Delia Sheppard
{{short description|Danish actress, model, singer and dancer (born 1960)}}
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|birth_place = Copenhagen, Denmark
|occupation = Actress, singer, model, dancer
|years_active = 1984-present
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Delia Sheppard (born July 29, 1960) is a Danish actress, model, singer and dancer.{{cite web|title=Breathless With Anticipation |website=Los Angeles Times |date=9 March 1990 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-09-vw-1963-story.html |access-date=11 December 2016 }}
Career
Sheppard began studying ballet dancing at age 9 and went on to perform in Denmark, France and South Africa.{{cite web|title=Delia Sheppard Biography |url=http://www.deliasheppard.com/biography.html |accessdate=15 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618112752/http://www.deliasheppard.com/biography.html |archivedate=June 18, 2008 }} She would most notably dance for the Royal Danish Ballet, Paris Opera and Lido de Paris.{{cite news|title=New version of 'Splash' making waves at Riviera|work=Los Angeles Times|date=13 August 1995|page=320}}
In 1985, she released a 2-track record single in France entitled "Action."{{cite web|title=delia sheppard - action|url=http://www.cdandlp.com/item/2/0-1203-0-1-0/114991370/delia-sheppard-action.html|accessdate=15 February 2014}}{{cite web|title=Delia Sheppard – Action|website=Discogs |url=http://www.discogs.com/Delia-Sheppard-Action/release/2742286|accessdate=15 February 2014}}
Also while in France, she worked as a fashion model, modeling the fashions of Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Dior, and Jean-Paul Gaultier.
After suffering a back injury, Sheppard moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting. Her acting roles include appearances in such movies as Rocky V, Any Given Sunday, Mirror Images and Night Rhythms.{{cite web|title=Delia Sheppard Filmography |url=http://www.deliasheppard.com/filmography.html |accessdate=15 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618064144/http://www.deliasheppard.com/filmography.html |archivedate=June 18, 2008 }} She has also guest starred on TV series such as Northern Exposure and Night Court.
She was Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month for April 1988. In 2005, in The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, Linda Ruth Williams cited Sheppard and Kira Reed as examples of actresses who worked "in B-scale erotic thrillers at the fringes of Hollywood, the obvious trajectory for a strip-circuit veteran (DTV [direct-to-video] divas Kira Reed and Delia Sheppard both started as showgirls.)"Williams, Linda Ruth, The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN (2005) p. 177. {{ISBN|0-253-21836-5}}
In more recent years, Sheppard has worked as a showgirl in Las Vegas, performing in such shows as Splash and Showgirl Follies, Life in Feathers and Rhinestones.{{cite web|last=Buda|first=Joe|title=Showgirl Follies|url=http://lasvegas.informermg.com/2012/02/25/showgirl-follies-2/|publisher=Las Vegas Informer|accessdate=15 February 2014|archive-date=25 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225013812/http://lasvegas.informermg.com/2012/02/25/showgirl-follies-2/|url-status=dead}}
Filmography
- 2018: Show Dogs
- 2010: Dinocroc vs. Supergator (TV)
- 2009: Vampire in Vegas
- 1999: Any Given Sunday
- 1994: Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III
- 1993: Sins of Desire
- 1992: Animal Instincts
- 1992: Night Rhythms
- 1992: Secret Games
- 1992: Mirror Images
- 1990: Rocky V
- 1990: Witchcraft II: The Temptress
- 1990: Haunting Fear
- 1989: Young Rebels
- 1974: The Spots on My Leopard
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0791934}}
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