Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She became famous in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough. She also has her own reality TV show, Denise Richards: It's Complicated which is broadcast on American channel E!.
Denise was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the daughter of Joni, a coffee s...
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Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She became famous in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough. She also has her own reality TV show, Denise Richards: It's Complicated which is broadcast on American channel E!.
Denise was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the daughter of Joni, a coffee shop owner, and Irv "Big Dicks" Richards, a telephone engineer. She is of Croatian and Welsh descent. She has one sister, Michelle, and grew up in both Mokena and Downers Grove, Illinois. She graduated in 1989 from El Camino High School in Oceanside, California. As a child, she was a tomboy, the "only girl on the baseball team".
Before she was an actress, Richards was signed by the Judith Fontaine Modeling & Talent Agency as s model. She spent the majority of the 1990s appearing in lower-budget films and TV shows like Saved by the Bell,...
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