With her billowing mane of jet-black ringlets defying containment, it is obvious at a glance that Canadian-raised, Beirut, Lebanon-born actress Arsinée Khanjian is not a woman who will ever grow accustomed to making compromises. Married to iconoclastic Canadian director Atom Egoyan, who like his bride emigrated as a child to the Great White North from the Middle East, Arsinée's full-figured supporting role was a crucial component in her husband's breakthrough project, the intriguing and erotic Exotica (1994). To see the divinely dark-skinned Khanjian without her baby fat and sans every stitch of clothing, wearing only the bushy fur God gave her, focus on the French ensemble production Irma Vep (1996).