Vanessa Angel (English actress)

Angel, who has said this is her birth name and not a stage name,^[2] was born 10 November 1966^[1] in London, the daughter of Elizabeth and Peter Angel, a stockbroker.^{[citation needed]} She was discovered by a model-management agent in a London cafe as a teenager.^[3] At 16, she was signed by Ford Models and moved to New York City.^[4] During her modelling stint, Angel appeared on the covers of Vogue^[5] and Cosmopolitan.^[6] She was also contracted as the Diet Pepsi Girl.^{[citation needed]}

Angel's first film role was in the 1985 American comedy Spies Like Us, in which she played a soldier in the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces who sleeps with Dan Aykroyd's character; she also appears in the accompanying Paul McCartney video.^[2] In 1990, she appeared in a small role in the film King of New York. Angel continued to appear in films throughout the early 1990s. After a leading guest-spot on TV's The Equalizer, she played the recurring roles of Megan on Baywatch and Detective Peggy Elliott on Reasonable Doubts.^[2] She guest-starred in two episodes of Melrose Place, playing what she described as "this crazy, drugged out, bisexual supermodel who kissed [the character played by] Daphne Zuniga!"^[2]

From 1994 to 1998, she starred in the television series Weird Science as Lisa, the computer-generated genie role originated by Kelly LeBrock in the 1985 film upon which the series is based. In 1995, Angel was cast in the role of Xena, a guest spot on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but due to an illness was unable to take the role, which eventually went to Lucy Lawless.^[7]

During the series run of Weird Science, Angel landed the female lead in the Farrelly brothers film, Kingpin.^[8] She played roles in Kissing a Fool with David Schwimmer, followed by a role in the 1999 film Made Men. In 2004, she appeared in SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, as Scott Baio's wife.^[9] Angel has also had roles in the Sci-Fi Pictures Original telefilm Sabretooth (2002) and The Perfect Score (2004).

In 2000, she guest starred in three episodes of the Sci-Fi Channel's Stargate SG-1, playing Anise, a Tok'ra archaeologist/scientist whose host is named Freya. Her first appearance is in the season-four episode "Upgrades", and she appeared in the two following episodes, "Crossroads" and "Divide and Conquer". In 2005, Angel played herself in the season-two episode of Entourage entitled "I Love You Too". In 2007, she completed the independent film Blind Ambition, and later appeared in the Farrellys' Hall Pass. She played a guest role as Alison in the fifth season of Californication.

Angel started a clothing line in 2009, VANE LA.^{[citation needed]}

On 15 October 2014, Angel appeared on Ken Reid's podcast TV Guidance Counselor.

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