Tawny Kitaen
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Tawny Kitaen (born Julie Kitaen August 5, 1961) is an American actress.

Julie Kitaen was born in San Diego, California to Jewish American father Terry Kitaen, an employee of a neon sign company, and Linda Taylor, a former beauty pageant queen. Julie began using the name “Tawny” at the age of 14.

Career
She began her acting career in 1983 with a minor role in a television movie, Malibu. In 1984, she starred as the title character of the nudity-laden erotic-adventure film the Perils of Gwendoline (a.k.a. Gwendoline), and also co-starred in Bachelor Party as the bride-to-be of a young Tom Hanks.

Kitaen soon became associated with the hair metal scene. Decked in black leather, she appeared on the cover of Ratt’s breakthrough album, Out of the Cellar. In 1987, she appeared in the Whitesnake music videos “Here I Go Again”, in which she famously did the splits and rolled around on the hood of a Jaguar in little more than a sheer white negligee, and the follow-up video “Is This Love.” Kitaen married the band’s lead singer David Coverdale in 1989, and the two divorced in 1991.

Riding the attention from her music video appearances, Kitaen took on a number of television roles. She was co-host of America’s Funniest People with Dave Coulier from 1990 to 1992, and a regular cast member on The New WKRP in Cincinnati from 1991 to 1993. She also guest starred in an episode of Seinfeld in 1991, and on Married… with Children in 1994. She also had a recurring role as Deianira in three of the Kevin Sorbo Hercules television movies in 1994, and in the regular television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. From 1992 until 1996, she provided the voice of “Annabelle” on the animated television show Eek! The Cat.

Tawny Kitaen in the Whitesnake music video “Here I Go Again”After her marriage to Coverdale ended, Kitaen was romantically linked to Tommy Lee, O.J. Simpson, Jerry Seinfeld, and Jon Stewart. She subsequently married baseball pitcher Chuck Finley in 1997. She and Finley had two daughters together—Wynter in 1993 and Raine in 1996—and appeared in a feature on professional athletes and their wives in the 1999 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

She is scheduled to be on the cast of the sixth edition of The Surreal Life, a reality television show on VH1. The show will begin airing in March 2006.

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