Early life
Twiggy Lawson was raised in the Luân Đôn suburb of Neasden, the daughter of Helen (Nellie) Lydia Hornby (née Reeman), and William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter and joiner. She got her first job as an assistant in a hairdressers where her sister Viv worked then became a counter-girl at a Woolworth's store and factory worker at a printing firm.[1][2] She attended the Brondesbury and Kilburn High School in Salusbury Road, Kilburn.
[edit] Modeling career
Twiggy during the 1960s
In 1966, Nigel Davies noticed the young Lesley Hornby and offered her a modeling contract. She was only 16 and weighed 6½ stone (41 kg, 91 lbs).[3] Davies advised her to go bởi her childhood nickname, Twiggy. After sweeping England as "The Face of '66" when her modeling pictures, taken bởi Barry Lategan, were made public, Twiggy arrived in New York in March 1967. It was believed that the Twiggy craze would die down within a month; however, she became an icon. Known for the high fashion mod look created bởi Mary Quant, Twiggy changed the world of fashion with her short-haired androgynous look.[citation needed] She was also famous for drawing long, fake eyelashes under her bottom lashes.
Twiggy and the magazines featuring her image were criticized as promoting an "unhealthy" body ideal for women.[citation needed]
[edit] Life after modeling
After many years of modeling, Twiggy retired, claiming "You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life!"[citation needed] She embarked on an award-winning diễn xuất and hát career, including Ken Russell's 1971 film version of Sandy Wilson's musical, The Boy Friend, for which she won two Golden Globe Awards in 1972 (New ngôi sao of the năm - Actress and Best Actress in a Musical hoặc Comedy). Since then she has played a variety of roles on stage and screen, including My One and Only and as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, opposite Robert Powell, in a 1981 ti vi production. In 1976, Twiggy signed to Mercury records and released the albums Twiggy and Please Get My Name Right, discs that contained both pop and country tunes. Twiggy sold very well, peaking on the UK charts at no.33, and gave Twiggy a silver disc for good sales. The album contains Twiggy's hàng đầu, đầu trang twenty hit single, "Here I Go Again" and "Please Get My Name Right" made it to no.35 in 1977.
She married the American actor Michael Witney in 1977. They had one daughter, Carly, born in 1978. That marriage ended with his sudden death in 1983 from a tim, trái tim attack. She met Leigh Lawson on the film Madame Sousatzka, and married him in 1988. They reside in London. In 2003, she released another album, Midnight Blue, featuring previously unreleased material she had recorded from 1982 – 1990; the CD received glowing reviews and had duets on it with Leo Sayer and Carly Simon. Her other recordings from 1985 failed to make the charts. Feel Emotion and Diamond have both been released onto CD format since.
In 2005, she joined the cast of the ti vi hiển thị America's tiếp theo hàng đầu, đầu trang Model as one of four judges. She also returned to modeling, fronting a major new television, press and billboard campaign for Marks & Spencer, a British department store chain. In 2006, she portrayed herself as a nineteen-year-old in the radio play Elevenses with Twiggy for BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play series. She did not return to America's tiếp theo hàng đầu, đầu trang Model in its tenth season due to scheduling conflicts, since the hiển thị was moving to New York[citation needed]. She was instead replaced with model Paulina Porizkova[4].
Also in 2007, Sepia Records released a previously shelved album that Twiggy recorded in 1979, Produced bởi Donna Summer and Juergen Koppers. Heaven In My Eyes ["Discotheque"] contains the eight original tracks due to be released, plus four remixes bởi The Outsider. The album was also made available on iTunes. She is signed to Luân Đôn agency người mẫu 1. In 2008, she supported the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign in support of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, alongside fellow người nổi tiếng — comedian Alan Carr, singer Natalie Imbruglia, actress Anna Friel and DJ & presenter Edith Bowman.
[edit] Pop culture references
Twiggy is mentioned in the Spice Girls song, "Lady is a Vamp" from their 1997 album Spiceworld. Japanese band, Pizzicato Five released a song called "Twiggy Twiggy" (aka "Twiggy vs James Bond") in the mid 1990s, and mentions Twiggy quite frequently. Twiggy was the subject of a song in the được ưa chuộng '60s era musical A Slice of Saturday Night. She is mentioned in the Namie Amuro song "New Look" from her 2008 single "60s 70s 80s". The 1973 David Bowie song "Drive In Saturday" contains a reference to a girl sighing like 'Twig the wonder kid.' Twiggy subsequently appeared with Bowie on the cover of his Pin Ups album. Jeordie White, member of rock/metal group Marilyn Manson, has the stage name Twiggy Ramirez, in keeping with the rule that the band's members name themselves after the first name of a celebrity and the surname of a serial killer (Twiggy, and American serial killer Richard Ramirez). Twiggy is also mentioned in the Erykah Badu song "Me".
Welsh band Manic đường phố, street Preachers released the song "4st 7lb" on their 1994 album The Holy Bible. Written from the perspective of a girl with anorexia nervosa, it includes the following lines "Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy / And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me". In the Onion's news-compendium parody Our Dumb Century there is a story entitled "Twiggy Popularizing Eating Disorders". Sarah Harding had a look very similar to Twiggy's in the Girls Aloud video The Promise.
[edit] Film, ti vi and stage appearances
In 1966, Mattel issued a "Twiggy" doll, a Barbie-sized doll with smaller bust and hips. In 1971, Twiggy made her film debut as an extra in Ken Russell's The Devils. That same year, she had her first leading role in features as Polly in Ken Russell's adaptation of Sandy Wilson's pastiche of 1920s hit âm nhạc The Boy Friend; initial collaboration with Tommy Tune. In 1974, she made her West End stage debut in Cinderella. That same year, she made a một giây feature, the thriller W; co-starred with future husband Michael Whitney, and hosted her own British ti vi series, Twiggs (later renamed Twiggy). In 1977 she made an appearance on The Muppet hiển thị and in 1980 she made a cameo appearance in The Blues Brothers.
In 1981, Twiggy starred as Eliza Doolittle opposite Robert Powell in the Yorkshire TV production of Pygmalion and in 1983, she made her Broadway debut in the musical, My One and Only, starring and co-staged bởi Tune; earned a Tony nomination. In 1987, she played a vaudeville performer in the British ti vi special The Little Match Girl and in 1988, she garnered a supporting role in Madame Sousatzka, opposite một giây husband Leigh Lawson. In 1989, she was cast as Hannah Chaplin, mother to Charles, in the British ti vi movie Young Charlie Chaplin; aired in the United States on PBS' Wonderworks. In 1991, she co-starred in the ill-fated CBS sitcom Princesses.
In 1997, Twiggy acted in the Luân Đôn stage revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and a năm later, she played Gertrude Lawrence in the biographical stage musical Noel and Gertie at the vịnh, bay đường phố, street Theater in Sag Harbor, Long Island. In 1999, she returned to the New York stage as Lawrence in an off-Broadway production If tình yêu Were All, a revised version of Noel and Gertie, directed bởi Lawson; what set this edition apart were its tap numbers in period style. She starred opposite Harry Groener's Coward. In 2001, she co-hosted the British magazine programme This Morning. In 2005, she served as a judge on America's tiếp theo hàng đầu, đầu trang Model for Cycles 5–9 and a năm later, she appeared on the cover of the các biểu tượng issue of SWINDLE magazine.
[edit] Filmography
* The Boy Friend (1971)
* W (1974)
* There Goes The Bride (1979)
* The Blues Brothers (1980)
* Pygmalion (1981)
* The Doctor And The Devils (1985)
* Club Paradise (1986)
* The Little Match Girl (1986)
* Madame Sousatzka (1988)
* The Diamond Trap (1988)
* Sun Child (1988)
* Young Charlie Chaplin (1989)
* Istanbul (Keep Your Eyes Open) (1990)
* Body Bags (1993)
* Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1997)
* Edge of Seventeen (1998)
* Brand New World (based on the Jeff Noon play Woundings) (1998)
Twiggy Lawson was raised in the Luân Đôn suburb of Neasden, the daughter of Helen (Nellie) Lydia Hornby (née Reeman), and William Norman Hornby, a master carpenter and joiner. She got her first job as an assistant in a hairdressers where her sister Viv worked then became a counter-girl at a Woolworth's store and factory worker at a printing firm.[1][2] She attended the Brondesbury and Kilburn High School in Salusbury Road, Kilburn.
[edit] Modeling career
Twiggy during the 1960s
In 1966, Nigel Davies noticed the young Lesley Hornby and offered her a modeling contract. She was only 16 and weighed 6½ stone (41 kg, 91 lbs).[3] Davies advised her to go bởi her childhood nickname, Twiggy. After sweeping England as "The Face of '66" when her modeling pictures, taken bởi Barry Lategan, were made public, Twiggy arrived in New York in March 1967. It was believed that the Twiggy craze would die down within a month; however, she became an icon. Known for the high fashion mod look created bởi Mary Quant, Twiggy changed the world of fashion with her short-haired androgynous look.[citation needed] She was also famous for drawing long, fake eyelashes under her bottom lashes.
Twiggy and the magazines featuring her image were criticized as promoting an "unhealthy" body ideal for women.[citation needed]
[edit] Life after modeling
After many years of modeling, Twiggy retired, claiming "You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life!"[citation needed] She embarked on an award-winning diễn xuất and hát career, including Ken Russell's 1971 film version of Sandy Wilson's musical, The Boy Friend, for which she won two Golden Globe Awards in 1972 (New ngôi sao of the năm - Actress and Best Actress in a Musical hoặc Comedy). Since then she has played a variety of roles on stage and screen, including My One and Only and as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, opposite Robert Powell, in a 1981 ti vi production. In 1976, Twiggy signed to Mercury records and released the albums Twiggy and Please Get My Name Right, discs that contained both pop and country tunes. Twiggy sold very well, peaking on the UK charts at no.33, and gave Twiggy a silver disc for good sales. The album contains Twiggy's hàng đầu, đầu trang twenty hit single, "Here I Go Again" and "Please Get My Name Right" made it to no.35 in 1977.
She married the American actor Michael Witney in 1977. They had one daughter, Carly, born in 1978. That marriage ended with his sudden death in 1983 from a tim, trái tim attack. She met Leigh Lawson on the film Madame Sousatzka, and married him in 1988. They reside in London. In 2003, she released another album, Midnight Blue, featuring previously unreleased material she had recorded from 1982 – 1990; the CD received glowing reviews and had duets on it with Leo Sayer and Carly Simon. Her other recordings from 1985 failed to make the charts. Feel Emotion and Diamond have both been released onto CD format since.
In 2005, she joined the cast of the ti vi hiển thị America's tiếp theo hàng đầu, đầu trang Model as one of four judges. She also returned to modeling, fronting a major new television, press and billboard campaign for Marks & Spencer, a British department store chain. In 2006, she portrayed herself as a nineteen-year-old in the radio play Elevenses with Twiggy for BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play series. She did not return to America's tiếp theo hàng đầu, đầu trang Model in its tenth season due to scheduling conflicts, since the hiển thị was moving to New York[citation needed]. She was instead replaced with model Paulina Porizkova[4].
Also in 2007, Sepia Records released a previously shelved album that Twiggy recorded in 1979, Produced bởi Donna Summer and Juergen Koppers. Heaven In My Eyes ["Discotheque"] contains the eight original tracks due to be released, plus four remixes bởi The Outsider. The album was also made available on iTunes. She is signed to Luân Đôn agency người mẫu 1. In 2008, she supported the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign in support of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, alongside fellow người nổi tiếng — comedian Alan Carr, singer Natalie Imbruglia, actress Anna Friel and DJ & presenter Edith Bowman.
[edit] Pop culture references
Twiggy is mentioned in the Spice Girls song, "Lady is a Vamp" from their 1997 album Spiceworld. Japanese band, Pizzicato Five released a song called "Twiggy Twiggy" (aka "Twiggy vs James Bond") in the mid 1990s, and mentions Twiggy quite frequently. Twiggy was the subject of a song in the được ưa chuộng '60s era musical A Slice of Saturday Night. She is mentioned in the Namie Amuro song "New Look" from her 2008 single "60s 70s 80s". The 1973 David Bowie song "Drive In Saturday" contains a reference to a girl sighing like 'Twig the wonder kid.' Twiggy subsequently appeared with Bowie on the cover of his Pin Ups album. Jeordie White, member of rock/metal group Marilyn Manson, has the stage name Twiggy Ramirez, in keeping with the rule that the band's members name themselves after the first name of a celebrity and the surname of a serial killer (Twiggy, and American serial killer Richard Ramirez). Twiggy is also mentioned in the Erykah Badu song "Me".
Welsh band Manic đường phố, street Preachers released the song "4st 7lb" on their 1994 album The Holy Bible. Written from the perspective of a girl with anorexia nervosa, it includes the following lines "Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy / And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me". In the Onion's news-compendium parody Our Dumb Century there is a story entitled "Twiggy Popularizing Eating Disorders". Sarah Harding had a look very similar to Twiggy's in the Girls Aloud video The Promise.
[edit] Film, ti vi and stage appearances
In 1966, Mattel issued a "Twiggy" doll, a Barbie-sized doll with smaller bust and hips. In 1971, Twiggy made her film debut as an extra in Ken Russell's The Devils. That same year, she had her first leading role in features as Polly in Ken Russell's adaptation of Sandy Wilson's pastiche of 1920s hit âm nhạc The Boy Friend; initial collaboration with Tommy Tune. In 1974, she made her West End stage debut in Cinderella. That same year, she made a một giây feature, the thriller W; co-starred with future husband Michael Whitney, and hosted her own British ti vi series, Twiggs (later renamed Twiggy). In 1977 she made an appearance on The Muppet hiển thị and in 1980 she made a cameo appearance in The Blues Brothers.
In 1981, Twiggy starred as Eliza Doolittle opposite Robert Powell in the Yorkshire TV production of Pygmalion and in 1983, she made her Broadway debut in the musical, My One and Only, starring and co-staged bởi Tune; earned a Tony nomination. In 1987, she played a vaudeville performer in the British ti vi special The Little Match Girl and in 1988, she garnered a supporting role in Madame Sousatzka, opposite một giây husband Leigh Lawson. In 1989, she was cast as Hannah Chaplin, mother to Charles, in the British ti vi movie Young Charlie Chaplin; aired in the United States on PBS' Wonderworks. In 1991, she co-starred in the ill-fated CBS sitcom Princesses.
In 1997, Twiggy acted in the Luân Đôn stage revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and a năm later, she played Gertrude Lawrence in the biographical stage musical Noel and Gertie at the vịnh, bay đường phố, street Theater in Sag Harbor, Long Island. In 1999, she returned to the New York stage as Lawrence in an off-Broadway production If tình yêu Were All, a revised version of Noel and Gertie, directed bởi Lawson; what set this edition apart were its tap numbers in period style. She starred opposite Harry Groener's Coward. In 2001, she co-hosted the British magazine programme This Morning. In 2005, she served as a judge on America's tiếp theo hàng đầu, đầu trang Model for Cycles 5–9 and a năm later, she appeared on the cover of the các biểu tượng issue of SWINDLE magazine.
[edit] Filmography
* The Boy Friend (1971)
* W (1974)
* There Goes The Bride (1979)
* The Blues Brothers (1980)
* Pygmalion (1981)
* The Doctor And The Devils (1985)
* Club Paradise (1986)
* The Little Match Girl (1986)
* Madame Sousatzka (1988)
* The Diamond Trap (1988)
* Sun Child (1988)
* Young Charlie Chaplin (1989)
* Istanbul (Keep Your Eyes Open) (1990)
* Body Bags (1993)
* Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1997)
* Edge of Seventeen (1998)
* Brand New World (based on the Jeff Noon play Woundings) (1998)
