Geena Davis Biography from Who2.com: "Tall and athletic but inclined towards comedy, Geena Davis won an Oscar as best supporting actress for her 1998 film The Accidental Tourist. Davis had a short-lived career as a model before winning a role in 1982's Tootsie (as Dustin Hoffman's dressing room partner). Davis then appeared in the TV sitcom Buffalo Bill before hitting it big in Hollywood with several popular films, including The Fly (1986, with future husband Jeff Goldblum) and Beetlejuice (1988, directed by Tim Burton). Her buddy movie with Susan Sarandon, Thelma and Louise (1991, directed by Ridley Scott), was a box office smash that earned Davis another Oscar nomination. Her other film credits include A League of Their Own (1992, with Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996, with Samuel L. Jackson) and Stuart Little (1999) and its 2002 sequel Stuart Little 2. Davis has also starred in television series, including The Geena Davis Show (2000, with Mimi Rogers) and Commander-in-Chief (2005, with Donald Sutherland).
Extra credit: Davis is a competitive archer who entered the 2000 Olympic Trials but failed to make the team... She has been married four times: to Richard Emmolo (1981-83), actor Jeff Goldblum (1987-90), director Renny Harlin (1993-98) and surgeon Reza Jarrahy (2001- ). Davis and Jarrahy have a daughter, Alizeh, born in 2001, and twin sons, Kian and Kaiis, born in 2004... Davis is six feet tall... Some sources list her birth year as 1957... According to the Bravo show Inside the Actors Studio, 'Davis worked as a model for the Victoria's Secret catalogue where she was spotted by [director] Sydney Pollack and cast in Tootsie'... Davis is a member of the high-IQ club Mensa, but told Sports Illustrated in 2002 that 'I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.'
Davis appears with fellow model-actress Molly Sims in our loop on The Models of Victoria's Secret."
Michelle Alves Biography from Who2.com: "Tall, rangy and sometimes regal, Michelle Alves is also unusually slender, even for a supermodel. Like Ana Beatriz Barros, Gisele Bundchen and Adriana Lima, she hails from Brazil. She has appeared internationally on the covers of Vogue, Marie Claire, and Esquire, among other fashion magazines, and is a regular in ads for Valentino fashions. Alves has also appeared on the annual televised Victoria's Secret fashion show.
Alves joins classic models Jill Goodacre and Frederique in the loop The Models of Victoria's Secret."
Alessandra Ambrosio Biography from Who2.com: "A lithe brunette with a signature navel piercing, Alessandra Ambrosio was one of the many Brazilian models to hit it big internationally in the late 1990s. She began taking modelling classes at age 14, was a finalist in the Elite Look of the Year competition in 1996, and went from there to advertisements for Guess clothing (the same line which helped launch the careers of Anna Nicole Smith and Laetitia Casta). She became one of the Victoria's Secret lingerie 'angels' and has also appeared in ads for Revlon, Giorgio Armani and many other companies. She made a very brief appearance as 'Tennis Girl' in the 2007 James Bond film Casino Royale (starring Daniel Craig).
Extra credit: Ambrosio is 5' 10' tall, according to her official site... Her hometown is sometimes spelled Erexim.
Ambrosio joins fellow Brazilians Adriana Lima and Gisele Bundchen in our loop on The Models of Victoria's Secret."
Yasmeen Ghauri Biography from Who2.com: "Raven-haired and aristocratic, Yasmeen Ghauri has appeared in ad campaigns for Givenchy, Hermes, Versace and other high-end fashion houses. (In modeling circles she is known by the single name of Yasmeen.) She was a regular in Victoria's Secret catalogs in the 1990s, and also appeared in the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Ghauri's father is Pakistani and her mother German; the family emigrated from Germany to Canada shortly before Ghauri's birth.
Yasmeen appears with Laetitia Casta in our loop on The Models of Victoria's Secret... Other models from Canada include Estella Warren and Linda Evangelista."
Stephanie Seymour Biography from Who2.com: "Stephanie Seymour was a leading supermodel of the 1990s, a classical brunette of the pensive, look-of-longing school. She first appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 1988, and that same year graced the cover of Vogue magazine in a photo by Richard Avedon. Despite many other magazine covers, she is perhaps most famous for her appearances in the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogs. Seymour dated rock star Axl Rose of the band Guns 'N Roses for several years; the two became engaged before breaking up. She married businessman Peter Brant in 1995. Seymour filed for a divorce from Brant early in 2009, in what became a much-publicized break-up.
Extra credit: Seymour's first marriage was to rock guitarist Tommy Andrews (1989-90); their son, Dylan, was born in 1991. Seymour and Brant have three children together: Peter, Jr. (born 1994), Harry (b. 1997) and Lilly Margaret (b. 2004).
Stephanie Seymour appears with Jill Goodacre and Adriana Lima in our loop on the Models of Victoria's Secret."
Elle Macpherson Biography from Who2.com: "Mixing a girl-next-door grin with an athletic Aussie body, Elle Macpherson first hit the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue in 1986. The magazine made her reputation: she appeared on the issue's cover again in 1987 and 1988 and went on to became one of the most acclaimed models of the 1990s. Macpherson supplemented her modelling career with appearances in movies like Sirens (1994, with Hugh Grant) and Batman and Robin (1997, with George Clooney). She also started her own lingerie line, Elle Macpherson Intimates. She joined fellow models Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell as an original partner in the Fashion Cafe restaurant chain.
Extra credit: Macpherson was married to photographer Gilles Bensimon from 1985-89. She had a long relationship with financier Arpad Busson, with whom she has two children: Arpad Flynn (b. 1998) and Aurelius Cy (b. 2003)... Macpherson also appeared in group shots on the SI swimsuit issue cover in 1994 and 2006.
Elle Macpherson appears with Laetitia Casta in our loop on the Models of Victoria's Secret... She also joins Heidi Klum and Niki Taylor in our loop on Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models."


