Kelly LeBrock

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| image = Kelly LeBrock (cropped).jpg

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| caption = LeBrock at the Chiller Theatre Expo in 2014

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|3|24}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|supermodel}}

| yearsactive = 1967–present

| spouse = {{Unbulleted list|{{marriage|Victor Drai
|1984|1986|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Steven Seagal
|1987|1996|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Fred Steck
|2007|2008|end=divorced}}}}

| children = 3

| website =

}}

Kelly LeBrock"LeBrock" as spelled by sources including

{{cite news|url=https://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/what-were-reading-501/|first=Eric|last=Asimov|author-link=Eric Asimov| title=What We're Reading|work=The New York Times|date= August 15, 2012|access-date=August 13, 2017}}
{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/06/business/the-media-business-advertising-addenda-new-campaigns.html| title=The Media Business: Advertising – Addenda; New Campaigns|first=Stuart|last= Elliott|work=The New York Times| date=June 6, 1991|access-date=August 13, 2017}}
{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-14-me-54019-story.html| title=Actress Settles Suit Over Business Deal | work=Los Angeles Times| date=January 14, 2000| access-date=August 13, 2017}}
{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/08/kelly-lebrock-i-became-a-hermit/| title=Kelly LeBrock: 'I Became a Hermit'| first=Luchina|last=Fisher| work= Good Morning America|publisher=ABC News | date=August 27, 2013|access-date=August 13, 2017}} (born March 24, 1960{{Cite news|title=This week's birthdays: TODAY|date=March 24, 2024|work=Irish Independent|page=29|quote=Donncha O'Callaghan, former Munster and Ireland rugby player, 45. Kelly LeBrock, actress, 64. Alyson Hannigan, Buffy The Vampire Slayer actress, 50.|id={{ProQuest|2973595886}}}} See also:
{{Cite news|title=People:Today's Birthdays|date=March 24, 1998|work=Hartford Courant|page=F1|quote=Comedian-actor Louie Anderson is 45. Actress Donna Pescow is 44. Actor Robert Carradine is 44. Actress Kelly LeBrock is 38. Rhythm-and-blues DJ Rodney "Kool Kollie" Terry (Ghostown DJs) is 37. Actress Annabella Sciorra is 34. Actress Lara Flynn Boyle is 28.|id={{ProQuest|256009840}}}}) is an American actress and model. Her acting debut was in The Woman in Red (1984), alongside Gene Wilder. She also starred in the John Hughes film Weird Science (1985), and in Hard to Kill (1990), opposite her then-husband Steven Seagal.

Early life

Kelly LeBrock was born in New York City, and was brought up in the Kensington area of London.{{cite web|url = http://press.comedycentral.co.uk/daily-fix/where-are-they-now/kelly-lebrock |title=Where Are They Now? Kelly LeBrock|publisher= Comedy Central UK |archive-date= January 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110114220947/http://press.comedycentral.co.uk/daily-fix/where-are-they-now/kelly-lebrock|url-status=dead| quote=Kelly LeBrock was born in New York, but was raised in the UK ...}} Her father was French-Canadian, and her mother, Maria, is of Northern Irish descent.{{cite news| url =https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-19-ca-9178-story.html| title= Cross A Doll, A Compute -- Kelly Le Brock|work=Los Angeles Times| date=May 19, 1985|first=Roderick|last=Mann|access-date=August 13, 2017}} LeBrock was named after her grandmother, Mary Helen Kelly, from Keady, County Armagh.{{cite news|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/kelly-le-brock-is-going-back-to-her-ulster-roots-34136587.html|title=Kelly Le Brock is going back to her Ulster roots|work=Belfast Telegraph|location=Ireland|first=Leona|last=O'Neill|date=October 23, 2015|access-date=August 13, 2017|archive-date=August 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813220430/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/kelly-le-brock-is-going-back-to-her-ulster-roots-34136587.html|url-status=live|quote=The actress was born in New York but brought up in the posh Kensington area of London.}} Additional on August 13, 2017.

Career

=Modelling=

LeBrock began her career as a model at age 16 in her birth city of New York.{{cite news|url = http://www.syvjournal.com/archive/8/10/6066/| title= 'Woman in Red' Reaches Out| date= March 11, 2010|access-date= August 13, 2017|first=Jim|last=Luksic|work=The Santa Ynez Valley Journal|location=Santa Ynez, California| archive-date= December 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219115913/http://www.syvjournal.com/archive/8/10/6066/|url-status=live}} Her breakthrough came at 19, when she starred in a 24-page spread in Vogue magazine. Shortly afterwards, she entered into a contract with Christian Dior to work for that fashion label for 30 days a year. She subsequently appeared on numerous magazine covers and in fashion spreads, and became one of Eileen Ford's most sought-after models. She became especially recognisable as the Pantene shampoo commercial spokeswoman{{youTube |id=hz8ul-gmLyA |title=1980s Pantene Commercial Don't Hate Me ...}} whose line, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful", became a pop culture catchphrase.{{cite magazine |last=Taber |first=Keith |date=September 1989 |title=Kelly LeBrock: Above the Crowd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2EEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50 |access-date=August 10, 2018 |magazine=Orange Coast |pages=50–54}}

=Film=

LeBrock was cast as the "perfect" or "fantasy" woman in the films The Woman in Red (1984) and Weird Science (1985). As a result, she was considered one of the sexiest women in Hollywood in the 1980s, and was in high demand, but took a hiatus from acting until 1990.{{cite web |last=Deming |first=Mark |date=August 28, 2013 |title=Kelly LeBrock: '80s Sex Symbol Out of Hiding |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/blogs/movie-talk/kelly-lebrock-80s-sex-symbol-hiding-160937278.html |access-date=August 10, 2018 |website=Movie Talk |publisher=Yahoo Entertainment}} Her return to the big screen started in 1990 when she starred opposite her then-husband, Steven Seagal, in Hard to Kill. LeBrock also appeared in Betrayal of the Dove (1993), Tracks of a Killer (1995) and Hard Bounty (1995).{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

She had roles in the films Wrongfully Accused (1998), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2001), Zerophilia (2005) and Gamers: The Movie (2006). LeBrock was in a thriller entitled Hidden Affairs, released in 2013, and in 2015 she appeared in A Prince for Christmas as Queen Ariana.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

=Television=

In 2005, LeBrock was the captain of the team "Kelly's Bellies" on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club reality show. She also appeared on the third UK series of Hell's Kitchen.{{cite news |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2007/0918/411190-hellskitchen/ |title=McGuigan takes Hell's Kitchen title |date=September 18, 2007 |work=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |access-date=August 10, 2018}} She and her daughter Arissa were featured on the Lifetime docuseries Growing Up Supermodel which debuted in August 2017.{{cite news |url=https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/kelly-le-brock-hollywood-comeback-139579 |title=Kelly Le Brock Talks Her Decision To "Quit Hollywood" — and Reveals What Made Her Come Back (EXCLUSIVE) |date=September 13, 2017 |work=Closer Weekly |access-date=August 10, 2018}}

=In popular culture=

British band Bastille released the song "Good Grief" in 2016, which samples two of LeBrock's lines from Weird Science: "So what would you little maniacs like to do first?" and "If you want to be a party animal, you have to learn to live in the jungle. Now stop worrying and go and get dressed."{{cite news |last=Levine |first=Nick |date=June 16, 2016 |title=Bastille's Dan Smith On New Music: 'We've Really Pushed Our Sound' |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/bastilles-dan-smith-on-new-music-weve-really-pushed-our-sound-6130 |access-date=August 10, 2018 |work=New Musical Express}}

Personal life

{{quote box |width=20em |quote=I'm more for my family. My family's going to be around when the movies aren't. If I don't build my family, I'm going to be a lonely 'hot' movie star, and I don't want that. |source={{pad|1.0em}}— Kelly LeBrock, 1989 Orange Coast magazine profile}}

Her first marriage was to film producer and restaurateur Victor Drai, in 1984; they divorced in 1986. During this time she met actor and martial artist Steven Seagal. Their daughter Annaliza was born in spring 1987 and the couple married in September of that year.{{cite news |last1=Farrell |first1=Mary H.J. |last2=Benet |first2=Lorenzo |last3=Fuhrman |first3=Janice |name-list-style=and |date=November 19, 1990 |title=Sure, He's Making a Box-Office Killing—but Who Is Steven Seagal? |url=http://people.com/archive/sure-hes-making-a-box-office-killing-but-who-is-steven-seagal-vol-34-no-20/ |access-date=August 13, 2017 |work=People}} Their son Dominic was born in June 1990 and their daughter Arissa in 1993.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/02/style/chronicle-707279.html| title=Chronicle|first=Nadine|last=Brozan|work=The New York Times|date= November 2, 1994|access-date=August 13, 2017}} The following year, LeBrock filed for divorce.{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Karen |date=November 2, 1994 |title=Seagal: Marked for divorce |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55260995.html?dids=55260995:55260995&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+02%2C+1994&author=Karen+Thomas&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Seagal%3A+Marked+for+divorce&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103131521/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55260995.html?dids=55260995:55260995&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+02%2C+1994&author=Karen+Thomas&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Seagal%3A+Marked+for+divorce&pqatl=google |archive-date=November 3, 2012 |access-date=August 13, 2010 |work=USA Today}}

In July 2007, LeBrock married retired investment banker Fred Steck; they divorced the following year.{{cite news|url= http://people.com/archive/actress-kelly-lebrock-ill-never-diet-again-vol-69-no-7/|title=Actress Kelly Lebrock: "I'll Never Diet Again!"|first=Ashley|last=Williams|date=February 25, 2008|access-date=January 24, 2018|work=People| archive-date=June 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630212837/http://people.com/archive/actress-kelly-lebrock-ill-never-diet-again-vol-69-no-7/|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |last=Stone |first=Natali |date=August 17, 2017 |title=Kelly LeBrock Shows Off Her Stunning Model Daughter & Reveals Why She Spent 24 Years Living off the Grid |url=https://people.com/tv/kelly-lebrock-why-she-decided-quit-hollywood-after-divorce-steven-seagal/ |access-date=January 21, 2019 |magazine=People}} By 2011, LeBrock lived on a ranch in California's Santa Ynez Valley. After the death of her brother Harold in 2008, LeBrock began devoting time to the terminally ill. She has been a spokeswoman for Club Carson, a foundation for children suffering from cancer.{{cite web|url=http://www.autismtoday.com/join-kelly-lebrock-the-woman-in-red-honorary-host-autism-vancouver/ |title=Join Kelly Lebrock, the Woman In Red, Honorary Host, Autism Vancouver|publisher= Autism Today|date=n.d.|archive-date= January 24, 2018|archive-url= https://archive.today/20180124200503/http://www.autismtoday.com/join-kelly-lebrock-the-woman-in-red-honorary-host-autism-vancouver/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/blogs/movie-talk/weird-science-beauty-kelly-lebrock-greets-little-maniacs-173015484.html |title='Weird Science' beauty Kelly LeBrock greets the little maniacs at CES |last=Enk |first=Bryan |date=January 9, 2013 |website=Movie Talk |publisher=Yahoo.com |access-date=August 10, 2018}}