Yasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American former actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch and Lee Anne Demerest on the soap opera One Life to Live.
BASEketball, Undercover Angel, A Face to Die For, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding, Heaven or Vegas, Crowned and Dangerous, Ultimate Deception, It Came from the Sky, Road Rage, Hey Babe!, Baywatch the Movie: Forbidden Paradise, Goodbye Casanova, Coming Soon, Maximum Surge, The Lake, The Force, Talk to Me,...
My mother was Catholic, and my father's Jewish, so we always celebrated everything. To me, it was about the food and the celebration of it. [This year] I made Passover dinner on Friday night and Easter dinner on Sunday night. For Passover, I made matzo ball soup from scratch. And, well, I'm a bad, bad Jew, I made challah bread. I know you're not supposed to [since religious law prohibits eating leavened bread during the Passover holiday]. It's more the tradition for me than the religion. For Easter, I made ham--baked, with apricots.
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Every man who's ever fallen in love with me fell hard the minute I cooked a meal for him. It's the way to a man's heart.
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"It was almost like falling in love... It became my boyfriend, my best friend, my family." - on her cocaine addiction (Us Weekly, April 2003)
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Credits Helen Gallagher as her favorite acting mentor/best friend.
Is an avid breast-cancer awareness advocate. She was the 1998 spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day fund-raising campaign, which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education. Through Bleeth's help, the "Wear Jeans to Work" campaign raised millions on just that one day for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Bleeth's mother died of breast cancer at age 47.
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Appeared on Candid Camera (1960) in 1974 when she was only six years old.
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Sentenced to two years probation on a cocaine-possession charge. The sentencing also calls for the actress to undergo regular drug tests, serve 100 hours of community service and pay court costs. [January 9, 2002]
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Her father, Philip Bleeth, was from a Jewish family from Russia and Germany. Her mother, Carina, who was Arab (Algerian) and French descent. They were divorced. Her mother died of breast cancer on November 7, 1989 at age 47.
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Engaged to former bar owner Paul Cerrito [May 2002]
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One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1995.
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As a child, attended United Nations International School in New York.
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