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Supermodel Rachel Williams

Date of Birth: 29 April 1967 in New York City

Nationality: American

Measurements: 36D-25-36

Height: 1.85

Hair Color: Blonde

Eye Color: Blue

Rachel Williams is a American model, actor, and TV presenter now living in the United Kingdom.

Her father Tod Williams and stepmother Billie Tsien, are architects in the Manhattan firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, well-known for their American Folk Art Museum, which many critics have called the best building of 2001. She followed in her father's footsteps and studied architecture and graduated from Columbia University.

Rachel Williams began modeling in when she was 21, doing significant fashion magazine work from 1988-1992. She appeared in and on the covers of Elle Magazine, Vogue, Cosmopolitian, Self and the J. Crew catalog as well as advertising campaigns for Absolut vodka, Bali, Enrico Coveri,. Planet, Calvin Klein and Revlon. She posed for Playboy in 1992 and Penthouse in 1995. She was the subject of a bitter lawsuit battle over her being lured away from Click Model Management by Christy Turlington to change her management contract over to Ford Models, which managed Turlington.

She started her career as a model, but later became a singer in the rock group, Rock Solid. After performing with that band on two albums (Angelfire, Black Out), she made two solo albums (Hear, Rock On).

She made her film debut in the action horror film "Wings Of The Crow" and she followed that with her role in "Mrs. Death" around the same time. She was one of the presenters of The Girlie Show (1996) a Channel 4 television programme which became notorious as an example of ladette vulgarity. She appeared in Strangers with Candy in the episode Yes You Can't (2000) as Dr. Rachel Williams, Supermodel. (Her daughter Danielle played mother and daughter in the movie "Wings Of The Crow").

She dated writer and pro wrestler Ashe Starr for three years and was married to fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon who divorced Elle MacPherson to marry her. They are now also divorced. She had also a relationship with pop singer Alice Temple

She was widely reported to have been killed in a motorcyle accident in Los Angeles on January 9, 2001; however, she is alive, and still modeling as of September 13, 2003, when she appeared in a fashion show for Pierrot's Spring 2004 line.

She has a daughter named Danielle.