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RECENT CREDITS
Oprah Winfrey's Legends' Ball (TV)  May. 22, 2006
Project Runway (TV)  Feb. 15, 2006
America's Next Top Model (TV)  Oct. 19, 2005
The 2001 Essence Awards (TV)  May. 24, 2001
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BIOGRAPHY
A striking international fashion model whose career skyrocketed in the late 1970s and eventually led to offbeat character roles in features, Iman was born and raised in Somalia and began following in her diplomat....
A striking international fashion model whose career skyrocketed in the late 1970s and eventually led to offbeat character roles in features, Iman was born and raised in Somalia and began following in her diplomat father's footsteps while studying political science at the University of Nairobi. Photographer and adventurer Peter Beard, though, was instantly taken with her sharp, clean bone structure, large, dark eyes and elegant carriage, and encouraged a move to New York and a career in modeling. Not long thereafter, Iman appeared in Vogue and enjoyed a breakthrough when she became one of the first black models signed to a major cosmetics campaign, in this case Revlon's.

Occasional appearances in films came soon thereafter, but Iman's roles in "The Human Factor" (1979), the Merchant-Ivory "Jane Austen in Manhattan" (1980) and a non-speaking role in "Out of Africa" (1985) gave her little to work with. Subsequent roles tended to use her accent and her fierce, proud expression of hauteur to typecast her as exotic decoration or nasty temptresses and villains. Iman's modest range and experience only justified this to a partial extent; her guest stint as an expectant mother on TV's "The Cosby Show" was appealing and suggested potential. Her best screen roles to date have included a golddigging seductress in "House Party 2" and a vicious, shape-changing alien in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" (both 1991). Other films, such as "Exit to Eden" (1994), dispensed with dignity entirely and only called upon Iman to frown and snarl. In contrast, director John Singleton well utilized her regal beauty by casting her as a queen opposite Eddie Murphy's king in the amiably Afrocentric "Remember the Time" music video wherein she was wooed by a magical Michael Jackson.



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Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears
Oct. 28, 2003
Pop princess Britney Spears says she became bitter with men after her very public breakup with ex Justin Timberlake. Also: Columbus Short Rod Roddy The Aviator David Bowie Iman Tommy Hilfiger Rosie O'Donnell Luiz Guzman Tim Robbins Johnny Cash


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Project Runway
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Released: May. 1, 1992


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