Cindy Crawford Biography

QUICK FACTS
Activity Actress
Real name Cynthia Ann Crawford
Nationality USA
Born February 20, 1966 (DeKalb, Illinois)

BIOGRAPHY
Cindy Crawford earned an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University, which she only attended for one semester before dropping out to dedicate herself full-time to her modeling career. After working for photographer Victor Skrebneski in Chicago, she moved to New York in 1986 and obtained a contract with the Elite New York modeling agency. In the 1980s and 1990s she was one of the most popular supermodels and a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers and catwalks, as well as in fashion campaigns. In 1995, she broke into cinema as the female lead in the film Attraction Explosive . Crawford gave up full-time modeling in 2000 and now only occasionally appears in fashion magazines. Crawford will appear in a four-part AppleTV+ docuseries titled The Super Models , which also features Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista.