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Twiggy is a Actor British born on 19 september 1949 at London (United-kingdom)

Twiggy

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Birth name Lesley Hornby
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 september 1949 (74 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Lesley Lawson (née Hornby; born 19 September 1949), widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress and singer. In the mid-1960s, she became a prominent British teenage model of swinging sixties London with others such as Penelope Tree.

Twiggy was initially known for her thin build (thus her nickname) and her androgynous look consisting of large eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair. In 1966, she was named "The Face of 1966" by the Daily Express and voted British Woman of the Year. By 1967, Twiggy had modelled in France, Japan, and the U.S., and landed on the covers of Vogue and The Tatler. Her fame had spread worldwide.

After modelling, Twiggy went on to enjoy a successful career as a screen, stage and television actress. As an actress, Twiggy's role in The Boy Friend (1971) brought her two Golden Globe Awards. She has hosted her own series, Twiggy's People, in which she interviewed celebrities, and also appeared as a judge on the reality show America's Next Top Model. Her 1998 autobiography, Twiggy in Black and White, entered the bestseller lists. Since 2005, she has modelled for Marks and Spencer, most recently to promote their recent rebranding, appearing in television advertisements and print media, alongside Myleene Klass, Erin O'Connor, Lily Cole and others. In 2012, she worked alongside Marks & Spencer's designers to launch an exclusive clothing collection for the M&S Woman range.

Biography

Twiggy married American actor Michael Witney in 1977. They had a daughter, Carly, born in 1978. The marriage ended with his sudden death in 1983 from a heart attack. Twiggy met Leigh Lawson in 1984. In 1988, they worked on the film Madame Sousatzka, and married that year in Sag Harbor, Long Island. Lawson adopted Twiggy's daughter, who took his surname. The couple reside in London, and also own a home in Southwold, Suffolk.

In her official site, she describes herself as being an ardent supporter of breast cancer research, animal welfare and anti-fur campaigns.

Twiggy was one of the celebrities, including Tom Hiddleston, Jo Brand, E. L. James and Rachel Riley, to design and sign her own card for the UK-based charity Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. The campaign was launched by crafting company Stampin’ Up! UK and the cards were auctioned off on eBay during May 2014.

Usually with

Ken Russell
Ken Russell
(2 films)
John Landis
John Landis
(1 films)
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Twiggy (12 films)

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Actress

Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs (2004)
, 1h33
Directed by Marzieh Meshkini
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Twiggy
Rating70% 3.539973.539973.539973.539973.53997
Deux enfants, un frère et une soeur, sauvent un chien égaré dans les rues de Kaboul. Un soir, les deux enfants se rendent à la prison où est incarcérée leur mère. N'ayant nul endroit où dormir, ils sont autorisés à passer la nuit avec elle. Mais le matin suivant, ils doivent partir : la prison est un lieu pour les criminels, pas pour les orphelins errants. Voulant absolument retourner auprès de leur mère, les deux enfants entament une série de délits pour être mis en prison. Sans succès. Un fugitif leur explique alors qu'ils peuvent apprendre à voler en regardant les films hollywoodiens et le cinéma européen leur apprendra comment se faire attraper.
Edge of Seventeen, 1h43
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Tina Holmes, Lea DeLaria, Jason Anthony Griffith, Twiggy
Roles Marlene Dichtrich
Rating67% 3.397043.397043.397043.397043.39704
Sandusky, Ohio, 1984: Eric Hunter is a Eurythmics-obsessed, musically driven teenager coming to terms with his sexual identity. When Eric and his best friend, Maggie, accept summer jobs in food service at the local amusement park, they befriend their lesbian manager, Angie, and a gay college student named Rod. Sparks fly between the two boys, even as Maggie waits patiently in the wings for Eric's affections. Eric and Rod eventually go on a date, but then Rod promptly heads back to Ohio State. The encounter leaves Eric to have mixed feelings, but he is now more sure of his sexuality. After beginning his senior year of high school, Eric starts to change up his appearance by letting Maggie dye the top half of his hair blonde, and wearing more effeminate clothes. This raises eyebrows with his loving parents, but Eric learns that his mom is going to get a part time job at a local movie multiplex to help send him to study music in New York. While at a party with Maggie, several guys from their school call Eric gay slurs that cause him to leave.
Woundings
Woundings (1998)

Genres Drama
Actors Julie Cox, Sammi Davis, Emily Lloyd, Guy Pearce, Charlie Creed-Miles, Ray Winstone
Roles Viv
Rating38% 1.9375851.9375851.9375851.9375851.937585
Dans un futur proche, la Grande-Bretagne est plongée dans une guerre civile meurtrière. Par décision du gouvernement, des femmes sont engagées pour apporter de l'aide aux soldats.
Body Bags
Body Bags (1993)
, 1h31
Directed by John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Stacy Keach, David Warner, Sheena Easton, Mark Hamill, Twiggy, Robert Carradine
Roles Cathy
Rating61% 3.0993753.0993753.0993753.0993753.099375
Prologue A creepy-looking coroner introduces three different horror tales involving his current work on cadavers in "body bags".
Madame Sousatzka, 2h2
Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, Shabana Azmi, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy, Geoffrey Bayldon
Roles Jenny
Rating65% 3.296953.296953.296953.296953.29695
Sushila et son fils Manek, des immigrés indiens, vivent chichement en Grande-Bretagne. Le jeune Manek a des dispositions pour le piano et sa mère confie son apprentissage à Madame Sousatzka, un professeur d’origine russe. Celle-ci pousse l’adolescent à exercer son art avec intransigeance en même temps qu’elle lui inculque ses propres valeurs morales, ce qui contrarie les attentes de Sushila…
Club Paradise, 1h35
Directed by Harold Ramis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Twiggy, Adolph Caesar, Eugene Levy
Roles Phillipa Lloyd
Rating51% 2.5518152.5518152.5518152.5518152.551815
Jack Moniker (Robin Williams) is a Chicago firefighter who gets injured on the job. Using his disability money, he decides to retire and live the good life in a small Caribbean island called Saint Nicholas. He buys a small amount of property there and lives among other washed-up personalities such as Anthony Croyden Hayes (Peter O'Toole). Appointed by the British crown as governor of St. Nicholas, Hayes is more concerned with vacationing than governing. Miss Phillipa Lloyd (Twiggy), who is visiting St. Nicholas with some sailor friends of hers, decides to stay permanently and becomes Jack's girlfriend in the process. He playfully refers to her as "Miss Philadelphia".
The Doctor and the Devils, 1h33
Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Stephen Rea, Phyllis Logan
Roles Jennie Bailey
Rating61% 3.054563.054563.054563.054563.05456
Dr. Thomas Rock (Timothy Dalton) is a respected 19th-century anatomist lecturing at a prominent medical school. He is deeply passionate about improving medical knowledge, a pursuit for which he believes "the ends justify the means." Unfortunately, due to the laws of the time very few cadavers are legally available to the medical profession, necessitating the use of graverobbers or "Resurrection men" by the medical establishment to procure additional specimens. Dr. Rock's young assistant Dr. Murray (Julian Sands) is given the task of buying the bodies, for which he is authorized to pay a small fortune, particularly for fresher corpses. When alcoholic miscreants Fallon (Jonathan Pryce) and Broom (Stephen Rea) overhear details of the arrangement, they begin to murder the locals and sell their bodies. Gradually, Dr. Murray becomes more suspicious of the string of fresh bodies turning up at the medical school, but Dr. Rock dismisses his concerns. Meanwhile, Murray has begun to fall for beautiful local prostitute Jennie Bailey (Twiggy), who soon becomes the target of Fallon and Broom's murderous enterprise. When Jennie's friend Alice (Nichola McAuliffe) turns up dead in Dr. Rock's dissection room, Murray realizes what is happening and heroically rescues Jennie from a murderous Fallon. Both killers are soon arrested, but Broom agrees to turn state's evidence against his former partner, and is set free, unrepentant. Fallon is executed by hanging. Dr. Rock, for his part in the killings, is the subject of widespread public outrage, but ultimately not punished or censured by his colleagues. The film ends with Rock pondering his responsibility for the horrors and concluding, "oh my God -- I knew what I was doing.
The Blues Brothers, 2h7
Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Le blues, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films
Actors John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Lawrence, Murphy Dunne
Roles Chic Lady
Rating78% 3.9480853.9480853.9480853.9480853.948085
"Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) is released from prison after serving three years for armed robbery. Jake is irritated at being picked up by his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) in the Bluesmobile, a battered former Mount Prospect police car, instead of the Cadillac the brothers used to own. The brothers visit their childhood home, a Roman Catholic orphanage, and learn that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected. The brothers visit an evangelical church service where Jake has an epiphany: they can legitimately raise the funds by re-forming their rhythm and blues band. Elwood calls the quest "a mission from God.
W
W (1974)

Directed by Richard Quiney
Genres Thriller
Actors Twiggy, Dirk Benedict, Michael Witney, Eugene Roche, John Vernon, Michael Conrad
Roles Katie Lewis
Rating48% 2.429112.429112.429112.429112.42911
Within 24 hours, three near-fatal accidents have occurred. At the scene of each, the letter "W" is scrawled over the injured person. Katie Lewis (Twiggy) and her husband Ben (Michael Witney) discover that these accidents are in fact the work of a mysterious killer, and that they are the real targets. While trying to avoid death, the couple must struggle to discover the source of these attacks.
The Devils
The Devils (1971)
, 1h57
Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Films about capital punishment, Nonnesploitation, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Jones, Dudley Sutton, Michael Gothard, Murray Melvin
Roles Pageboy (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.89633.89633.89633.89633.8963
Note: This plot is for the unedited version of the film. Some scenes described below are omitted from other versions.
The Boy Friend, 2h17
Directed by Ken Russell
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Tommy Tune, Brian Murphy, Barbara Windsor
Roles Polly
Rating67% 3.397243.397243.397243.397243.39724
The plot exists on three levels. First there is the frame story where in the south of England in the 1920s a struggling theatrical troupe is performing a musical about romantic intrigues at a finishing school for young women in the south of France. To ongoing backstage dramas and audiences smaller in number than the cast, two extra ingredients arrive: a famous Hollywood film producer turns up to see the show, and Polly, the mousy assistant stage manager, is forced to go on when the leading lady breaks a leg. As Polly struggles to keep her cool while acting opposite the male lead she secretly loves, the rest of the company backstab each other trying to impress the impresario.