Twiggy (born
Lesley Hornby; 19 September 1949) is an English
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, actress, and singer, now also known by her married name of
Twiggy Lawson. At 16, she became the first prominent teenage model. She was known for her large eyes, long eyelashes, and thin build, and is regarded as one of the most famous models of all time. Twiggy went on to star in movies, and appeared as a judge on the reality show
America's Next Top ModelAmerica's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry.The show was created and is hosted by talk-show host and former model Tyra Banks, who also serves as the...
. As of 2009, she models for Marks and Spencer to promote their recent rebranding, appearing in TV adverts and print media, alongside
Myleene KlassMyleene Angela Klass is an English actress, singer, model, pianist and media personality, formerly a member of the pop band Hear'Say.-Early life:...
,
Erin O'ConnorErin O'Connor is an English fashion model.-Early life:Erin O'Connor was born and brought up in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, England and went to Brownhills Community School . She was raised Catholic and her father is from Ballycastle, Northern Ireland...
,
Lily ColeLily Cole is an English model and actress.-Biography:Cole was born in Torquay, England, and raised in London with her sister Elvie. Cole was educated at the St Marylebone church school for girls, and completed her sixth form studies at Latymer Upper School, an expensive independent school in...
and others.
Early life
Twiggy Lawson was raised in the London suburb of
NeasdenNeasden is an area of Brent, London, England.-History:The area was recorded as Neasdun in 939 AD and the name is derived from the Old English nēos = 'nose' and dūn = 'hill'. It means 'the nose-shaped hill' referring to a well-defined landmark of this area...
, the daughter of Helen (Nellie) Lydia Hornby (née Reeman), and William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter and joiner. She got her first job as an assistant in a hairdressers where her sister Viv worked then became a counter-girl at a Woolworth's store and
factoryA factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where workers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production...
worker at a printing firm. She attended the
Brondesbury and Kilburn High SchoolQueens Park Community School is a specialist Business and Enterprise inner city comprehensive secondary school and Sixth Form in Queen's Park, North West London, in the borough of Brent, UK...
in Salusbury Road, Kilburn.
Modeling career
In 1966, Nigel Davies noticed the young Lesley Hornby and offered her a modeling contract. She was only 16 and weighed 6½ stone (41 kg, 91 lbs). Davies advised her to go by her childhood nickname, Twiggy. After sweeping England as "The Face of '66" when her modeling pictures, taken by Barry Lategan, were made public, Twiggy arrived in New York in March 1967. It was believed that the Twiggy craze would die down within a month; however, she became an icon. Known for the high fashion mod look created by
Mary QuantMary Quant, OBE, FCSD is a British fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Born to Welsh parents, Quant studied illustration at Goldsmiths College before taking a career with a couture milliner...
, Twiggy changed the world of fashion with her short-haired androgynous look. She was also famous for drawing long, fake eyelashes under her bottom lashes.
Twiggy and the magazines featuring her image were criticized as promoting an "unhealthy" body ideal for women.
Life after modeling
After many years of modeling, Twiggy retired, claiming "You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life!" She embarked on an award-winning acting and singing career, including
Ken RussellHenry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell , is an English film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style. He has been criticized as being overly obsessed with sexuality and the church. His subject matter is often about famous...
's 1971 film version of
Sandy WilsonSandy Wilson is an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical, The Boy Friend .-Biography:Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. During the war he served in the Royal Ordnance Corps in...
's musical,
The Boy FriendThe Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical was written at a time when the United Kingdom was still recovering from the devastating effects of World War II and is set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring 1920s.The musical's original 1954 London production ran for...
, for which she won two
Golden Globe Awards in 1972The 30th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1972 films, were held on 28 January 1973.-Best Actor - Drama: Marlon Brando - The Godfather*Michael Caine - Sleuth*Laurence Olivier - Sleuth...
(New Star of the Year - Actress and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy). Since then she has played a variety of roles on stage and screen, including
My One and OnlyMy One and Only is a musical with a book by Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer and music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.Written to incorporate classic Gershwin tunes from Funny Face and other popular shows into one evening of entertainment, the plot, set in 1927 America, revolves around Capt...
and as Eliza Doolittle in
PygmalionPygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw loosely inspired by the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined...
, opposite
Robert PowellRobert Powell is an English television and film actor, probably most famous for his title role in Jesus of Nazareth and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay...
, in a 1981 television production. In 1976, Twiggy signed to Mercury records and released the albums
Twiggy and
Please Get My Name Right, discs that contained both pop and country tunes.
Twiggy sold very well, peaking on the UK charts at no.33, and gave Twiggy a silver disc for good sales. The album contains Twiggy's top twenty hit single, "Here I Go Again" and "Please Get My Name Right" made it to no.35 in 1977.
She married the American actor
Michael WitneyMichael Witney was an American film actor who was born in 1931.He acted in several films and married the English model Twiggy in 1977.They had a daughter Carly together, before his premature death from a heart attack in New York City on 30 November 1983, aged 52.Films Witney starred in include...
in 1977. They had one daughter, Carly, born in 1978. That marriage ended with his sudden death in 1983 from a
heart attackMyocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, is the interruption of blood supply to part of the heart, causing some heart cells to die...
. She met
Leigh LawsonLeigh Lawson is a film and stage actor.Trained at RADA, his films include Tess...
on the film
Madame SousatzkaMadame Sousatzka is a film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Bernice Rubens.-Plot synopsis:...
, and married him in 1988. They reside in London. In 2003, she released another album,
Midnight Blue, featuring previously unreleased material she had recorded from 1982 – 1990; the CD received glowing reviews and had duets on it with Leo Sayer and Carly Simon. Her other recordings from 1985 failed to make the charts.
Feel Emotion and
Diamond have both been released onto CD format since.
In 2005, she joined the cast of the television show
America's Next Top ModelAmerica's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry.The show was created and is hosted by talk-show host and former model Tyra Banks, who also serves as the...
as one of four judges. She also returned to modeling, fronting a major new television, press and billboard campaign for
Marks & SpencerMarks & Spencer is a major British retailer, with over 885 stores in more than 40 territories around the world, over 600 domestic and 285 international. It is the largest clothing retailer in the United Kingdom, as well as being an upmarket food retailer, and as of 2008, the 43rd largest retailer...
, a British department store chain. In 2006, she portrayed herself as a nineteen-year-old in the radio play
Elevenses with Twiggy for BBC Radio 4's
Afternoon Play series. She did not return to
America's Next Top Model in its tenth season due to scheduling conflicts, since the show was moving to New York. She was instead replaced with model
Paulina PorizkovaPaulina Porizkova is a Czech model and actress.-Early life:Born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia, she was still a toddler when her father and mother left Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, and moved to Lund in southern Sweden...
.
Also in 2007, Sepia Records released a previously shelved album that Twiggy recorded in 1979, Produced by Donna Summer and Juergen Koppers.
Heaven In My Eyes ["Discotheque"] contains the eight original tracks due to be released, plus four remixes by
The Outsider-Literature:* The Outsider , a book by Colin Wilson* The Outsider , a novel by Richard Wright* The Outsider , a 1960s literary magazine* "The Outsider" , a short story by H. P...
. The album was also made available on iTunes. She is signed to London agency Models 1. In 2008, she supported the
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign in support of
Breakthrough Breast CancerBreakthrough Breast Cancer is a United Kingdom charity committed to fighting breast cancer through research, campaigning and education. Its vision is "to work for a future free from the fear of breast cancer".-History:...
, alongside fellow celebrities — comedian
Alan CarrAlan Carr is an English stand-up comedian and media personality, known for his deliberately camp demeanour and self-deprecating humour.-Personal life:...
, singer
Natalie ImbrugliaNatalie Jane Imbruglia is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress.In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Brennan Willis in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. Three years after leaving the program, Imbruglia launched a singing career with the international...
, actress
Anna FrielAnna Louise Friel is an English actress. She rose to fame in the UK on Channel 4 soap Brookside. Her most recent role had been starring as Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, the female lead in the American television series Pushing Daisies...
and DJ & presenter
Edith BowmanEdith Eleanor Bowman is a Scottish music critic, radio DJ television presenter. She is mostly known for hosting the weekday afternoon show and from September 2009 weekend morning on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting a variety of music related television shows and music festivals .-Media...
.
Pop culture references
Twiggy is mentioned in the
Spice GirlsThe Spice Girls were an English pop girl group formed in 1994. They consist of Victoria Beckham , Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell. They are the most successful girl group of all time....
song, "Lady is a Vamp" from their 1997 album
SpiceworldSpiceworld is the second album by British pop group the Spice Girls, released in 1997 . It is also the name of their tie-in film. It was released in Britain the same year their first album, Spice, was released in the US. The album became a huge hit worldwide, lengthening the so-called "Spicemania"...
. Japanese band,
Pizzicato FivePizzicato Five is a Japanese pop group best known to audiences in the West in their later incarnation as a duo of Maki Nomiya and Yasuharu Konishi...
released a song called "Twiggy Twiggy" (aka "Twiggy vs
James BondJames Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and most financially successful English language film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr...
") in the mid 1990s, and mentions Twiggy quite frequently. Twiggy was the subject of a song in the popular '60s era musical
A Slice of Saturday NightA Slice of Saturday Night is a musical with book, lyrics and music by The Heather Brothers: Lea, Neil, Charles and John. The songs are a nostalgic pastiche of 1960s music, and the story tells a tale of teenage dreams and young love set around 1964 in a nightclub called Club-a-Go-Go.The Heather...
. She is mentioned in the
Namie Amurois a Japanese singer, entertainer, and former actress, who, at the height of her popularity, was referred to as the "Teen Queen [of Japan]" and is referred to as the "Queen of Japanese pop music". Born in Naha, Okinawa, Amuro debuted at the age of fourteen as an idol in the girl group Super Monkey's...
song "New Look" from her 2008 single "
60s 70s 80s"60s 70s 80s" is Namie Amuro's 33rd solo single under the Avex Trax label. It was released in CD and CD&DVD formats on March 12, 2008, 11 months since her previous single "Funky Town", and nearly 9 months after her successful album "Play"...
". The 1973
David BowieDavid Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Active in five decades of popular music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
song "Drive In Saturday" contains a reference to a girl sighing like 'Twig the wonder kid.' Twiggy subsequently appeared with Bowie on the cover of his
Pin UpsPin Ups is an album by David Bowie containing cover versions of songs, released by RCA Records in 1973 . It was his last studio album with the bulk of 'The Spiders From Mars', his backing band throughout his Ziggy Stardust phase; Mick Woodmansey was replaced on drums by Aynsley Dunbar.Pin Ups...
album.
Jeordie WhiteJeordie Osbourne White , formerly known by his pseudonym Twiggy Ramirez now known simply as Twiggy, is a musician and currently a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist for Goon Moon. He was previously the bassist for A Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails...
, member of rock/metal group
Marilyn MansonMarilyn Manson may refer to:* Marilyn Manson , an American rock musician* Marilyn Manson , the American rock band led by the singer of the same name...
, has the stage name Twiggy Ramirez, in keeping with the rule that the band's members name themselves after the first name of a celebrity and the surname of a
serial killerA serial killer is a person who murders three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a "cooling off" period between each murder, and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification. Often, a sexual element is involved with the killings...
(Twiggy, and American serial killer
Richard RamirezRichard Ramírez is an American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison...
). Twiggy is also mentioned in the Erykah Badu song "Me".
Welsh band
Manic Street PreachersManic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield , Nicky Wire and Sean Moore...
released the song "
4st 7lb"4st 7lb" is a song by the Manic Street Preachers from their third album The Holy Bible.-History:...
" on their 1994 album
The Holy BibleThe Holy Bible is the third studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on August 30, 1994 by Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony Records and peaked at number six on the UK Albums Chart. In August 2005, it topped Newsnight Review's viewer poll of the favourite...
. Written from the perspective of a girl with
anorexia nervosaAnorexia nervosa is a psychiatric illness that describes an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight...
, it includes the following lines "Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy / And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me". In
the OnionThe Onion is an American "news satire" organization. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news as well as an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V. Club...
's news-compendium parody
Our Dumb CenturyOur Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source is a satirical humor book written by the staff of The Onion and published by Three Rivers Press in 1999. The chief editor of the book was Scott Dikkers, with specific sections edited by Robert D. Siegel,...
there is a story entitled "Twiggy Popularizing Eating Disorders".
Sarah HardingSarah Nicole Harding is an English singer, model and actress best known for her work with the pop group Girls Aloud.-Early life and career:...
had a look very similar to Twiggy's in the
Girls AloudGirls Aloud are a UK girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles , two UK...
video
The Promise"The Promise" is a song performed by British all-female pop group Girls Aloud, written and produced by Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania. Released as the first single from the group's fifth studio album Out of Control on 19 September 2008, the single became their fourth number one on...
.
Film, television and stage appearances
In 1966,
MattelMattel Inc. is the world's largest toy importing company based on revenue. The products it produces include Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. It was founded in 1945 by Harold "Matt"...
issued a "Twiggy" doll, a
BarbieBarbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration....
-sized doll with smaller bust and hips. In 1971, Twiggy made her film debut as an extra in
Ken RussellHenry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell , is an English film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style. He has been criticized as being overly obsessed with sexuality and the church. His subject matter is often about famous...
's
The DevilsThe Devils is a 1971 horror film directed by Ken Russell. It stars Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave/ It is based partially on the 1952 book The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, and partially on the 1960 play The Devils by John Whiting, also based on Huxley's book. Derek Jarman was responsible for...
. That same year, she had her first leading role in features as Polly in Ken Russell's adaptation of
Sandy WilsonSandy Wilson is an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical, The Boy Friend .-Biography:Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. During the war he served in the Royal Ordnance Corps in...
's pastiche of 1920s hit musicals
The Boy FriendThe Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical was written at a time when the United Kingdom was still recovering from the devastating effects of World War II and is set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring 1920s.The musical's original 1954 London production ran for...
; initial collaboration with
Tommy TuneThomas James "Tommy" Tune is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, -producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won nine Tony Awards and the National Medal of Arts.-Early years:...
. In 1974, she made her
West EndWest End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking world...
stage debut in
CinderellaCinderella is a well-known classic folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances which suddenly change to remarkable fortune...
. That same year, she made a second feature, the thriller
W; co-starred with future husband Michael Whitney, and hosted her own British television series,
Twiggs (later renamed
Twiggy). In 1977 she made an appearance on
The Muppet ShowThe Muppet Show was a television program featuring a cast of Muppets, which was produced by Jim Henson and his team from Sesame Street. The show stars Kermit the Frog as a showrunner who tries to keep control of the antics of the other Muppet characters , as well as keep the human guest stars happy...
and in 1980 she made a cameo appearance in
The Blues BrothersThe Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. It features musical numbers by R&B and soul singers James Brown,...
.
In 1981, Twiggy starred as Eliza Doolittle opposite Robert Powell in the Yorkshire TV production of
PygmalionPygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw loosely inspired by the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined...
and in 1983, she made her Broadway debut in the musical,
My One and OnlyMy One and Only is a musical with a book by Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer and music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.Written to incorporate classic Gershwin tunes from Funny Face and other popular shows into one evening of entertainment, the plot, set in 1927 America, revolves around Capt...
, starring and co-staged by Tune; earned a
TonyThe Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are for Broadway productions and...
nomination. In 1987, she played a vaudeville performer in the British television special
The Little Match Girl"The Little Match Girl" is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hallucinations, and was first published in 1845...
and in 1988, she garnered a supporting role in
Madame SousatzkaMadame Sousatzka is a film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Bernice Rubens.-Plot synopsis:...
, opposite second husband Leigh Lawson. In 1989, she was cast as Hannah Chaplin, mother to Charles, in the British television movie
Young Charlie Chaplin; aired in the United States on PBS'
WonderworksWonderWorks was a PBS project that made short, made for TV movies out of acclaimed children's books. WonderWorks movies included adaptations of Anne of Green Gables, Bridge to Terabithia, All Summer in a Day, Jacob Have I Loved, The Box of Delights, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Hoboken...
. In 1991, she co-starred in the ill-fated CBS sitcom
Princesses.
In 1997, Twiggy acted in the London stage revival of
Noel CowardSir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of Richmond upon Thames, London, Coward...
's
Blithe Spirit and a year later, she played Gertrude Lawrence in the biographical stage musical
NoelSir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of Richmond upon Thames, London, Coward...
and Gertie at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, Long Island. In 1999, she returned to the New York stage as Lawrence in an off-Broadway production
If Love Were All, a revised version of
Noel and Gertie, directed by Lawson; what set this edition apart were its tap numbers in period style. She starred opposite Harry Groener's Coward. In 2001, she co-hosted the British magazine programme
This MorningThis Morning is a British daytime television programme created by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV. It first aired from Granada's Albert Dock Studios in Liverpool on 3 October 1988. It features celebrity guests, entertainment, advice on health and well-being, competitions, cookery and more...
. In 2005, she served as a judge on
America's Next Top ModelAmerica's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry.The show was created and is hosted by talk-show host and former model Tyra Banks, who also serves as the...
for Cycles 5–9 and a year later, she appeared on the cover of the Icons issue of
SWINDLE magazine.
Filmography
- The Boy Friend
The Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical was written at a time when the United Kingdom was still recovering from the devastating effects of World War II and is set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring 1920s.The musical's original 1954 London production ran for...
(1971)
- W (1974)
- There Goes The Bride (1979)
- The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. It features musical numbers by R&B and soul singers James Brown,...
(1980)
- Pygmalion
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw loosely inspired by the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined...
(1981)
- The Doctor And The Devils (1985)
- Club Paradise
Club Paradise is a 1986 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis starring Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, and Jimmy Cliff. The film reunites director/co-writer Ramis with most of his SCTV co-stars -- SCTV cast members Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, and Robin Duke play supporting...
(1986)
- The Little Match Girl
"The Little Match Girl" is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hallucinations, and was first published in 1845...
(1986)
- Madame Sousatzka
Madame Sousatzka is a film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Bernice Rubens.-Plot synopsis:...
(1988)
- The Diamond Trap (1988)
- Sun Child (1988)
- Young Charlie Chaplin (1989)
- Istanbul (Keep Your Eyes Open) (1990)
- Body Bags
John Carpenter Presents Body Bags is a 1993 horror / thriller TV movie directed by John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper. The film is an anthology, feature three unconnected stories, with bookend segments featuring Carpenter and Hooper as deranged morgue attendees.The first story, "The Gas Station",...
(1993)
- Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1997)
- Edge of Seventeen (1998)
- Brand New World (based on the Jeff Noon
Jeff Noon is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of wordplay and fantasy. Noon's speculative fiction books have ties to the works of writers such as Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges...
play Woundings) (1998)
Television
- Twiggs (1974)
- Twiggy (1975)
- The Muppet Show
The Muppet Show was a television program featuring a cast of Muppets, which was produced by Jim Henson and his team from Sesame Street. The show stars Kermit the Frog as a showrunner who tries to keep control of the antics of the other Muppet characters , as well as keep the human guest stars happy...
(1976) (1 episode)
- Victorian Scandals (1976)
- The Donna Summer Special (1980)
- A Gift of Music (1981)
- Princesses (1991) (2 episodes)
- Tales from the Crypt (1992) (1 episode)
- The Nanny
The Nanny is an American television sitcom co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc. and Highschool Sweethearts Productions in association with TriStar Television for the CBS network...
(1994) (1 episode)
- Heartbeat
Heartbeat is a long running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. It is made by ITV Studios at The Leeds Studios, and on location, for broadcast on ITV. Heartbeat first aired on Friday 10 April 1992...
(1994) (1 episode)
- Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous is a British sitcom created and written by Jennifer Saunders, who also plays the leading character. Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha co-star, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks. It was broadcast on BBC from 1992 to 1996 and 2001 to 2004...
(2000–2001)
- This Morning (presenter in 2001)
- America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry.The show was created and is hosted by talk-show host and former model Tyra Banks, who also serves as the...
, ANTM (judge, Cycles 5–9) (2005–2007)
- ShakespeaRe-Told
ShakespeaRe-Told is the umbrella title for a series of four television adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays broadcast on BBC One during November 2005. In a similar manner to the 2003 production of The Canterbury Tales, each play is adapted by a different writer, and relocated to the present day...
: The Taming of the Shrew (2005)
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross is a comical chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It is on the British terrestrial TV channel BBC One and is broadcast at 10.35pm on Friday nights. It was first shown on 2 November 2001 and is in it's seventeenth series...
(Guest) (2008)
- Twiggy's frock exchange (2008)
Recordings
- The Boy Friend (1971)
- Twiggy And The Girlfriends (1972)
- Cole Porter In Paris (1973)
- Twiggy (1976)
- Please Get My Name Right (1977)
- Captain Beaky And His Band (1977)
- Pieces Of April (1978)
- My One And Only (1983)
- The Doctor And The Devils (1985)
- The Boy Friend & Highlights From Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1990)
- Twiggy And The Silver Screen Syncopaters (1995)
- London Pride - Songs From The London Stage (1996)
- Beautiful Dreams (1997)
- Dead Man On Campus (1998)
- The Best Of Twiggy (1998)
- If Love Were All (1999)
- Peter Pan (2000)
- Midnight Blue (2003)
- Twiggy (2004)
- Twiggy & Linda Thorson - A Snapshot Of Swinging London (2005)
- Gotta Sing Gotta Dance (2009)
External links