Velásquez, the fifth of six children, was born in Zulia, Venezuela to a Venezuelan Mestizo father and a mother who came from the Wayuu tribe.[1][2] Her father worked for UNESCO and as a result, she spent some of her childhood in Mexico and France. She attended San Vicente de Paul High School, graduating in 1987.[3] After a year of college studies, Velásquez left for Milan, Italy, in pursuit of a modeling career.

[edit] Career

In 1997 she studied acting in Los Angeles and New York.[4] In 1998, she paced down runways in ready-to-wear fashion shows for designers such as Antonio Berardi, Bella Freud, Corinne Cobson, Claude Montana, and Dolce & Gabbana. As for print advertising, Velásquez appeared in ads for Chanel's Allure, Roberto Verino's Verino fragrance, as well as Victoria's Secret. Early in her modeling career, she appeared in several issues of the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. This led to a large number of further modeling engagements, which ultimately culminated in her being ranked #45 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001[5] and #16 in Stuff Magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" poll in 2002. She is one of the highest-paid and most accomplished Hispanic models in history.[citation needed] Now a L'Oréal model, she competed in the 1989 Miss Venezuela pageant representing Peninsula Goajira, placing seventh.

Velásquez appeared in the role of Anck-Su-Namun in the 1999 film The Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns. Her character makes her first entrance in the film in remarkably intricate body paint.

The body of film work Velásquez has been involved in is substantial, especially compared to many other models who try out at acting. A selected filmography is as follows:

Le Jaguar (1996), as Maya

Eruption (1997), as Luisa Soares

Beowulf (1999), as Pendra

No Vacancy (1999), as Ramona

The Mummy (1999), as Anck-Su-Namun

Committed (2000), as Carmen

Façade (2000), as Juanita

San Bernardo (2000), as Claudia

Turn It Up (2000), (cameo appearance)

The Mummy Returns (2001), as Meela Nais/Anck Su Namun

SSX Tricky (2001, video game), as Marisol Diez Delgado

Fidel (2002, miniseries), as Mirta

Mindhunters (2004), as Nicole Willis

Zapata: The Dream of a Hero - El sueño del héroe (2004), as Josefa

The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve (2004, made-for-TV), as Isabel Frias

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What a beautiful woman. Have you seen The Mummy Returns? She's hilarious in that movie, and it's not a comedy!

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What a beautiful woman. Have you seen The Mummy Returns? She's hilarious in that movie, and it's not a comedy!

uuhh i was trying to forget about that flick

btw,nice covergirl ad

More pics

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(oops, now I'm acting like srepac)

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srepac??

wuzzat?

whodat??

That member who never speaks. All he does is post party hat faces and a couple of reposts.

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(no reposts, though)

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That member who never speaks. All he does is post party hat faces and a couple of reposts.

lololol well heres the dreaddfull-rule

if you post pics and im around, you gotta talk to me <_<

Yeah, it is kind of rude not to speak.

beast, in the last 24 hours ive started 2 threads on models named

patricia

both equally beautiful

but one with a latina surname

the latina has had near 100 hits in 30 min, the non latina

250 in 24 hours

whatdafxupwitdat??

Wow.

What a sexy lady!

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yup

captures from 'mummy returns'

actually, there are a couple of good reasons to see that movie

patricia,rachel weisz, and patricia and rachel fighting with hardly nothing on

<_<

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km02.com has great pics of her. You should go there some time.

thanks for the tip--ill check it out

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Nice pics.