Charlotte Lewis | |
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Born | 7 August 1967 Kensington, London, England, U.K. |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1978-2003 |
Charlotte Lewis (born 7 August 1967) is an English actress.[1]
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Charlotte Lewis attended Bishop Douglass School in Finchley.
Charlotte Lewis made her film debut as a teenager in the 1986 Roman Polanski film Pirates. She followed it that same year with the female lead in The Golden Child alongside Eddie Murphy.[2] Later appearances include the film Tripwire (1990) and Storyville (1992, opposite James Spader). She had a co-starring role in Men of War (1995, alongside Dolph Lundgren). Lewis appeared in the 2003 film Hey DJ.[3]
Lewis also appeared in a cover-featured pictorial in the July 1993 issue of Playboy magazine.[4][5]
On 14 May 2010, Charlotte Lewis and her Los Angeles-based attorney Gloria Allred accused director Roman Polanski of sexually assaulting the actress when she was 16 years old,[6][7] prior to the two working together on Pirates.[8][9] Prosecutors in Los Angeles confirmed that they interviewed Lewis in connection with the allegations.[10] According to Lewis, the alleged incident occurred at Polanski's apartment in Paris. Previously in an interview which she gave in 1999, Charlotte stated that she had been Roman Polanski's girlfriend for six months after the shooting of Pirates. She said, "I knew that Roman had done something bad in the United States, but I wanted to be his lover."[11][12]