Anouska Hempel
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Anouska Hempel Lady Weinberg |
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| Born |
Anne Geissler 13 December 1941 At sea |
| Residence | Cole Park, Wiltshire Holland Park, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Other names | Anoushka Hempel |
| Citizenship | British |
| Education | Sutherland High School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Hotelier and designer Former actress |
| Years active | 1963 to present |
| Known for | Designer of Blakes Hotel and Hempel Hotel |
| Style | Modern Minimalism |
| Home town | Lower Hutt |
| Spouse(s) | Constantine Hempel (widowed) Bill Kenwright (m. 1978–80) (divorced) Sir Mark Weinberg (m. 1980) |
| Children | 1 son and a daughter |
Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg (born 13 December 1941 as Anne Geissler; sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel) is a New Zealand film and television actress turned hotelier and interior designer. She is a noted figure in London society.
Hempel is of Russian and Swiss German ancestry and claims to have been born on a boat en route from Papua New Guinea to New Zealand. Her father emigrated to New Zealand and became a sheep farmer. Her family later moved to Cronulla, south of Sydney in Australia, where he owned a garage. As a teenager in the mid-1950s, Hempel attended Sutherland High School. In 1962 she moved to England carrying only £10.
Two years later, she married Constantine Hempel, with whom she had a son and daughter. He was a journalist and property developer who died in a mysterious car accident in Knightsbridge. Hempel and her second husband, theatrical producer Bill Kenwright, divorced after two years of marriage in 1980. Later that year, Hempel married financier Sir Mark Weinberg, with whom she has a son, Jonathan. She appears in a photographic portrait by Bryan Wharton on display in the National Portrait Gallery.
Hempel's first film appearance was in the Hammer Horror film The Kiss of the Vampire (1963). In 1969, she appeared in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service as one of the "angels of death". Thereafter she appeared in several films including Scars of Dracula (1970), The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), Go for a Take (1972), Tiffany Jones (1973), Russ Meyer's controversial, soft pornographic film Black Snake (1973),Double Exposure (1977), and Lady Oscar (1979). In the 1970s, Hempel also auditioned for the part of Jo Grant in Doctor Who and appeared in the science-fiction TV series' UFO and Space 1999.
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