| 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.
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FILMOGRAPHY
• Cindy Crawford Collector's Series Three Pack (2004)
• The Simian Line (2001)
• Fair Game (1995) |
