Naomi Campbell

Campbell co-authored the best-selling novel Swan and followed it up with a photo book titled Naomi. She has since become a successful concert performer, creating critically-acclaimed solo shows such as Mostly Sondheim and Barbara Cook's Broadway.. She is also a successful singer; her album Baby Woman sold over 1 million copies worldwide (mostly in Japan), and she was featured on Vanilla Ice's single "Cool as Ice." She had previously appeared in George Michael's music video, Freedom '90, though she merely lip-synched to his song along with other models rather than performing herself. Cook's last original musical role came in 1971 when she played Dolly Talbo in The Grass Harp. However, she did not abandon the stage. She is reputed to have a quick temper. During the 1960s, Cook also created roles in some less successful musicals: Liesl Brandel in 1961's The Gay Life and Carol Deems in 1964's Something More! She also tried her hand at non-musical roles, replacing Sandy Dennis in the play Any Wednesday and originating the role of Patsy Newquist in Jules Feiffer's Little Murders.. She also posed nude for Playboy magazine and for a series of lesbian-erotic photos with Madonna in her book Sex. Her two most famous roles after this were Marian the Librarian in Meredith Willson's 1957 hit The Music Man, and Amalia Balash in Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1962 show She Loves Me. The song "Ice Cream," from that musical, later became one of Cook's signature songs.

She has been a prominent fashion model on the runway and in print advertising since the late 1980s. Although Candide was not a success, Cook's portrayal of Cunegonde established her as one of Broadway's leading ingenues. Born in Streatham, South London, Campbell studied at the London Academy For Performing Arts. In this show, she had to sing one of the most difficult pieces of music ever written for Broadway: the coloratura mock-aria "Glitter and Be Gay.". Naomi Campbell (born May 22, 1970) is an English supermodel and actress. Cook's good reviews and clear soprano voice enabled her to win the role of Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's new musical, Candide in 1956. In 1955, she began to attract major critical praise when she played the supporting role of Hilda Miller in Plain and Fancy, a modest hit.

Cook made her Broadway debut in 1951 as Sandy in the short-lived musical Flahooley. She next took roles in revivals of two Rodgers and Hammerstein hits: Ado Annie in Oklahoma! and Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel. October 25, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American singer and actress, famed for creating roles in the musicals Candide and The Music Man, among others. Barbara Cook (b.