Germain Damar was born Germaine Haeck-Toporow on August 31, 1929 in Petingen, Luxembourg. She was the third of four daughters of metallurgical worker Dominique Haeck and his wife Barbara Poncelet. At the gymnastics club of Nidderkuer (Niederkorn) in Luxembourg, the 5-year-old Damar laid the foundations for her future career. With her sister Geny and two gym teachers she formed the acrobatic quartet Los Habaneros. Germain started her career as an acrobat.
After World War II, she started a solo career and toured through Europe. She travelled to North Africa and the Orient to perform there with her sister Sylvie and Sylvie's husband as Trio Vialine. In Cairo, they even performed for King Farouk. She went on to appear in nearly 30 German films, including three films in which she was the partner of Peter Alexander. She sometimes used the stage name Ria Poncelet.
In France she made the 1958 western musical “Sérénade au Texas” (Serenade of Texas), directed by Richard Pottier with Bourvil and Luis Mariano.
In 1964, after marrying actor Roman G. Toporow, Damar retired and two years later her son Roman Martin Toporow was born. Her husband died in 1993, and Damar has since then lived with her son in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
DAMAR, Germaine (aka Ria Poncelet, Germaine Haeck Toporow) (Germaine Haeck-Toporow) [8/31/1929, Petingen, Luxembourg
- ] – film, TV actress, singer,
dancer, married to actor Roman G. Toporow (Roman
George Toporow) [1920-1993] (1964-1994)
mother of Roman Martin Toporow [1966-
].
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