Holly Davidson

The sister of actress and fashion designer Sadie Frost, svelte and striking British performer Holly Davidson balanced her professional activity between work as a print/runway model and work as an actress, establishing an on-camera presence that set her apart from more conventional talent. In terms of promotional work, Davidson spent a substantial number of hours on catwalks alongside such supermodels as Kate Moss, and landed a high-profile assignment as the chief model for FrostFrench's "Floozie" underwear line -- a job that required her to do a fashion-oriented runway striptease. Davidson began her acting career modestly in the mid- to late '90s, with a flurry of roles on English television series (The Broker's Man, The Bill) and miniseries (Pigeon Summer, 1995), but achieved international crossover appeal in feature projects. These included the grueling concentration-camp drama Bent (1997), the Jude Law ensembler Final Cut (1998), and the frat-boy comedy National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, in which Davidson played a sex-obsessed cockney waif who captures the lusty imaginations of all the young men around her.

~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide