Sylvia Kristel
Birthday: 28 September 1952, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Birth Name: Sylvia Maria Kristel
Height: 175 cm
Sylvia Kristel was born on September 28, 1952 in Utrecht, Netherlands. She first came to international attention in the early 1970s with Emmanuelle (1974) for director Just Jaeckin. Then two more sequ ...Show More
I realized that the public had been deeply affected by Emmanuelle (1974) and wanted to prolong their Show more
I realized that the public had been deeply affected by Emmanuelle (1974) and wanted to prolong their fantasy, to keep me within it, symbolic and naked, idealized and necessary. Hide
Didn't they warn you? I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. It's also a form o Show more
Didn't they warn you? I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. It's also a form of protection. Hide
I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of Show more
I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce. Hide
People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive Show more
People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They traveled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant, alone. Hide
I was a silent actress, a body. I belonged to dreams, to those who can't be broken.
I was a silent actress, a body. I belonged to dreams, to those who can't be broken.
I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find Show more
I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic! Hide
Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.
Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.
I would now rather be very healthy and strong as a horse but it is nice to be attractive.
I would now rather be very healthy and strong as a horse but it is nice to be attractive.
[on how the public perceived her] People don't assume that John Wayne shoots people and rides a hors Show more
[on how the public perceived her] People don't assume that John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends. People think I'm a nymphomaniac. Hide
[from a 2005 Dutch newspaper interview] I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I k Show more
[from a 2005 Dutch newspaper interview] I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more. Hide
Sylvia Kristel's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (21)
Sylvia Kristel'S roles
Emmanuelle
Lady Chatterley
