Carly Foulkes
| Carly Foulkes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 4, 1988 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Model, television commercial actress |
| Modeling information | |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Hair color | Brown |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Manager | Modelwerk, Sutherland Models |
Carly Foulkes (born August 4, 1988), also known colloquially as The T-Mobile Girl, is a Canadian model and actress who became known for appearing in a series of T-Mobile myTouch 4G television commercials, in which she often wore pink/magenta-and-white summer dresses. She continued as spokeswoman in other T-Mobile ads in which she was depicted as a pink-and-black leather-clad biker girl. She served as the T-Mobile spokesman primarily from fall 2010 until spring 2013, with occasional appearances since then.
Foulkes began modeling in the Toronto area at age 13. After high school, she moved to New York City to model for agents. Subsequently, she found modeling work in Singapore and Europe. After returning to New York to model, she began to pursue acting. She appeared on the April 2009 cover of Mexican Elle magazine and in advertisements for Rugby Ralph Lauren,Abercrombie & Fitch, Macy's, and Tommy Hilfiger. She is represented by Modelwerk and Sutherland Models. A Los Angeles Times writer described her look as Anne Hathaway meets Kim Basinger and noted that, as of early 2011, she was still often confused with fellow Canadian Jessica Paré.
After struggling for several years as an aspiring model/actress, Foulkes became the T-Mobile 4G spokesperson in fall 2010 despite not using the American English pronunciation of "mobile" in her summer 2009 audition, but rather pronouncing the word as rhyming with "smile", an accepted Canadian English pronunciation. Her advertising campaign was at first noted for similarities to the 2006–2010 Justin Long/John Hodgman "Get a Mac" ads. Foulkes derides the iPhone 4 and its exclusive provider at the time, AT&T, the same way the Apple Inc. derided Windows-based personal computers. As a T-Mobile spokesperson, her most immediate predecessor was Catherine Zeta-Jones. Her T-Mobile USA ads ran on major United States networks and multiple websites. Although she was originally only expected to perform in two or three commercials, as of December 2011[update] she has produced a dozen commercials with more anticipated.
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