She has worked with a wide variety of filmmakers, including Werner Schroeter on Two (2002), Philippe de Broca on Amazon (2000), Roman Polanski on Tess (1979), Jean-Pierre Mocky on Crédit pour tous (2011) and Raoul Ruiz on Savage Souls (2001).

The family's surname was created in 1912, when Dombasle's grandfather René Sonnery (1887–1925), an industrialist from Lyon, married Anne-Marie Berthon du Fromental.

Her maternal grandfather, Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, a close friend of and advisor to Charles de Gaulle,[2] was a long time commercial attaché for the French Embassy, who resigned from his post on September 3, 1940, declaring that he would "never work 'under German control',"[3] and on June that year was one of the founders of France Forever,[4] had later served as the French ambassador to Mexico.

In September 2006, she also performed three nights in a row at the Supper Club in New York City in front of Michael Douglas, John Malkovich, Lauren Bacall, Salman Rushdie, Andrée Putman and Charlie Rose.

[10] In 2018, along with Mareva Galanter, Inna Modja and Helena Noguerra, Arielle Dombasle recreated the French band Les Parisiennes.

In 2019, Arielle Dombasle directed and released a movie entitled Alien Crystal Palace with actors such as Nicolas Ker, Michel Fau, Asia Argento, Christian Louboutin, Thaddaeus Ropac[11].

[12] A year later, in 2020, Arielle Dombasle announced she would be releasing a second joint album with Nicolas Ker, named Empire.

[16] Later that year, in December, she released her first Christmas single, a cover of the song "Jingle Bells" she performed in French, English and Spanish.