Josie Maran wallpapers & Biography
Johanna Selhorst "Josie" Maran born May 8, 1978 is an American model, actress, and entrepreneur.
Early life
Josie Maran was born on May 8, 1978 in Menlo Park, California. Her father is of Russian Jewish descent and worked in green home construction. Her mother Roberta was an artist, interior decorator, and had chronic fatigue syndrome, which inspired the family to live a more healthy lifestyle. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Maran attended the Castilleja School, an all-girls school located in Palo Alto, California, from 7th to 12th grade.
While she was still in high school, Maran was approached by a woman who asked her to do a modeling demonstration in San Francisco and a scouting agent encouraged her to pursue modeling professionally. An appendectomy in 1990 left Maran with a noticeable scar on her body that is usually removed from photographs.
Signed at age 17 with Los Angeles' Elite Modeling Agency, Maran appeared on her first cover with Glamour magazine in 1998; she was then featured as the Guess? girl in their summer 1998 and fall 1998 campaigns. After building a resume of more than 25 commercials and advertisements, including playing Howie D's partner in the music video for the Backstreet Boys' hit "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", in which she was bitten on the neck by Count Dracula (played by Howie D), Maran moved cross-country to join Elite in New York City. In 1999, she signed a multi-year deal with Maybelline. Maran appeared in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for three consecutive years: from 2000 to 2002.
Maran's interest in music led her to play casually in two bands: Darling, with Nicole Richie, and Hollywood 2000, where she sang vocals and played violin.
In 2001, Maran appeared in an independent film, The Mallory Effect as the title character Mallory. Maran then starred as Susan in Sweaters in 2002. In 2004, she appeared in three films: as a French model in Little Black Book, as Marishka, one of Dracula's brides, in Van Helsing, and briefly as the Cigarette Girl in The Aviator. Maran appeared in a short film "The Confession" with Wentworth Miller in 2005, and as Kira Hayden in The Gravedancers in 2006.
Maran appeared in the street-racing video game Need for Speed: Most Wanted, released in November 2005. She played Mia Townsend, who guides the player character through the game.
Maran competed in the 2007 season of Dancing with the Stars, but she and dance partner Alec Mazo were the first couple to be eliminated.
Personal life
Maran and her former partner, Iranian-American photographer Ali Alborzi, have two daughters, June (born 2006), and Indie June (born 2012). Maran married David Belle on August 26, 2018.
0 Comments