Denise Richards
Model /
Actor
Denise Richards was a modelturnedactress when she got her breakthrough role as freshfaced heartthrob Carmen Ibanez in the scifi film
Starship Troopers (1997, based on the
Robert A. Heinlein book). She then shared a muchtalkedabout kiss with
Neve Campbell in Wild Things (1998) and played Dr. Christmas Jones opposite
Pierce Brosnan in the
James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough (1999). Though her career seemed to stall after the turn of the century, Richards has kept in the public eye thanks to her onagain, offagain relationship with actor
Charlie Sheen. Her other film roles include
Undercover Brother (2002, with
Dave Chappelle), Love Actually (2003, starring
Hugh Grant), Scary Movie 3 (2003, with
Pamela Anderson), and
Edmond (2005, with
William H. Macy).
Extra credit: Richards and Sheen were married in 2002. Richards filed for divorce from Sheen in March of 2005; after a reconciliation later that year, she again filed for divorce in 2006, and also sought a restraining order against Sheen. Richards and Sheen have two daughters: Sam J (b. 2004) and Lola Rose (b. 2005).
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