Leelee Sobieski Net Worth

Leelee Sobieski's Quotes

• Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.
• I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.
• I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
• I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.
• I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

Interesting Facts about Leelee Sobieski

1. Discovered by a casting director in her New York City school cafeteria.
2. Enjoys painting, ceramics, poetry, martial arts, and horseback riding.
3. Her father is Jean Sobieski, a New York City painter, and her mother, Elizabeth Sobieski, is a writer.
4. Has a younger brother, Roby Sobieski, born 1988.
5. Collects locks of hair from major stars appearing with her in films. Tom Cruise declined her request when filming Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
6. Bears such an uncanny resemblance to actress Helen Hunt that many people believe she is Hunt's younger sister. The two are not related.
7. Is fluent in French.
8. Australian band Primitive Whore perform a song titled "Why Leelee won't Love Me".
9. Her father, Jean Sobieski, is a French-born painter. Her mother, Elizabeth Sobieski (née Salomon), is an American-born writer. Leelee's father is of Polish and Swiss descent. Leelee's maternal grandfather was from a Russian Jewish family, while Leelee's maternal grandmother was of Belarusian Jewish/Lithuanian Jewish descent (on her own father's side), and of Dutch descent (on her own mother's side).
10. In 2001, she matriculated with the class of 2005 at Brown University, but she has since taken time off to advance her career. She remains a popular topic of conversation of Brown students.
11. Youngest actress ever to portray Joan of Arc in a movie (Joan of Arc (1999)) and, because of that, the one who is the closest to the real age of the historical figure at the time the story takes place.
12. Her father, Jean Sobieski, lived with French singer Dalida in Paris in the '60s.
13. Spent part of her childhood on a ranch in France.
14. Gave birth to her 1st child at age 26, a daughter named Louisanna Ray Kimmel on December 15, 2009. Child's father is her fiancé (now 2nd husband), Adam Kimmel.
15. Returned to work 6 months after giving birth to her daughter Louisianna in order to film her guest appearance on Drop Dead Diva (2009).
16. (August 31, 2010) Married for the 2nd time her boyfriend of 19 months and father of her 8-month-old daughter, Louisanna, Adam Kimmel following a 13-month-long engagement.
17. Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 31, a son named Martin Kimmel in July 2014. Child's father is her 2nd husband, Adam Kimmel.
18. Retired from full-time acting in 2012, to focus on raising her kids and to pursue her passion of art.