Laura Duke Condominas (also known as Laura Duke), born in Boston April
1951, is the daughter of French-American artist and film-maker Niki de
Saint-Phalle and American novelist Harry Mathews. As an actress she is
most notable for her portrayal of Guinevere in Robert Bresson's film
Lancelot du lac (1974).She grew up in France in the artistic and
film-making milieu of her mother who struggled with mental distress.
Her parents separated in 1960 and she and her brother went with her
father. She married Laurent Condominas, a model and photographer,
linked to the "Zanzibar Films" collective of avant garde French
film-makers, known as the "Dandies of May 1968". The group were
financed until 1970 by Sylvina Boissonnas, a French heiress with an
interest in film production, and he appeared in Patrick Deval's film
Acéphale (Headless) (1969) which followed a young man wandering
through the aftermath of ’68 Paris. A daughter, Bloum, was born to
them in 1971 in Bali, Indonesia.Bresson had been planning a film of
the grail legend for a long period. His original choice to play
Guenièvre twenty years previously had been Niki de St. Phalle,
Laura's mother, but the project was delayed again and again. His final
selection of Laura came about by coincidence when he came across a
photograph of her with no prior information about who she was or that
she was in fact the daughter of his first choice. Lancelot du lac was
filmed from the end of June to the start of September 1973 in
Noirmoutier-en-l'Île in the Vendée and first screened at Cannes in
May 1974. Laura Duke later appeared in her mother's film Un rêve plus
long que la nuit (1976) with Laurent, and a bit part in La Nuit
porte-jarretelles (1985) a film by Virginie Thévenet.In 2008-2009,
Duke hosted several key production meetings for the full-dome film
Maya Skies. During this time, she began to develop The Curved
Blackboard, a STEAM arts immersion outreach program, intended to
benefit at-risk youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. Laura Duke Condominas Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter