in a tiny flat above a café in Amsterdam, taking the occasional acting job to pay her bills. “The innocence has long since fled,” he noted, “but the ghost of beauty still haunts her face.”

One of three children of wealthy Dutch parents, Sylvia Kristel was born in Utrecht on September 28 1952. She had a troubled childhood, and was haunted by the memory of catching her father, a successful hotelier, in bed with another woman. Her parents divorced when she was 14, and on completing her convent school education Sylvia took a series of dead-end office jobs, supplementing her wages by taking assignments as a photographic model.

In the early 1970s she acted in a handful of mildly titillating films, and in 1973, encouraged by her mother, won the Miss TV Europe contest. The following year she was approached by the film producer Yves Rousset-Rouard, who had bought the rights to a 1950s novel called Emmanuelle. He cast her in the title role, and paid her $6,000.

Having signed a three-picture contract, Sylvia Kristel negotiated a fee approaching $100,000 to star in the sequel, Emmanuelle, The Joys Of A Woman (better known as Emmanuelle 2), in the following year. She went on to make other films with Roger Vadim and Claude Chabrol, and co-starred with Gérard Depardieu in René La Canne (1976).

But, as she recalled, people preferred seeing her naked, and she was repeatedly typecast in the role of seductress, notably as Constance Chatterley in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1981) and in Mata Hari (1985), a film biography of the First World War spy, in which she played the title role. She appeared as Agent 34-26-34 in The Nude Bomb in 1980, and the following year played a housemaid who seduces a 15-year-old boy in the controversial sex comedy Private Lessons, one of the highest grossing independent films of 1981.

In a television documentary, Hunting Emmanuelle, in 2006, she described how her expensive cocaine habit caused her to make several errors of judgment, including her decision on an impulse to sell her interest in Private Lessons to her agent for $150,000; the film went on to gross more than $26 million in the United States alone.

When her Hollywood career fizzled out in the late 1980s, she returned to Europe and dabbled as an artist, exhibiting her work in Los Angeles, Brussels and Amsterdam. With her second husband, a paparazzo photographer and film producer, Phillipe Blot, she made a motorcycling film called The Arrogant, and another called Dracula’s Widow (both 1988), the proceeds of which helped to pay off Blot’s debts.

To earn money for herself, she agreed to make a further Emmanuelle film, Emmanuel 7 (1993), this time cast as a business-suited brothel madam, in which all the sex scenes were performed by younger actors.

A heavy smoker since the age of 11, Sylvia Kristel was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2001. Cancer was also detected in a lung the following year, but she was given the all-clear following an operation. In June this year she was taken to hospital in Amsterdam after suffering a stroke, which forced the postponement of further treatment, for cancer of the liver.

Sylvia Kristel’s first marriage, which was brief, was to an American businessman. After her marriage to Phillippe Blot, she lived for 10 years with a Belgian radio producer, Freddy De Vree, who died in 2004.

She is survived by a son from her relationship with Hugo Claus, a Belgian artist and writer 27 years her senior.


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Sylvia Kristel (28 de septiembre de 1952 - 17 de octubre de 2012) fue una actriz, modelo y cantante holandesa.

Su papel más famoso y el que le lanzó a la fama fue en la película francesa Emmanuelle (1974).

Biografía

Es hija de un campeón de tiro al plato. Sus padres regentaban un hotel en Utrecht. En su nueva autobiografía afirma que sufrió de abusos sexuales por parte de un cliente mayor cuando tenía nueve años, un acontecimiento del que rehuye contar detalles. Sus padres se divorciaron cuando ella tenía 15 años y su hermana Marianne, 12; su padre abandonó la casa por otra mujer. «Fue lo más triste que nunca me ha pasado», comentó sobre el episodio.

Con 17 años comenzó a trabajar como modelo. Participó en el concurso Miss TV Europa en 1973 y lo ganó. Hablaba neerlandés, inglés, francés, alemán e italiano. Alcanzó fama mundial en 1974 por representar el papel protagonista en la película erótica Emmanuelle, que es una de las películas francesas de mayor éxito jamás producidas.

En 2001 Sylvia interpretó un pequeño papel en Perdóname, la película debut del polémico cineasta holandés Cyrus Frisch.


Vida privada

En septiembre de 2006 se publicó en Francia la autobiografía de Sylvia Kristel, Nue (Desnuda). En ella cuenta una turbulenta vida personal plagada de adicciones a drogas, alcohol, y su búsqueda de la figura paterna que le llevó a relaciones dolorosas con hombres mayores que ella.

Su primera relación seria fue con Hugo Claus, un autor belga 27 años mayor que ella, con quien tuvo un hijo, Arthur, en 1975. Ella le dejó por Ian McShane, diez años mayor, a quién conoció en el rodaje de la película Man Behind the Mask, en 1977. Fueron juntos a Los Ángeles donde él prometió ayudarle a lanzar su carrera americana. Sin embargo, esta aventura de cinco años no supuso un hito significante en su carrera, sino una relación que ella describe en su autobiografía como «horrible. Él era ingenioso y encantador, pero éramos muy diferentes». Tras dos años de relación comenzó a tomar cocaína.

En una entrevista en 2006 para el documental de Firecracker Films (FireCracker Films) titulado Hunting Emmanuelle, Kristel describe cómo, manteniendo un vicio tan caro como la cocaína, tomó unas cuantas decisiones erróneas, incluyendo el acuerdo de vender su porcentaje de participación en dicha película a su agente por 150.000 dólares. Con unos ingresos de más de 26 millones de dólares, ella se ríe de la cantidad de su porcentaje que habría pagado la mansión de su representante.


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No te olvidaremos, Emmanuelle



La actriz holandesa Sylvia Kristel, conocida por haber interpretado a la heroína de la película erótica 'Emmanuelle' (dirigida por Just Jaeckin en 1974), murió anoche, enferma de un cáncer, según ha comunicado su agente, Marieke Verharen, a la agencia AFP. La actriz tenía 60 años.

¿Cómo abordar la noticia de la muerte de Kristel sin la sonrisa que a todo el mundo se le dibuja en la cara cuando aparece el nombre de 'Emmanuelle'? Todo en la carrera de su protagonista remite a la legendaria película erótica que protagonizó en los años 70, que estuvo en cartelera durante 13 años consecutivos y motivó 10 tesis doctorales. El resto de la carrera de Kristel fue más bien irrelevante e, incluso sus apariciones en un cine más ambicioso (alguna película con Claude Chabrol, con Roger Vadim) remitían irónicamente o no, al símbolo de 'Emmanuelle'.

Y eso, que si viésemos la película hoy, ahora que cualquier misterio sexual parece desvelado, casi todos nosotros nos quedaríamos un poco fríos. Ni las aspiraciónes artísticas ni la carga erótica de 'Emmanuelle' han envejecido bien. Sin embargo, eso no significa que la película no tuviera méritos. Sobre todo, uno: el de la ambigüedad.

Los años 70, el destape (no sólo en España), la revolución sexual, la contracultura... En ese ambiente, 'Emmanuelle' nació con la virtud de atraer a todo el mundo. A los hombres enardecidos y deseosos de ver nalgas, pubis y pechos desnudos. Y a las mujeres feministas, encantadas de encontrar una heroína liberada y dueña desinhibida de su sexualidad. Eso en cuanto al mensaje. En cuanto a la estética, lo mismo: erotismo frontal y bastante grosero para una parte de la audiencia (los chicos del BUP); y manierismos de moda para la otra (las chicas de Filosofía y Letras). Aunque el 'look' de 'Emmanuelle' haya envejecido de una manera muy poco atractiva, está claro que la película era bastante refinada y europea, en comparación con los equivalentes del destape español. Aquellos filtros, aquellas secuencias larguísimas, aquel vapor que empapaba cada fotograma ... ¡Aquel asiento de mimbre!

Y en el centro de la escena, Sylvia Kristel. Una mujer guapísima, por si no lo habíamos dicho ya. ¿Cómo describir una belleza femenina sin sonar cursis o sexistas o todo a la vez? La belleza de Kristel iba perfectamente con la ambigüedad de 'Emmanuelle'. Una mujer delgada, con el pelo corto, con un punto distante, con algo de laxitud en su expresión. Un opuesto a las chicas de 'Playboy' que podría conectar con el espíritu de su tiempo. Y, a la vez, capaz de encender al público que buscaba en Emmanuellle un calentón de primera.
Vida triste

Sylvia Kristel nació en Utrecht, el 28 de septiembre de 1952. Para gozo de sus admiradores, sus padres, hosteleros, la enviaron a un internado religioso cuando tenía 11 años, donde se ganó fama de indisciplinada. Empezó su carrera profesional como modelo, cayó en el cine más o menos casualmente, se encontró con el éxito colosal de 'Emmanuelle' y después intentó con no mucho éxito desbordar las fronteras del 'soft porn'.En 1976, protagonizó 'René la Canne' de Francis Girod, con Gérard Depardieu, y 'Alice ou la dernière fugue' de Claude Chabrol. Sin embargo, para 1981 volvía a estar enrolada en una película erótica: 'El amante de Lady Chatterley', de Just Jaeckin, a los que seguirían títulos como 'Mata Hari', 'Casanova', 'Hot blood' y las secuelas de 'Emmanuelle', en las que figuro como 'guest-star' recurrente.

A finales de los 90, su carrera estaba bajo mínimos. Kristel tuvo problemas de adicción al alcohol y a la cocaína a la que, más adelante, achacó las malas decisiones que tomó durante sus mejores años. Se arruinó y llevó una vida sentimental bastante torturada (deja una hija), pero pudo hacer terapia con la autobiografía 'Desnuda', publicada en 2006, que le animó a reactivar su carrera dentro del cine holandés. Además, pintó y diseñó ropa con algún éxito. Durante sus últimos años, vivió entre Ámsterdam y California.

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Sylvia Kristel - The Margin

Sylvia Kristel undresed showed her bush, then she lay in bed and a guy first takes off her top to releval her breasts and then starts to play with her nipples and goes down on her. From The Margin.




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