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Top-billed actresses must hate supermodels walking onto their set and diverting the camera away from them. That's because in just five minutes or less of screentime, these statuesque acting newbies can steal the show without saying a word, no matter how hard that A-list actress worked on memorizing lines.
With the images of Kate Upton's bit part as a sexy sister (the holy kind) floating around the Internet, we almost forgot that Sofia Vergara plays the villain in the The Three Stooges, out today. It's happened before, though. Check out The 10 Hottest Supermodel Cameos In Movies to spark your memory.
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Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer
Movie: Love Actually (2003)
Karma was kinder than ever in the star-studded British rom-com. At the end of the film, Schiffer makes a quick appearance as an angel sent to mend the broken heart of a single father whose wife passed away. OK, so she doesn’t literally play an angel, but the fact that Schiffer is a supermodel is enough justification to equate her to a miraculous, supernatural being.
Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Ambrosio
Movie: Casino Royale (2006)
If you unfortunately sneeze during this part of the movie, you’ll miss her. That’s how long Alessandra Ambrosio’s cameo as “tennis girl” is in the James Bond flick. But apparently, those three seconds of screen time she has are enough for a megafan to stretch it to 11 slow-mo seconds in this YouTube clip and for its commenters below to be outraged at the fact that she wasn’t cast as the main Bond girl.
Agnyess Deyn
Agyness Deyn
Movie: Clash of the Titans (2010)
In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, fertility and sexual love, which makes it all the more appropriate for a supermodel to be portraying her in the film. Agyness Deyn, famous for her androgynous appearance, left nothing to question as she aptly played the statuesque Greek goddess.
Gisele Bundchen
Gisele Bundchen
Movie: Devil Wears Prada (2006)
For a film about a fashion magazine, we hoped there would be more models flooding the set. But what we do get is much more satisfying: the quintessential supermodel Gisele Bundchen rocking a sexy secretary look. Sure, Bundchen isn’t exactly wearing a million-dollar pair of angel wings and lingerie as she walks down the hallway of Runway magazine. But witnessing her toned down sexuality and amplified wit through her banter with Emily Blunt as the two mini she-devils of the office is refreshingly diverting.
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Movie: Cool As Ice (1991)
Picture Footloose remade with a hip hop flair sprinkled with dash of crime-thriller and starring Vanilla Ice on a crotchrocket. That appetizing concoction is Cool As Ice. Perhaps the only quality about the film that can save it from Earwolf’s “How Did This Get Made?” list is supermodel Naomi Campbell as “Singer,” rather as lip-syncer, who sways and croons alongside Ice during his performance scene in the film.
Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni
Movie: Midnight in Paris (2011)
OK, so we’re stretching the meaning of “cameo” for the First Lady of France, but we weren’t the only ones wanting more of her in the whimsical rom-com. Hundreds of other audiences members were rooting for Owen Wilson to pair up with Carla Bruni’s prepossessing museum curator character. She is the archetypal Woody Allen woman: intelligent without being condescending and alluring without having to show any cleavage.
Helena Christensen
Helena Christensen
Movie: Pret-A-Porter (1994)
Typically, an actress' first movie would come with mounds of pressure, but we suspect that wasn't necessarily the case with Helena Christensen's acting debut. That's because Christensen played herself, an irresistibly vivacious model, in Robert Altman's satirical black comedy with the added bonus of being set on Christensen's home turf, within the confines of Paris Fashion Week.
Jessica White
Jessica White
Movie: Big Momma's House 2 (2000)
Being an undercover cop posing as a female nanny in a well-to-do area, such as the Orange County locale where Big Momma’s House 2 takes place, has its advantages: Luxury cars, family beach trips and most of all, spa days with the missus of the house.
Apparently, high class spas are crawling with glamorous twentysomethings who need help undressing for massages, such as Jessica White’s lingerie-clad character, who asks Big Momma to unclasp her bra.
Kate Upton
Kate Upton
Movie: The Three Stooges (2012)
Sacrilegious, blasphemous, profane—the producers of The Three Stooges have probably already been berated with comments about Kate Upton’s sinfully enticing cameo as Sister Bernice, a nun at the orphanage the trio grew up in who apparently enjoys recreational swimming. So, we’ll play Devil’s Advocate and pose the (rhetorical) question, “Would anything else about the film sell tickets?”
Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley
Movie: National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
Brinkley plays one of the most recognizable characters in film history without even having an actual name to her character. As “the Girl in Red Ferrari,” Brinkley serves as the spoke in the tire of the Griswold family vacation who tempts the man of the RV (Chevy Chase) with her tantalizing figure and Ferrari 308 GTS in several moments throughout the roadtrip.