Carole Davis

Carole Raphaelle Davis is an English-American actress, model, singer, and writer.

Career Acting In 1978, Davis posed for Playboy. In 1980, she posed for Penthouse magazine under the name Tamara Kapitas, becoming Penthouse Pet of the Month in January 1980 and a runner-up for Pet of the Year in 1981.

As an actress, Davis' first feature film was in James Cameron's horror film Piranha II: The Spawning (1982). Later in the 1980s, she appeared in the comedy film The Flamingo Kid (1984). Her best known film role came as Roxie Shield, the vengeful ex-girlfriend in Mannequin (1987), a film that was widely panned by critics but later became a cult classic. She later also appeared in films such as the comedy The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990), the comedy If Looks Could Kill (1991), and The Rapture (1991).

She has made guest appearances on television series such as The A-Team, Star Trek: Voyager, Sex and the City, Angel and more recently in 2 Broke Girls and Madam Secretary.

Music In 1989, Davis' signed with Warner Bros. Records and released her first album Heart of Gold, which was produced by Nile Rodgers. Her single "Serious Money" (a cover of The O'Jays hit "For the Love of Money") was a dance hit She recorded her own version of the song for Warner Bros. Records but subsequently left the label in 1993 and moved to Atlantic Records, where she self-produced and wrote the album I'm No Angel.

Writing Davis has written a series of articles on anti-Semitism in Europe for The Jewish Journal. As a novelist, she is the author of The Diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife, a non-fiction humour book about Hollywood excess and human status anxiety written from the point of view of a death row dog. Her screenplay "Amnesia of the Heart" was set up at DreamWorks. She has been a contributor for several animal welfare publications including American Dog Magazine, for whom she also worked as an investigative journalist. She had an animal welfare column on Newsvine and ran her own blog Hollywood Dog through Blogspot.

She is the West Coast Director of the Companion Animal Protection Society, a national non-profit organisation that investigates puppy mills and pet stores.

Selected filmography

Film

Television