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  • Born: 20 February 1966
  • Birthplace: De Kalb, Illinois
  • Best Known As: The supermodel's supermodel

Cindy Crawford was the highest-paid and the most prominent American supermodel of the 1990s. As an actress she appeared in the movie Fair Game, and she is the former host of MTV's House of Style. She was famously married to actor Richard Gere from 1991-95, and continues to appear on magazine covers, both as a model and as a subject of tabloid gossip. In 1998 she married former model Rande Gerber.

Crawford was valedictorian of her high school class.

 
 
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Cindy Crawford

  • Born: Feb 20, 1966
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Health & Fitness, Culture & Society
  • Career Highlights: Cindy Crawford: A New Dimension, Cindy Crawford: The Next Challenge Workout, Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body Workout
  • First Major Screen Credit: Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body Workout (1992)

Biography

Considered one of the world's most beautiful women, supermodel Cindy Crawford has appeared just about everywhere that advertisements are allowed. Over her unprecedentedly long career, she has hawked everything from haute couture and perfume to soda pop and dairy products, and has made a fortune with her beauty and fitness videos and swimsuit calendars. Crawford also owns a piece of the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain. In 1995, Forbes magazine ranked her as the most highly paid model in the world. Crawford is the first supermodel to pose for Playboy and later risked her career by posing suggestively on the cover of Vanity Fair beside lesbian singer k.d. Lang.

In addition to appearing in television commercials, Crawford spent six years hosting the MTV cable network's House of Style. She is an intelligent, witty woman and a popular talk show guest. As an actress, Crawford occasionally guest stars on television series, as she did in a special 1998 episode of the NBC sitcom Third Rock From the Sun. In 1995, Crawford made a rather inauspicious film debut in the action thriller Fair Game. Despite the film's lack of box-office success, Crawford is still interested in pursuing an acting career.

Crawford is a native of De Kalb, IL, and was discovered as a teenager when a local news photographer took a picture of her while she was detasselling corn. Already an impressive beauty, she left her country job to become a model for the summer. She continued modelling for the next two summers, through the Chicago division of the Elite modelling agency and then decided to go to college. Helped by an academic scholarship (she'd been a straight-A student in high school), Crawford studied chemical engineering at Northwestern University, but shrewdly decided that she'd make more money as a model. For a while, Crawford worked in Chicago, but didn't hit the big time until she moved to New York City in 1986.

~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

 
Quotes By: Cindy Crawford

Quotes:

"Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford."

"I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer."

 
Wikipedia: Cindy Crawford


Cindy Crawford
Birth name Cynthia Ann Crawford
Date of birth February 20 1966 (1966--) (age 41)
Place of birth Flag of the United States DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.
Height  ft  in ( m)
Hair color brown
Eye color brown
Measurements 34B"-26"-35" (86-66-89 cm)
Weight 130 lbs (59 kg)
Dress size 8 (US), 38 (EU)
Shoe size 9 (US)
Spouse(s) Richard Gere (1991-1995)
Rande Gerber (1998-present)
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Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966, in Dekalb, Illinois) is an American supermodel, MTV television personality, celebrity endorser, cover girl, and actress.

Early life

Born in DeKalb, Illinois, to John "Dan" Crawford and Jennifer Sue Walker Crawford in 1966, Cindy Crawford's trademark is a visible mole on her face (although most people refer to it as a "beauty mark"). She is so closely associated with this physical feature that she appeared in an advertising campaign for chocolates featuring commercials wherein she "licked off" her own mole. During the beginning of her career, the mole was removed from many of her earlier modeling pictures, including her first Vogue cover. Her brother died at a young age from leukemia, and Crawford has made childhood leukemia a focal point of her charity work, donating proceeds of her calendars to medical research.

She was discovered by chance by a newspaper photographer, who noticed then-16-year-old Cindy at work during her summer job of pollinating corn and took a picture of her. The photo and the positive feedback she received were enough to convince her to take up modeling. She entered the John Casablancas Look of the Year contest and was the runner up.

Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School as valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA. She won an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University, which she attended for only one quarter. She dropped out in order to pursue a full-time modeling career. After working for photographer Victor Skrebneski in Chicago, Cindy moved to Manhattan in 1986.

Career

From 1989 to 1995, Crawford was host of MTV's House of Style. In the mid-1990s Crawford starred in famous Pepsi and Pepsi Stuff advertising. In 1995 Crawford took her first movie role in Fair Game. Her performance was panned by critics, and the film was a financial failure, with expenses of $50 million and $11 million takings at the box office. She has had several other minor acting jobs since then, none of which have been commercially or critically successful. The closest she has come to a commercially successful acting job has been her series of exercise videos.

Crawford is just over 5 feet 9 inches (177 cm) tall, with brown hair and eyes. Her measurements are 34"-26"-35".[1] During the 1980s and 1990s, Cindy was among the most popular supermodels, a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, and in fashion campaigns. In July, 1988, she became the first modern supermodel to pose nude for Playboy magazine, in a shoot by photographer Herb Ritts. In October, 1998 Crawford returned to the pages of Playboy for a second, more revealing nude pictorial. That issue was one of the magazine's all-time biggest sellers.[citation needed]

She has been featured on the cover of many magazines, including Vogue, W, People, Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, and Allure. Cindy also appeared in many fashion campaigns during her career, including those for Gianni Versace, Escada, Revlon, Ink. She has also worked for Omega, Maybelline, and Clairol. Of her, famous designer Karl Lagerfeld has said: "She is a classical beauty and the all-American dream girl." She was nicknamed "Baby Gia" when she entered the modeling industry because of her resemblance to the late supermodel, Gia Carangi.

She was ranked number 5 on Playboy's list of the 100 Sexiest Stars of the 20th century. A 1997 Shape magazine survey of 4,000 picked her as the second (after Demi Moore) most beautiful woman in the world. In 2002, Crawford was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine. She continues to provide celebrity endorsement for a variety of projects and was featured as #26 in the 2006 Hot 100 issue of Maxim magazine.

In 2005, Cindy created a beauty product with Dr. Jean-Louis Sebagh called Meaningful Beauty for Guthy-Renker.

Personal life

Crawford's marriage to actor Richard Gere lasted from 1991 to 1995. Crawford and current husband Rande Gerber have two children, Presley, born July 2, 1999, and Kaya, born September 3, 2001. Crawford gave birth to both her children through natural home birth. The family resides in Los Angeles, California.

Crawford owns her own production company, Crawdaddy Inc.

Filmography

  • The Tyra Banks Show (2007)
  • "Sunrise, Australia" (2007)
  • The Simian Line (2000) ... as Sandra
  • Bodyguards (2000) ... as herself
  • Cindy Crawford: A New Dimension (2000)
  • The Secret World of... Supermodels (1998)
  • Beautopia (1998)
  • Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! (1998)
  • 54 (1998) ... as VIP Patron
  • Frasier: Halloween (1997)
  • Fair Game (1995) ... as Kate McQueen
  • Catwalk (1995)
  • Unzipped (1995)
  • Cindy Crawford: The Next Challenge Workout (1993)
  • Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body Workout (1992)

References

  1. ^ Profile of Cindy Crawford. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.

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