Denise Richards

Denise Richards
Richards at the 2011 Heart Truth fashion show
Born	Denise Lee Richards (1971-02-17) February 17, 1971 (age 45) Downers Grove, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1989–present
Spouse(s)	Charlie Sheen (m. 2002; div. 2006)
Children	3

Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and a former fashion model. She has appeared in numerous films, including Starship Troopers (1997), Wild Things (1998), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), The World Is Not Enough (1999) as a Bond girl, and in Valentine (2001). She played Monica and Ross Geller's cousin on Friends (2001). From 2008 to 2009, she starred on the E! reality show Denise Richards: It's Complicated. Between 2010 and 2011, she was a series regular on the comedy Blue Mountain State.

Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois to Joni, who owned a coffee shop, and Irv Richards, a telephone engineer. Her ancestry includes German, Welsh and French-Canadian. She has a younger sister, Michelle. Richards grew up in both Mokena and Downers Grove. When Richards was 15 years old, she and her family moved to Oceanside, California where in 1989 she graduated from El Camino High School. As a child, she was the "only girl on the baseball team." Richards was raised Roman Catholic. After her high school graduation, she began working as a model and traveled to big cities such as Paris, New York, and Tokyo to do photo shoots and commercials.