Charlotte Lewis
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Charlotte Lewis | |
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Born | Kensington, London, England |
7 August 1967
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1978–2003 |
Charlotte Lewis (born 7 August 1967) is an English actress.[1]
Contents
Biography
Early life
Lewis attended Bishop Douglass School in Finchley. Her mother is of Irish-English extraction, while her father—a physician whom she never met—is half-Chilean and half-Iraqi.[2]
Career
Lewis made her film debut as a teenager in the 1986 Roman Polanski film Pirates. She followed it that same year with the female lead in The Golden Child alongside Eddie Murphy.[3] Later appearances include the film Tripwire (1990) and Storyville (1992, opposite James Spader). She had a co-starring role in Men of War (1995, alongside Dolph Lundgren) and in the 1995 film Decoy. Lewis appeared in the 2003 film Hey DJ.[4]
Lewis also appeared in a cover-featured pictorial in the July 1993 issue of Playboy magazine.[5]
Accusations against Polanski
On 14 May 2010, Lewis and her Los Angeles-based attorney Gloria Allred accused Polanski of sexually assaulting the actress when she was 16 years old,[6][7] before the two worked together on Pirates.[8][9] Prosecutors in Los Angeles confirmed that they interviewed Lewis in connection with the allegations.[10] According to Lewis, the alleged incident occurred at Polanski's apartment in Paris. Previously, in a 1999 interview, Lewis stated that she had been his girlfriend for six months after the shooting of Pirates, and that she had been sexually active from age 14 on. [11][12]
Filmography
- Pirates (1986) - Maria-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde
- The Golden Child (1986) - Kee Nang
- Dial: Help (1988) - Jenny Cooper
- Tripwire (1989) - Trudy
- Bare Essentials (1991) - Tarita the Native Girl
- Sketch Artist (1992) - Leese
- Storyville (1992) - Lee Tran
- Excessive Force (1993) - Anna Gilmour
- Lipstick Camera (1994) - Roberta Dailey
- Men of War (1994) - Loki
- Embrace of the Vampire (1995) - Sarah
- Decoy (1995) - Katya
- The Glass Cage (1996) - Jacqueline
- Navajo Blues (1996) - Elizabeth Wyako
- Mutual Needs (1997) - Louise Collier
- Every Dog Has Its Day (1999) - Jill
- Henry X (2003) - Mrs. Morgan
- Hey DJ (2003) - Tai
References
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- ↑ Angeli, Michael. "Brit Force". Playboy. 40 (7) pp. 132–140. July 1993. ISSN 0032-1478.
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External links
- Charlotte Lewis at the Internet Movie Database
- Charlotte Lewis at AllMovie
- Charlotte Lewis on Facebook
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- English film actresses
- English television actresses
- People from Kensington
- 1967 births
- Living people
- British people of Chilean descent
- British people of Iraqi descent
- Actresses from London
- English people of Irish descent
- 20th-century English actresses
- 21st-century English actresses
- British screen actor stubs