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Kelly Brook
(born Kelly Ann Parsons on November 23, 1979) is an English model,
actress, and sometime swimwear designer and television presenter.
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Birth name
Kelly Ann Parsons
Born November
23, 1979 (age 27)
Rochester,
Kent, England
Height 5 ft 8
in (1.73 m)
Official site
OfficialKellyBrook.com
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After leaving
school in Rochester, Brook studied at the Italia Conti stage school in
London for three years before becoming a professional model.
She is
currently engaged to actor Billy Zane, having previously dated actor
Jason Statham.
Model
Brook's
modelling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, her
early work was in a range of advertising campaigns, including for the
new "Bravissimo" company that specializes in bras and lingerie for
full-figured women, and for Foster's beer. Brook is 5 feet, 8 inches
(172 cm) tall, and her voluptuous figure (Brook's bust measures 32E)
caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star who began
featuring her as a page three girl.
Brook's picture
soon began appearing in other lad mags such as FHM (repeatedly landing
in its list of the "100 Sexiest Women of the Year") and Loaded. She
topped the 'FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005' list, which was
said to have polled 15 million people. In a poll over 5000 women in
April 2005 for Grazia magazine she was considered to have the best
British female body. She ranked 5th at 'FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the
World 2006' list.
Brook has also
done a large amount of commercial swimwear, sportswear, and hosiery
modeling, and a limited amount of nude & semi-nude modeling. Recent
modelling work for Triumph Bras caused quite a stir because of specially
commissioned 50-foot high billboards of Brook's bust.
In 2006 she
released successfull ranges of swimwear and lingerie at New Look stores
nationwide.
Presenter
In 1997, still
barely 18, Brook started getting work presenting youth television
programmes on MTV, Granada and Trouble TV.
Brook had a
breakthrough into mainstream presenting in January 1999 when she was
chosen to replace Denise van Outen as the female half of The Big
Breakfast presenting team, alongside Johnny Vaughan. Brook remained for
half a year and then parted company with the show in July 1999 after
resigning. [1]
Brook picked up
roles presenting for MTV again.
In 2005 she
presented the reality television programme Celebrity Love Island for
ITV.
Actress
Brook has
appeared in minor roles in a string of movies including Sorted and
Ripper. She played the girlfriend of Clark Kent/Superman's best friend
Lex Luthor in four episodes of Warner Brothers' Smallville during the
show's first season (2001 - 2002). She has also completed assignments as
a movie actress in Canada and made a short appearance as Lyle's
girlfriend in the 2003 movie The Italian Job. In 2004 she played
character Nikki Morris in the video game Need for Speed Underground 2,
alongside Brooke Burke. Brook first starring role was in School for
Seduction, a 2004 film.
In 2005 she
appeared in the Philippe Vidal film House of 9, a thriller about nine
seemingly unconnected strangers captured and locked in a house together.
The people are forced to compete against one another, in order to
survive.
She recently
starred in a Miss Marple drama on ITV. She caused a minor controversy
over her most recent film Survival Island (previously known as Three),
in which she co-starred with fiancé Zane, when Brook and Zane requested
her nude scenes be excised from the final cut, which the producers
refused to do.
In 2007 she
will be seen as a guest star in the british television drama Hotel
Babylon, the independent films In the mood and Fishtales and Carry on
London, the latest in the Carry on series.
Theatre work
In December
2000, she played Anya, a lap dancer in the play Eye Contact at the
Riverside Theatre in Hammersmith, London UK. This role gathered
considerable tabloid publicity as the finale of the show involved Brook
stripping naked.[citation needed]
Filmography
Survival Island
(2006) .... Jennifer
Marple: The
Moving Finger (2006)(TV) .... Elsie Holland
Deuce Bigalow:
European Gigolo (2005) .... Beautiful Woman in Painting
Romy and
Michele: In the Beginning (2005)(TV) .... Linda Fashiobella
House of 9
(2005) .... Lea
School for
Seduction (2004) .... Sophia Rosselini
The Italian Job
(2003) .... Lyle's Girlfriend
Absolon (2003)
.... Claire
"Smallville"
(2002)(TV series) .... Victoria Hardwick
Ripper (2001)
.... Marisa Tavares
The
(Mis)Adventures of Fiona Plum (2001)(TV) .... Fiona Plum
Sorted (2000)
.... Sarah
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