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Sophie Dahl

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Sophie Dahl
Born	Sophie Holloway 15 September 1977 (1977-09-15) (age 33) London, England
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Eye colour	Blue
Hair colour	Blonde

Sophie Dahl (born 15 September 1977), born Sophie Holloway, is an English author, cookbook writer and former model. She was born in London, the daughter of actor Julian Holloway and writer Tessa Dahl. Her maternal grandparents were author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Her paternal grandfather was actor Stanley Holloway. She was the inspiration for Sophie, the main character in her maternal grandfather's book The BFG.

Contents 1 Discovery and modelling career 2 Writing 3 Television 4 Personal life 5 External links

 Discovery and modelling career

Dahl attended Bedales School, and was discovered by Isabella Blow, a Vogue stylist. Blow referred Dahl to Sarah Doukas of the Storm Model Agency in London. Dahl was featured prominently in many large-circulation magazines, including Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire and the British, Italian and American versions of Vogue. Dahl worked with many iconic photographers, amongst them Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Peter Lindbergh, Bruce Weber and Steven Meisel. She appeared in a host of high fashion editorials for magazines such as Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Visionaire, and W, and was featured a number of times on the covers of British and Italian Vogue. In 2000 Dahl achieved a degree of notoriety when Tom Ford and Steven Meisel cast her in an advertisement for the Yves Saint-Laurent perfume brand Opium. The ad featured a photograph of her posing nude on black satin. It was removed from UK billboards after complaints were made to the Advertising Standards Authority.
Dahl also appeared in campaigns for Versace, Alexander McQueen, Patrick Cox, Pringle, Godiva, Banana Republic, and The Gap, amongst others.

Writing

For three years Dahl was a contributing editor at Men's Vogue, prior to its closure in 2008. She is currently a regular columnist for British Vogue (winning a Jasmine Award for her column) and Waitrose Kitchen and has contributed to, amongst others, The Saturday Times Magazine, The Daily Telegraph and American edition of Vogue.
In 2003 Dahl published her first book, an illustrated novella and Times bestseller, The Man with the Dancing Eyes. After this she began writing regularly for publications such as American Vogue, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Observer and the Saturday Times. From 2005 Dahl was a contributing editor and regular columnist at Men's Vogue, prior to its closure in 2008. Dahl is the author of three books: The Man With the Dancing Eyes (2003), Playing with the Grown-Ups (2008) and a cook book, Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights (2009). She was a contributor to an anthology, Truth or Dare'' edited by Justine Picardie, which included works by Zoë Heller and William Fiennes. She also provides introductions to the Puffin Classic new edition of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Virago Press re-issue of Stella Gibbons' 1938 novel Nightingale Wood, which was released in April 2009.
Dahl is currently working on her fourth book, a cook book which will be published by Harper Collins in 2011.

 Television

In March and April 2010, her six-part cookery series entitled The Delicious Miss Dahl aired on BBC 2. Dahl wrote and presented the series.

 Personal life

Dahl married singer and pianist Jamie Cullum in a secret ceremony in the New Forest, Hampshire on 9 January 2010. On 11 September 2010 the couple confirmed that Dahl was 4 months pregnant.
Dahl is a patron of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and supports the charities The Place2be, First Story, GOSH, NSPCC, RSPCA & Break Through Breast Cancer.
She is distantly related to Oliver Percy Bernard, an English architect and scenic designer. This is because her paternal grandfather Stanley Holloway and Bernard were cousins.Oliver's father Charles Bernard (1830–1894), was a notable Shakespearian actor and theatre manager in the mid-19th century and was a brother to her paternal great-great-grandmother.

  External links

• Sophie Dahl's Website
• Sophie Dahl at Fashion Model Directory
• Vincent Graff meets Sophie Dahl (The Guardian)
• Interview with Kate Lauer (The London Paper)
• Jenny Tucker reviews Voluptuous Delights (so Feminine)
• Announcement of BBC cookery series (The Telegraph)
• Announcement of 'Miss Dahl’s Guide to All Things Lovely' (The Bookseller)
• I'm a bit of a dork: Kira Cochrane talks to Sophie Dahl (The Guardian)



Sophie Dahl

 Last Night on Earth - U2
For 2 days in May 1997, traffic in Kansas City was tied up while U2 was shooting the video. Author William Burroughs and model Sophie Dahl appeared in it.

Last Night On Earth

U2

She feel the ground is giving way
But she thinks we're better off that way.
"The more you take, the less you feel
The less you know the more you believe
The more you have, the more it takes today".
You gotta give it away
You gotta give it away
You gotta give it away
Give it away
You gotta give it away
You gotta give it away
Well she don't care what it's worth
She's living like it's the last night on earth
The last night on earth.
She's not waiting on a saviour to come
She's at the bus stop
With the News Of The World
And the sun, sun, here it comes.
She's not waiting for anyone.
You gotta give it away
You gotta give it away
You gotta give it away
Give it away.
You gotta give it away
You gotta give it away
Well she don't care what it's worth
She's living like it's the last night on earth
The last night on earth.
Slipping away, slip, slide
Too many slipping away.
The world turns and we get dizzy
Slipping away.
She's living
She's living next week now.
You know she's gonna pay you back somehow.
She hasn't been to bed in a week
She'll be dead soon, then she'll sleep.
You gotta give it away
You gotta give it away
Give it away
You gotta give it away
You gotta give it away
She already knows it hurts
She's living like it the last night on earth
The last night on earth
Last night on earth
Last night.