KELLY BROOK

'Kelly Brook' (born 'Kelly Ann Parsons' on November 23, 1979) is an English model, actress, and occasional swimwear designer and television presenter.

Contents

Biography

Model

Presenter

Actress

Theatre work

Filmography

External links

Biography

After leaving school in Rochester, Brook studied at the Italia Conti stage school in London for three years before becoming a professional model.

Model

Brook's modeling 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, 9 inches (173 cm) tall, and her voluptuous figure 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 2005, Brook shot a ten page black and white portfolio with photographer David Bailey. The shoot featured in British design magazine October 2005 issue of Arena magazine.
In 2006, she released successful ranges of swimwear and lingerie at New Look stores nationwide.
In February 2007, it was announced that Kelly Brook had signed a contract, reported to be worth £1m, to be the new face and body of Unilever's Lynx bodyspray, known as Axe in the US and on continental Europe. Kelly has been on billboards, in newspapers and online as part of the advertising campaign.^[1]
In December 2007, Brook will launch her own signature fragrance, the bottle shape will replicate her famous curves.

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.^[2]
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's 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 ''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 Billy 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.

Filmography

★ ''Survival Island'' (2006) .... Jennifer

★ '' (2006) (TV) .... Elsie Holland

★ '' (2005) .... Beautiful Woman in Painting

★ '' (2005)(TV) .... Linda Fashiobella

★ ''House of 9'' (2005) .... Lea

★ ''Three'' (2005) .... Jenifer

★ ''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

External links

★ Official Website

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