It seems that Annie Lee is relatively new in the film industry, she recently had her ‘Hollywood’ debut in a movie called Close Call (USA, 2004). The IMDB.com rating is very low (4.4 with only 33 votes!), and after I watched the trailer at the official movie site, I don’t think this is far from the truth… But I do think Annie Lee looks great! Unfortunately for her the movie wasn’t a commercial succes judging by these figures.Annie Lee on the web
Annie Lee @ IMDB.com
Close Call official movie site
Annie Lee @ Yolk.com
Annie Lee Google Image search
Interview with Annie Lee
Photo’s of a promo gig
Close Call movie premiere photo’s
I do not understand why they used this photo for the movie poster! She looks a bit cross-eyed there, while on other photo’s I found she looks so nice.
Full bio from the Close Call movie site
Annie Lee was born in 1977 and raised in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Ever since she was young she knew she wanted to be an entertainer. Her first acting class was at the age of 9 at UCLA’s Young Performer’s Workshop. During high school she became interested in pursuing the medical field, but fate let her back to entertainment and she was scouted to do some modeling, print work, runway, commercials, theater, and music videos. When college came around she found her love for performing again and eventually trained with renowned acting coaches in Hollywood such as David Kagen (Meisner technique), Catlin Adams (Strasberg Method), Doug Warhit, Michele Shay, Gary Davis, and Ric De Angelo.
She now holds a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Soon after graduation she worked for First Look Pictures to learn more about the distribution aspect of films. Annie then tackled producing by working side by side on production and development with Hollywood’s A-list producer, Doug Claybourne, (The Fast and the Furious, Apocalypse Now), which gave her more skills & momentum to reach her dream.
In a short film, “Mindbenders,” directed by Atif A. Mirza, she conducted her own martial arts stunts where she underwent extensive training and even pulled a ligament! She also loves children, which led her to be an acting coach at the LA Performing Arts Center for children. With her desire to give to her community she also volunteered at the Korean Youth Community Center in LA with the Teen Theatre department.
As a filmmaker, she produced a short film titled “Tomato & Eggs” directed by Shawn Chou starring Lisa Lu (The Joy Luck Club), Michelle Krusiec (HBO’s Mind of a Married Man), Keiko Agena (WB’s Gilmore Girls), and Sab Shimono (The Big Hit), which won the Audience Award for Best Asian-American Short Film at the Big Bear Film Festival.
Currently she is acting, producing and keeping busy with involvement in many independent projects. She is a member of the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble and continues to study the craft of acting & filmmaking.
With a strong passion for films, she is aspiring to be a producer and director.
Ms. Lee makes her feature film acting debut in Close Call.
Close Call is a coming of age awakening heartfelt story about a teenage girl trapped in a downward spiral of promiscuous sex, drugs, alcohol use, and criminality. Brutally honest in its depiction of the damage wrought by the breakdown of the family in contemporary America, Close Call adds another theme to the story: The ever-widening gap between first generation parents and American youth.
The House of Glam (you can read their vague blabla mission statement here), seems to be a website devoted to promoting party’s at A-List clubs in Hollywood. They mention something about an A-list and how in their philosophy the A stands for Asian American. Well, a lot of Asian girls attend these party’s judging by the photo’s, so whatever. If you are in the City of Angels, be sure to check out their calendar 😉
Full blooded Filipina Christine Mendoza is another popular Southern California import model with a huge fan base. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Christine a number of times and she is as sweet and nice as they come. And yes it’s true, she is known for her large breasts that she loves to show off! But, being a non-nude model, you will never see her fully topless. Short of that though, Christine is a master at finding some very tiny tops to show as much as possible. 🙂
I don’t want to just focus on her breasts though. Christine is a gorgeous young woman with a pretty face and an over-all sexy look. She had a website for a while that seems to have disappeared. For now, you can still keep up to date with Christine on her MySpace page.
Some of you reading this may be wondering why many Filipinos have Spanish sounding last names. Spain (and other countries) occupied the Philippines for many years and the cultures mixed. The various degrees of mixing has produced some beautiful Filipina women with many different looks. Most Filipinos tend to be dark skinned, but you can also find many fair skinned as well. And it’s the same with facial features. Some Filipinos look very Chinese while others have more western blood and thus European features.
Getting back to Christine Mendoza, here are some more links to savor her beauty. By the way, Christine says her boobs are real and that she and her sisters got them from her Mom who is also very well endowed! (See her Import Tuner Interview .) Thank you Mrs. Mendoza!
Christine on MySpace
Christine’s 2001 Import Tuner Interview
Christine on Import Icons
Christine’s ModFX Interview
Christine on TeamGSB
Christine Google Image Search
Anyways – here is an Indian hottie who has in the past years stirred things up to the point that you are assured not to overlook her in the West. Miss World, ‘Queen of Bollywood’ and with more than few movies booked in Hollywood.
There’s a story and pics here. To fight with me about the definition of ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian’ – get you oriential shoes out, plow down the Persian carpet, and visit our forum (requires a brain).
The collage photo above include some reduced size samples. The models from left to right, top to bottom are: Tina Lee who won first prize in the contest, Rina Marie, Alice Bradley, Anastasia, Tia Kai, Luana Lani, and Nikki Kay.
It was great to see some familiar faces but I was pleasantly surprised by a number of Asian models I had never seen or heard of before.
Rina Marie (on the left) is a Japanese model who caught my eye. She was very willing to pose for photographers at the event and poses very well IMHO. I hope to feature her on Asian Sirens in the future when I find out more about her and maybe arrange a photoshoot as well.
I thought Alice Bradley was one of the most beautiful models at the show. I don’t know much about her but according to the MSE website she has recently returned to modeling. She modeled back in 2002. I was very impressed near the end of the event when she went up on stage and struck some great poses. Unfortunately, her efforts were not rewarded with raffle tickets since they started counting the tickets while she was still up on stage. I made a point of making sure that she got my last raffle tickets but I doubt she got any tickets from others. Alice ended up in fourth place in the contest. I wonder how close she was to making the top 3?
Nikki Kay is a petite model that made a good impression on me. When I went to her table, she was genuinely friendly. She reminds me a bit of a young Miss Becky in terms of looks but she has her own style and is different in many ways.
As far as the rest of the MSE, I was glad to see models like Anastasia and Tia Kai of course. Tia Kai is on the cover of a new calendar so congratulations to her. It is not a major one but it is still good to see her on the cover. Anastasia left MSE early so she was not competing in the modeling contest. One of the first things I saw was this foot fetishist guy lying on the ground and Anastasia putting her bare feet on his face.
Luana Lani looked absolutely gorgeous in person! I have seen her at previous events but thought she was looking particularly good at this event.
It was good to see Mike Ray of imagesfromasia.com. I saw some of his most recent work and he comes up with some creative ideas for photoshoots with his models.
If you are interested, you can see all the winners of the MSE contest at MSE contest winners page.
Overall, it was one of the better Model Showcase Events I have attended but it seems like many of the models show up late and so do the attendees (including me).
As far as other photo coverage of the event, I have already seen some on Charisse’s MySpace page.
If anyone else comes across any other photo coverage, please go ahead and tell us about it in the comments. I don’t see any on purehotmodels.com yet but I don’t like all their floating ads. There is another website that probably has coverage up but they charge money to look at the photos.