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Peggy Ann Freeman (August 31, 1945 – May 17, 1979), known professionally as Donyale Luna, was an American model and actress who gained popularity in Western Europe during the late 1960s. [2] [3] Generally cited as "the first Black supermodel", [4] [5] Luna was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of the British edition of ...
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- Peggy Ann Freeman, August 31, 1945, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
- Heroin overdose
Mar 29, 2024 · Brenda Otero. Mar 29, 2024 - 09:07 EDT. It is likely that we have come across Donyale Luna’s photographs at some point. An impossibly leggy woman with a piercing gaze, she was the first Black...
Sep 20, 2023 · Updated 11:09 AM PDT, September 20, 2023. NEW YORK (AP) — As the first Black model to grace the cover of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, a muse to Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali and a film star, Donyale Luna’s life story was ready made for Hollywood.
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Aug 28, 2023 · By Abbey White. August 28, 2023 9:00am. Donyale Luna Luigi Cazzaniga/HBO. HBO has debuted the first trailer for Donyale Luna: Supermodel, a documentary exploring the life, career and legacy...
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- Born. Peggy Ann Freeman, who later changed her name to Donyale Luna, was born in Detroit in 1945 to Nathaniel and Peggy Freeman. Her father worked in Ford Motors manufacturing, and her mother was a Young Women’s Christian Association secretary.
- Growing up. Luna grew up with two sisters and her sisters explained in the HBO documentary that Donyale always knew she would be famous.
- Changing her identity. Donyale was obsessed with theater and wanted to be a movie star. When she became a teenager she started to separate from her born identity, making up the name Donyale Luna, claiming to be of multiple races and ethnicities, and started speaking in a signature accent.
- Scouted. One day, Donyale stopped by a photoshoot near her Catholic school out of curiosity. Fashion photographer David McCabe saw the six-foot-tall Donyale and knew that she had to be a model.
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Sep 18, 2023 · Now, The Revolutionary Black Model Is Finally Getting Her Due. As HBO releases a new documentary about Donyale Luna’s incredible life, revisit her daughter Dream Cazzaniga’s personal essay about her mother’s legacy from the May 2019 issue of British Vogue. By Dream Cazzaniga. 18 September 2023. David Bailey.
Donyale Luna (1945-1979) Actress. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:28. Donyale Luna: Supermodel (2023) 1 Video. 5 Photos. The world's first black supermodel, Luna was born Peggy Ann Freeman was in Detroit and grew up there in the northeast side of the city.
