She was born in the town of Oostermeer, in Friesland, The Netherlands. After graduating highschool (HAVO) she send some snapshots to model agency Paparazzi in Amsterdam. Currently she is signed by DNA Models. Kroes has made the covers of Time, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Numero. She also appears regularly in the Victoria's Secret catalog and was featured in their fashion show in 2005 and 2006. Kroes has also been in campaigns by Gucci, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Escada, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Versace and Neiman Marcus.
In 2005, she was selected as Model of The Year on Vogue.com by readers. Kroes was named spokesmodel for the Calvin Klein "Eternity" fragrance campaign in August 2005 and, in April 2006, she signed a three-year contract with L'Oréal Paris.
In the May 2007 issue of American Vogue she was featured on the cover with fellow models: Hilary Rhoda, Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Sasha Pivovarova, Agyness Deyn, Coco Rocha, Jessica Stam, Chanel Iman, and Lily Donaldson as the new crop of supermodels.
In July 2007, earning at an estimated total of $1.5 million in the past 12 months, Forbes named her fourteenth in the list of the World's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels.
Claudine Auger Biography Claudine Auger is perhaps best known for her role as the Bond girl in Thunderball, 1965. She was born in Paris, France and is bilingual.
Thunderball launched Auger into a successful European movie career, but did little for her otherwise in the United States.
In 1971, she starred with two other Bond girls, Barbara Bach and Barbara Bouchet in La Tarantola dal ventre nero, a giallo mystery.
Caroline Winberg was born in Sollentuna, Sweden as the daughter of Thomas and Camila. Caroline enjoyed a relatively normal childhood and was something of a tomboy in her youth. In fact, it was en route to soccer training that a scout spotted the 15-year-old teenager and suggested that she consider a career in modeling. Though Caroline always harbored dreams of becoming a professional soccer player, the exotic and exciting world of modeling proved to be an irresistible force.
Caroline Winberg began her modeling modeling career at age sixteen. At seventeen she gained sudden fame, not for appearing in a well-known campaign or fashion show, but for a scandal involving herself and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. She claimed that the singer, who was 59 at the time, had been harassing her with phone calls after seeing her on the runway. Her parents, Thomas and Camila, even asked Jagger to leave their daughter in peace. The singer denied any such phone calls.
A year later, Caroline was booking local gigs and appearing in promotional spots for regional companies. It wasn’t long before she caught the eye of several well-known booking agencies -- including Women Model Management, Why Not Milan and Dominique Brussels -- and the up-and-coming model soon found herself working high-profile campaigns for notable names such as Valentino, Versace and Armani.Caroline’s burgeoning fame within the modeling industry quickly necessitated a move to New York City, where she began establishing herself as one of the hottest imports around. She has been in campaigns for Valentino, D&G, Tommy Hifiger, Adidas by Stella Mcartney, Rolex, Chloé, Versace, Victoria's Secret and Neiman Marcus and has graced the covers of Italian Vogue, Russian Vogue, and (twice) German Vogue.
She currently lives in New York and is friends with fellow models Marija Vujovic, Gemma Ward and Lily Cole.
Brigitte Bardot (full name is Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot) was born in Paris to Anne-Marie 'Toty' Mucel and industrialist Charles 'Pilou' Bardot. Toty encouraged Brigitte's interest inmusic and dance at an early age; Brigitte modeled for Elle by the time she was 15 years old.
In 1952 Brigitte appeared on screen for the first time in Crazy for Love. That same year she married director Roger Vadim with whom she had been romantically involved for several years. They married when she turned 18 and divorced five years later.
Vadim was not content with this light fare. The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film, about an amoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a big international success. She may have had an affair with her costar Trintignant but this was more likely a prerelease publicity gimmick. The film is often wrongly described as her first film (it was her seventeenth) and to have launched her overnight but it did help move her towards the cinematic mainstream.
She divorced Vadim in 1957 and in 1959 married actor Jacques Charrier, by whom in 1960 she had her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier. She and her son were never close - she did not raise him and once compared being pregnant with him to having a tumor growing within her. Her marriage was preyed on by the paparazzi and there were clashes over the direction of her career. Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining a glamour model for most of the world.
Vie privée (1960), directed by Louis Malle has more than an element of autobiography in it. The scene in which, returning to her flat, Bardot's character is harangued in the lift by a middle aged cleaning lady calling her a tramp and a tart was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid 20th century.
In 1970 the sculptor Alain Gourdon used Bardot as the model for a bust of Marianne, the French national emblem.
In 1973 just before her fortieth birthday Bardot announced her retirement. After appearing in more than fifty motion pictures and recording several music albums, most notably with Serge Gainsbourg, she chose to use her fame to promote animal rights.
The first "Brigitte Bardot" song was released by Achilles and his Heels on the Fontana label in 1961.
In 1986 she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She raised three million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewelry and many personal belongings. Today she is one of the world's most influential animal rights activists and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat.
Considered a militant for animal protection, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country. She sought to discuss the issue with Stephen Harper, though her request for a meeting was denied.
Her husband Bernard d'Ormal to whom she has been married since 1992 is a former adviser of the Front National. With the publication of her 2003 book A Scream in the Silence the reclusive Bardot has come under considerable fire for anti-Muslim and homophobic comments. In May 2003 the MRAP announced it would sue Bardot for her published views. Another organisation - the "Ligue des Droits de l'Homme" (League of Human Rights) - announced they were also considering similar legal proceedings. To her defence, she never supported the Front National.
Bardot, in a letter to a French gay magazine, wrote in her defense: 'Apart from my husband - who maybe will cross over one day as well - I am entirely surrounded by homos.
On 10 June 2004 Bardot was convicted by a French court of 'inciting racial hatred and fined 5,000 €, the fourth such conviction/fine she has faced from French courts. The courts cited passages where Bardot referred to the "Islamization of France" and the "underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam", her descriptions of France's Muslim community, the largest in Europe. In the book she also referred to tranvestites as 'fairground freaks' and she questioned the presence of women in government.
In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited for popularizing Saint Tropez. Photos of her in her later years have also been utilized to warn against the dangers of excessive exposure to the sun.
In the Stephen King's book "Hearts in Atlantis", she is the one that appears on Bobby's mind when he and Ted see the big car outside the restaurant. She also appears on a wallpaper in a cinema.
Refrenced in the songs "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Billy Joel), "I Shall Be Free" (Bob Dylan), and "Warlocks" (Red Hot Chili Peppers).
Bianca Balti (born May 25, 1984) is an Italian supermodel. She was born in Lodi, in the Lombardy region of Italy. At the beginning of her career she was rejected by numerous agencies, such as Elite Model Management, for being "too average and common" looking. In spite of that she did not abandon her dream of becoming a model and was discovered about a year ago in a supermarket where she was jobbing to finance her studies by Bruno Paulette, a scout of Modelschule. Promptly she was booked for the cover of L'Officiel which was shot by Alexi Lubomirski. Her following high fashion campaigns were for Roberto Cavalli, Donna Karan, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni, Guess? and Anna Molinari. She also appeared in the 2005 Victoria's Secret fashion show and in their catalogs.
- Bottega Veneta - Trends les Copains - Blumarine - Gianfranco Ferrè - Missoni - Francesco Sconamiglio
- Behnaz Sarafpour - Matthew Williamson - Narciso Rodriguez - Roland Mouret - Carolina Herrera - Jill Stuart - Oscar de la Renta
- Matthew Williamson - Narciso Rodriguez - Roland Mouret - Jill Stuart - Marc Jacobs - Proenza Schouler
Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento (born September 20, 1975 in Rome) is an Italian television and film actress and director. The City of Rome's register office refused to acknowledge Asia as an appropriate name, and instead officially inscribed her as Aria Argento. Despite this, she uses the nameAsia Argento professionally. ("Asia" is pronounced "" in Italian).
Her mother is the actress Daria Nicolodi and her father is Dario Argento, an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter well known for his work in the Italian giallo genre, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. Her first child, Anna Lou, was born on 20 June 2001. Italian rock and roll musician Marco Castoldi (lead singer of Bluvertigo), also known as Morgan, is the father.
Asia Argento was directed by her father Dario Argento in one of her first works, Trauma (1993), when she was 16. During this film she also had her first nude scene. She received the David di Donatello (Italy's version of Hollywood's Academy Award) for Best Actress in 1994 for her performance in Perdiamoci di vista!, and again in 1996 for Compagna di viaggio, which also earned her a Grolla d'oro award. In 1998, Argento began appearing in English-language movies, such as B. Monkey and New Rose Hotel, with Christopher Walken.
In addition to her cinematic accomplishments, Argento has written a number of stories for magazines such as Dynamo and L'Espresso, while her first novel, titled I Love You Kirk, was published in Italy in 1999. She has modeled for and endorses the brand "Miss Sixty". The band Hondo Maclean from South Wales, gained Argento's interest when they wrote a track named after her. She liked the track so much she sent them pictures which they used as the cover of their 2004 EP Chasing Angels.
From the 17th to the 25th of October 2006, Argento contributed a video diary to Nick Knight's website, SHOWstudio. The title of the 54 entries/episodes was "Don't Bother To Knock" and detailed Argento's daily life with three entries (noon, 6 pm and midnight) posted every day. The content of the entries were partially controlled by a discussion forum and together formed a cohesive whole, a sort of "mini-movie" anyone could view for free. In the clips Argento discusses topics such as freaks, her father, Fellini and her sexuality; she also journals a pregnancy, a new love interest and her unraveling psyche. All of these issues come to a head before Argento's final revelations and good-byes. The last visual of the diary is a digitally manipulated portrait of Argento taken by Knight, slowly burning away.
Fantasma dell'opera, Il (1998) (The Phantom of the Opera) is the third film Asia has made with her director father, Dario Argento; in 1992 she made Trauma (1993) (filmed in the US) and Sindrome di Stendhal, La (1996) in 1996. Asia Argento was born into a family of actors and movie-makers (her mother is the actress Daria Nicolodi) and is one of the most sought-after actresses of the moment. She made her debut when she was only nine years old in Sergio Citti's "Sogni e bisogni" (1984) (mini). In 1988 she had the leading role in Cristina Comencini's first film Zoo (1989) and was part of the cast of _Chiesa, La (1988)_ , directed by Michele Soavi. The following year she played Nanni Moretti's daughter in Palombella rossa (1989) (also directed by Nanni Moretti).
It was with Amiche del cuore, Le (1992), written and directed by Michele Placido that Asia's career really took off and she was able to move on from playing very young girls to more mature, complex roles. The movie was well received at Cannes film Festival. In Trauma (1993) she worked for the first time with her father, playing an anorexic girl in search of her parents' killer.
Asia's absorbed, intense style of acting was well-used in Giuseppe Piccioni's Condannato a nozze (1993). In 1993 she co-starred in Carlo Verdone's Perdiamoci di vista! (1994) in which she played Arianna, a physically disabled girl - an intricate, difficult role which won her the David di Donatello for best actress ('93-'94). She also had a featured role in the international cast of Reine Margot, La (1994) directed by Patrice Chereau. In 1995 she worked with Michel Piccoli in Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio (1996), which again won her a David di Donatello and a Grolla d'oro.
In 1994, Asia turned her hand to directing two short films: 'Prospettive' (an episode of the film DeGenerazione (1994)) and 'A ritroso'. In 1996 she directed a documentary on her father, and in 1998 one on Abel Ferrara Abel/Asia which won her the Rome Film Festival award. In 1999 Asia made her debut directing a feature film entitled Scarlet Diva (2000) for which she is the leading actress and author of the screenplay. Scarlet Diva has been released in May 2000 in Italy, and the rest of the world. The movie won an award at the Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival. In 2001 after directing a number of music videos she gave birth to her first daughter, Anna Lou. In 2002 she's starring in Sirene rouge, La (2002) by Olivier Megaton with Jean-Marc Barr and the action thriller XXX (2002) directed by Rob Cohen, with Vin Diesel.
Asia Argento is also the author of a number of short stories published in many prestigious magazines such as "Dynamo", "L'Espresso", "Sette" and "Village". Her first novel "I Love You Kirk" has been published in Italy by Frassinelli Editrice in October 1999 and in France by Florent Massot in 2001.
Date of Birth: August 7, 1979 Partner: Tom Van Landuyt Profession: Actor/Model
Angela Schijf was born in the Netherlands and has enjoyed a successful TV career there with shows such as "Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden" (1996). "Down" (2001) is her first North American feature film.
Born in 1982, Alyssa got her big break when plucked from the crowd and asked to enter the Girlfriend Bonne Bell model competition which she duly won. The 6' 0" model than graced the cover of Girlfriend Magazine.
She has since graced the catwalks of Europe modeling collections for Gucci, Giorgio Armani, Moschino, Yves Saint Laurent and Romeo Gigli.
Alexandra Kabi was born in Lyon,November 19, 1971 France and is currently one of the main models for Ravage lingerie. She was also a host for the French TV show "Juste Prix".
Birth Name(s) : Alessia Marcuzzi Date of Birth: November 11, 1972 Dating Partner: Simone Inzaghi Profession: Actress/Model Alessia Marcuzzi was born in Rome. Alessia Marcuzzi is mostly known as the host of the Italian version of Caiga Quien Caiga (Le Iene). Alessia Marcuzzi played in Leonardo Pieraccioni's feature film Il mio West in 1998, as well as in TV series Tequila and Bonetti (2000) and Carabinieri.
She has a son with footballer Simone Inzaghi. She is currently dating Carlo Cudicini. She has presented Grande Fratello, the Italian version of Big Brother, for the past 2 years.
Šeredová was Vice Miss Czech Republic in 1998 and her country's representative at Miss World 1998 and started her international career as model in 2002, being chosen by the Italian comedian Giorgio Panariello for his own prime-time TV show. Alena was featured on the covers of several magazines including Penthouse Europe, Playboy Europe, Spy, Extreme and Quo. In 2005, Alena was chosen to pose in Max Calendar. Her boyfriend is the Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, who plays for Juventus football club.
Adriana Sklenarikova is a tall and classic beauty and is just plain hot. Adriana Sklenarikova was born to a Slovak and a Czech mom and dad. Adriana Sklenarikova is a model but she originally studied medicine before becoming a model. Here is an amazing thing that most men love. Adriana Sklenarikova has 49 inch legs. A man's dream!
Paz Vega was born in Seville, Spain and is well-known for her sense of humor and outstanding sex appeal. Born January 2, 1976 as Paz Campos Trigo, she would later assume her grandmother’s family name when she started acting. She originally aspired to become a sports star, but later turned to government and politics while still in school, finally settling on journalism. At age sixteen, her life changed considerably when she saw the movie "La Casa de Bernarda Alba", and ever since then wanted to be an actress and Hollywood celebrity.
Paz attended the Centro Andaluz de Teatro, a renowned acting and performance school close to Seville, and after graduation moved to Madrid, Spain to follow her dream of acting. She spent an incredible amount of time auditioning for movie and television roles, while working at a bar before being hired for four episodes on the Spanish television series “Menudo es mi Padre” (1997). She was then cast in her first feature film, “Zapping” in1999, a dramatic comedy thriller about the power of TV and its influence on people’s ordinary lives.
Returning to the small-screen, she was hired and cast on the trendy Spanish award winning situation comedy, “7 Vidas” in 1999 for 50 episodes. The show told the story of a man who wakes up after being in a coma for eighteen years only to find his world entirely changed. She was then cast in the feature film, “Nobody Knows Anybody” (1999), a romantic thriller set among the spectacular festivities of Holy Week in Seville Spain, where an aspiring novelist struggles with his job and pays his bills by composing crossword puzzles.
Vega was then hired for the lead role of Angela in the dramatic film “Mine Alone” (2001), where she portrayed a physically abused wife who takes matters into her own hands after her family and the police are unable to help. She was nominated for a Goya, Spain’s equivalent of the Oscar Award, for Best Actress. She then won worldwide attention with her role as Lucia in the romantic drama “Sex and Lucia” (2001). In this sexy and erotic movie, she played a waitress who escapes to the island paradise of her deceased boyfriends dreams, where she encounters two others with a connection to her past life and former lover. The film won the actress another Goya Award for Best New Actress, and she was also nominated for her role in “Solo Mia”—the first time ever in Spanish Goya Award history that the same actress was nominated for two different categories for two different movies. Vega was red hot and now a certified celebrity, and everybody wanted to see more of the actress.
She then returned to television series work for eighteen episodes in the Spanish comedy "Companions" (1998), about the lives and interactions of a group of young teenage students and their teachers set in a Spanish high-school. She was next cast in a small role in the movie “Talk To Her” (2002). The Oscar Award winning dramatic story about two men who share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas. Next, she was cast in a lead role for the comedy “The Other Side of the Bed” (2003), Spain's biggest box office hit of the year. She sang and danced her way through the story of two couples who become trapped in their search for love.
She was next hired for the title role in the romantic “Carmen” (2003), another box office smash hit in Spain, directed by Vincente Aranda, "Carmen" told the story of a journey through Spain, and the French writer Prosper Merimee (Jay Benedict) who is forced by fate to be the witness to a story of love in the boundless, mysterious nature of a woman named Carmen, who turns the character of Jose into the victim with a dangerous chain of bizarre events, chaotic loves, jealousy and bloodshed.
She finally made the move to American movies in the Adam Sandler movie “Spanglish” (2004), a romantic comedy starring Sandler and Tea Leoni, about a woman name Flor, and her daughter who emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife. She had finally arrived in Hollywood and was a red hot sexy celebrity. She next starred alongside Morgan Freeman and Jonah Hill in the romantic comedy "10 Items Or Less" (2006), about an actor prepping for an upcoming role who meets a peculiar grocery clerk, and the pair hit the road to show one another their respective worlds.
She then starred with Danny Huston and Christopher Walken in the mystery thriller "Fade To Black" (2006), an independent film that tells the story of Orson Welles, who in an attempt to recover from his marriage to Rita Hayworth and restart his career, travels to Italy only to be drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics when an actor is murdered on his set. Now fully embracing American cinema, she starred a long string of hit films that would make her a household name in the world of Hollywood.
Her next starring role was as Michael in "The Human Contract" (2008), with Jason Clarke, Steven Brand, Ted Danson and Jada Pinkett Smith, about a successful corporate man harboring a deep, dark secret who becomes friends with a a free-spirited stranger who encourages him to ditch his stuffy lifestyle and live life in reckless abandon. Next was "The Six Wives of Henry Lefay" (2008), starring Elisha Cuthbert, Tim Allen, Jenna Elfman and Vega, in a tale about a grieving daughter who tries to arrange her father's funeral while putting up with all of his ex-wives.
She ended that year with the action drama "The Spirit" (2008), starring with Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht and Eva Mendes, in a story about a rookie cop, Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht), who returns from the beyond as "The Spirit", a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City. Another big break and starring role followed with the thriller "Not Forgotten" (2009), set in a Texas Mexico border town where a man and his wife must face their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter.
She wrapped her year starring next to Colin Farrell in the mystery thriller "Triage" (2009), where the girlfriend of a photojournalist (Farrell) sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague and best friend.
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