Eva Herzigová

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Herzigová at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

Eva Herzigová (born March 10, 1973) is a Czech supermodel and actress.

1 Career
2 Trivia
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Career

Herzigová was born in Litvínov, Czech Republic, and she began her modeling career after winning a modeling beauty contest in Prague in 1989, at the age of sixteen. After arriving in Paris she became a popular supermodel. Her first important appearance was the Miss Wonderbra campaign in 1990s. She was also featured in the Guess? Jeans advertisements and was dubbed the "Marilyn of the 1990s." She has also appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalog and Sports Illustrated. Herzigová has also appeared in several movies. She posed nude for Playboy in August 2004. In 2006 she was Venus at the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.

She married Tico Torres, the drummer from Bon Jovi, in September 1996, in a lavish wedding attended by, among others, Donald Trump. The pair divorced in June 1998. Since 2000, she's been romantically linked with Guy Oseary, the CEO of Maverick Records, and more recently spotted with the British television broadcaster and journalist Jeremy Clarkson.

[edit] Trivia

She makes pottery and has owned a computerized kiln. "Making pottery's very calming and it's creative and it's, you know, when you're like in your own world, you have a creative thing that's going through your head. You just go. Travel in your mind. It's cool."
She declared:"I love cookbooks. ... I love risotto"^[1]."
About her film career, she put forward:

Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting. You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress. So I'd like to be in that profession."^[2]

[edit] Filmography

Title	Year	Role	Notes
The Picture of Dorian Gray	2005	uncredited
Modigliani	2004	Olga
Just for the Time Being	2000	Christine
L'amico del cuore	1998	Frida Seta
Les Anges gardiens	1995	Tchouk Tchouk Nougat
Inferno	1992		TV film