Naomi Campbell

Birth Date:
May 22, 1970

Height:
5' 10"

Measurements:
34-24-34

Occupation:
Model

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Naomi Campbell was born in Streatham, South London. She is of mostly Afro-Jamaican heritage, though her father is also partially of Jamaican-Chinese descent. Campbell attended the London Academy for Performing Arts.

A graduate of the Italia Conti Academy stage school, Campbell's first appearance to a wider public was in February 1978 when she was cast as a pupil to appear in a music video with Jamaican reggae superstar Bob Marley for his song Is This Love?.

On graduating from Italia Conti, her looks created her an income and she switched to become a fulltime model, creating a high profile career and creating two spin-off companies: NC Connect and a self-named line of perfumes.

Her charity work mainly focuses on the children and people of Africa, including working with Nelson Mandela, since 1997. In 2005 she helped to create and participate in 'Fashion Relief' for Hurricane Katrina victims, raising over a million dollars.

Aged 15 and while still a student of the Italia Conti Stage School, Campbell was spotted by Beth Boldt, former head of Synchro models agency, window-shopping in Covent Garden. In April 1986, she made the cover of Elle, when another model had to cancel the job. By August 1988, she had graced the cover of French Vogue as the publication's first black cover girl and completed campaigns for Ralph Lauren and Francois Nars.

Her modeling career started as a catwalk model, but she was quickly picked up for various high profile advert campaigns for Lee Jeans and Olympus Corporation, which broke her into America. The highpoint of her career was in the early 90's when she was part of the two major supermodeling powerhouses, the Big Six and the Trinity, (with Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington).

She has walked for many fashion designers, including Gianni Versace and Valentino. Campbell famously tumbled over on the catwalk at Vivienne Westwood's Anglomania fashion show in 1994. Campbell was the first black model to appear on the cover of Time magazine and French and British Vogue. She has also appeared on the covers of Harper's Bazaar and ELLE magazine.

She posed nude for Playboy magazine and for a series of lesbian-erotic photos with Madonna in the latter's book Sex.

Campbell has appeared in music videos for artists such as Michael Jackson, Jay-Z, Macy Gray, Prince, Usher and also Madonna's music video, "Erotica", with Ingrid Casares on 12 October 1992. She had previously appeared in George Michael's music video, "Freedom '90", where she lip-synched to his song along with other models.

Campbell has also tried her hand at singing. Her album Baby Woman sold over 1 million copies worldwide (mostly in Japan), and she was featured on Vanilla Ice's single "Cool as Ice." In 1995, her collaboration with Toshinobu Kubota, "La La La Love Song", became a #1 hit in Japan, with the single selling approx. 1,856,000 copies. That same year she lent her vocals to music legend Quincy Jones' album "Q's Juke Joint"

Campbell "co-authored" the best-selling novel Swan in 1996, and followed it up with a photography book titled Naomi. But when questioned about her use of a ghost writer for "Swan", Campbell admitted that she wrote almost none of the book: "I just did not have time to sit down and write a book"