Denise Perrier
Denise Perrier Lanfranchi ( born 1935 ) is a former French model and actress. It is still the only French woman who was able to win the title of Miss World.
Biography
Winning the Miss World election and work as an actress
The boarder originally wanted to be an archaeologist before them as 18 -year-old took part in the Miss World contest. In the third edition of the beauty contest on 19 October 1953 at London's Lyceum Theatre Denise Perrier won against 14 competitors and won the title in front of the Greek Ladikou Alexandra and Marina Papaelia from Egypt. Six referee had judged on appearance, behavior, and clothing the women. Perrier received as income in 1400 dollars and a silver cup. Addressed decades later, on her victory, she gave the swimwear competition as a secret of her success. "I tried a lot to swim and exercise a lot. I was very tall, "said Perrier, 2009 in an interview with The Times. The same year, her compatriot Christiane Martel won the title of Miss Universe. Both Perrier and Martel are to this day the only French women who could decide the beauty competitions.
"The title changed my life forever ," said Perrier. At age 19, she began a career as a model to strive and later to organize fashion shows in southern France. In the late 1960s she moved into the film business and was represented with small roles in the French film productions. In 1966, an appearance in an episode of the television series The West German octopus. Your last roll of film credits include the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). On the side of Sean Connery, the French woman was in a short scene as Marie, who see little talkative friend of the movie villain Blofeld. Bond pulls Perrier figure in a secluded bay with swirling handle the bikini top and wraps it around her neck, so as to extract information from it.
In addition to working as a model Perrier began to paint. Her works have been exhibited publicly, and they counted such notables as the Egyptian King Farouk or the Aga Khan to her circle of buyers. Later she worked as a journalist and moved to Nice. From the 1980s she was there 16 years working as a councilor. She organized, among other art exhibitions and barter between museums. In 2000, she retired.
Denise Perrier Lanfranchi is married and the mother of a son.
Work for Miss World
As a former beauty queen she regularly participates in organized by Miss World events. The end of November 2000, she attended a meeting of 16 former title winners in the Miss World beauty pageant in London. Five years later, Perrier Lanfranchi formed with seven other former title winners, the jury of the Miss World beauty pageant 2005 in China Sanya, in which the Icelander Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir triumphed. In advance of the beauty contest, in which the jury for the first time consisted entirely of former beauty queens, there had been a dispute between some members of the jury and the organizers because of new voting procedures. These were first introduced in a public vote, in which twelve of the 15 finalists were determined by viewers via text message, phone or email. " In order to decide, you have to see the girls. We know what we have to watch, "said Perrier Lanfranchi, which was one of those who denied the viewers the qualification. " We can see it almost immediately. We know what separates the wheat from the chaff. Already on the way a girl moves, we'll see if it 's smart also, even before it opens his mouth, "she explains.
Last Perrier Lanfranchi took in October 2010 as a juror in part at the 60th Miss World beauty pageant in Sanya China. There they chose, among others, together with the former title holder Ann Sidney ( Miss World 1964), Mary Stävin ( Miss World 1977), Agbani Darego ( Miss World 2001), María Julia Mantilla ( Miss World 2004), Zhang Zilin ( Miss World 2007) and Xenia Sukhinova ( Miss World 2008), the 18 -year-old U.S. citizen Alexandria Mills the winner.