Yasmine
Bleeth
Voted
one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful of 1995, Yasmine
Bleeth began her career at the early age of 6 months,
when she was featured as the Johnson & Johnson Baby. At age
six, she appeared in a Max Factor campaign, along with Christina
Ferrare. Her work in this campaign caught the eye of fashion photographer,
Francesco Scavullo, who subsequently included her in his self-entitled
book Scavullo's Women. At the age of 12, Yasmine Bleeth
was cast opposite Buddy Hacket in the feature film Hey Babe. Bi-lingual
Yasmine Bleeth attended United Nations International
School (UNIS) in New York City, where she continued modeling and
acting. Yasmine Bleeth, then 16, won the role of
Ryan Fenelli and the hearts of millions on the ABC soap opera Ryan's
Hope. In 1991, staying in the ABC family, she created the role as
the sultry, misunderstood Lee Anne Demerest on the highly acclaimed
soap opera One Life To Live. Her feature films include the upcoming
sci-fi thriller, The Force, (Image Productions) directed by Pierre
David, whose directorial credits include the successful Internal
Affairs. The Force casts Bleeth opposite Jason Gedrick. In her next
role, Bleeth appears in Ghosts May Kiss (Cafe Productions) with
Flea, bassist for alternative rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
This romantic fairy tale examines the tragedy of lost love. Yasmine
Bleeth plays Lavinia, lover of the ghost Casanova, who
is stuck in a child's pop-up book from the 17th century. Ghosts
May Kiss is the result of a collaboration between 1993 Venice Film
Festival winner, director Mauro Borrelli and producer Jeff Kirshbaum.
Yasmine Bleeth recently shot the follow-up video
to the The Rembrandt's number one single, I'll Be There For You,
entitled This House is not a Home due out for release in September,
in which she plays the part of a Playboy bunny. In November, she
will begin production on The Face, a Movie of the Week for NBC.
Yasmine Bleeth also completed a full-motion live
action entertainment CD-ROM entitled, Maximum Surge (Digital Pictures)
directed by award-winning special effects wizard, William Mesa (Oscar
nominated for the box office blockbuster, The Fugitive). Yasmine
Bleeth plays Jo, an ace computer engineer who is responsible
for providing game players with guidance and technical know-how
to help defeat the evil dictator, Drexel. Maximum Surge will be
released this fall for PC, Mac and Sega Saturn.
Yasmine Bleeth made her stage debut in the off-Broadway
production of the one act plays Welcome to My Life and Looking for
It. A native New Yorker, Yasmine Bleeth moved to
the West Coast for the first time when she joined the Baywatch cast.
"It's been great," professes Yasmine Bleeth.
"L.A's been beautiful. I have to admit I had an East Coast
snobbism about me. I thought, 'Oh L.A. is going to be so rural.'
But I actually really enjoy it just as much as I enjoy New York."
But how did she settle in in this new environment? "I was very
lucky to have had good friends out here who had migrated from the
east a few years ago, so that made the transition easier,"
adds Yasmine Bleeth. She does, however, admit that
going from a high-rise apartment building to a house takes some
getting used to. "I'm so used to having a doorman and going
up in an elevator. Houses scare me... I'm constantly checking the
windows of the house we live in," she chuckles. The other half
of that "we" is actor-producer Ricky Paull Goldin, Yasmine's
fiancée. The couple met while co-starring in the play Welcome
to My Life and have been together for over three years. Goldin,
whose acting credits include the daytime serial Another World, recently
finished a year-long stint in the Broadway musical Grease where
he played Danny Zucco, the role John Travolta made famous in the
movie version. Her beauty didn't always lead to popularity: "When
I was little, I used to have to force the boys to kiss me. I had
to get my toughest friends to hold them down." And in high
school, she adds, "girls were always threatening to beat me
up because they thought I flipped my hair too much." Now 26
and Baywatch's newest lifeguard, she brings a flirty vulnerability
to the show. "She's no beach bunny," sums up costar Jaason
Simmons. "She's exotic and classy. Her eyes are outstanding
- a brilliant pale blue. They're filled with energy and mischief."
In the past those eyes hypnotized boyfriends Luke Perry and Grant
Show, but Yasmine Bleeth finally met her match
in Ricky they became engaged in January. "He says he can spend
the rest of his life looking at this face," Yasmine
Bleeth says with a sigh. Most people wouldn't turn away
from her 5'5", 117-lb. hourglass figure either, but Bleeth
would rather be 5'11". "Tall, skinny women can get breast
implants, and they become perfect," she says teasingly. "But
women who are small and curvy can't get leg extensions. That isn't
fair."
