Denise Richards

Profile
Name: Denise Richards
Birth Name: Denise Lee Richards
Height: 5' 8"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: February 17, 1971
Birth Place: Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
Profession: actress, model
Education: El Camino High School in Oceanside, California (graduated in 1989)
Husband/Wife: Charlie Sheen (actor; born on September 3, 1965; began dating in 2001; engaged on Christmas 2001; married on June 15, 2002; filed for divorce in March 2, 2005; the divorce was back on by January 4, 2006)
Relationship: Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi guitarist; born July 11, 1959; dating since May 2006; split in March 2007), Patrick Muldoon (actor; born on September 27, 1968; costarred together in Starship Troopers; began dating in 1998)
Father: Irv Richards (former telephone-company employee)
Mother: Joni Richards
Daughter: Lola Rose (born on June 1, 2005; weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces), Sam Sheen (born on March 9, 2004)
Claim to fame: as Carmen Ibanez in Starship Troopers (1997)

Biography
Denise Lee Richards was born on February 17, 1972 in Downers Grove, Illinois. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She moved to California to attend high school at El Camino High as the clas of 1989. After graduation, she began to pursue her acting career in Los Angeles. She developed a modeling career in high school, appearing from Tokyo to New York. She has put modeling on the side to appear in movies.Denise's acting career is beginning to take off, especially after two successful movies, Starship Troopers, and Wild Things. She has both the acting talent and beauty to be a big time actress, and the only thing holding her up is time. There are two more movies in the wings for Denise, which will both be released in 1999. Dairy Queens looks like it will be very promising, about beauty queens fighting for the title in Missouri.

Starship Troopers was Denise's first major film. The film itself was troubled by an expanding budget, film delays, and a poor release date. While it did well in the box office, the profits were not super. There is talks for a part 2...hopefully Denise will return as Ms. Ibanez if they choose to do it.Exposure to the media has grown for Denise over the last year. She has appeared on almost all the major entertainment shows, including Entertainment Weekly, Access Hollywood, and E!'s news program.She also has guest stared on The Tonight Show and presented most recently at the MTV Music Awards.

Filmography
2007 Blonde and Blonder
2007 Jolene
2005 Sex, Love & Secrets [TV Series]
2005 Edmond
2004 The Life
2004 Elvis Has Left the Building
2003 Scary Movie 3
2003 Love Actually
2002 You Stupid Man
2002 Empire
2002 The Third Wheel
2002 Undercover Brother
2001 Good Advice
2001 Kill Shot
2001 Valentine
2001 Friends: The One With Ross and Monica's Cousin
1999 Tail Lights Fade
1999 Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 The World Is Not Enough
1998 Wild Things
1997 Starship Troopers
1994 Tammy and the T-Rex
1991 Married... With Children: Kelly Does Hollywood, Part 2

Trivia

Richards and rocker Richie Sambora have split after a year-long romance. (May 2007)

Richards and Pamela Anderson are being sued for assault, battery and defamation by two photographers involved in 2006 laptop throwing incident. (March 26, 2007)

Richards and boyfriend Richie Sambora both have a parent battling cancer. (February 23, 2007)

Richards and Charlie Sheen are officially divorced. (December 1, 2006)

Regrets throwing a laptop off a balcony in Canada, calling the incident a big mistake. (November 13, 2006)

Accidentally injured a senior citizen after throwing two photographers' laptops off a hotel balcony in Canada. (November 8, 2006)

Richards and Charlie Sheen decide to call a truce in their nasty divorce battle by spending quality time together for the sake of their children. (October 21, 2006)

Will pose nude for Jane magazine who will be using the photographs for the Clothes Off Our Back charitable foundation. (July 20, 2006)

Is selling her $4.3-million Westlake, Calif. home after a fight with neighbor Heather Locklear. (July 1, 2006)

Richards and Charlie Sheen agreed to extend a temporary restraining order requiring the actor to stay away from his estranged wife. (June 9, 2006)

Richards and Charlie Sheen have agreed to extend the restraining order that requires Sheen to stay away from his wife until July so that a psychologist can assess the marital situation and decide on custody arrangements for the couple's two daughters. (May 15, 2006)

Banned Charlie Sheen's parents from seeing their grandchildren. (May 9, 2006)

Insists she only got together with Richie Sambora after his split with Heather Locklear. (May 4, 2006)

Has filed for a restraining order to keep husband Charlie Sheen away from her, claiming that he has been abusive and threatening. (April 22, 2006)

Has reportedly taken an AIDS test after finding out husband Charlie Sheen cheated on her during their marriage. (February 9, 2006)

Richards and Charlie Sheen are moving forward with divorce plans. (January 5, 2006)

Was voted the Hottest Mom in Hollywood by editors of American magazine In Touch. (2005)

Has fueled reports she has patched up her troubled marriage to Charlie Sheen, by wearing her engagement ring in public. (August 18, 2005)

Richards and Charlie Sheen are reportedly giving their marriage another try after signing up for counseling sessions together with Hollywood psychoanalyst Rina Freedman. (July 30, 2005)

Decided to have her children in such close succession because she wants them to grow together as best friends. (June 23, 2005)

Has put the home she shared with estranged husband Charlie Sheen on the market in a bid to move on with her life as she prepares for a divorce battle from the actor. (April 30, 2005)

Has shocked Hollywood by filing for divorce from her husband Charlie Sheen, while pregnant with the couple's second child. (March 4, 2005)

Is expecting a second child due in June. (December 18, 2004)

Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, who are expecting their first child together early next spring, have decided to buck the Hollywood trend of fancy names, by giving their child an old-fashioned moniker. (September 19, 2003)

Richards is pregnant with her first child. (September 17, 2003)

Married actor Charlie Sheen, 15th of June, 2002, at the home of producer Gary David Goldberg in Los Angeles.

Her favorite actresses are Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Kim Basinger, Michelle Pffeifer.

In an interview, she said touching her hair too much. She says the Fuck a lot too.

Refused to move into Charlie Sheen's home when they haven't got married because he'd entertained too many call-girls there.

Was an ugly child - and all her classmates called her fish lips.

Is terrified by germs - and packs a sick bag every time she leaves her home.

Is furious with perverts who keep posting fake nude pictures of the film star on the Internet.

Was topless during the ménage-à trois sequence in THE WILD THINGS (1998).

Says she is a clean freak. When going anywhere she carries everything from Band-Aids to Lysole.

Was nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress - Action in 2000 for THE WORLD ID NOT ENOUGH and MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in 1999 for WILD THINGS.

Nominated for Best Kiss at MTV Movie Awards for WILD THINGS (1999) - shared with Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell