Donya Fiorentino
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Donya Fiorentino (born November 10, 1967 in Key Largo, Florida) is a model, professional photographer and "celebrity ex".[citation needed]
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[edit] Career
Fiorentino first came to national attention at age 14 when she moved with her family to Miami and began a long, successful modeling career, where she earned up to $20,000 a day.[citation needed] At age 17 in 1985, she was first runner up in the Miss Teen All America Pageant, losing out to Halle Berry.
She was a supermodel for the Elite Modeling Agency, and appeared in Elle, Cosmopolitan, Bazaar, and Vogue magazines among others and lived in Milan, London and Tokyo.[citation needed]
She had a small acting role in the film Where the Boys Are[citation needed] and was also a sportscaster for ESPN. While living with Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! for two years, she moved to Los Angeles, California where she appeared in many television commercials including those for Budweiser, Noxzema, Maybelline, and Pepsi.[citation needed]
Fiorentino became an accomplished photographer whose portraits of David Lynch, Lisa Marie, and Lennox Lewis were widely published (e.g., San Francisco Examiner, Esquire Magazine).[citation needed].
[edit] Personal Life
Fiorentino currently lives in Los Angeles,[citation needed] where she continues to write children's books, model, act (helping to put together a pilot for a television series known as "Celebrity Ex" with Pietra (Billy Bob) Thornton), and has a photography business. From 1990-1995 she lived with director David Fincher (Zodiac, Panic Room) with whom she has a daughter, and from 1997-2001 she was married to actor Gary Oldman, with whom she has two sons. She considers herself Fincher's creative muse, since his career became hugely successful during the time they lived together.[citation needed]
[edit] Resources
- Sharon Waxman, Rebels on the Backlot, Six Maverick Directors and How they conquered the Hollywood Studio System, Harper Collins, 2005.
- Modeling Page
- The Onion, The Tenacity of the Cockroach: Conversations with Entertainment's Most Enduring Outsiders, 2002.
Wikipedia entries for Gary Oldman and David Fincher
