Born: June 10, 1982, New York City, NY
Early days. Her parents are American novelist/screenwriter Elizabeth (n�e Salomon), who also works as Sobieski's manager, and Polish-French painter and former actor Jean Sobieski. Sobieski's maternal grandfather, United States Navy captain Robert Salomon, was Jewish and Sobieski grew up in a "pan-religious" family; she has said that she is "proud of [her] Jewish roots". She also stated that her "...great great granduncle" was John III Sobieski, an elected king of Poland who saved Europe with the Polish army in 1683 to lift the siege of Vienna from Ottoman Turks, although no documentary evidence supporting Leelee Sobieski�s claim has ever been presented. Actually an Internet encyclopedia, StateMaster.com, says:� American actress Leelee Sobieski claims to be his descendant. This is certainly not where she obtained her surname: Jan III had no great-grandchildren that bore the name Sobieski or Sobieska. Sobieski speaks fluent French, which she picked up from her father, who currently lives in France. She attended Trevor Day School.
Career. Sobieski rose to fame in her mid-teens with her appearance in the movie Deep Impact (1998) and played a modern Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (released in 1999, she was not even fifteen when her nymphet-like scenes were shot). She was playing alongside Tom Cruise: she recalls he was "very kind and considerate with me," and says her most vivid recollection of Stanley Kubrick was that he "genuinely seemed to hold something magic". The title role in the TV movie Joan of Arc (1999) earned her an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe nomination and a second nomination followed her portrayal of Tosia Altman in the 2001 TV movie Uprising. Sobieski's fluency in French landed her roles in the Merchant Ivory Film A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998), L'Idole (2002) and the miniseries Les liaisons dangereuses (2003) with Catherine Deneuve and Rupert Everett, an adaptation of Laclos's classic novel of sexual intrigue.
Filmography.1995 A Horse for Danny;1997 Jungle 2 Jungle; 1998 Deep Impact; 1999 Never Been Kissed, Joan of Arc, Eyes Wide Shut; 2000 Here on Earth, My First Mister, Joy Ride; 2001 The Glass House, Uprising, L'Idole; 2002 Max; 2003 Les Liaisons dangereuses; 2005 Hercules; 2006 Lying, Heavens Fall, In a Dark Place, The Wicker Man, The Elder Son; 2007 Walk All Over Me, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale; 2008 88 Minutes, Acts of Violence, Finding Bliss; 2009 Night Train, Public Enemies
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