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Michele Merkin is known for:

  • Savages
    A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.
  • A Kid in Aladdin's Palace
    Calvin, a young pizza delivery boy, is mistaken for the "Great Deliverer" by Aladdin, an eighth century genie imprisoned in a lamp. Thinking that the boy is his only hope for deliverance, the genie lures him back to the eigth century where he must join forces with Ali Baba in order to save Aladdin from the evil hands of Luxor.

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Biography

Michele Merkin (born June 25, 1975) is an American former model and television host. She is of Swedish and Russian Jewish descent. Merkin was born in Santa Clara County, California,[1] of Swedish and Russian Jewish descent[2] as the youngest child of four children. She attended boarding school in England. Her mother was from Sweden and had been a model for twenty years, including an appearance in the debut Victoria's Secret catalog in 1977. Merkin was a tall child, reaching 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) by the age of 14. This helped her play basketball, but gathered her some abuse in school, where she was called nicknames such as "Giraffa" and "Manute Bol". Merkin began modeling part-time from the age of 15, while she was in high school. Merkin modeled for 15 years, living in Paris, Milan, New York and Los Angeles, appearing in such magazines as ELLE, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, and in more than 60 commercials, most notably campaigns for Clairol and the Nintendo video game Perfect Dark. For Perfect Dark, Merkin appeared as the lead video game character Joanna Dark in commercials and in-store promotions for the N64 cartridge; Merkin's hair was cut short and dyed black for the appearances. Merkin was selected for Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" list of attractive women in 2006 (at #74) and 2007 (at #56).