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Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She became famous in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough.

Paul Verhoeven’s decision to cast relative unknowns in the leading roles of “Starship Troopers” (1997) catapulted sexy Denise Richards from the obscurity of her TV guest spots to screen stardom.

She began her career with a guest appearance in a 1990 episode of ABC’s “Life Goes On” and went on to appear on shows like “Beverly Hills, 90210″, “Married . . . With Children”, “Seinfeld” and “Lois and Clark–The New Adventures of Superman” before landing the recurring role of beauty contestant Brandy Carson on Fox’s “Melrose Place”.

Her feature debut came in “National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon I” (1993) and Richards was also in the ensemble of Gregg Araki’s “Nowhere” (1997). She followed “Starship Troopers” with John McNaughton’s “Wild Things” (1998), co-starring Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell and Matt Dillon.

Her rising star status was confirmed when on the heels of completing the beauty contest spoof “Drop Dead Gorgeous” (1999), Richards was tapped to be the next Bond girl, essaying munitions expert Dr. Christmas Jones in “The World Is Not Enough” (also 1999), but she proved one of the least convincing doctoral candidates imaginable, even opposite 007.

She followed the film up with roles in lower profile films such as “Tail Lights Fade” (2000) and the lame horror thriller “Valentine” (2001), but stayed in the public eye when she began a romance (and subsequently married) with actor Charlie Sheen after the two co-starred in the straight-to-cable film “Good Advice” (2001).

She subsequently guested on his sit-coms “Spin City” and “Two and a Half Men,” and the couple appeared together in the horror spoof sequel “Scary Movie 3″ (2003) before their highly publicized split in 2005 while Richards was several months pregnant with their second child.

As a solo act she returned to theaters as the White She Devil of the modest hit comedy “Undercover Brother” and in the crime thriller “Empire” (both 2002). The actress also appeared in a best-selling nude pictorial in the pages of Playboy magazine in 2004 and starred in the lightweight Lifetime telepic “I Do (But I Don’t)” (2004) opposite Dean Cain.

After making a brief cameo in the romantic comedy “Love Actually” (2003), Richards starred as an anthropology grad student in need of money and tempted into prostitution by a hooker (Daryl Hannah) who lives down the hall in the low-budget “Whore” (2004). She appeared in the straight-to-video romantic comedy “The Third Wheel” (2004), produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, before starring in the comedic road movie, “Elvis Has Left the Building” (2005). In the hour-long UPN soap drama, “Sex, Love and Secrets” (2005- ), Richards played an unabashedly bitchy Hollywood publicist who maneuvers her way into a group of wannabes grouped together in the Silver Lake neighborhood outside Hollywood.

Before she was an actress, Richards was a fashion model. Richards spent the majority of the 1990s appearing in lower-budget films and TV shows like Saved by the Bell, television movies, and guest starring in episodes of several television shows.

Her first starring role in a wide theatrical release was Starship Troopers in 1997, which was followed by her role in the moderately successful cult film Wild Things in 1998.

Richards was subsequently cast as Dr. Christmas Jones in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999), which had a high box office gross and contributed to Richards’ renown. In addition to her film work, Richards has made regular appearances in the situation comedies Spin City, Two and a Half Men, Friends and Seinfeld.

She also starred in the short-lived UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets in 2005. Throughout the early 2000s, Richards appeared in several film roles which both parodied and utilized her image as a sex symbol, including Valentine, Undercover Brother, Scary Movie 3 and Love Actually.

In December 2004, she posed for a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine. Richards also posed semi-nude for the July 2006 issue of Jane magazine to raise money for the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation. In 1999 she ranked 9 in Maxim’s 50 Sexiest Women and in 2001 she was voted 2nd in FHM’s USA 100 Sexiest Women, 5th in FHM 100 Sexiest Women and 19 in AskMen.com 50 Most Beautiful Women.

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