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1993
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- The Blues Brothers1980
- Absolutely Fabulous1994
- Tales From the Crypt1989
- The Devils1971
- Body Bags1993
- Club Paradise1986
- The Boy Friend1971
- ShakespeaRe-Told2005
- Madame Sousatzka1988
The Doctor and the Devils1985- Princesses1991
- The Late Show (British TV programme)1988
- Woundings1998
- W1974
- My Generation2018
- Lucy in London1966
- Dombey and Son1969
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Twiggy. Actress: The Boy Friend. Twiggy is a top model of the late 1960s, who made skinny an "inny," along with other famous skinny models such as Jean Shrimpton ("The Shrimp"), Veruschka von Lehndorff, and Penelope Tree ("The Tree"). She was born Leslie Hornby on September 19, 1949, in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, one of three daughters of ...
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Twiggy was born on September 19, 1949 and raised in Neasden, on the edge of London, to factory worker mum Nellie Lydia and master carpenter dad William Norman Hornby. She celebrated her 73rd birthday in 2022. She went to Brondesbury and Kilburn High School.
Twiggy was born Lesley Hornby, and after her second marriage is now called Lesley Lawson (or Dame Lesley Lawson DBE, to use her full title). It was Twiggy's hairdresser boyfriend Nigel Davies who came up with her mononym. He became her manager, gave himself the name Justin de Villeneuve, and persuaded Lesley to rename herself Twiggy. The name had i...
Even before her modelling days, Twiggy had a keen interest in fashion, with her mum teaching her how to sew so she could make her own clothes. She had her breakthrough when she was just 16 after celeb hairdresser Leonard gave her an experimental short crop haircut at his Leonard of Mayfair boutique. "I was in the salon for about seven hours and the...
When Twiggy stopped modelling her first move was into acting. She was a regular visitor to director Ken Russell's house, and after his failed attempt to make The Wishing Tree with the now ex-model, Twiggy popped up as an uncredited extra in 1971's in The Devilsas a male courtier. Twiggy then took a leading role in his adaptation of The Boy Friend t...
If she wasn't busy enough with all that stage and screen work, Twiggy was also running a parallel music career. Following the 1968 release of 'Beautiful Dreams' (a major hit in Japan), Twiggy released the single 'Zoo de Zoo Zong' in 1971, written by the powerhouse songwriting duo of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, and went on to put out a clutch of...
While she had a decent pop career of her own, Twiggy's most enduring impact with the world of music probably came with her crossovers withDavid Bowie. Bowie namechecked Twiggy on 'Drive-In Saturday', the second single of 1973's Aladdin Sane album ("She'd sigh like Twig the wonder kid"), putting her in the same song as fellow cultural icons like Mic...
It's hard to estimate the net worth of someone who has been successful in so many different careers over the years, but the people who do this sort of thing take a guess at Twiggy being worth around $50 million.
After her break-up with de Villeneuve, Twiggy married her Wco-star Michael Witney in 1977. They had a daughter, Carly, the following year. Twiggy and Michael remained married until his death from a heart attack in 1983. In 1988, Twiggy worked with Leigh Lawson on the movie Madame Sousatzkaand they got married later that year – and are still togethe...
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- September 19, 1949
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