Charlotte Lewis
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Born | August 7, 1967 London, England |
Charlotte Lewis (born August 7, 1967 in Kensington, London) is an English actress. Lewis is Irish from her mother's side and Iraqi-Chilean from her father's side[citation needed].
Lewis made her film debut as a teenager in the 1986 Roman Polanski film Pirates. She followed this with her role as the female lead in The Golden Child alongside Eddie Murphy that same year. In 1992 she starred opposite James Spader in Storyville. But despite these early successes, her career developed only intermittently. In 2003 she starred in the film Hey DJ.
Shape Magazine selected her one of the nine best bodies of the 1990s. Lewis appeared on the front cover of Playboy in July 1993. She ranked #7 in Celebrity Sleuth's 25 Sexiest Women of 1996.
She dated Mickey Rourke, Eric Clapton, Charlie Sheen and entrepreneur Eric Haymes. Lewis has returned to London to take care of her mother and now resides there with her son.