Naomi Campbell was born on May 22, 1970, in Streatham, London.

At the tender age of 15, Campbell was officially signed with a modeling agency, and would soon gain fame as the first black woman to appear on the covers of French and British Vogue, as well as Time magazines.

Naomi Campbell rose to fame in tandem with the supermodel phenomenon of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Her enduring career as a model and background in performance would lead her to the Hollywood scene, where she gained credits alongside numerous big names in film. Her film debut came in 1991, when she appeared as a singer in Cool As Ice. /p>

Naomi Campbell is making a name for herself in the world of film and television. She appeared in Spike Lee's "Girl 6" costarring Madonna and Theresa Randle and will be seen in the upcoming "An Alan Smithee Film" starring Sylvester Stallone, Whoppi Goldberg and Jackie Chan. Other film credits include "Miami Rhapsody" opposite Antonio Banderas, Sarah Jessica Parker and Mia Farrow and Tony Hickox's "Invasion of Privacy."

She co-authored a novel, "Swan" and followed up with the photo book titled "Naomi".

She has had publicised romances with Robert De Niro and Joaquin Cortés,

Naomi Campbell is also active in many other initiatives supporting underprivileged children. She recently joined the Dalai Lama in fund raising efforts through UNESCO to build kindergartens for poor communities worldwide, the first to built in her name in her spiritual home of Jamaica.