Estella Warren
{{Short description|Canadian actress, model, and synchronized swimmer (born 1978)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Estella Warren
| image = Estella Warren cropped.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Warren shooting Blue Seduction in Fredericton, New Brunswick, November 2008
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|12|23}}
| birth_place = Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Actress
- model
- swimmer
}}
| education = Silverthorn Collegiate Institute
| height = {{cvt|5|ft|9|in|m|2}}
| years_active = 1990–present
}}
Estella Dawn Warren (born December 23, 1978)"Estella Warren". Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Vol. 69. Gale, 2006. Gale Biography In Context. Web. May 26, 2011. is a Canadian actress, fashion model and former synchronized swimmer. During her swimming career she was a member of the Canada national team and won three national titles. Since 1994, she has been modelling through publications such as Sports Illustrated as well as working for campaigns for such brands as Perry Ellis and Victoria's Secret.
Warren later began a career as an actress, starring in such films as Tim Burton's 2001 re-adapted film Planet of the Apes as well as television roles in Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Beauty and the Beast. After she moved back to Toronto, Warren was represented by M Models and Talent Management.
Early life
Estella Warren was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, to Esther, an elementary school headmistress, and Don Warren, a used-car dealer. She is the youngest of three daughters.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/54/Estella-Warren.html |title=Estella Warren Biography (1978–) |access-date=January 7, 2008}}{{cite web |title=Celebrating with my Sister ! Merry Christmas ! |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BrwbnFLgLzy/ |website=instagram.com}}
Career
=Synchronized swimming=
In 1990, Warren moved to Toronto to train with the national synchronized swimming team. In 1995, after becoming the senior national champion, Warren had the chance to move on to the 1996 Summer Olympics. She is a three-time Canada national team champion and the solo bronze medallist at the 1995 Junior World Championships.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-dD3p8eTYUC&pg=PA230 | title=Synchronized Swimming: An American History | publisher=McFarland | author=Bean, Dawn Pawson | year=2005 | pages=312| isbn=9780786419487 }}
=Fashion modeling=
Estella Warren was discovered by Rhonda Broadbelt Fonte, the owner of Broadbelt & Fonte Models, in 1994 when she was a synchronized swimmer living in Ontario. Broadbelt Fonte then introduced Warren to George Gallier, the owner of American Models. She then went to New York City to shoot some photo tests. During that time, Gallier introduced her to fashion photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, who booked her for a photo shoot for Italian Vogue.{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20135134,00.html|date=August 23, 2001|access-date=January 31, 2015|title=Beauty and the Beasts|first=Samantha|last=Miller|work=People}}
She began her international modelling career with the Cacharel fragrance campaign "Eau d'Eden" in 1996, with French photographer director Jean-Paul Goude. The Chanel No. 5 campaign with director Luc Besson followed in 1998; both campaigns happened while she was managed by George Gallier.
Warren has appeared on the cover of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and in two television commercials for Chanel No. 5 perfume. Warren was ranked Number 1 on Maxim's Hot 100 List in 2000 when she was 21. She was ranked Number 52 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" special supplement and was the November 2007 entry in Stuff magazine's pinup calendar.
Warren also has appeared in campaigns for UGG Australia, Andrew Marc, Perry Ellis, Nine West, Cartier, Volvo, De Beers and Cacharel, as well as in television advertisements for Samsung. Additionally, she has modelled for Victoria's Secret and hosted the television special for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
She posed nude for the cover of the third issue of the 3D magazine World's Most Beautiful, which came out in June 2013.
=Acting=
Warren's films include Driven (2001),{{cite web |title=Good Times on the set of #driven |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BrfwshyHId_/ |website=instagram.com}} Planet of the Apes (2001), Kangaroo Jack (2003), The Cooler (2003), Stranger Within (2013) and Just Within Reach (2017).
Warren appeared in That '70s Show in 2003, as well as a two-part crossover role in Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in September 2005. She also appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer in 2005.
Warren has appeared in music videos for INXS's "Afterglow", Blank & Jones' "Beyond Time" and Dr. Dre's "I Need a Doctor". She also appeared in the film Just Within Reach with Lenny Von Dohlen, Alex Cubis, Tami Romen and Thomas Duffy.{{Cite web|title=Apple TV {{!}} Just Within Reach|url=https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/just-within-reach/umc.cmc.6c02nb0olqw2boudv6vyg6lbf|access-date=May 21, 2021|website=Apple film "Just Within Reach"|date=April 24, 2018 }}
Personal life
=Legal issues=
On May 24, 2011, Warren was arrested in Los Angeles after she allegedly hit three parked cars with her Toyota Prius and then fled the scene. Police eventually found her and arrested her for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI).{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20501486,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611202025/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20501486,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2011|title=Estella Warren Charged with DUI, Battery on Officer|last=Shira|first=Dahvi|date=June 9, 2011|work=People|access-date=June 10, 2011}} During her arrest she allegedly kicked an officer and resisted being handcuffed. Later, at the police station where her arrest was being booked, she managed to slip her cuffs and run, but was quickly recaptured. Ultimately she was charged with DUI, hit-and-run, battery on a police officer and resisting a police officer.{{cite news |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/planet-of-the-apes-actress-estella-warren-arrested-for-assaulting-police-officer-in-los-angeles/story-e6frewyr-1226062663426 |title= Planet of the Apes actress Estella Warren arrested for assaulting police officer in Los Angeles |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) | date=May 25, 2011 | access-date=August 17, 2012}} Her bail was set at $100,000.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tmz.com/2010/09/23/estella-warren-arrested-arrest-dui-escape-resisting-arrest-driving-under-the-influence-jail-drunk/|title=Estella Warren Arrested for DUI, Assault, Escape!|website=TMZ|access-date=May 31, 2020}} On August 19, 2011, Warren entered a no-contest plea to the drunken driving charge and the other charges were dropped;{{cite web|url=http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/19/estella-warren-plea-deal-in-dui-escape-hit-and-run-arrest-alcohol-battery/|title=Estella Warren Escapes Jail in Crazy DUI Case|website=TMZ|date=August 19, 2011}} she was ordered to a residential rehab facility for four months.{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20521683,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010030410/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20521683,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 10, 2011|title=Estella Warren Pleads No Contest to DUI|last=Silverman|first=Stephen|date=August 20, 2011|work=People|access-date=August 21, 2011}}
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department recorded Warren's date of birth as December 23, 1970.[https://archive.today/t26i/26aaa278d302faee97582868a737179740f222f0.jpg Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Inmate Information Center] (archived copy of sheriff's department booking information). Although Warren's 1978 birth year is well established,{{cite news |author= |title= Sports Updates|newspaper= The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date= January 26, 1996}}{{cite news |author= |title= Peterborough Teenager Joins Chanel's Team|newspaper= The Record|date= November 19, 1998}} some news sources then reported that she was born in 1970 or cited her age as if she were born that year.{{cite news |last= Thompson|first= Paul|date= May 29, 2011|title= Estella Warren Driven To Tell Her Age|url= http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/249445/Estella-Warren-driven-to-tell-her-age|newspaper= Sunday Express|access-date= November 1, 2015}}
In 2017, Warren was arrested for domestic violence after allegedly throwing cleaning fluid at her boyfriend.{{cite web|
first=Julia |last=Brucculieri |url= https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/estella-warren-arrested-domestic-violence_n_59109f17e4b0d5d9049e7cde |title=Planet Of The Apes Star Estella Warren Arrested For Domestic Violence |website=Huffington Post |date=May 8, 2017 |access-date=May 8, 2017}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2001
| Perfume | Arrianne | |
| 2001
| Driven | Sophia Simone | rowspan="2"|Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress |
| 2001
| Daena |
| 2001
| Tangled | Elise Stevens | |
| 2003
| Jessie | |
| 2003
| data-sort-value="Cooler, The" | The Cooler | Charlene | |
| 2003
| I Accuse | Kimberly Jansen | |
| 2004
| Blowing Smoke | Faye Grainger |
| 2004
| Pursued | Emily Keats | |
| 2004
| Trespassing | Kristy Goodman | |
| 2005
| Jeana | |
| 2006
| Taphephobia | Jesse Lennox | |
| 2006
| Jessica | |
| 2007
| Sally Hanson | Television film |
| 2009
| Matty | Television film |
| 2009
| Belle | |
| 2010
| Kat | |
| 2010
| Monika | |
| 2010
| Lindsay | |
| rowspan=2| 2013
| data-sort-value="Stranger Within, The" | The Stranger Within | Emily | |
| Dangerous Intuition
| Laura Beckman | Television film |
| rowspan=3|2015
| No Way Out | Maria | |
| Undateable John
| Jane |
| Decommissioned
| Rebecca Niles | |
| 2017
| Just Within Reach |Grace | |
| 2019
| data-sort-value="Beginning: Feel the Dead, The" | The Beginning: Feel the Dead | Skyler | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2003
| Raquel | Episode: "The Kids Are Alright" |
| 2005
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | April Troost | Episode: "Design" |
| 2005
| April Troost | Episode: "Flaw" |
| 2005
| Alexis Fogarty | Episode: "On the Wings of a Dove" |
| 2009
| Mental | Niobe Graham | Episode: "Book of Judges" |
| 2010
| data-sort-value="Being Frank Show, The" | The Being Frank Show | | Episode #1.1 |
| 2017
| Feel the Dead | Skyler | |
| 2017
| Age of the Living Dead | Michelle | |
Music Videos
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Performer(s) !Ref. |
|---|
| 2000 |
| 2006
|INXS |
| 2011
| Dr. Dre, Eminem & Skylar Grey |
References
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External links
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{{Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress}}
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Category:21st-century Canadian actresses
Category:Actresses from Ontario
Category:Female models from Ontario
Category:Canadian film actresses
Category:Canadian television actresses