Adriana Lima

Adriana Lima (born June 12, 1981, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian model. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 to 2018, becoming their longest-running model and named "the most valuable Victoria's Secret Angel" in 2017. She is also known as a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics since 2003, and for her Super Bowl and Kia Motors commercials. At age 15, Lima won Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" competition, and took second place the following year in the Ford "Supermodel of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City. Since 2005, Lima has ranked in the top five of Forbes' lists of the 20 highest-earning models in the world, and in 2006 ranked No.99 on the Forbes Celebrity 100. Since 2014, Lima has been the world's second highest-paid model. Lima made her acting debut alongside Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker in The Follow (2001), a short film in BMW's series The Hire, opposite Clive Owen and directed by Wong Kar-wai. She also appeared with her fellow Angels in a guest spot playing herself in the CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother in November 2007, in the episode "The Yips". She also played herself, along with fellow Victoria's Secret Angels, in the 2013 series The Crazy Ones alongside Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. In 2008, Lima appeared on the American television series Ugly Betty, where she played herself and made friends with the series' title character, Betty Suarez. In 2018, Lima made a cameo appearance as herself in the film Ocean's 8. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adriana Lima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Birthday: June 12, 1981