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| Birth Name(s) : Yasmine Amanda Bleeth |
Date of Birth: June 16, 1968 |
| Status:
Married
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Partner:
Paul Cerrito |
| Profession:
Actor/Model |
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Yasmine Bleeth, voted one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful" of 1995, stars as Caroline Holden on the internationally renowned, highly-rated, hit series "Baywatch."
Yasmine began her career at the early age of 6 months, when she was featured as the Johnson & Johnson Baby. At age six, she appeared in a Max Factor campaign, along with Christina Ferrare. Her work in this campaign caught the eye of fashion photographer, Francesco Scavullo, who subsequently included her in his self-entitled book "Scavullo's Women." At the age of 12, Yasmine was cast opposite Buddy Hacket in the feature film "Hey Babe."
Bi-lingual Bleeth attended United Nations International School (UNIS) in New York City, where she continued modeling and acting. Bleeth, then 16, won the role of "Ryan Fenelli" and the hearts of millions on the ABC soap opera "Ryan's Hope." In 1991, staying in the ABC family, she created the role as the sultry, misunderstood "Lee Anne Demerest" on the highly acclaimed soap opera "One Life To Live." |
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Bleeth is famous for her role as Caroline Holden on the worldwide-syndicated TV series Baywatch, where she played an always red swimsuit-clad professional lifeguard.
Her mother was a former fashion model, while her father was a professional photographer. They both ran a business that rented vans to fashion photographers for on-location shoots. Philip Bleeth became his daughter's business manager. Bleeth's parents separated and later divorced; she was raised by her mother.
Bleeth's earliest known acting role was in a Johnson & Johnson's No More Tears baby shampoo television commercial at age ten months at the end of 1968 or the beginning of 1969. She once said: "I did my first commercial when I was 10 months old, and I've been in the business ever since." At age 6 she appeared on Candid Camera. Later that year she appeared in a Max Factor cosmetic campaign, along with the model, Cristina Ferrare. Her work in this campaign caught the eye of fashion photographer, Francesco Scavullo, who subsequently included her and her mother, Carina, in his book entitled Scavullo Women.
Total Film magazine, issue number 21, dated (October 1998), contains a two-page interview with Bleeth. In the article she said, "When I was a girl I used to have to force boys to kiss me. My toughest friend had to hold them down."Yasmine Bleeth in Hey Babe!, her 1st film at 12-years-old
Bleeth attended the United Nations International School in Manhattan, New York, and she received a bilingual (French-English) education . She was very popular with boys. At one time when she was 14 years old, she had to be away from school for a few months for her acting career.
By the time she graduated from high school, she had already been working on the soap opera Ryan's Hope since the age of 16. In 1991, she created the role as Lee Anne Demerest on the highly acclaimed soap opera One Life To Live.
At the age of 20, Bleeth lost her mother Carina to inflammatory breast cancer, the deadliest type of breast cancer. Bleeth said that she never accepted the fact that her mother was dying until Carina took her very last breath. Just two months after Carina's 47th birthday, her fight with cancer was over .
After Carina died, Bleeth sank into depression, and she turned down offers for acting or modeling work for about eight months.
Bleeth was the 1998 spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day fundraising campaign, which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education. In 1998 it occurred on October 9, and was called the 'Wear Jeans to Work' campaign. Through Bleeth's help, $5 million was raised on that one day to help the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Her primary message to women was to pay attention to their bodies; Her mother was initially misdiagnosed by a doctor who thought that she was going through early menopause.
Bleeth donated the proceeds of her $10,000 win on Celebrity Jeopardy to breast cancer research. She hoped to use her celebrity status to expand breast cancer awareness - particularly to young women who might overlook what an older woman would not ignore .
Bleeth has been a spokesperson for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation who, along with corporate sponsor Ford, put together the nationally run Race for the Cure.
In December 2000, Bleeth voluntarily entered the Malibu-based Promises rehabilitation clinic to overcome a cocaine addiction.
Bleeth's lawyer, Jerry Sabbota, stated that the actress was satisfied with the plea bargain, noting that her record will be cleared of any felonies after she fulfills the terms of her probation. "When all is said and done she'll have a traffic ticket on her record. She wasn't treated any better than anyone else, and she wasn't treated any worse", Sabbota said. Bleeth completely fulfilled the terms of her probation as of January 2004, and her record was cleared as previously determined by the plea bargain.
Attorney Sabbota stated that Bleeth had returned to Promises rehabilitation clinic. In an issue of Glamour from April 2003, Bleeth wrote a three page article entitled "Back From my Drugs Hell" about her rocky path to recovery, her drug addiction, and her struggle to remain sober. She wrote that she had a cocaine habit that was so severe that she collapsed at a photo shoot for Glamour magazine, and she went without sleep for five days at a time. She wrote that "consciously trying to stay off drugs is now part of my life and always will be."
Commenting on her cocaine addiction, Bleeth said, "It was almost like falling in love... It became my boyfriend, my best friend, my family."
Due to her role in Baywatch, Yasmine was offered many more roles in television and film. She continued to work as a model, frequently appearing in swimwear or lingerie, but has never appeared nude despite many offers. |
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