Karina Lombard


Karina Lombard is a French-American actor, screenwriter and director. She is best known for her role as Marina Ferrer in Season 1 of The L Word, and has had smaller roles in film and television, including the films “Wide Sargasso Sea”, “The Firm”, and “Legends of the Fall”, and TV series “NCIS,” CSI: “Rescue Me”, and “The 4400.”

Early life

Karina Lombard was born in Tahiti, is the youngest of five children. She was raised in Spain, Switzerland and Peru, and claims fluency in English, Spanish, Italian, French and German. She currently resides in Venice, California.

Career

Lombard's major break in modeling was a Calvin Klein photo shoot with a "Native American" theme, after which she started claiming to have Native American heritage. One of her photographs was chosen for a billboard. Photographs of her as a model appeared in Elle and Vogue.
She studied acting in New York City, where she also gained stage experience. She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the Actors Studio, and performed also at New York City's Gallery Theatre and the Neighborhood Playhouse.
Lombard's first film role was as a princess in L'île. She played her first major role as Antoinette Cosway, a Jamaican heiress, in Wide Sargasso Sea in 1993, based on the novel of the same name by Jean Rhys. She had a supporting part that year in The Firm.
Lombard appeared in the 1994 film Legends of the Fall, based on the novel by Jim Harrison. She starred in Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis in 1996.
In the 2000s Lombard moved into television, appearing in The 4400 and on the first season of The L Word, as restaurateur Marina Ferrer. She portrayed the recurring character Geneviève on FX's Rescue Me.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards