Lily Cole

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Lily Cole
Lilycole1.jpg
Lily Cole, February 2007
Date of birth 19 May 1988 (1988-05-19) (age 21)
Place of birth Torquay, England
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)[1]
Hair colour Red
Eye colour Blue
Measurements 34-25-35.5 (US); 86-63-90 (EU)[1]
Dress size 34 (EU), 4 (US), 6 (UK)[1]
Shoe size 41 (EU), 9 (US), 7 (UK)[1]
Agency Storm Models, London (mother Agency)

IMG Models, New York
Marilyn Agency, Paris
D'Management Group, Milan


PFD, London (acting)

Lily Cole (born 19 May 1988[2], Torquay, United Kingdom) is an English model and actress. She has appeared in many well known publications such as Vogue and modelled for high street chain Marks and Spencer. Most recently, Cole has attracted controversy for her decision to pose naked for the French edition of Playboy magazine. However, she is probably best known for her leading role in 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

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[edit] Early life and education

Cole was born in Torquay, south west England, and raised in London, along with her sister, Elvie, a primary school teacher three years her senior.[3] She was raised by her mother, Patience Owen; Chris Cole, her father, left the household and was not part of his daughters' lives while they grew up.[4][5] Cole attended the St Marylebone church school for girls, and completed her sixth form studies at Latymer Upper School, an independent school in Hammersmith, London. A chance encounter began her modelling career at the age of fourteen. Cole was walking through the streets of Soho when scout-turned-actor Benjamin Hart approached her about modelling. She initially declined, though later changed her mind and signed on with agency Storm Models, the mother agency of models such as Kate Moss.[6][7]

In April 2007, Cole first featured in the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated worth of £6 million,[2][8] ranking her as the 77th richest young person in Britain.[9] As of 2009, she is thought to have earned in excess of £11 million[4].

Despite her successful modelling career, Cole retains a commitment to her education, achieving As in her A-level examinations in English, Politics, Drama, History, and Philosophy and Ethics at Latymer Upper School.[6][10] Before that she attended the primary school, Hallfield School. (Bayswater,London)[11] and The St Marylebone Secondary School. She gained a place to read Social and Political Sciences at King's College, Cambridge,[10][12] but deferred entry until 2007[13] and then 2008.[14] She now reads History of Art, having commenced in the Michaelmas term, 2008,[15] gaining a first in her examinations att he end of her first year.[16][17] When asked about the change, Cole explained "I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art..."[10]

Cole is currently in a relationship with actor Enrique Murciano, star of American television series Without a Trace.[5][4]

[edit] Career

[edit] Modelling career

Cole's big break came in 2003 when she caught the eye of photographer Steven Meisel.[16][18] It was on that photoshoot, her first 'only girl' story for Italian Vogue, that Cole was catapulted into the spotlight as one of the leading new faces of the year[2][16]. Since then, Cole has worked with many other prominent photographers, including Craig McDean, Nick Knight, Juergen Teller, Arthur Elgort, and Irving Penn.

In November 2004, at the British Fashion Awards, Cole was named 'Model of the Year'.[2] Since then, she has featured in many well known fashion magazines such, including seven appearances in multiple versions of Vogue[12] (American, Italian, British, Japanese and Korean), Citizen K, and V. Her cover appearances have included Numéro and three appearances on the British edition of Vogue. In addition to which, Cole has appeared in advertising campaigns for designers such as Chanel, Christian Lacroix, Hermès, Longchamp, Cacharel, Topshop, and Anna Sui Cosmetics, as well as being the face for Moschino's perfume 'I Love Love'.[10][19] Cole was featured on Vogue's "best dressed" list in December 2005[2].

She has modelled on the international runway circuit and has walked many top shows, including Chanel, DKNY, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, and Louis Vuitton.[16][20]

Cole was announced as the follow-up model for Accessorize, taking the place of Claudia Schiffer,[21] also designing a line of handbags for the collection.[22]

In October 2009, Cole signed to model for cosmetics company Rimmel London,[16][23] alongside Kate Moss, Cheryl Cole, as well as Tiffany & Co.[24] She is now one of the models in the Marks and Spencer clothes advertising campaign, becoming the youngest model to ever do a campaign for the line. As part of the deal Cole will be the exclusive face of the M&S Limited Collection.[25]

Cole was nominated for the British Fashion Awards for 'Model of the Year' in 2007 for the second time, but the award was given to Agyness Deyn.[26]

Cole has done several nude photoshoots, for which she has encountered both praise and criticism.

Her first nude appearance was in 2007, when she was photographed fully naked by Juergen Teller in a shoot for Paradis, an upmarket French men's magazine.[12][27]

In October 2008, Cole went on to appear nude in, and on the front cover of, the French edition of Playboy magazine.[28][29] The shoot was inspired by the cover of French musician Serge Gainsbourg's 1971 album "Histoire de Melody Nelson".[30] The shoot was controversial, with calls for Cole to be dropped from her Marks and Spencer contract.[31][32] Marks and Spencer, however, stated that it "stood by Lily"[33], arguing she "is a popular, high profile, model who is very much in demand, and this is one of the key reasons why we have chosen to work with her".[34] A spokesperson for the label insisted, "It's entirely her own choice as to what other work she accepts and we would not wish to interfere with her career."[35] Cole herself defended the photographs as art, saying "Nudity has always existed in art, [...] it doesn't necessarily "debase" any more than it celebrates [...] the human body" despite claims, particularly from Christian groups, that they were "pornographic". However, in Cole's defence, Robin Simon, editor of the British Art Journal compared the work to Manet's Olympia.[36]

In November 2009, it was announced that Cole would feature, topless, in the 2010 edition of the well known Pirelli Calendar alongside Daisy Lowe and Dutch model Marloes Horst[37][38].

[edit] Film career

In February 2006, Indiewire.com broke the news that Marilyn Manson planned to star Cole in his upcoming movie Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll as Alice.[39][40] Shorts from the movie have been featured on his website and a feature length film is also planned, though it is unknown if or when it will be released.[10]

In April 2007, it was announced that she would play the role of Polly, the geek, in St. Trinian's, a rework of the black and white films of the 1950s and '60s.[41] alongside Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker and Stephen Fry.[42]

Cole played the lead female role of Valentina in 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. directed by Terry Gilliam and scripted by Gilliam and Charles McKeown.[43][44] Acting alongside Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell and the late Heath Ledger (who died before filming had finished), Cole, in an interview for The Daily Telegraph admitted that, at times, she felt out of her depth in the role- saying “I’d only done a couple of films and here I was surrounded by amazing actors like Christopher Plummer and Heath Ledger, and it was intimidating at times,”[16] also describing the role as "the biggest role I’ve ever done"[16]. Terry Gilliam, director of The Imaginrium..., when asked, said of Cole: “She has an amazing look and grasps what is required so very quickly. If she wants a career as an actress, she has a brilliant future”.[16]

She also was featured in the New York Times online film series T Takes.

Cole also appeared as "Lettuce Leaf", a celebrity supermodel in the 2009 film, Rage directed by Sally Potter.[10] Cole originally auditioned for the part of Minx, which later went to Jude Law, with whom Cole had worked on The Imaginarium.[10]

She appeared in the video for Girls Aloud and Sugababes' cover of "Walk This Way" in aid of comic relief.[45] Cole also starred in Primal Scream's video Can’t Go Back.[46]

Cole plays the minor part of "Aline" in the upcoming film There Be Dragons, scheduled for release in 2010.[10]

[edit] Activism

[edit] Charity work

Cole is a supporter of a variety of humanitarian and environmental causes[12]. She is an Ambassador for children's charity Global Angels[47] She also supports the charity WaterAid, speaking for the organisation's "End Water Poverty" campaign,[2][48] and the Environmental Justice Foundation[10][49] Cole has modelled a T-shirt with the slogan "Save the Future" to fight child labour in the fashion industry for the Environmental Justice Foundation.[50] Most recently Cole has put a plaster cast bust of her torso on the auction site eBay to raise money for British telethon charity Comic Relief.[2][51]

[edit] Environmental knowledge

Cole is an ally for Western Shoshone an environmental organization.[52] They specialize in working to halt gold and diamond mining, which is alleged to displace indigenous peoples worldwide and alleged to create excessive amounts of mining waste and toxins.[53] After some public exposure, with the pressure of organizations like Survival International, Cole declined to be in any further De Beers jewellery campaigns,[54] along with models Iman and Erin O'Connor, activist Gloria Steinem, and actress Julie Christie. Recently, however, she has been on the cover of and featured in a spread of a magazine whose issue was entitled 'Lily'. In it, she is only wearing diamonds.

She has been seen wearing the £5 eco-friendly Anya Hindmarch handbag with the slogan "I'm Not A Plastic Bag".[55]

She wrote the foreword for Tamsin Blanchard's book Green Is The New Black.[56]

[edit] References

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