Saturday, February 28, 2009

Josie Maran

Josie Maran has graced such magazine covers as Glamour (Glamour Magazine gave Josie her first magazine cover), Teen, Fitness, as well as Shape, Seventeen, Sport, and Stuff. She has an impressive resume which includes work for Guess, Victoria's Secret, and Marie Claire. Apart from her work in the Guess? ads campaign, after an appearance in a Backstreet Boys music video.Josie Maran was born in Menlo Park, California to a father of Russian and Polish descent, and a mother of Dutch, French, and German ancestry. She began modeling part-time after an agent spotted her at a local barbecue restaurant at the age of 12. Maran continued a more dedicated career after graduating from the Castilleja School. Considered by some to be too short for runway modeling at 5 feet 7 inches tall, her career consists mostly of editorial modeling and advertising/image modeling.Signed at age 17 with the Elite modeling agency of Los Angeles, Josie appeared on her first cover with Glamour magazine in 1998, and she was the featured Guess? Girl in their summer 1998 and fall 1998 campaigns. After building a resumé of over 25 commercials and advertisements, including a music video for the popular boy-band the Backstreet Boys, Maran moved cross-country to join with Elite in New York City. In 1999 she landed a multi-year deal with Maybelline following in the footsteps of her idol Christy Turlington. She appeared in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for three consecutive years—2000, 2001, 2002.In addition to her thriving modeling career, Josie began an acting career in 2001 with a star turn as title character Mallory in an independent film, The Mallory Effect. She continued to take on roles, appearing in 2002 as Susan in Swatters. In 2004 she landed film roles as a French model in Little Black Book, as one of Dracula's brides in Van Helsing, and was seen briefly as a cigarette girl in The Aviator. She appeared in a short film "The Confession" alongside Wentworth Miller in 2005, and as Kira Hastings in The Gravedancers in 2006. Josie will play Polly Hudson in The Final Season, scheduled for release in 2007.In 2005, she was recruited by EA Games to appear as a main character in the street-racing computer and video game, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which was released on November 17, 2005. She plays the game's second lead Mia Townsend, who guides the lead character through the game. Josie is an extremely accomplished model and actress. Known as the Face of Maybelline, GUESS? girl, and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, she's graced countless magazine covers, been in many high profile advertising campaigns, movies, videogames, and more.

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Glamorous actress. She looks absolutely gorgeous and have rocked the Hollywood industry with her powerful performances. She has an impressive outlook and is purely dedicated towards her career.
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