Michèle, Lady Renouf | |
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Born |
Michèle Suzanne Mainwaring 1946 (age 70–71) Australia |
Residence | London, England |
Education | Newcastle Technical College, National Art School, Royal Academy of Dancing, English Gardening School |
Occupation | Advertising actress and documentary film producer |
Website | birobidjan |
Michèle Suzanne Renouf, Lady Renouf (née Mainwaring; born 1946) is an Australian-born British advertising model, and a television commercials actress. An article in The Telegraph in February 2009 described her as a "one-time actress" and "former model and beauty queen" who since the late 1990s "has attended and spoken at Holocaust 'revisionist' conferences and written papers on the subject".
She is known for her defence of Holocaust deniers such as David Irving, Robert Faurisson, Bishop Richard Williamson,Germar Rudolf, Ernst Zündel, and Fredrick Töben in broadcasts and her Telling Films documentaries. She has been frequently characterised in mainstream sources as a Holocaust denier. Renouf has also described Judaism as a "repugnant and hateful religion."
Born Michèle Suzanne Mainwaring, in childhood she became a ballet dancer and Member of the Royal Academy of Dancing; and a model, appearing in magazine advertisements and international television commercials. In her teens she became a beauty queen, winning several titles including Miss Newcastle & Hunter Valley 1968. She was active from childhood in charity fundraising, including with Radio 2HD, and latterly as Miss Radio 2HD Beach Girl.
In 1968 she graduated with a Diploma in Art (Education) after four years training at what became Newcastle Technical College, then affiliated to the National Art School and now part of the Hunter Institute. During 1991-92, Renouf gained a diploma in Landscape Design at the English Gardening School. From 1999 to 2001, she studied for a post-graduate degree in the Psychology of Religion at the Heythrop College, University of London.