Denise
Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and
former fashion model. She became famous in the late 1990s, after a
string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including
Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough.
Richards was cast as the nuclear scientist Christmas Jones in the
1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999), which had a
high box office gross. In addition to her film work, Richards made
regular appearances in the situation comedies Spin City, Two and a
Half Men, Friends and Seinfeld. She also starred in the
short-lived UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets in 2005. Throughout
the early 2000s, Richards appeared in several film roles which
both parodied and utilized her image as a sex symbol, including
Valentine, Undercover Brother, Scary Movie 3 and Love Actually. In
December 2004, she posed for a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine.
Richards also posed semi-nude for the July 2006 issue of Jane
magazine to raise money for the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation.
In 1999 she ranked 9 in Maxim's 50 Sexiest Women and in 2001 she
was voted 2nd in FHM's USA 100 Sexiest Women, 5th in FHM 100
Sexiest Women and 19 in 50 Most Beautiful Women. On January 25,
2008, Denise Richards won a court case against Charlie
Sheen so that she can include her kids in her own upcoming
reality television show ... more
