Rena Takeshita (竹下 玲奈, Takeshita Rena^?, born December 17, 1981 in Kyushu) is a Japanese fashion model and occasional actress. Since the late 1990s she has appeared in numerous magazines, catalogs, television commercials, TV shows and films.

Born in the main island of Amami,^[1] she began her professional fashion modeling career at the age of around 14 and began commercial fashion modeling at the age of around 15. She made her first television appearance in 1998 when she appeared on a TV ad for House Wellness Foods' soft drink Plussy. She made her TV show debut in October 2000 on TBS's midnight show Wonderful.^[2]

She has regularly appeared on numerous fashion magazines notably More, Style, Sweet, Oggi, Ar, Ginger,^[3] CanCam and Non-no,^[2] and numerous television and print ads including ones for Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.'s Sarasaty Cotton, Kao's Sifone (in Hong Kong and Taiwan) and Biore and Prettia, Mitsui Fudosan's Mitsui Outlet Park, Nissan's Moco and Kirin's Premium Cocktail.^[2]

She made her acting debut in the 2004 film Gira directed by Noriyuki Taniguchi. Since then she has appeared in two films, one being the 2007 Japan Academy Prize-winning film Tokyo Tower, and the other being the 2008 film Experiment No. 4: It’s a small world directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita.^[2]

She left her long-term agency Hirata Office in March 2009, signing with the Dress Code agency.^[2]

In 2010 she released her first solo photobook, Karte, consisted of her photographs taken over 6 years by photographer Chikashi Kasai.^[4]

Near the end of 2010, Takeshita appeared on the first issue of the Closet magazine as one of its three best featured models along with Miho Tanaka and Emi Suzuki.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website (Japanese)
• Official Twitter (Japanese)
• Official profile at Dress Code (Japanese)

Maggie Siff
Siff at an industry event in October 2008
Born	Maggie Siff (1974-06-21) June 21, 1974 (age 38) The Bronx, New York City, New York

Maggie Siff (born June 21, 1974) is an American actress best known for her television roles, notably department-store heiress Rachel Menken Katz on the AMC drama Mad Men and Dr. Tara Knowles on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy. She also played a role in the 2009 film Push, as Teresa Stowe and in the 2010 film Leaves of Grass as Rabbi Renannah Zimmerman.

Life and career[link]

Siff was born in The Bronx, New York City. Her father is Jewish, and Siff identifies as "half" Jewish.^[1][2] She is a graduate of Bronx Science,^[3] and of Bryn Mawr^[4] Majoring in English and graduating in 1996, and later New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts with an M.F.A. in Acting.^[5][6]

Siff worked extensively in regional theater before her work on TV. She appears as an Alcoholics Anonymous speaker during an episode of Rescue Me in season two. She won a Barrymore Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1998 for her work in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at Lantern Theater Company.^[5] She also had a brief role in Funny People.

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References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Maggie Siff

• Maggie Siff at the Internet Movie Database
• Maggie Siff at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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Daisy Rebecca Lowe^[1] (born 27 January 1989) is an English fashion model who has modelled for editorial photo shoots and commercial advertising campaigns and has worked as a runway model. She is the daughter of Pearl Lowe, the singer-songwriter turned textile and fashion designer, and Gavin Rossdale, lead singer for Bush.^[2]

Career[link]

Lowe began modelling at the age of two, and did some photoshoots when she was 12 and 14 years old.^[3] At 15 she was approached by a talent scout in Camden Town and, as a result, she signed with Select, a London modelling agency.^[3]

In February 2006, Lowe was featured in Italian Vogue, shot by New York photographer Steven Klein, who also shot her in March 2007 for a W magazine pictorial called "Xurbia". In September 2006, Lowe modelled for the Urban Outfitters catalogue, appeared in French Connection printed advertisements and was profiled in British Harper’s Bazaar. She was featured in an editorial in Jane magazine alongside fellow model Lydia Hearst-Shaw in March 2007, appeared in Italian Vogue for the second time in May, and in August, posed nude on the cover of i-D magazine with her then-partner, Will Cameron of the band Blondelle, photographed by Terry Richardson.^[4] She again shot for Italian Vogue in 2009 at Bancroft's School in a shoot by Miles Aldridge.

On the runway, Lowe was selected by Karl Lagerfeld to model for Chanel, and has appeared on catwalks in New York, Milan and London for Topshop and designers such as PPQ, Nanette Lepore, Sue Stemp, Charlotte Ronson, Henry Holland, and Vivienne Westwood. She has modelled for Agent Provocateur lingere for the past three years, and has been used by Burberry, Converse shoes, Dr. Martens, Hooch, Wheels and Doll Baby, Ben Sherman, Frost French, Hari, Karen Millen, Diesel SpA and Whistles, as well as for her mother's recent collection of lace dresses.^[5][6]

Of the Whistles campaign, Lowe said, "[It] was a favourite shoot of mine... Modelling is a cool outlet for me to express myself, and fashion has always fascinated me. I love that fashion crosses into my other passions - music and art."^[7]

Lowe's magazine work includes editorials and covers of publications such as Tatler, Elle, GQ, Vogue, Paradis, Marie Claire, Interview, Jalouse, Teen Vogue, Dirty Glam, Grazia, In Style, Nylon and The Sunday Times Style amongst many others.

She has recently appeared in campaigns for Marc by Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Pringle of Scotland, DKNY, Mango and Esprit.

Lowe has some experience in other media, including being the focus of the BBC Two eight-part fly on the wall documentary series Class of 2008, co-hosting Glamour's Best Dressed 2008 with Peaches Geldof for Fiver, and a brief contribution to a blog for Elle UK online. Lowe has worked as a DJ, appeared in the music videos NYC Beat by Armand Van Helden and Bloodthirsty Bastards by Dirty Pretty Things, hosted events for Tommy Hilfiger and Dolce and Gabbana, and in April 2008 made a recording in a New York studio with producer Mark Ronson,^[5][8] with whom she had a brief romantic relationship.^[9][10]

2009 also saw Lowe feature in The First Days of Spring, Noah and the Whale's film accompaniment to their second album.^[11]

She was chosen to be in the 2010 Pirelli Calendar photographed by Terry Richardson in Bahia, Brazil.^[12] Throughout May 2010 Daisy documented her daily fashion and style choices for Vogue.co.uk's Today I'm Wearing feature.^[13] In August 2010, Lowe became the face of the newly relaunched Sixties label Biba.^[14] She is also the face of Stephen Webster's 2011 jewellery campaign.^[15]

In 2011, Daisy went topless for Esquire ^[16] and nude for Playboy.^[17]

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Lowe grew up in Primrose Hill, North London, and stayed with grandparents to continue her education at South Hampstead High School when her mother, Pearl Lowe, moved to Hampshire. Lowe dated producer Mark Ronson, but broke up after a row. She dated Matt Smith, but they broke up on 24 November 2011 due to work commitments.^[18]

Until 2004, Lowe was believed to be the daughter of Pearl Lowe's ex-husband Bronner Handwerger, but a paternity test revealed that her godfather, Bush singer/guitarist Gavin Rossdale, was in fact her biological father.^[5][19] Her mother Pearl Lowe wrote about the situation in her book, All That Glitters. Daisy's paternity was not questioned early on, and Pearl listed "Bronner Lowe" on Daisy's birth certificate. At age 14, Daisy found out neither Bronner Lowe nor her mother shared her O-type blood. She mistakenly thought that one parent must share her blood type and that Bronner couldn't be her father (based on a common misunderstanding of blood type inheritance). Daisy confronted her mother, who admitted to a one-night affair with Rossdale. Daisy and Pearl's lawyers arranged a paternity test, which Rossdale at first refused. Results confirmed Rossdale was her real father.^[20]

At 16, Lowe said of the press,

"A lot of the stuff that gets written is just complete, mindless bullshit. If something bad is said about any of the people around me, then we all have a conversation about it [...] Most of the time it doesn't have an effect on my life. It's annoying when teachers say they've read things about me, and my head of year takes me aside and asks if I'm all right [...] But you've got to deal with it. There's no point going to cry in the toilet."^[21]

In 2011, she featured in Miles Kane's music video "Come Closer".^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

• Daisy's Biba VOGUE.COM, 24 August 2010

External links[link]

• Daisy Lowe at the Fashion Model Directory
• Daisy Lowe pour BLAST - shooting Hotel Le Burgundy Paris

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Malia Jones (born March 27, 1977) is a model and surfer.

Life and career[link]

Jones was born in Loma Linda, California, although she returned to Kailua, Hawaii, at the age of two. Jones is of Hawaiian, Spanish-Filipino, German and English descent [1]. She began to surf competitively in her early teens, and at age 15 won the girls division of the United States Amateur Surfing Championship. While competing, Surfing Magazine spotted her and asked her to model for their swimsuit issue, and thus a second career was born.

Since then, she has appeared on the cover of over a dozen magazines, and has been named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" by People magazine, and one of America's "10 Sexiest Athletes" by Esquire. She has also been a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. Jones has done TV commercials for American Express, Capri Sun, Coca-Cola, Corona Beer, and VO5 shampoo. Jones was also a consultant for the Disney movie Lilo & Stitch. She also designs a line of swimwear for Mambo Graphics sportswear.

Personal life[link]

She married surfer Conan Hayes in 1999 then divorced.

In 2007, she married Australian professional surfer Luke Stedman.^[1] In 2009, she gave birth to the couples first child, Spike.^[2] The couple is currently separated.

Jones divided her time between Hawaii, France and Sydney, Australia, before recently moving back to her hometown of North Shore.^[3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Malia Jones Photo Gallery
• Video from her Outside Magazine cover shoot
• Outside Magazine interview

Julie Newmar
Newmar at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan in 2009.
Born	Julia Chalene Newmeyer (1933-08-16) August 16, 1933 (age 78) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, dancer, singer, businesswoman, writer
Years active	1952—present
Height	approx. 5'10"
Spouse	J. Holt Smith (1977-1983); 1 son

Julie Newmar (born August 16, 1933, Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, dancer and singer. Her most famous role is Catwoman in the Batman television series.

Early life[link]

She was born in Los Angeles as Julia Chalene Newmeyer, the eldest of three children born to Don and Helen (née Jesmer) Newmeyer. Her father was head of the Physical Education Department at Los Angeles City College and had played American football professionally in the 1920s with the Los Angeles Buccaneers of the first American Football League. Her brother is John Newmeyer, Harvard Ph.D, a San Francisco-based epidemiologist, author, and Napa Valley winemaker.

Newmar was a "dancer-assassin" in Slaves of Babylon (1953) and the "gilded girl" in Serpent of the Nile (1953), in which she was clad in gold paint. She danced in several other films, including The Band Wagon and Demetrius and the Gladiators, and was a ballerina with the Los Angeles Opera. She also worked as a choreographer and dancer for Universal Studios.

Career[link]

Stage and film[link]

Her first major role, billed as "Julie Newmeyer", was as "Dorcas", one of the brides in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). Her three minute Broadway appearance as the leggy "Stupefyin' Jones" in the musical Li'l Abner in 1956 led to a reprise in the 1959 film version. She was also the female lead in a low-budget comedy, The Rookie. She also featured in many further films including the 1969 production, Mackenna's Gold.

Newmar had first appeared on Broadway in 1955 in Silk Stockings which starred Hildegarde Neff and Don Ameche. She also appeared in the 1961 film, The Marriage-Go-Round, which starred James Mason and Susan Hayward. Newmar developed the role of the Swedish vixen and won a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later appeared on stage with Joel Grey in the national tour of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off and as "Lola" in Damn Yankees! and "Irma" in Irma La Douce.

Newmar appeared in a pictorial, in the May 1968 issue of Playboy magazine, which featured Playmate Elizabeth Jordan.

Television[link]

from the trailer for The Maltese Bippy (1969)

Newmar's fame stems mainly from her television appearances. Her statuesque form made her a larger than life sex symbol, most often cast as a temptress or amazonian beauty, including an early appearance in sexy maid costume on The Phil Silvers Show. She starred as "Rhoda the Robot" in the TV series My Living Doll (1964–1965), and is known for her recurring role in the 1960s TV series Batman as the Catwoman, the "purrfect" villainess. (Lee Meriwether played Catwoman in the 1966 feature film and Eartha Kitt in the series' final season.) Newmar made her own Catwoman costume—now in the Smithsonian Institution—and placed the belt at the hips instead of the waist to emphasize her hourglass figure.^[1]

In 1962, Newmar appeared twice as motorcycle-riding, free-spirited heiress Vicki Russell on Route 66, filmed in Tucson, Arizona ("How Much a Pound is Albatross") and in Tennessee ("Give the Old Cat a Tender Mouse"). She guest-starred on The Twilight Zone as the devil, F Troop as an Indian princess, Bewitched as a cat named Ophelia given human form by Endora, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Get Smart as a double agent assigned to Maxwell Smart's apartment posing as a maid. In 1967, she guest-starred as April Conquest in an episode of The Monkees, and was a pregnant princess in the Star Trek episode "Friday's Child". She had guest roles in Columbo and The Bionic Woman during the 1970s.

Newmar appeared in several low-budget films during the next two decades. She guest-starred on TV, appearing on The Love Boat, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Hart to Hart, CHiPs and Fantasy Island. She was seen in George Michael's video clip Too Funky in 1992, and appeared as herself in a 1996 episode of Melrose Place.

The 1995 film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar pays homage to the actress; Newmar herself makes a cameo appearance near the film's end.

In 2003, Newmar appeared as herself in the TV-Movie Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt alongside former Batman co-stars Adam West, Burt Ward, Frank Gorshin and Lee Meriwether. Julia Rose played Newmar in flashbacks to the production of the TV series. Due to longstanding rights issues over footage from the Batman TV series, however, only footage of Meriwether taken from the feature film was allowed to be used in the TV movie.

Fashion designer Thierry Mugler, selected her as his model-muse for the catwalk of his 20 year couture celebration in Paris.

Entrepreneur[link]

Julie Newmar at the 2007 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Ribbon of Hope Celebration

In the 1970s, Newmar received two US patents for pantyhose^[2] and one for a brassiere.^[3] The pantyhose were described as having "cheeky derriere relief" and promoted under the name "Nudemar". The brassiere was described as "nearly invisible" and in the style of Marilyn Monroe.^[4]

Newmar began investing in Los Angeles real estate in the 1980s. A women's magazine stated that "Newmar is partly responsible for improving the Los Angeles neighborhoods on La Brea Avenue and Fairfax Avenue near the Grove."^[5]

Personal life[link]

Briefly engaged to novelist Louis L'Amour in the early 1950s, Newmar married J. Holt Smith, a lawyer, on August 5, 1977 and moved with him to Fort Worth, Texas where she lived until her divorce from Smith in 1984. ^[6] She has one child, John Jewl Smith, who is deaf and has Down syndrome.^[7]

A legal battle with her neighbor, James Belushi, ended amicably with an invitation to co-star on his sitcom According to Jim in an episode ("The Grumpy Guy") that poked fun at the feud. An avid gardener, Newmar initiated at least a temporary ban on leaf blowers with the Los Angeles City Council.^[8]

Health[link]

In 2008, Newmar was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.^[9]

Filmography[link]

Newmar (right) with Doris Roberts in November 2010

• Just for You (1952)
• Serpent of the Nile (1953)
• The Band Wagon (1953)
• Slaves of Babylon (1953)
• Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
• Li'l Abner (1959)
• The Rookie (1959)
• The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
• For Love or Money (1963)
• Mackenna's Gold (1969)
• The Maltese Bippy (1969)
• Up Your Teddy Bear, aka Mother (1970)
• Hysterical (1983)
• Love Scenes (1984)
• Streetwalkin' (1985)
• Evils of the Night (1985)
• Real Men (1987)
• Deep Space (1988)
• Nudity Required (1988)
• Body Beat (1988)
• Cyber-C.H.I.C. (1989)
• Ghosts Can't Do It (1990)
• Oblivion (1994)
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) (cameo)
• Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996)
• If... Dog... Rabbit... (1999)

Television work[link]

• The Phil Silvers Show (1957) (guest appearance)
• The Defenders (guest appearance)
• Route 66 (1962) (guest appearances)
• The Twilight Zone (1963) (guest appearance)
• My Living Doll (1964–1965) (Golden Globe nomination)
• Batman (1966)
• The Beverly Hillbillies (1966) (guest appearance)
• F Troop (1966) (guest appearance)
• The Monkees (1966) (guest appearance)
• Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) (guest appearance)
• Get Smart (1968) (guest appearance)
• It Takes a Thief (1968) (guest appearance)
• McCloud (1970) (guest appearance)
• Love, American Style (1970-1972) (guest appearances)
• Bewitched (1971) (guest appearance)
• The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971) (TV movie)
• A Very Missing Person (1972) (TV movie)
• Columbo: Double Shock (1973)
• Fools, Females and Fun (1974) (TV movie)
• Terraces (1977) (TV movie)
• Jason of Star Command (1978) (guest appearances)
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
• Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt (2003) (TV movie)
• According to Jim (2006) (guest appearance)
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2010) (guest appearance)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Julie Newmar

• Official website
• Official website for her writing
• Julie Newmar at the Internet Broadway Database
• Julie Newmar at the Internet Movie Database
• Julie Newmar at the TCM Movie Database
• Julie Newmar at AllRovi
• Julie Newmar at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Julie Newmar Never-Before-Seen Photos