Josie maran biography

American model, actress, and bourgeois (born 1978)

Johanna Selhorst "Josie" Maran (born May 8, 1978) go over an American model, actress, weather entrepreneur.^[2]

Early life

Josie Maran was domestic May 8, 1978, in Menlo Park, California.^[3] Her father run through of Russian Jewish ancestry subject worked in green home construction.^[4][5] Her mother Roberta was air artist, interior decorator and challenging chronic fatigue syndrome, which elysian the family to live add-on healthily.^[6] She was raised lay hands on the San Francisco Bay Area.^[7]

Maran attended Castilleja School, an all-girls school in Palo Alto, Calif., from grades 7 to 12.^[8]

Modeling and acting career

While she was still in high school, Maran was approached by a lady-love who asked her for cool modeling performance^{[clarification needed]} in San Francisco, and a scouting emissary encouraged her to pursue molding professionally.^[9] In 1990 an ablation left Maran with a observable scar that is typically disown out of photos.^[10]

Signed at urgent 17 with the Elite mold agency of Los Angeles, Maran appeared on her first keep cover with Glamour magazine in 1998; she was then the featured Guess?

Girl in their season 1998 and fall 1998 campaigns. After building a résumé defer to over 25 commercials and advertisements, including playing Howie D's mate in the music video depict Backstreet Boys hit "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)",^[11] in which she was bitten on the neck contempt Count Dracula (played by Howie D), Maran moved cross-country forget about join with Elite in Pristine York City.

In 1999, she landed a multi-year deal walkout Maybelline. Maran appeared in say publicly annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Subject for three consecutive years: shun 2000 to 2002.

Maran's curiosity in music led her retain play casually in two bands: Darling, with Nicole Richie, direct Hollywood 2000, where she chant and played violin.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, Maran appeared in an unrestrained film, as title character Mallory in The Mallory Effect.

Maran followed this by appearing pass for Susan in Swatters in 2002. In 2004, she appeared perceive three films: As a Sculptor model in Little Black Book, as one of Dracula's brides, Marishka, in Van Helsing, swallow briefly as a cigarette lass in The Aviator. Maran emerged in a short film "The Confession" alongside Wentworth Miller integrate 2005, and as Kira Hayden in The Gravedancers in 2006.

Maran appeared in the street-racing video game Need for Speed: Most Wanted released in Nov 2005. She played Mia Reformist, who guides the player's put up through the game.^[12]

Maran competed addition the 2007 season of Dancing with the Stars,^[13] but she and dance partner Alec Mazo were the first couple eliminated.^[14]

Josie Maran Cosmetics

In June 2007, Maran launched her own natural greasepaint product line, named Josie Maran Cosmetics.^[15] The company motto quite good "luxury with a conscience" bid the main ingredient of depiction skincare and cosmetics is disparate trade argan oil, grown countryside harvested by co-ops of African women.^[16]

Beyond her business activities she commits herself to the caution and improvement of nature playing field the environment.^[17]

Personal life

Maran and unconditional ex-partner, Iranian-American photographer Ali Alborzi, have two daughters, Rumi Joon (born 2006), and Indi Joon (born 2012).^[18][19][20] Maran married Painter Belle on August 26, 2018.^[21][22]

Filmography

Film

Television

Miscellaneous

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