Emily O’Hara Ratajkowski was born on June 7, 1991, in Westminster, London. Her feature film debut was as the mistress of Ben Affleck’s character in the 2014 film Gone Girl. Her other roles include the films Entourage, We Are Your Friends, I Feel Pretty and Welcome Home. She has received both support and criticism for her views on sexual expression.
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Emily O’Hara Ratajkowski was born on June 7, 1991, in Westminster, London. She was raised in San Diego, California, and attended San Dieguito Academy. She is an advocate for women’s health issues as a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood. Her feature film debut was as the mistress of Ben Affleck’s character in the 2014 film Gone Girl. Her other roles include the films Entourage, We Are Your Friends, I Feel Pretty and Welcome Home. She also appeared in the miniseries The Spoils Before Dying and the anthology series Easy. She has received both support and criticism for her views on sexual expression. Her father was raised Roman Catholic, whereas her mother was raised Jewish. She visited nude beaches in Europe with her family during her youth and was influenced by third-wave feminism and works such as The Beauty Myth and Promiscities by Naomi Wolf. Her mother, Kathleen Anne Balgley, earned her PhD from the University of California, San Diego. She then taught American literature in Poland from September 1987 to July 1988, and again from September 1988 to July 1989, under the Fulbright Program. In 2004, she played Harriet in the interactive Lyceum Theatre production of Harriet Potter and the Throne of Applewort. She appeared in two nondescript movie roles, she appeared as Tasha Gibby’s girlfriend, Tasha, in the third season of Nickelodeon’s iCarly.
She made her professional runway modeling debut for Marc Jacobs at New York Fashion Week in 2015 and has since walked on the Paris Fashion Week runway for Miu Miu and Milan Fashion Week for Bottega Veneta, Dolce & Gabbana, and Versace. She signed with Ford Models when she was 14 and went on to do teen print modeling for Kohl’s and Nordstrom. She began acting as a child, staging shows for her family in the North Coast Repertory Theatre School’s The Little Match Girl. As a teenager, she tried soccer, acting, and ballet before modeling. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. She works as a personal trainer and runs a fashion and beauty brand, Emily O’Hara & Co. with stylist Emily Wolf. She lives in Encinitas, California with her boyfriend and their two children, Emmalee, and her mother, John David D. D. RataJkowski, a painter and art teacher, who teaches at San Diego Jewish Academy. The couple have a son, Sebastian, who was born in January 2013. She and her husband have a daughter, Ella, who is due to be born in February 2015. She recently appeared in a Buick Super Bowl commercial during Super Bowl 50, and has become the spokesperson for brands such as DKNY, The Frye Company, Kerastase, Paco Rabanne, and DL1961. She appears in two music videos, including Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines’” and Maroon 5”.
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