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Eva Herzigova
Birth name	Eva Herzigova
Date of birth	March 10, 1973 (1973-03-10) (age 35)
Place of birth	Litvínov, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Hair color	light blond
Eye color	green
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)

Eva Herzigová (born March 10, 1973) is a Czech model and actress.

Contents 1 Career 2 Other 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links

Career

Herzigová was born in Litvínov, Czech Republic, and she began her modeling career after winning a modeling beauty contest in Prague in 1989,^{citation needed} at the age of sixteen. After arriving in Paris, her popularity increased. Her first important appearance was the Wonderbra campaign in 1990s. She was also featured in the Guess? jeans advertisements and was dubbed the "Marilyn of the 1990s."^{citation needed} She has also appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalog and Sports Illustrated. She was a member of Thomas Zeumer's Metropolitan Models.¹ Herzigová has also appeared in several movies. She posed nude for Playboy in August 2004. In 2006 she was Venus at the 2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.

She married Tico Torres, the drummer from Bon Jovi, in September 1996, in a lavish wedding attended by, among others, Donald Trump. The pair divorced in June 1998. Since 2000, she was romantically linked with Guy Oseary, the CEO of Maverick Records.

On 1 June 2007, Herzigová and her boyfriend Gregorio Marsiaj welcomed a son in Turin.

She is signed to Storm Model Management in London, and 1/One Management in New York City.

Other

Herzigova is fluent in Czech, English, French, Italian (which she learned allegedly in two weeks for hosting an Italian music show^{citation needed}) and Spanish.

She is a noted potter and has owned a computerized kiln. "Making pottery's very calming and it's creative and it's, you know, when you're like in your own world, you have a creative thing that's going through your head. You just go. Travel in your mind. It's cool." she has said.^{citation needed}

About her film career, she said: {{cquote|Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting. You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress. So I'd like to be in that profession."^{citation needed}

Her face also appears on the cover of Powderfinger's album, Vulture Street.

Louis Vuitton released a handbag called the Eva, inspired by the model.

Filmography

Title	Year	Role	Notes
The Picture of Dorian Gray	2005	uncredited
Eva - short by Gaspar Noé	2005	herself
Modigliani	2004	Olga Khokhlova
Just for the Time Being	2000	Christine
L'amico del cuore	1998	Frida Seta
Les Anges gardiens	1995	Tchouk Tchouk Nougat
Inferno	1992		TV film

References

External links

• Eva Herzigová at the Internet Movie Database
• Eva Herzigová in the Fashion Model Directory

Persondata
NAME	Herzigová, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Czech fashion model
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Litvínov, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH