According to the reporter Toby Young Denise
is among the most desirable women in Hollywood, around 90% of the
people in the business would like to sleep with her. Denise
Richards may not have cut it as a catwalk model but she could have
a great career as a centerfold. In addition to her classic, Coca Cola bottle
figure, she has a face that combines the soap commercial prettiness of
an all-American, High School sweetheart with just a hint of depravity.
She grew up in Downers Grove, a middle-class
suburb of Chicago. She attended Herrick Junior High School until she completed
the eighth grade. Then she went to Tinley Park High School for her freshman
year, until she moved with her parents Joni and Irv to the San Diego area,
where they currently own a chain of coffee shops called Jitters. She graduated
from El Camino High School in Oceanside, California in 1989. She did some
modeling as a teenager and briefly moved to New York where she lived in
a model apartment with six other girls. After a while she became a make-up
girl for Bonné Bell. During this time she appeared in a lot of swim
suit magazine articles. But at 5ft 6in (167 cm) she was never going to
get much further in the modeling business so she moved to Los Angeles and
started taking acting classes.
Her first role on TV was on the drama "Life
Goes On". After that she made guest appearances in "Melrose Place", "Married
with Children", "Seinfeld", "Lois and Clark", and "Weird Science". Her
debut feature appearance was in 1993’s "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon
1 ". One of her first breaks came when she got the part of Ben Affleck's
girlfriend in an NBC show called "Against The Grain" in 1993, but it was
canceled after only eight episodes. Denise Richards was finally noticed
when she appeared in "Seinfeld", and was cast into "Tammy and the T-Rex"
in 1994. After completing that, she appeared in a TV- movie called "Fifth
Avenue". Her next role was in "Nowhere", and finally she landed a part
in "Starship Troopers".
"Starship Troopers" was Denise's first major
film. She played a young starship officer in this futuristic movie. The
film itself was troubled by an expanding budget, film delays, and a poor
release date. While it did well in the box office,
the profits were not that good. There is some talks about a sequel,
and hopefully we can se Denise as ms. Ibanez again.
Anyway Denise's real life boyfriend is Patrick Muldoon, the same person
who played her co-pilot in the film.
The next movie "Wild Things" really established
her as a sex symbol in Hollywood. She played a young and spoiled high school
girl who wanted more than she already had. The movie in itself is
a thriller and also starred Neve Campbell, Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon.
The most famous scene in the picture is the threesome between Denise, Neve
and Matt. This scene represented a real dilemma for Denise: what to do
about her parents. "They definitely want to see the movie," she says, "but
I don't want my dad to see my breasts. I'm just
hoping he'll cover his eyes." It is rumored that Denise is talking
to the producers of "Wild Things" about a sequel.
Denise have really been successful so far when
it comes to acting. Her favorite actresses are Susan Sarandon, Jessica
Lange, Kim Basinger and Michelle Pffeifer. Hopefully she will have
a career in front of her that is as long and successful as her role models. |
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