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Anouska Hempel
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| Anouska Hempel Lady Weinberg | |
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| Born | Anne Geissler 13 December 1941 (age 71) At sea |
| Residence | Cole Park, Wiltshire Holland Park, London, England,United Kingdom |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Other names | Anoushka Hempel |
| Citizenship | British |
| Education | Sutherland High School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Hotelier and designer Former actress |
| Years active | 1963 to present |
| Known for | Designer of Blakes Hotel andHempel Hotel |
| Style | Modern Minimalism |
| Home town | Lower Hutt[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Constantine Hempel (widowed) Bill Kenwright (m. 1978 – 1980)(divorced) Sir Mark Weinberg (m. 1980) |
| Children | 1 son and a daughter |
Anouska Hempel, Lady Weinberg (born 13 December 1941 as Anne Geissler; sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel)[2]) is a New Zealand-born film and television actress turned hotelier and interior designer.[3] She is a noted figure inLondon society.[4]
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[edit]Personal life
Hempel is of Russian and Swiss German ancestry and claims to have been born on a boat en route from Papua New Guinea to New Zealand.[1] Her father emigrated to New Zealand and became a sheep farmer.[5] Her family later moved toCronulla, south of Sydney where he owned a garage. As a teenager in the mid-1950s, Hempel attended Sutherland High School, leaving at 15 to train as a psychiatric nurse in Sydney. In 1962 she moved to England carrying only ten pounds.[6]
Two years later, she married Constantine Hempel, a journalist and property developer who died in a car accident. Hempel and her second husband, theatrical producer Bill Kenwright, divorced after two years of marriage in 1980. Later that year, Hempel married financier Sir Mark Weinberg, with whom she has a son, Jonathan.[2] She appears in a photographic portrait by Bryan Wharton on display in the National Portrait Gallery.
[edit]Acting career
Hempel's first film appearance was in the Hammer Horror film The Kiss of the Vampire (1963). In 1969, she appeared in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service as one of the "angels of death". Thereafter she appeared in several films and television programmes, including UFO, The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), Zodiac (with Anton Rodgers), a 1973 adaptation of the comic strip Tales of Tiffany Jones, and Russ Meyer's controversial,[7] soft pornographic film Black Snake (1973).[8] In the 1970s, Hempel also auditioned for the part of Jo Grant in Doctor Who and appeared in the science-fiction TV series Space 1999.
In 1998, Hempel bought the UK rights to Tiffany Jones and Black Snake to keep them out of distribution. This effectively blocks all possible TV screenings and video releases of the films in the country.[2]
[edit]Hotel and design career
Hempel is now a hotelier and designer. In 2002, she was ranked by Architectural Digest as one of the top 100 interior designers and architects in the world.[9]
[edit]Hotels
To date, Hempel has established four hotels. Blakes Hotel was created in 1978 as one of the world's first luxury boutique
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