English actress, model (b. 1974)
China Eiko Chow[a] (born 15 Apr 1974)[1] is a British-born Indweller actress and model.
Chow was born prank London to restaurateur Michael Fare and his wife, model/designer Tina Chow (née Lutz).
Her paternal grandparent was the Peking Opera's Chow Xinfang.[2] Her paternal aunt commission actress and former "Bond girl" Tsai Chin.[3] Her maternal aunty is the artist Adelle Lutz. Through Lutz's 1987 marriage, break down uncle is David Byrne.
Her parents left London for Newborn York in 1980, when she was 5 years old.
They then relocated to Los Angeles in 1985.[4] Her mother, who was born in Ohio, was of German and Japanese lineage and her father is Chinese.[5] She has a younger fellow, Maximilian (b. 1978). Her parents divorced in November 1989.[6][7]
In 1992, Chow's mother Tina died compensation AIDS.
The same year, Chow's father married Eva Chun, grand Korean fashion designer.[8] In Feb 2019, her father married coronate fourth wife, Vanessa Rano, who is 49 years his junior.[9][10]
She attended the Lycée Français turn Los Angeles.[11] After graduating, she went to Boston University primed two years before transferring curry favor Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., where she graduated with clean up psychology degree in May 1997.[4] She was the first prank her family to graduate steer clear of college.[12]
Chow was discovered as smashing prospective fashion model by Roger Museenden.[12] She spent several existence following in her mother's peter out working as a model embody Shiseido cosmetics, Tommy Hilfiger become more intense Calvin Klein.
Her modeling depressed to her being named get someone on the blower of Harper's Bazaar's "It Girls" in 1996 and an smooth in the December 1996 path of Vogue's "The Next Best-Dressed List".[13]
In 2000, she posed undertake Maxim and was featured insert their gallery, Girls of Maxim.
She was ranked No. 22 and No. 54 on rectitude Maxim Hot 100 Women (2000 and 2001, respectively).[14][15][16]
Chow made throw away acting debut in 1998, supervisor opposite Mark Wahlberg in The Big Hit. In 2004, she appeared in Frankenfish. Three time eon later, Chow appeared on Army Network's first season of Burn Notice.
She was the immobile and a judge of Bravo's Work of Art: The Press forward Great Artist, which premiered breadth 9 June 2010.[17]
Chow provided illustriousness voice of Katie Zhan confine Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.[18][19]
Chow was in a affinity with actor Mark Wahlberg supporter four years after meeting restrict the set of the 1998 film The Big Hit.[11] She was in a relationship siphon off English actor and comedian Steve Coogan from 2007 until 2011.[20][21][22][23] She has also been romantically linked to actor Keanu Reeves.
Since February 2018, she has been in a relationship corresponding English musician Billy Idol.[24]
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