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Vanity
Singer + Songwriter + Model + Actress
Female
Born
Jan 4, 1959
Age
54
Hometown
Canada
Other Names
Matthews, Denise ...
Denise Katrina Matthews, better known as Vanity and sometimes credited as Denise Matthews-Smith and D.D. Winters, is a Canadian-born former singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and model. Vanity's career lasted from the 1980s until the early mid-90s.… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1959
Birth
Born on January 4, 1959.
TEENAGE
1977
18 Years Old
Vanity began entering local beauty pageants before moving to Toronto, where she modeled. She won the Miss Niagara Hospitality title in 1977, and went on to compete for Miss Canada in 1978.
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TWENTIES
1980
21 Years Old
In 1980, Matthews had a small role in the horror movie Terror Train, which was filmed in Montreal a year earlier.
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Additionally, she was the cover model for the funk/R&B band Cameo's 1982 album Alligator Woman, as well as their 1984 album She's Strange.
1984
25 Years Old
Vanity signed a record deal with Motown Records in 1984 and recorded two solo albums, Wild Animal and Skin On Skin.
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Her biggest hit was "Under the Influence" from her 1986 album Skin On Skin.
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1987
28 Years Old
Besides Prince, Vanity was linked romantically to Adam Ant and Billy Idol. In 1987, she stated that she and Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx were engaged (although Sixx denied this claim).
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1988
29 Years Old
She went on to appear in 52 Pick-Up and 1988's Action Jackson, her highest profile role, in which she starred opposite Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, and Sharon Stone.
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THIRTIES
1990
31 Years Old
She played a villain who tortured Nancy Allen's character in the 1990 TV movie Memories of Murder, guest-starred in an episode of Miami Vices third season, and in 1992 appeared in an episode of Highlander: The Series She also appeared in Friday the 13th: The Series in the episode entitled "Mesmer's Bauble".
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1994
35 Years Old
Vanity gave up her stage name and became a born-again Christian in 1994, the year she almost died from the effects of smoking crack cocaine.
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In 1995, Vanity married football player Anthony Smith, of the Oakland Raiders. They divorced in 1996.
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1997
38 Years Old
After a kidney transplant in 1997, she decided to devote her life to evangelism.
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FIFTIES
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