Veruschka von Lehndorff Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Her father was a Prussian count (Count von Lehndorff-Steinort) who was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944 and hanged that year, when Vera was three. Her mother was arrested, and Vera and her sisters spent the rest of the war in Gestapo camps. They were reunited with their mother after the war, but the family was destitute, and ...
After returning to New York after changing her name to Veruschka: "I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.' "
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Fact
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Lives the life of an artist in a rundown area of Brooklyn, with her lover Micha Waschke, a musician who doubles as her assistant. [February 2003]
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A Bert Stern picture of the model and her frequent 1960s photographer, David Bailey, was used as the jacket cover for author Michael Gross' acclaimed 1995 hardback: "Model - The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women.".
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Was ranked #23 in Channel 5's "World's greatest supermodel".
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Vegetarian
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A picture of her (under the name Verushka) was used by British pop group Suede as the cover for their single "The Drowners" (1992). She's nude, sitting on a chair and body-painted like a man wearing a suit.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Casino Royale
2006
Gräfin von Wallenstein (as Veruschka)
L'orchestre rouge
1989
Anna Maximovitch
Vom Zusehen beim Sterben
1985
Short
The Bride
1985
Countess (as Veruschka)
Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse
1984
Dorian Gray
Milo-Milo
1979
Barbara
Couleur chair
1978
Anna
Cattivi pensieri
1976
Mario Marani's Lover (as Veruschka)
Salomè
1972
Myrrhina (as Veruschka)
Veruschka - poesia di una donna
1971
Vera the model (as Veruschka)
Blow-Up
1966
Verushka
Salvador Dali at Work
1964
Short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Veruschka - Die Inszenierung (m)eines Körpers
2005
Documentary idea
Veruschka - poesia di una donna
1971
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Gottschalk Live
2012
TV Series
Herself
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2011
Documentary
Herself
Nachtstudio
2009
TV Series
Herself
Die Flucht der Frauen
2007
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Prater
2007
Documentary
Barbarella
Veruschka - Die Inszenierung (m)eines Körpers
2005
Documentary
Herself
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
2002
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Sinaï Desert
1981
Documentary short
Prophet
Kein Kommentar
1976
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Dick Cavett Show
1972
TV Series
Herself
Veruschka Gräfin Lehndorff
1971
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Rom aktuell
1970
TV Series documentary
Herself
Veruschka
1969
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1968
TV Series
Herself - Guest
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
20 to 1
2009-2011
TV Series documentary
Herself
Known for movies
Casino Royale (2006) as Gräfin von Wallenstein
Blow-Up (1966) as Verushka
Veruschka - poesia di una donna (1971) as Vera the model
$850,000
