Denise Richards(I)
- Actress
- Producer
- Executive
Denise Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the older of two
daughters of Joni Lee, who owned a coffee shop, and Irv Richards, a
telephone engineer. She has German, French-Canadian, Irish, English,
and Welsh ancestry. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family
relocated to Oceanside, CA when Denise was 15. She began working as a
model, and moved to L.A. after she graduated from high school. She
landed parts in both TV and movies, and gave breakthrough performances
in Starship Troopers (1997)
with Casper Van Dien,
Wild Things (1998) and
The World Is Not Enough (1999),
in which she plays a Bond Girl. She also was in
Undercover Brother (2002) with
Eddie Griffin and appeared in
Scary Movie 3 (2003) with her now
ex-husband, Charlie Sheen.
