Acting
Porizkova's film debut was in the 1983 modelling pseudo-documentary Portfolio. Still only seventeen, she managed to look more mature and intelligent than the other more-established models, and she became the "covergirl" for the film.
Porizkova appeared in the 1987 film Anna (which starred Sally Kirkland), receiving good reviews from her patrons at Vogue magazine. It was in 1989 that she had her largest, and best-known role to date, co-starring with Tom Selleck in the film Her Alibi. However, she was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for worst actress for her appearance in that film.
She was rumored in a 1989 issue of the Italian magazine "Moda" to be starring along with Robert De Niro in a planned film by Sergio Leone about the siege of Leningrad during World War II, halted by the director's death. Later She appeared in the bizarre cult film, Arizona Dream, with Johnny Depp and Jerry Lewis, in a minor role as Lewis's young Polish fiancee. She also appeared in the film Thu
More about Paulina Porizkova (From Wikipedia)
Modeling
A photographer friend took pictures of Porizkova and sent them to the Elite modeling agency in 1980. At 5 feet 10 1/2 inches (180 cm), she was the perfect height for a fashion model. read more...
Acting
Porizkova's film debut was in the 1983 modelling pseudo-documentary Portfolio. Still only seventeen, she managed to look more mature and intelligent than the other more-established read more...
Writing
She has finished her debut novel, A Model Summer (ISBN 1401303269) (ISBN 978-1401303266). It is about a 15-year-old Swedish girl chosen by a modeling agent to spend a summer working read more...
Paulina Porizkova (born PavlÃna PoÅ™Ãzková IPA: [ˈpavli:na ˈporÌi:skova:], April 9, 1965) is a Czech-born super model and actress. She holds both Swedish read more...
On August 23, 1989, Paulina married Ric Ocasek, lead singer for the pop-rock band The Cars. They had first met in 1984 during the filming of The Cars' music video, "Drive", which read more...