Shelley Michelle
Known forBody double to Hollywood star actresses
Notable workPretty Woman

Shelley Michelle is an American fitness model, actress and has been called "the most famous body double in Hollywood".[1]

Work

She claimed she started as a body double with an introductory scene in the 1988 comedy My Stepmother Is an Alien, substituting for Kim Basinger's character's arms and legs, which Basinger has denied.[2]

She provided the body where the face of lead actress Julia Roberts was superimposed for the poster for the 1990 film Pretty Woman, where she also substituted Roberts in scenes that she considered too risqué.[1][2][3]

In 1990, she also doubled for Catherine Oxenberg in Overexposed.[2] Oxenberg is part of the Yugoslavian royal family and would not accept nudes in film.

She also had a small acting role in 1992 film The Naked Truth.[2]

In 2006, she was running her own agency Body Doubles and Parts Inc.[4]

Was on an episode of "Who Wants to Date a Comedian" (Joey Medina) in 2011 where she didn't get chosen.

References

  1. 1 2 "Emilia Clarke suffered in vain: here are 13 famous nude scenes that were actually performed by body doubles". The Telegraph. 11 April 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Panek, Richard (19 January 1992). "Some Films Need A Hand, a Hip . . ". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  3. ↑ O'Sullivan, Jane (2008). "Virtual Metamorphoses: Cosmetic and Cybernetic Revisions of Pygmalion's "Living Doll"". Arethusa. 41 (1): 143. doi:10.1353/are.2008.0006. ISSN 1080-6504. Retrieved 30 March 2021. The producers give us the facial spectacle and star persona of Roberts and the "spectacular" body of the effaced body-double, Shelley Michelle.
  4. ↑ "Confessions of a Body Double". TMZ. 2006-01-31. Retrieved 30 March 2021.


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