Whatever they say, the movie star who married fashion designer Adam Kimmel in 2010 leads a full-fledged creative life. Firstly, she helps her husband in his work, and secondly, she herself became an artist.
A noblewoman of origin, a nominee for prestigious American film and television awards, back in 2012, Lily said she was ready to leave Hollywood.
Below are the movie stars: Drew Barrymore on the right, Lily Sobeski 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 Lily Sobeski, was born on June 10, 1983 in New York, in a creative family.
- Her mother, Elizabeth Sobeski Solomon, is a film producer and screenwriter who also works as a manager.
- Lily's father, Jan Sobieski, an artist who was once an actor.
- Liliana got her name from her paternal grandmother.
- On her paternal side, her last ancestor was the last king of the Commonwealth, Jan Sobieski, who put an end to Ottoman rule over Europe in 1683.
- Maternal grandfather served as captain in the US Navy.
Raised in a pan-religious family, Lilian is proud of her family roots and traditions.
After leaving school in 2001, she entered Brown University, where she began to study literature and painting. But the bright events in the girl’s life, her first love and natural beauty took her from the student audience to the world of cinema.
The first roles bring success
The first interesting and serious role was received by Lily Sobeski from the Disney film studio, the film "From the Jungle to the Jungle" was released in 1997. Soon, the fourteen-year-old Lily offered film screenings to Stanley Kubrick. It was the last film of the great director, “Eyes Wide Shut,” where Sobieski played the memorable, albeit secondary, role of the girl who saved the main character.
In 2001, Lily received an Emmy and Golden Globe Award for playing the role of 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 playing in the television mini-series Uprising.
- The most successful at the box office was the film "Collision with the abyss."
- Film critics in every way praised the new movie star, prophesying a bright future for her. In August 2004, Lily Sobeski signs contracts for starring in the film "The Collapse of Paradise" and the series "Hercules".
- In 2007, she played in the film "In the Name of the King" directed by Uwe Boll, where Jason Statham was in the lead.
Sobieski continued to act in films until 2016, when she decided to leave acting and focus on her family. From this moment, the paths of Lily Sobeski and filmography are diverging forever.
Life-long meeting
As an American, Lily Sobieski is fluent in French, who learned from her father, who lives in France.
In January 2009, Sobieski began dating fashion designer Adam Kimmel, the grandson of American racer and designer Donald Arnie.
They got engaged in May 2009, which they had to announce publicly in June, because Sobieski fans at the premiere of the film discovered a ring on the girl’s finger. The couple officially announced their engagement in mid-July of the same year. The wedding took place in August 2010.
From a relationship between Lily and Adam in December 2009, a daughter was born, named Louisiana Rey. And in 2014 they had a son, Martin. This couple has one look at 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.
She enthusiastically draws abstract paintings on a dark or snow-white background, using bright colors. It sculpts unusual works from monoglide, reminiscent of gelatinous, flowing multi-colored abstractions. As if looking through the water at a goldfish castle.
Her solo debut in 2018 opened at the Brooklyn Gallery and received positive reviews. Vogue magazine wrote that the exhibition of works by Lily Kimmel "deserves serious attention from the audience."
She then appeared at her first British exhibition called Wormhole at the Simon Lee Gallery in London.
In this last exhibition, she showed the public large-scale abstract art paintings that are confrontational in both color and size. In the artistic subtext, Kimmel addresses the themes of creation and destruction.
Kimmel's world is her very own - a heady combination of naivety and depth. A space that potentially captures, but at the same time disorientates, those who are not familiar with it. Such are the worlds that she creates in her paintings. Vogue Magazine
Remembering his cinematic career, Lily often emphasizes that the films in which she happened to be shot carry an escapist charge, and in fact, the audience still has not fully understood the deep message that films with Lily Sobieski brought to the world.