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Amanda Lear filmography. Amanda Lear in 2010. Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, painter, television presenter, actress and former model. She began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s. Around that time she met the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and would remain his closest friend and muse for the next ...
Rather than a singer, she is considered a (provocative) performer of songs, and an occasional actress, known for Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Oliviero Rising (2007) and Loggerheads (1978).
- January 1, 1
- 1.77 m
- Saigon, French Cochinchina
Amanda Lear (originally Tapp, born 18 November 1939 or 1946, in British Hong Kong) is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist. Lear began her career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and was also the muse of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.
She has performed acting and dubbing roles in independent, as well as major, film productions. In the late 2000s, Lear reinvented herself as a theatrical actress, performing in long-running stage plays in France. To date, she allegedly has sold over 27 million records worldwide. [21]
Mini Bio. Amanda Lear was born on June 18, 1939 in Saigon, French Cochinchina (Vietnam) as Alain Maurice Louis René Tap. Her father was of known Russian and allegedly French origins, and her mother of mixed Chinese and Vietnamese descent.
- June 18, 1939
Sep 15, 2000 · With Justine Priestley, David DeWitt, Karen Grosso, Chuck Williams. After childhood abuse by her stepfather and eight years in a juvenile psychiatric lockup, Amanda Lear is released. Her shrink is also her lover, who surreptitiously pays her rent on a nice house for a year.
Biography. Amanda lear was born in Vietnam in 1950 from an English marine officer and an Asian mother. When her parents divorced, Amanda shared her life between her English family and France where her mother had settled. Already bilingual, she followed classical studies and became polyglot having learnt German, Spanish and Italian.
